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- Title
Ubiquitous IT and Digital Vulnerabilities.
- Authors
Ransbotham, Sam; Fichman, Robert G.; Gopal, Ram; Gupta, Alok
- Abstract
While information technology benefits society in numerous ways, it unfortunately also has potential to create new vulnerabilities. This special issue intends to stimulate thought and research into understanding and mitigating these vulnerabilities. We identify four mechanisms by which ubiquitous computing makes various entities (people, devices, organizations, societies, etc.) more vulnerable, including: increased visibility, enhanced cloaking, increased interconnectedness, and decreased costs. We use the papers in the special issue to explain these mechanisms, and then outline a research agenda for future work on digital vulnerabilities spanning four areas that are, or could become, significant societal problems with implications at multiple levels of analysis: Online harassment and incivility, technology-driven economic inequality, industrial Internet of Things, and algorithmic ethics and bias.
- Subjects
INFORMATION technology &; society; UBIQUITOUS computing; DIGITAL technology; HARASSMENT; TECHNOLOGY &; economics; INTERNET of things; ETHICS
- Publication
Information Systems Research, 2016, Vol 27, Issue 4, p834
- ISSN
1047-7047
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1287/isre.2016.0683