{"title":"Fake News Case Study during the Australian 2019 General Election","authors":"M. Warren","doi":"10.3127/ajis.v24i0.2803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v24i0.2803","url":null,"abstract":"Social media is used by all aspects of society from citizens to businesses, but it also now used by political parties. Political parties use social media to engage with voters as a method of attract new voters or reinforcing the views of political parties’ current supporters. An important consideration is the ethical conduct of political parties and politicians in how they use social media. It is now recognized that social media can also have negative aspects seen by the introduction of Fake News. These negative aspects of social media are often overlooked and have not been explored from a research perspective. This paper looks at the Australian 2019 General Election and discusses a major Fake News example that occurred during that election. The paper will also describe the different types of social media data was collected during the study and also present the analysis of the data collected as well discussing the research findings including the ethical issues.","PeriodicalId":106236,"journal":{"name":"Australas. J. Inf. Syst.","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114746498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Warren, K. Wahlstrom, Marcus R. Wigan, O. Burmeister
{"title":"Preface Ethics in the Cyber Age and exploring emerging themes and relationships between ethics, governance and emerging technologies","authors":"M. Warren, K. Wahlstrom, Marcus R. Wigan, O. Burmeister","doi":"10.3127/ajis.v24i0.2889","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v24i0.2889","url":null,"abstract":"Preface to the special section of selected papers from the 8th Australasian Institute of Computer Ethics (AiCE) conference, held in Melbourne, 19-20th August, 2019.","PeriodicalId":106236,"journal":{"name":"Australas. J. Inf. Syst.","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113957898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Post Publication Review of 'Understanding the effects of compromise and misuse of personal details on older people'","authors":"O. Burmeister","doi":"10.3127/ajis.v24i0.2839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v24i0.2839","url":null,"abstract":"This post publication review discusses the article by Watson, Lacey, Kerr, Salmon, and Goode (2019). That article raises important considerations for older people when they interact online. It is a thorough review of the non-financial considerations related to cyber safety for older people in Australia. The authors raise a few issues to consider for future research, but of course like everyone else in the world, they could not foresee the COVID-19 pandemic.","PeriodicalId":106236,"journal":{"name":"Australas. J. Inf. Syst.","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124281744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research Directions in Information Systems Field, Current Status and Future Trends: A Literature Analysis of AIS Basket of Top Journals","authors":"Elham Mazaheri, M. Lagzian, Z. Hemmat","doi":"10.3127/ajis.v24i0.2045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v24i0.2045","url":null,"abstract":"Information systems, as an emerging discipline which is dynamic and interdisciplinary, is constantly undergoing rapid changes; therefore, one of the most critical issues is to study the topics and methodological trends in this field. This study aimed to thoroughly investigate the topics and methodologies used in information system throughout a twelve-year period (2007-2018). In the present study, all the articles published in the top eight information system journals were investigated based on their topics and methodologies using a literature analysis approach, and the most common topics and methodologies in such studies were then detected. The main topics addressed in this filed were electronic commerce/business, information system research, and IS usage/adoption, and the survey was the dominant research methodology in this regard. Furthermore, an increase in the use of the mathematical models indicates that more accurate quantitative research methods have made this field more mature. The research findings also show that the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, social media, bitcoin and block chain, digital transformation, sharing economy, digital platform, methodology of machine learning, data mining, and text mining are the main research topics and methods which should be further studied.","PeriodicalId":106236,"journal":{"name":"Australas. J. Inf. Syst.","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126825877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Helping Yourself or Others? Motivation Dynamics for High-Performing Volunteers in GLAM Crowdsourcing","authors":"L. Alam, Ruonan Sun, John Campbell","doi":"10.3127/ajis.v24i0.2599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v24i0.2599","url":null,"abstract":"While most crowdsourcing (CS) cases in the literature focus on commercial organisations, little is known about volunteers’ motivation of initial and continued participation in not-for-profit CS projects and importantly, about how the motivations may change over time. It is vital to understand motivation and motivational dynamics in a not-for-profit context because a fundamental challenge for not-for-profit CS initiations is to recruit and keep volunteers motivated without any formal contract or financial incentives. To tackle this challenge, we explore high performing volunteers’ initial motivation for joining and sustaining with a GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) CS project. We situated our interpretive exploration in a case study of the Australian Newspapers CS project initiated by the National Library of Australia. Based on the case study, we found that high-performing volunteers were motivated by a combination of personal, collective, and external factors classified into intrinsic, extrinsic, and internalised extrinsic motivations. Further, we found that these motivations changed over time. Specifically, many volunteers presented substantial personal (i.e., personal interest and fun) and community-centric motivations (i.e. altruism and non-profit cause) when they initially joined the project, whereas external motivations (i.e., recognition and rewards) had a greater impact on long-term participation. Our findings offer implications for CS system design (e.g., user profiles, tagging and commenting), incentive structure (e.g., reputation-based ranking, leader boards), and relational mechanisms (e.g., open communication channels) to stimulate sustainable contributions for not-for-profit CS initiatives.","PeriodicalId":106236,"journal":{"name":"Australas. J. Inf. Syst.","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130952432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preface: Towards the Next Generation of Information Systems: Enhancing Traceability and Transparency","authors":"K. Win, G. Beydoun","doi":"10.3127/ajis.v24i0.2823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v24i0.2823","url":null,"abstract":"The information systems community plays a significant role in providing theories for guiding the creation of more effective information systems. This is nowadays most prominent in supporting the ongoing evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and decision-making systems. As these systems are becoming increasingly reliable, and supplanting the presence of humans, the question of accountability and trust in these systems is increasingly coming to the fore. This editorial positions and showcases a collection of papers from the 2018 Australasian Conference on Information Systems within this context.","PeriodicalId":106236,"journal":{"name":"Australas. J. Inf. Syst.