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CALL FOR PAPERS

 

18^th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2012)

 

Seattle, Washington, August 9-12, 2012 (http://amcis2012.aisnet.org/)

 

Track: Virtual Communities and Virtual Worlds

 

Mini-Track: Social Analytics and Economics of Social Media

 

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Deadline for paper submissions: March 1, 2012 (11:59 PM Pacific time zone)

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Mini-Track Description:

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Social Media are generating an enormous social and economic impact. A plethora of different Social Media platforms and technologies for social networking (e.g., Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn), for knowledge and multimedia sharing (e.g., Flickr, Wikipedia, YouTube), or for awareness creation (e.g., Foursquare, Twitter) are changing not only our personal but also organizational behavior. By revolutionizing communication, collaboration, and consumption patterns within, across, and beyond organizational boundaries, Social Media bears numerous challenges but also unimagined possibilities for research and practice.

 

The availability of a profound amount of data on social structures and interactions allows to reveal precious knowledge that was previously unknown. For example, individuals and organizations are faced with unique opportunities (e.g., via listening tools) to enrich their understanding about the influence and the diffusion of information in Social Media. Analyzing these data could consequently provide deeper insights into how social structures, communication patterns, and individuals’ behavior evolve. Taken together, Social Analytics might thus provide new perspectives on challenges and possibilities of Social Media for providers (e.g., regarding advertisement, business models, users churn), for organizations (e.g., regarding knowledge sharing, crowdsourcing, viral diffusion, business value), and for societies in a broader sense (e.g., regarding uprisings, public sentiment, financial markets).

 

This mini-track is designed to stimulate rigorous and relevant investigations in the context of Social Analytics and Economics of Social Media. All lenses of inquiry are encouraged, including strategic, organizational, behavioral, economic, and technical. We welcome theoretical, analytical, design-oriented, and empirical research using any kind of research method. Real world applications in respect to particular industries such as retail and e-commerce are also particularly welcome and encouraged.

 

Suggested Topics:

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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

* Evolution of communication and behavior patterns in Social Media

* Application of social network analysis and mining

* Diffusion of information in Social Media (e.g., real-time capture, emerging phenomena)

* Sentiment analysis in Social Media (e.g., analysis and manipulation of public sentiment)

* Identification of (sub)communities and their evolution over time

* Social Media and prediction

* Implications and potential of Social Media for marketing

* Business value of Social Media and business models for Social Media providers

* The rise and fall of specific Social Media platforms (e.g., success factors, churn prevention)

* Migration between Social Media platforms over time

* Social Media and Customer Relationship Management (e.g., customer acquisition)

* Social Media and consumer behavior (e.g., social commerce)

* Social Media and recommendation systems

* Social Media and information search

* The use of Social Media in crowdsourcing

* The interplay between online and offline social networks

* The impact of Social Media in specific industries

 

Important Dates:

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- January, 2012: Manuscript Central will start accepting paper submissions

- March 1, 2012 (11:59 PM Pacific time zone): Deadline for paper submissions

- April 2, 2012: Notification of acceptance

- April 20, 2012 (11:59 PM Pacific time zone): Final copy due

- June 12, 2012: Last day for AMCIS 2012 Early Registration

- July 13, 2012: Deadline for making hotel room reservations

- July 24, 2012: Last day for AMCIS 2012 Regular Registration

- August 9-12, 2012: AMCIS Conference

 

Submission Site:

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http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2012

 

Mini-Track Chairs:

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Balaji Rajagopalan

School of Business Administration

Oakland University

Rochester, MI, USA

rajagopa@oakland.edu

 

Mathias Klier (primary contact)

Department of Information Systems, Production and Logistics Management

University of Innsbruck

Innsbruck, Austria

mathias.klier@uibk.ac.at

 

Florian Probst

FIM Research Center Finance & Information Management

University of Augsburg

Augsburg, Germany

florian.probst@wiwi.uni-augsburg.de

 

Best regards,

Mathias Klier

 

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Dr. Mathias Klier

Leopold-Franzens-University of Innsbruck
School of Management
Information Systems

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Universitaetsstrasse 15
A-6020 Innsbruck
Austria

Phone: +43 (0) 512 507 7685

Fax: +43 (0) 512 507 9809

Email: mathias.klier@uibk.ac.at
WWW: http://www.uibk.ac.at/wipl

 

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