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Information Systems DIGEST Podcast
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Hello and welcome to the Information Systems DIGEST Podcast (or IS DIGEST)! The podcast is a free monthly podcast that hosts casual academic conversations with inter-disciplinary scholars about the digital changes from technology in society, the economy, and organizations. The podcast is supported by the Digital Enterprise project part of NTNU in Trondheim, Norway and hosted by Casandra Grundstrom and Elena Parmiggiani. If you are interested in joining the podcast as a guest you can sign up through this form https://forms.gle/ikPTaY1Em6FR4SpN8.
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In this panel discussion, host Casandra Grundstrom engages with 5 researchers part of a project on assessing the Nordic readiness for the upcoming European Health Data Spaces (EHDS) regulation. As part of the Nordic Health Data Spaces (NHDS) project, we unpack the intentions of the upcoming regulation, and what this means for different stakeholders to navigate a complex policy landscape. We reflect on the technical feasibility of achieving the ambitions of the EHDS and under what conditions v...
Host Casandra Grundstrom is joined by visiting researcher Olivia Benfeldt, Assistant Professor at Copenhagen Business School. Olivia is based at the Department of Digitalization, where her research focuses on how data is fundamentally reshaping business and society. Her work explores data governance as practice to examine frictions, dependencies, and possibilities in everyday organizational life. Olivia is particularly interested in data governance as a collective action problem, and how soci...
Host Casandra Grundstrom is very happy to participate in a crossover episode with the wonderful people from the Sociotechs Podcast Associate Professor Silvia Masiero and PhD Researcher Tejas Kotha. This is a special episode which focuses on Silvia's brand new book (out 26.10.24) about Unfair ID. Sociotechs host Tejas and myself (the IS DIGEST host) interview Silvia on the 14 year's in the making of her book and the stories she shares to demonstrate the injustice of identity in different...
Host Casandra Grundstrom is joined by special guest Professor Lauri Wessel. He holds the chair for Information Management and Digital Transformation at European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) since October 2020 where he serves jointly at the European New School of Digital Studies (ENS) as well as at the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics. Lauri is also an adjunct professor (professor II) of Healthcare Management at the Department of Health Sciences of the Norwegian Univers...
Host Casandra Grundstrom is joined by special guest University Lecturer Arto Lanamäki from the University of Oulu in Finland. Much of his research is qualitative and phenomenon-driven research, concerning the role of information technologies in social practices. He is currently working in the Research Council of Finland (Suomen Akatemia) funded AI-REG project (2022-2026) investigating the European Act on Artificial Intelligence. While publishing mostly in the field of IS, he champions a certa...
Host Casandra Grundstrom is joined by special guest Entrepreneur and Associate Professor Shellie Boudreau formerly from Aalborg University, Denmark. (Note: Shellie is no longer working at Aalborg University but at the time of recording she was). Her main research interests started with biomedical engineering for pain and health technology, but through her passion of communication, a desire to move beyond traditional academic roles was found. Shellie is CEO of the research based st...
Host Casandra Grundstrom is joined by special guest Assistant Professor Sam Zaza from Middle Tennessee State University, USA. Her main research interests lie in diversity, equity, and inclusion; IT career and nature of work, and methodological approaches. She is active in AIS as the SIG Social Inclusion President, SIG Lead President, and Women College CoChair and is the recent winner of the Diversity and Inclusion Advocate of the Year (2023). Sam has published her work in various journa...
Host Casandra Grundstrom is joined by special guest Professor Torgeir Dingsøyr. Torgeir is professor in software engineering – agile at the Department of Computer Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is further adjunct chief research scientist at the SimulaMet research laboratory. His research has focused on teamwork and learning in software development, as well as development methods for large software projects and programs. He has published in the software engin...
Host Casandra Grundstrom is joined by special guest Professor Myriam Lewkowicz. Myriam works at Troyes University of Technology where she heads the pluri-disciplinary research group Tech-CICO. She is interested in defining digital technologies to support existing collective practices or to design new collective activities. This interdisciplinary research proposes reflections and approaches for the analysis and the design of new products and services to support cooperative work. The main...
