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Subject: [AISWorld] Last CFP HICSS minitrack: The Humanized
Web: Networks, Crowds, and their Output
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:05:46 -0400
From: Jeff Nickerson <jnickerson(a)stevens.edu>
To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org
Papers are due June 15 for the HICSS conference, January
6-9, 2014, on Big Island. You are invited to test any ideas
you have by sending an abstract or a less formal query to
Jeff Nickerson (jnickerson(a)stevens.edu
<mailto:jnickerson@stevens.edu>) Donald Steiny
(steiny(a)steiny.com <mailto:steiny@steiny.com>) or Harri
Oinas-Kukkonen (Harri.Oinas-Kukkonen(a)oulu.fi
<mailto:Harri.Oinas-Kukkonen@oulu.fi>).
*The Humanized Web: Networks, Crowds, and their Output*
(in the Digital and Social Media Track)
Internet technologies now make it possible to produce new
ideas, products, and services by catalyzing largescale
social networks and crowds. What do such social networks and
crowds produce? What should they produce? What ideas,
products, and services?
While social networks assume organic growth and an embedding
that takes place over time, crowds can be assembled
rapidly. Between the two extremes are a host of different
organizational structures, in which already committed
members of a community are deployed to create or improve
ideas. And the traces of these new organizations are also
varied, ranging from ephemeral short messages to curated
collaborative databases. The output often takes the form of
digital media, and the organization often relies on social
media.
We are interested in empirical papers that observe or
visualize the innovations produced by networks and crowds;
theoretical papers that simulate this production through
software; conceptual papers, which analyse the phenomena of
the humanized web; and design research that creates and
evaluates new tools and processes. We are particularly open
to papers that explore unusual ways of modelling emergent
organizations: models that demonstrate or reflect the
influence of social systems on user behaviours, models that
consider the multiple connections between people,
technology, and institutions, models that break personal
identity into sub-relations, and models that examine the
emergence of roles, identity, and institutions. We are
interested in
applying the ideas of James March, Mark Granovetter,
Harrison White, Charles Tilly and related scholars to
information systems.
With respect to content, the track is open to analysis of
collective intelligence, new knowledge creation, persuasive
technology, crowdsourcing, as well as ad hoc social networks
formed in response to pressing social needs. Thus the track
is open to a wide range of content areas that lend
themselves to the analysis of relations ? and their products.
We are aiming to attract an audience from four groups:
1) those interested in social networks, crowdsourcing and
more generally the social web who find
a home in information systems departments,
2) computer scientists who are interested in the analysis of
network and crowd processes,
3) those who use social networks to describe social
structure and
4) industry practitioners.
Minitrack Co-Chairs:
Jeffrey Nickerson (Primary contact)
jnickerson(a)stevens.edu <mailto:jnickerson@stevens.edu>
Donald Steiny
steiny(a)steiny.com <mailto:steiny@steiny.com>
Harri Oinas-Kukkonen
Harri.Oinas-Kukkonen(a)oulu.fi
<mailto:Harri.Oinas-Kukkonen@oulu.fi>