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122654969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anne Faber, Adrian Hernandez-Mendez, Sven-Volker Rehm, F. Matthes
{"title":"Collaborative Modelling and Visualization of Business Ecosystems: Insights from two Action Design Research Case Studies","authors":"Anne Faber, Adrian Hernandez-Mendez, Sven-Volker Rehm, F. Matthes","doi":"10.3127/AJIS.V24I0.2229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3127/AJIS.V24I0.2229","url":null,"abstract":"This thesis addresses challenges associated with analyzing a specific business environment of interest, which we refer to as business ecosystem, by providing a tool-supported iterative process for collaborative modeling and visualizing of these ecosystems. The developed and evaluated prototype provides interactive and tailored visualizations and interacts with a meta-model based information system that allows the continuous adaptation of the ecosystem model.","PeriodicalId":106236,"journal":{"name":"Australas. J. Inf. Syst.","volume":"321 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132329397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Applying Complex Adaptive Systems Theory to Understand Distributed Participatory Design in Crowdsourced Information Systems Development","authors":"K. Kautz, Gro Bjerknes, J. Fisher, Tomas Jensen","doi":"10.3127/ajis.v24i0.2225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v24i0.2225","url":null,"abstract":"Contemporary information systems development (ISD) takes place in a dynamic environment; it is generally acknowledged as a complex activity. It has been proposed that ISD projects should be viewed as a complex adaptive system (CAS) and that these projects are better understood through the application of CAS. Distributed participatory design (DPD) is an approach to contemporary ISD where different, geographically dispersed stakeholders, often called the crowd, participate voluntarily and typically unaffiliated with the development organisation in the development and design of information systems in distributed design teams which are mostly online on Internet, web-based, and social media platforms. Going beyond individual methods, techniques, and practices, the objective of this research is twofold as we answer the two research questions: how are DPD projects in crowdsourced ISD managed and performed in their entirety and how does CAS theory provide plausible explanations and contribute to an understanding of contemporary ISD? For this purpose, we present a case of DPD in crowdsourced ISD in an intergovernmental, not-for-profit environment in the context of a DPD project which engaged Pacific Youth in the development of a digital game where we applied CAS theory to better understand and gain insights for ISD theory and practice.","PeriodicalId":106236,"journal":{"name":"Australas. J. Inf. Syst.","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129076184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identification of Enterprise Social Network (ESN) Group Archetypes in ESN Analytics: Metrics Selection and Case Application","authors":"K. Riemer, L. Lee, Cai Kjaer, Annika Haeffner","doi":"10.3127/ajis.v24i0.2355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v24i0.2355","url":null,"abstract":"With the proliferation of Enterprise Social Networks (ESN), the measurement of ESN activity becomes increasingly relevant. The emerging field of ESN analytics aims to develop metrics and models to measure and classify user activity to support organisational goals and outcomes. In this paper we focus on a neglected area of ESN analytics, the classification of activity in ESN groups. We engage in explorative research to identify a set of metrics that divides an ESN group sample into distinct types. We collaborate with Sydney-based service provider SWOOP Analytics who provided access to actual ESN meta data describing activity in 350 groups across three organisations. By employing clustering techniques, we derive a set of four group types: broadcast streams, information forums, communities of practice and project teams. We collect and reflect on feedback from ESN champions in fourteen organisations. For ESN analytics research we contribute a set of metrics and group types. For practice we envision a method that enables group managers to compare aspirations for their groups to embody a certain group type, with actual activity patterns.","PeriodicalId":106236,"journal":{"name":"Australas. J. Inf. Syst.","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124629246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Lam, J. Heales, Nicole Hartley, Christopher S. Hodkinson
{"title":"Consumer Trust in Food Safety Requires Information Transparency","authors":"T. Lam, J. Heales, Nicole Hartley, Christopher S. Hodkinson","doi":"10.3127/ajis.v24i0.2219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v24i0.2219","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a conceptual model to understand how information transparency matters can support consumer trust in food safety. Beside food labels, food product information can be disseminated by the support of technologies including traceability systems and social media. This article studies extant literature to provide a knowledge base for the development of a conceptual model. Information provided by traceability systems is deemed to increase a consumer’s knowledge of a food product. Furthermore, social media is considered as a well-informed source that provides some useful information to consumers. Therefore, we argue that technology-supported information supports and enhances the information consumers need to make their own judgement about the safety of a food product. Three testable propositions are developed from a conceptual model that provides insights into food information that consumers find helpful for developing trust in food safety.","PeriodicalId":106236,"journal":{"name":"Australas. J. Inf. Syst.","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126769266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}