I’m pleased to present the paper lineup for the Social Theory in Information systems Research (STIR) track at the AMCIS (AMericas Conference on Information Systems) 2007 conference. For the past five years, my fellow track chairs and I have tried to bring together an international mix of research that shows how social theory, and social research methods, are useful for answering questions about the future of information technology.

This will be my final year as part of the STIR management team. If you are interested in becoming a track co-chair, please contact me or my colleagues Howard Rosenbaum and Pnina Shachaf at Indiana University.

The 2007 STIR papers:

• “Examining Alignment of Frames Using Actor-Network Constructs: The Implementation of an IT Project”, by Bijan Azad (American University of Beirut) and Samer Faraj (University of Maryland).
• “A Realist Social Theory of Information Systems”, by Michael Cuellar (Georgia State University).
• “Mediated Interaction: Social Informatics in the Era of Ubiquitous Computing”, by Hamid Ekbia (Indiana University).
• “Understanding Online Community Effectiveness: The Efficacy of Integrating Group Development and Social Capital Theories”, by Roderick Lee (Penn State University).
• “Internet Use from the Perspective of the Theory of Planned Behaviour”, by Johann Kerschbaum (University of Vienna), Elisabeth Donat (Donau-Universität Krems), and Roman Brandtweiner (Donau-Universität Krems).
• “Web 2.0: A Social Informatics Perspective”, by me (USF), Howard Rosenbaum (Indiana University) and Pnina Shachaf (Indiana University).