Nick Berente and I produce the podcast this IS research, in which we talk about both current and persistent topics in information systems research. Episode by episode we touch upon a broad range of topics, from theory and methods, to ethics, reviewing, and phenomena that interest IS researchers.

The podcast is available on all major platforms, including Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Youtube, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM, Audacy, and others. You can also directly listen to the episodes using the links provided below.

New episodes come out Wednesdays on a fortnightly basis. You can check out descriptions of each episode produced so far below. Because we often mention a whole range of papers, readings, and other sources, we also provide references in the shownotes.

Feedback on our podcast and the episodes is most welcome. You can leave a comment on most major podcasting platforms, or else reach us via email at thisisresearchpodcast@gmail.com. Happy listening!

Season 11 (February-June 2026)

• Do you prefer a prestigious or a rigorous journal? (4 March 2026)
• If you’re not using ChatGPT to cheat in research, you’re not going with the times (18 February 2026)
• The definitive guide to ranking IS journals (4 February 2026)

Season 10 (August-December 2025)

• Nick and Jan reporting live from the International Conference on Information Systems (17 December 2025)
• Doing research on prime ministers (3 December 2025)
• Managing academics is like herding cats (19 November 2025)
• When you watch Tik Tok, your maturity in the academic enterprise is zero (5 November 2025)
• Data is the fuel that sets innovation on fire (22 October 2025)
• If you’re writing a paper about AI you are not allowed to talk about AI (8 October 2025)
• Nick’s rules for a good PhD education (24 September 2025)
• Should all qualitative researchers use LLMs? (10 September 2025)
• Cognitive conflict, courage, humility, and respect: Ingredients for a productive academic discourse (27 August 2025)

Season 9 (February-June 2025)

• Elitism, conflicts of interest, and collusion in the information systems field? (9 July 2025)
• The great debate (25 June 2025)
• Ask us anything – Part two (11 June 2025)
• Ask us anything – Part one (28 May 2025)
• Are digital technologies helping to green our planet? (14 May 2025)
• How to be an editor 101, or: how to get away with bad paper decisions (30 April 2025)
• If it feels like a shortcut, it’s probably a shortcut. (16 April 2025)
• New theories or new scripts for the digital age? (2 April 2025)
• Let’s all cheer for the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (19 March 2025)
• The five best episodes to get you started with this podcast (5 March 2025)
• Is hunting journal articles making us miss the boat of big ideas? (19 February 2025)
• Stop having your paper rejected for lack of fit (5 February 2025)

Season 8 (September-December 2024)

• Awards under the Christmas tree (25 December 2024)
• What do practitioners want from us? (11 December 2024)
• You just did a bad job doing qualitative research (27 November 2024)
• Have we lost our ability to create big impact? (13 November 2024)
• Can you publish papers on digital technology in Academy of Management Review? (30 October 2024)
• Journal editorials that are must-reads for every IS scholar (16 October 2024)
• Why you should never write a conceptual paper (2 October 2024)
• Orthogonal testing planes and electricity in the kitchen (18 September 2024)
• The three most useless slides in conference presentations (4 September 2024)

Season 7 (February-June 2024)

• How to do a literature review (10 July 2024)
• Did we learn anything? (26 June 2024)
• Behavioral research is alive and well … online (12 June 2024)
• Generalization or generalizability, that is the question (29 May 2024)
• The Elon Musk of Information Systems (15 May 2024)
• Winning the citation game (1 May 2024)
• The blank page problem (17 April 2024)
• What is so special about special issues? (3 April 2024)
• Every study is a case study (20 March 2024)
• Navigating the jagged frontier of computing (6 March 2024)
• Professional athletes make better scientists (21 February 2024)
• Your best course of action is to cheat and put your name on every paper (7 February 2024)

Season 6 (August-December 2023)

• Trailblazers, innovators, and elegant scholars (20 December 2023)
• The songs by Lady Gaga will be forgotten (6 December 2023)
• Who would think Management Science is not a top information systems journal? (22 November 2023)
• Jan does not research ChatGPT but that does not mean no one should (8 November 2023)
• Disclaimer: ChatGPT produced this episode. (25 October 2023)
• Reference disciplines, IT managers, and Taylor Swift (11 October 2023)
• We like big books and we cannot lie (27 September 2023)
• Anything qualitative researchers write has been said before (13 September 2023)
• I know that you HARKed last summer (30 August 2023)

