Eoin Whelan, University of Galway

Hamed Qahri-Saremi, Colorado State University

Chelly Maes, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Christy M. K. Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University

Uri Gal, University of Sydney

Monideepa Tarafdar, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Adolescents today engage intensely with digital platforms including social media, gaming communities, AI applications, and learning technologies. This special issue seeks research examining how these complex digital environments shape adolescent development across cognitive, emotional, psychological, social, and physical domains. The urgency stems from how contemporary platforms operate through sophisticated algorithms and AI systems that actively influence adolescents' experiences in ways fundamentally different from previous technologies.

Existing research provides limited understanding of how digital platforms specifically affect adolescent developmental experiences, with little consensus on the direction, magnitude, or mechanisms of impact. The special issue invites empirical and theoretical investigations using diverse methodologies to understand how platform designs, algorithmic systems, and regulatory approaches both benefit and harm adolescent development. Contributions should examine the mechanisms by which platform affordances and AI systems shape developmental outcomes in diverse global populations.

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Potential topics

• Platform architectures and affordances
• Notification systems and engagement metrics
• Algorithmic curation and recommendation systems
• Generative AI and chatbots for adolescents
• AI literacy and digital resilience
• Information practices in digital environments
• Identity development and social relationships
• Privacy and data protection
• Screen time and physical health
• Mental health and well-being
• Design science for adolescent safety
• Policy and regulation of digital platforms
• Content moderation and age verification
• Comparative platform design studies
• Socioeconomic and cultural differences in digital access

Timeline

• April 9, 2027: Online information session
• November 1, 2027: Deadline for paper submission
• March 1, 2028: First-round decisions
• July 1, 2028: Deadline to submit revised papers
• October 30, 2028: Second-round decisions
• March 1, 2029: Deadline to submit revised papers
• July 1, 2029: Provisional/Final decisions
• August 1, 2029: Deadline to submit final paper (if minor revision is required)

Associate editors

• Tina Blegind Jensen, Copenhagen Business School
• Noel Carroll, University of Galway
• Aaron Cheng, London School of Economics
• J.J Hsieh, Georgia State University
• Tabitha James, Virginia Tech
• Hanna Krasnova, University of Potsdam
• Dong-Heon (Austin) Kwak, Kent State University
• Stephen McCarthy, University College Cork
• Antonia Meythaler, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
• Mahya Ostovar, University of Galway
• Ana Ortiz de Guinea Lopez de Arana, HEC Montréal
• Lauren A. Rhue, New York University
• Stefan Tams, HEC Montréal
• Ofir Turel, University of Melbourne
• Yingqin Zheng, University of Essex

Nisreen Ameen, University of Reading

Federico Iannacci, University of Sussex

Daniel Gozman, University of Sydney Business School

James S. Denford, Royal Military College of Canada

This special issue examines how artificial intelligence embedded in public services shapes policy-making and how policies configure AI's development and use. The dynamic interplay between technology and policy intensifies with AI's scale and opacity. The issue seeks to understand how this reciprocal relationship creates, distributes or undermines public value—encompassing efficiency, equity, transparency, participation and welfare.

The special issue invites Information Systems research that theorises AI as central to policy formation and enactment. Manuscripts should examine how AI systems shape policy problems and evidence, how organisations translate AI policies into practice, and how communities participate in defining public value. Qualitative, quantitative, design science and practitioner-oriented contributions are welcome.

All submissions must include dedicated policy implications sections. Research may be set in public, private or nonprofit sectors and should address whose interests are encoded in AI systems, who benefits, who bears risks and whose experiences remain invisible.

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Potential topics

• Creation and Distribution of Public Value: How AI creates, distributes or undermines public value, including efficiency, innovation, equity, participation, dignity, sustainability, security and welfare, and how related trade-offs are managed.
• AI Use and the Production of Policy: How AI models, data, classifications, system design and organisational routines shape policy problems, evidence, interventions and evaluation, and how policies evolve through AI-enabled systems.
• AI Governance Beyond Regulatory Compliance: How accountability, transparency, explainability, human oversight and decision authority are enacted in practice, and how AI governance can address societal purposes and outcomes beyond regulatory compliance.
• Policy Translation and Organisational Capability: How organisations translate AI-policy ambitions into procurement, system design, workforce skills, professional roles, implementation and service delivery, and build capabilities to sustain public value.
• Participation, Inequality and Contestation: How AI-enabled policies affect citizens and marginalised groups, reshape voice, access and opportunity, and enable affected communities to participate in defining public value.
• IS Knowledge and Policy Formation: How IS theory and evidence inform AI policy, and how research, practitioner insights and research–practice collaborations can connect evidence, policy, organisational practice and societal outcomes.

Timeline

• June 15, 2027: Submission deadline

Hemant Bhargava, University of California, Davis

Andreas König, University of Passau

Jan Krämer, University of Passau

Chayanin Wipusanawan, University of Passau

This special issue examines digital platform ecosystems and their multifaceted effects on society and the economy. Platforms have become central to value creation globally, influencing organizational strategies and reshaping industries, while also raising critical questions about their governance, design, and regulation. The issue seeks to understand how platform ecosystems shape societal outcomes across labor arrangements, content moderation, user protection, fairness, data practices, and policy interactions.

The collection invites theoretical and empirical contributions from information systems and related disciplines that address both the enabling potential and societal risks of digital platforms. Research may employ quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods approaches and can take various forms including conceptual papers, empirical studies, and position papers.

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Potential topics

• Platform Governance and Ecosystem Orchestration: Governance mechanisms, rule-setting, boundary resources, and the allocation of decision rights across platform owners, complementors, and users; centralized, decentralized, and hybrid governance models.
• Strategic Conduct, Market Power, and Competitive Dynamics: Strategic positioning, platform envelopment, self-preferencing, lock-in, multi-homing, and the implications of dominant platforms for competition and market structure.
• Innovation, Complementor Dynamics, and Value Co-creation: Generativity, innovation governance, API and data access, developer relations, incentive structures, and strategies for value creation and capture across ecosystem participants.
• Content Governance, Speech, and Public Discourse: Content moderation, recommender systems, platform policies, and their effects on online speech, civic participation, and political communication across jurisdictions.
• Societal Risks, Safety, and Equity: Fairness, inclusion, and distributional effects of platform governance and algorithmic decision-making; information integrity and the maintenance of digital trust; safety, well-being, and protection of vulnerable users.
• Regulation, Policy, and Institutional Change: Antitrust and platform regulation, interoperability and portability, liability regimes, standards, oversight of platform policies and algorithmic systems, and the interaction between platform governance and public policy.
• Platforms and Socio-Economic Development: Platformization trajectories, local innovation ecosystems, informal economies, and societal impacts in emerging and developing contexts.

Timeline

• July 1, 2026: Open for submissions
• December 1, 2026: Submission Deadline