Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated business use of digital technology with ephemeral functionality. However, ephemerality as a concept is not well defined in the information systems (IS) literature, making application and operationalization challenging. We conduct an interdisciplinary review of the temporal and material qualities of the ephemeral. We then conduct a standalone review of ephemerality in IS. Based upon our reviews, we propose a definition for ephemeral and develop a framework of ephemeral characteristics. We outline incongruence between this framework and IS conceptualization of ephemerality.
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Examples of ‘ephemerality-based platforms’ (Morlok et al. 2018) include Snapchat, Telegram, Wickr, Clubhouse, and Confide. Other apps are also adding ephemeral functions to their platforms, such as Facebook and Instagram Vanish Mode, TikTok Stories, WhatsApp View Once, and Twitter Spaces. Web-tools like TweetDelete enable automatic deletion of tweets.
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Doyle, R., Conboy, K., Kreps, D. (2022). The Ephemeral and Information Systems Research: Conceptualizing Ephemerality in a Post-pandemic World. In: Papagiannidis, S., Alamanos, E., Gupta, S., Dwivedi, Y.K., Mäntymäki, M., Pappas, I.O. (eds) The Role of Digital Technologies in Shaping the Post-Pandemic World. I3E 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13454. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15342-6_34
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