We introduce the second (consecutive) issue of the Special Issue on the 'Dark Side of Information Technology (IT) Use'.In the short time period between these issues, we have continued to read of unintended and un-anticipated negative impacts of IT at the level of the individual, organization and society.This issue thus continues the exploration of 'dark side' phenomena.Referring to the organizing framework developed in the introduction to the first volume of this Special Issue (Tarafdar et al., 2015) we recall the four salient themes of (Figure 1)context of occurrence, negative outcomes, mitigation mechanisms and level of analysisfor characterizing dark side phenomenon.Briefly, 'context of occurrence' refers to the specific situation or setting of IT design/use in which dark side phenomena are observed and studied, 'negative outcomes' describe undesired consequences of dark side phenomena, 'mitigation mechanisms' describe conditions or actions for their alleviation and 'level of analysis' refers to whether dark side phenomenon are investigated at the level of the individual, team, organization or society. C O N T R I B U T I O N O F PA P E R SIn this second issue, we present a collection of three papers that focus on a range of dark side phenomena, extending and building on the scope of topics we covered in the first issue.We characterize them using the above framework.As with the first issue, we note again that most of these studies address the individual level of analysis and do not address mitigation mechanisms.We call for future research regarding these 'missing' themes which we see as important for advancing our understanding of how to cope with and address dark side phenomena.
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