Season 5 (February-June 2023)

• Shiny new ideas for the next decade (12 July 2023)
• Remember we were in a pandemic? (28 June 2023)
• You think you have a lot on your plate? (14 June 2023)
• Never create a journal unless it is JMIS (31 May 2023)
• The Big Five Theories from the Last Millennium (17 May 2023)
• Nick, man of the people (3 May 2023)
• What’s been done, what’s been found, and what it means (19 April 2023)
• Being an institutional custodian of our field (5 April 2023)
• Power, politics, and the senior scholar list of premier journals (22 March 2023)
• Our bag of tricks for getting published (8 March 2023)
• Four golden rules (22 February 2023)

Season 4 (August-December 2022)

• There is so much great research out there (21 December 2022)
• Philosophy, again (7 December 2022)
• Causality meets diversity (23 November 2022)
• We might just be better than Bourdieu (9 November 2022)
• Talking data privacy and governance (26 October 2022)
• Writing papers on how to write papers (12 October 2022)
• Design science dysfunctions (28 September 2022)
• The worst things editors can do (14 September 2022)
• Journals are like newspapers except that they’re not (31 August 2022)

Season 3 (February-June 2022)

• Engagement, relevance, and beautiful artifacts (29 June 2022)
• The Crossover (15 June 2022)
• The One where Nick explains how to do computationally intensive theory construction (1 June 2022)
• Why we love what we do (18 May 2022)
• Resilience is key (4 May 2022)
• When your audience is full of jerks (20 April 2022)
• Getting things done (6 April 2022)
• Pragmatism, baby! (23 March 2022)
• No-one is writing books anymore (9 March 2022)
• Humblebragging and click-bait research (23 February 2022)

Season 2 (August-December 2021)

• Welcome to the Oscars (1 January 2022)
• Naughty grounded theory (22 December 2021)
• Jan is a hipster and survey research is dead (8 December 2021)
• When our journals were almost empty (24 November 2021)
• The IS field has no passion (10 November 2021)
• Are designers of digital technologies responsible for them? (27 October 2021)
• Affordances is the new TAM (13 October 2021)
• Theorizing about new technology? No problem! (29 September 2021)
• Is AI Ground Truth Really “True”? (15 September 2021)
• Can AI be fair? (13 September 2021)
• AI on Drugs (11 September 2021)
• Will Humans-in-the-Loop Become Borgs? (9 September 2021)
• Strategic Directions for AI (7 September 2021)
• Coordinating Human and Machine Learning (5 September 2021)
• When the Machine Meets the Expert (3 September 2021)
• Managing Artificial Intelligence (1 September 2021)
• Live at AMCIS 2021 (18 August 2021)

Season 1 (February-June 2021)

• Have you considered the Technology Acceptance Model? (23 June 2021)
• Is relevance irrelevant? (9 June 2021)
• From theorizing to imposter syndrome and back (26 May 2021)
• Every contribution can be interesting but not all of them are (12 May 2021)
• Careers on the line (28 April 2021)
• Who is reviewing the reviewers? (14 April 2021)
• When sociologists meet computer scientists (26 March 2021)
• Method-ism (17 March 2021)
• Learning from Brad Greenwood about Econometrics of IS (3 March 2021)
• Is all technology digital? (17 February 2021)
• How ethical can we be? (11 February 2021)
• Do we need theory for high-impact IS research? (9 February 2021)

Other Podcasts

Our podcast is by not the only one of its kind. Other podcasts focusing on information systems research include the Information Systems DIGEST podcast by the Digital Enterprise research area at NTNU. Blair Wang occasionally produces The Ten Minutes I.S. Paper podcast, which summarizes new papers. The AIS Special interest group hosts the SIGPhil’s Philosophical dialogues podcast moderated by Mijalche Santa. Sam Ransbotham features on MIT’s My, Myself, and AI podcast. Finally, Sandra Peter and Kai Riemer produce The Future, This Week.

Disclaimers

Produced by Jan Recker.
Logo design by Nick Berente and Jan Recker.
Intro and outro music “Clean Palm Muted Guitar Loop” by Royalty Free Music Factory, sound effects by vynadot from Pixabay.