Political Realities of Digital Communication

Information systems cycles of innovation rely on global economic growth. However, a 2015 study in Nature predicted that climate change will dramatically slow and redistribute growth in the coming decades. This paper explores how decreased and redistributed growth may impact future information systems and digital innovation. While a long-term global slowdown is not certain, different countries will likely experience significant changes in their growth trajectories, and resulting civilizational transformations. We seek to establish quantitative and theoretical foundations for how a future characterized by climate change would impact information systems around the globe.

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“…This theory complements the "diffusion of unsuccessful innovation" discussed in another paper in this workshop [[40]]. …”

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Information Systems in a Future of Decreased and Redistributed Global Growth

Tomlinson

Aubert

2017

Proceedings of the 2017 Workshop on Computing Within Limits

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“…Broader societal mechanisms, such as economic [16,25,32,62,68] and political [31,32,61,62,94,95] should be considered by SHCI research as well, but are more difficult to evaluate. An empirical evaluation is usually not possible since a single design idea or prototype will not result in any measurable change of the large-scale political economy.…”

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Evaluation Beyond Usability

Remy

Bates

Dix

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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The evaluation of research artefacts is an important step to validate research contributions. Sub-disciplines of HCI often pursue primary goals other than usability, such as Sustainable HCI (SHCI), HCI for development, or health and wellbeing. For such disciplines, established evaluation methods are not always appropriate or sufficient, and new conventions for identifying, discussing, and justifying suitable evaluation methods need to be established. In this paper, we revisit the purpose and goals of evaluation in HCI and SHCI, and elicit five key elements that can provide guidance to identifying evaluation methods for SHCI research. Our essay is meant as a starting point for discussing current and improving future evaluation practice in SHCI; we also believe it holds value for other subdisciplines in HCI that encounter similar challenges while evaluating their research.

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Grass-roots lobbying and the provision of information-processing resources in state legislatures

Cluverius

2021

The Journal of Legislative Studies

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Political Realities of Digital Communication

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Information Systems in a Future of Decreased and Redistributed Global Growth

Information Systems in a Future of Decreased and Redistributed Global Growth

Evaluation Beyond Usability

Grass-roots lobbying and the provision of information-processing resources in state legislatures

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