Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2014

Minitrack: Social Media, Social Action, and Politics

 

Savannah, Georgia

August 7-10, 2014

 

Minitrack Chairs:

“The power of social media … transforming the political process in such a way that I can’t see any chances for the traditional, formal institutions of our democratic systems to keep up with.” President of Iceland Mr. Grimsson, during his interview with the CNN in 2011 

The increasing impact of social media on social and organizational issues and politics over the past few decades has changed how social media is viewed and used. The power of the online social tools in promoting, facilitating, and developing political participation and social action across the globe highlights the connection between technology diffusion and digital media use and political change. Social media is also having a major impact on business, sparking a revolution in the customer experience as well as behaviour, and influencing transformation in organizations. With the recognition of the powerful role of social media in these contexts, the objective of Social Media, Social Action, and Politics minitrack is to provide a forum for discussions and presentation of original research that critically examines the constitution of ICTs and their roles in organizations and societies. We believe that IS scholars are uniquely positioned to investigate the larger role of Information Systems and Technologies in our social and political systems both for the benefit of business organizations as well as for the larger society.  The minitrack welcomes conceptual, theoretical, and empirical works that explore the relationship between social media and organizational, social, and political change and highlight the convergence of technological and social spheres and the complex and contingent social-technical interactions to generate unanticipated organizational, social, and political effects.  Topics for this minitack include but are not limited to the following:

·         The association between social systems and ICT innovative uses

·         The impact of ICT on social life and change

·         Information Systems and social awareness, entrepreneurship, and empowerment

·         Information systems and online activism and social movements (i.e online women right movement)

·         Management and organizational behavior of ICT-enabled social groups

·         Social, political, and economic implications of e-politics

·         Communication and Collaboration enabled or constrained by ICT

·         Unintended consequences of ICT use in organizations and social life

·         The impact of IS on political processes, strategies, and policies

·         The development and implementation of e-politics and e-democracy

·         Frameworks/models and Case studies for successful e-politics implementation

·         Social media and youth protest behavior

·         Information Systems and the change in the power game

·         Electronic Authoritarianism

·         ICT-enabled communities and the governmental regulatory or organizational goal oriented practices 

·         Cross country comparisons of e-politics practices

·         Emerging community-related business models

·         Firm level challenges and economic implications of citizen ICT-enabled social and political power

·         Organizational implications of user-generated content and customer collaboration

All submissions are to be made via the AMCIS 2014 submission system at ScholarOne’s ManuscriptCentral. When submitting online, select 1. track " Social-Technical Issues and Social Inclusion" and then 2. minitrack " Social Media, Social Action, and Politics", as well as a paper type (completed research paper, research-in-progress paper, or panel proposal).

The submission deadline is March 1, 2014. No submissions will be accepted after midnight, Savannah (EST) time, March 1, 2014. Authors will be notified as to whether their submission was accepted, conditionally accepted, or rejected by April 4, 2014.