One of today's most controversial and consequential issues is whether the global uptake of
digital media is causally related to a decline in democracy. We conducted a systematic …

The world of today presents a duality of phenomenal progress and persistent ills. Amid such
existential contradictions, public deliberation forms one of the central pillars of a functional …

The success and widespread deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) have raised
awareness of the technology's economic, social, and political consequences. Each new step …

Major shocks such as the Covid-19 pandemic create unique and exceptional challenges for
different entities, including individuals, groups and organizations. In this special issue …

Fake news has led to a polarized society as evidenced by diametrically opposed
perceptions of and reactions to global events such as the Coronavirus Disease 2019 …

Despite AI-driven recommendation algorithms being widely adopted to counter information
overload, substantial evidence suggests that they are building cocoons of homogeneous …

Research output related to digital nudging has increased ten-fold over the last five years.
Nudging in the digital realm differs from its analog counterpart in important ways. For …

1 For each editorial, we follow a three-stage process. The Editor-in-Chief (Andrew Burton-
Jones) first selects a subset of experienced editors to run a masterclass for our board. The …

In late 2019 about a dozen BISE chairs from the German-speaking community met around
ICIS to discuss the ethical challenges arising from the current construction, deployment, and …

In this paper, we examine which content characteristics lead to increased sharing of political
information on social media, and which role political ideology has in user sharing behavior …