Aljona Zorina, NEOMA Business School

Ella Hafermalz, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Thomas Grisold, WU Vienna

Aron Lindberg, Stevens Institute of Technology

Mahya Ostovar, University of Galway

Digital visibility—making oneself or others visible through digital technologies—has become central to modern organizing, yet remains theoretically fragmented. Algorithmic systems and digital infrastructures increasingly determine how individuals and collectives become visible, valued, or excluded, fundamentally reshaping coordination, communication, and collaboration. The special issue addresses how visibility has shifted from a secondary organizational feature to a primary mechanism through which strategy, power, identity, and modes of organizing are constructed.

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Potential topics

• Technologies and infrastructures of visibility, including blockchains, algorithmic social media feeds, AI-generated content, and data infrastructures
• Non-human agents and automated systems, including bots, digital twins, and avatars as participants in constructing visibility
• Data practices and visibility construction, including data capture, inclusion, omission, and the politics of data
• Decision support and critical systems in healthcare, security, engineering, and hiring, and how they influence visibility
• Experiences and social dynamics of digital invisibility, including visibility work, filter bubbles, and hyper-personalization
• Strategy, power, and digital identity management, including algorithmic performance and visibility games
• Non-human governance and political economies, including algorithmic management and blockchain-based systems
• Trust, truth, and security in digitally visible environments, including verification and watermarks
• Individual and societal impacts of digital visibility on well-being, identity, autonomy, and civil liberties
• Organizational and workplace consequences of digital visibility on trust, autonomy, innovation, and knowledge sharing
• Ethical and governance consequences of digital visibility systems, including accountability mechanisms and stakeholder roles

Timeline

• September 7, 2026: Optional abstract submission for Paper Development Workshop
• October 5, 2026: Feedback on abstracts via email
• December 1, 2026: Invited five-page abstract due for Paper Development Workshop
• December 9, 2026: Online Paper Development Workshop
• March 31, 2027: First-round submissions to the journal due
• June 30, 2027: First-round decisions expected
• July 30, 2027: Revision Plan Meeting with SI Editors (optional)
• September 30, 2027: Second-round revisions due
• November 30, 2027: Second-round decisions expected
• February 28, 2028: Third and final revisions submissions due
• April 30, 2028: Final decisions expected

Associate editors

• Andreas Eckhardt, University of Innsbruck
• Robert Fichman, Boston College
• Andreas Hein, University of St. Gallen
• Mayur Joshi, Telfer School of Management
• Lise Justesen, Copenhagen Business School
• Waldemar Kremser, Johannes Kepler University
• Virginia Leavell, Cambridge Judge Business School
• Julian Lehmann, Arizona State University
• Silvia Masiero, University of Oslo
• Afshin Mehrpouya, University of Edinburgh Business School
• Josh Morton, Leeds University Business School
• Stella Pachidi, King's Business School
• Mariia Petryk, George Mason University
• Ursula Plesner, Copenhagen Business School
• Carolina Alves de Lima Salge, University of Georgia
• Karla Sayegh, Cambridge Judge Business School
• Lisen Selander, University of Gothenburg
• Maha Shaikh, ESADE
• Maura Soekijad, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• Marta Stelmaszak-Rosa, UMass Amherst
• Elmira Van den Broek, Stockholm School of Economics
• Joao Veira Da Cunha, IESEG
• Bei Yan, Stevens Institute of Technology