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CALL FOR PAPERS

 

31th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2023)

Track: Social Media and Digital Work

June 11-16, 2023, Kristiansand, Norway (https://ecis2023.no/submissions/track-descriptions/?track=smdw)

Paper submission deadline: 17^th November 2022

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Dear Colleagues,

We cordially invite you to submit research contributions related to “Social Media and Digital Work” to the ECIS 2023 Track 23. Please find more information regarding the track and the timeline below.

Feel free to contact us if you have any questions regarding the track and forward the call for papers to potentially interested colleagues.

We are looking forward to receiving your contributions and meeting you in Timisoara!

Best regards,

Matthias Trier, Alexander Richter, and Janine Hacker

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*Track Description*

Social media have become part of the work and life of billions of humans around the globe. Social media platforms facilitate paradigm shifts in the ways we develop relationships, communicate with each other, collaborate, procure goods and services, and exchange information. They allow anyone to virtually share information with a global audience.

The ubiquitous nature of social media use requires a better understanding of the role and long-term consequences of this phenomenon for digital transformation on individual, organizational and societal levels.

On the one hand, proponents argue that social media promote creation of social capital, result in increased interconnectedness, or facilitate empowerment. In line with the conference theme, social media can hence contribute to co-creating a sustainable future. On the other hand, opponents express strong concerns over the dangers of social media. The sheer quantity and the sensitivity of the information users disclose gives rise to strong privacy concerns. Other undesirable developments include distraction, addiction, depression, mood disorders. In companies the multivocality, afforded by social media, can yield tensions for organizational coherence. Finally, the phenomenon of fake news has recently emerged as a dangerous development, posing significant challenges for platform providers and users. Considering both positive and negative impacts of social media, managers and policy-makers find themselves confronted with a complex choice of whether these platforms should be regulated and, if so, how.

This track seeks submissions examining the role social media is playing in transforming the networked society and businesses at large. We especially encourage research that reaches out beyond IS theories, is grounded in multiple reference disciplines and applies new intriguing perspectives to document and understand the transformational impact of Social Media and Digital Work.

 

Topics include but are not limited to:

* Theories about Social Media and Digital Work

* Digital Leadership and Virtual Teams

* Social channels of enterprise knowledge sharing and collaborative work

* Co-existence and interweaving of different online and offline (social) communication networks in companies

* Blurring boundaries of private and business (e.g. Consumerization, Shadow IT)

* Social media-enabled business models

* Organizational networking with social media and collaboration technologies

* User behaviour on social media and collaboration platforms (e.g. co-creation)

* Success and “health” of online social communities

* Socialness of and in social media and collaboration platforms

* The development and use of social media analytics

* Digital methods for understanding collaboration via social media (e.g. design science approaches, the computational turn; big data methods)

* Critical perspectives on social media (e.g. social and information overload; technostress)

* Societal impact of social media and digital collaboration

* Social media and fake news, misinformation, disinformation

* Social media in times of crises

 

*IMPORTANT DATES:*

* Paper submission deadline: November 17th, 2022
* Notification of provisional acceptance: February 28th, 2023
* Submission of final version: March 31st, 2023
* ECIS conference: 11th-16th, 2023

 

*TRACK CHAIRS*

Matthias Trier, Paderborn University, Germany, trier@upb.de

Alexander Richter, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, alex.richter@vuw.ac.nz

Janine Hacker, University of Liechtenstein, janine.hacker@uni.li

 

More information can be found here: https://ecis2023.no/submissions/call-for-papers/

 

 

 

Dr. Janine Hacker
Assistant Professor
at the Hilti Chair of Business Process Management

University of Liechtenstein
Institute of Information Systems
Fürst-Franz-Josef-Strasse, 9490 Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Phone +423 265 11 11, Direct +423 265 13 13
janine.hacker@uni.li, www.uni.li