Host Casandra Grundstrom is joined by special guest Associate Professor David Ribes. David joins us from the University of Washington in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering and is the deLAB director. He is a sociologist of science and technology and focuses on the development and sustainability of research infrastructures. David's work investigates the long-term changes in objects of research in varying domains including ecology, particle physics, and health (HIV/A...
Host Casandra Grundstrom is joined by special guest Professor Minna Isomursu. Minna is a professor at the University of Oulu at M3S the largest software engineering research unit in Finland. Her main research interests are related to software engineering and challenges in development in the health sector. She is particularly interested in using service design as an approach for translating complex ecosystems of stakeholders and their needs for creating value. In this episode, we reflec...
Celebrating International Women's Month, host Casandra Grundstrom sets out to explore the impact of gender in the greater IS community. Through the research and lived experience of three gender scholars—Associate Professor Silvia Masiero, Assistant Professor Safa'a AbuJarour, & PhD Student Franziska Schmitt—this episode of the IS DIGEST sets out to illuminate the realities of womanhood in academia. While we were sadly unable to procure representation from the entire spectrum of women, kno...
Host Casandra Grundstrom is joined by special guest Assistant Professor Lauren Waardenburg. She is an assistant professor at IESEG School of Management in Lille, France. Her main research interests are related to the role of technology for occupational emergence and change, the reconfiguration of work and organizing due to intelligent technologies, and the duality of the physical and the digital. She has a specific interest in using ethnography as a research method for studying technolo...
Host Casandra Grundstrom is joined by special guest Professor Sandeep Purao. He is a Trustee Professor in the Information and Process Management Group and Associate Director of the Hoffman Center for Business Ethics at Bentley University. He is also a Visiting Professor at Agder University in Norway. His current research focuses on the design and evaluation of digital solutions for complex societal problems. Sandeep's work has been published in MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Jou...
Host Casandra Grundstrom is joined by special guest Professor Netta Iivari. Netta is a Professor in Information Systems and research unit leader of INTERACT research unit in University of Oulu. She has background in Cultural Anthropology as well as in Information Systems and Human Computer Interaction. Her long lasting research interest concerns understanding and strengthening people's participation in shaping and making their digital futures. Recently, her research has particularly addressed...
Host Casandra Grundstrom is joined by special guest Professor Maung Sein. Maung is a professor of Information Systems at the University of South-Eastern Norway & Kristiania University College. He has led a holistically nomadic life after completing his PhD in Indiana University and has published in leading IS journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Information Systems Journal, European Journal of Information Systems and presented his research in several international...
Host Casandra Grundstrom is joined by special guest Professor Virpi Kristiina Tuunainen. Virpi is a professor of Information Systems Science at the Department of Information and Service Management and the Associate Dean of research and international cooperation of Aalto University School of Business. Her current research focuses on ICT enabled or enhanced services and digital innovation. Her work has appeared in journals, such as, MIS Quarterly, European Journal of Information Systems, ...
Host Casandra Grundstrom is joined by special guest Professor Harald Øverby. Harald works as a Professor at NTNU. His interests are in the areas of: Digital Economics, Business Models, Internet Law, Regulations and Governance, and Internet Architecture. He has published over 80 papers in international and national journals and conferences, as well as participated in several research projects. In this episode, we discuss the regulation of big tech with antitrust laws for megacorporations. Dr...
Host Casandra Grundstrom is joined by special guest Professor Jonny Holmström. Jonny is a professor of Information Systems at Umeå University, co-director, and co-founder of the Swedish Center for Digital Innovation (SCDI). He writes, consults, and speaks on topics such as digital innovation, digital transformation, and digital entrepreneurship. His work has appeared in journals such as Communications of the AIS, Design Issues, European Journal of Information Systems, Information and Organiza...
Host Casandra Grundstrom continues her conversation with special guest Eric Monteiro Professor at NTNU and Senior Editor of MISQ in the second part of episode 2. They discuss the present state of IS and the potential future of what is to come for the discipline. You will probably be interested in this podcast if you are an interdisciplinary academic, researcher, or expert part of or overlapping with the Information Systems discipline. Although this is the expected audience, listeners ...



