𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆: 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻, 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁, & 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀

𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀

𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆: 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻, 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁, & 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀

𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹:
European Journal of Information Systems

𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿:
Taylor & Francis Group

𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘂𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲:
31 March 2027

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲

Digital visibility—the practice of making individuals, groups, and organizations visible through digital technologies—has become a defining characteristic of contemporary society. Across organizations, platforms, and communities, digital infrastructures, algorithmic systems, artificial intelligence, and data-driven technologies increasingly determine who becomes visible, valued, and heard, and conversely, who becomes invisible, marginalized, or excluded.

This Special Issue seeks to advance theoretical and empirical understanding of digital visibility and invisibility and their implications for organizing, managing, and governing human and non-human actors. It explores how digital technologies reshape communication, collaboration, identity, power, trust, decision-making, and organizational structures in increasingly datafied environments.

The issue welcomes interdisciplinary contributions that develop conceptual frameworks, empirical insights, and methodological innovations to understand, design, analyze, and leverage digital visibility in contemporary organizations and societies.

𝗧𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁

Submissions may address, but are not limited to:

• Technologies and infrastructures of digital visibility and concealment
• Blockchain, AI-generated content, and algorithmic visibility systems
• Non-human agents, bots, digital twins, and automated systems
• Data practices, inclusion and exclusion, and visibility construction
• Decision-support systems in healthcare, security, engineering, and hiring
• Experiences and social dynamics of digital (in)visibility
• Visibility work, algorithmic performance, and digital presence management
• Digital identity assets and digital visibility games
• Power, agency, and governance of visibility infrastructures
• Trust, truth, verification, and security in digitally visible environments
• Individual well-being, identity formation, and autonomy
• Organizational consequences for learning, innovation, and collaboration
• Surveillance fatigue, privacy costs, and resistance strategies
• Ethical dilemmas and governance mechanisms surrounding visibility systems
• Cross-cultural perspectives and contextual variations of digital visibility
• Historical trajectories and future scenarios of digital visibility and invisibility
• Conceptualizations and typologies of digital visibility and invisibility

𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀

This Special Issue aims to develop a coherent and timely research agenda on digital visibility and invisibility. It examines how systems of visibility are designed, managed, and experienced and how they influence organizing, collaboration, decision-making, power relations, and governance. The issue welcomes contributions from Information Systems and related disciplines, including organization studies, sociology of technology, science and technology studies, strategy, accounting, control, and other fields concerned with digital and data-driven forms of organizing.

𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀

• Optional abstract submission due: 15 August 2026
• Optional abstract feedback: 30 September 2026
• Invited five-page abstract for ICIS Workshop due: 1 December 2026
• Paper Development Workshop (ICIS): 13–16 December 2026
• First-round manuscript submission deadline: 31 March 2027
• First-round decisions expected: 30 June 2027
• Optional Revision Plan Meeting with SI Editors: 30 July 2027
• Second-round revisions due: 30 September 2027
• Final decisions expected: 30 April 2028
• Participation in the Paper Development Workshop is optional and submission to the Special Issue is open to all authors.
• Manuscripts may employ qualitative, quantitative, conceptual, computational, design science, econometric, critical, simulation, and methodological approaches.

𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝗘𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀

Aljona Zorina
NEOMA Business School, France
Email: aljona.zorina@neoma-bs.fr

Ella Hafermalz
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Email: e.w.hafermalz@vu.nl

Thomas Grisold
WU Vienna, Austria
Email: thomas.grisold@wu.ac.at

Aron Lindberg
Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Email: alindber@stevens.edu

Mahya Ostovar
University of Galway, Ireland
Email: mahya.ostovar@universityofgalway.ie

𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗦𝗲𝘁𝘂 𝗔𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 — 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗢𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 & 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

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