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Call for Papers
Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS'20)
August 12-16, 2020
Salt Lake City, Utah
Track: Virtual Communities and Collaboration
Minitrack: Fake News, Rumors, and Other Unintended Consequences of
Engagement in Virtual Communities
Description:
Virtual communities enabled by social media are providing new
opportunities for people to engage with each other. Such
engagements span across personal, political, social, or economic
spheres. Recently, such engagements have been exploited to spread
fake news, rumors, biased reporting, or for promoting unsupported
viewpoints. Some other unintended effects include cyberbullying,
suppression of alternate viewpoints, or promotion of narratives
disconnected from facts. These reflect unintended consequences of
engagement in virtual communities that have the potential to
significantly influence the discourse of social, political, moral,
or economic debate. It cannot be denied that virtual communities
hold a lot of potential for beneficial and positive engagement
among the community members but there is a need to examine some of
these unintended consequences prevalent in virtual communities.
The objective of this mini-track is to provide a forum for
discussion and presentation of original r
esearch highlighting some of these unintended consequences and
subsequent challenges/or solutions to deal with them. We seek
papers that address nature of unintended consequence of
engagements in virtual communities from a theoretical, conceptual,
or empirical perspective. Both quantitative and qualitative
studies are welcome.
In alignment with theme of AMCIS 2020, we are pleased to invite
submission of completed research papers and research-in-progress
papers for the mini-track: Fake News, Rumors, and Other Unintended
Consequences of Engagement in Virtual Communities. This mini-track
aims to increase our understanding and awareness of the unintended
consequences of people's engagement to virtual communities as
facilitated through social media. While virtual communities are
primarily purposed to foster collaboration among individuals with
shared purpose, interest and goals, recent engagements in these
communities have been exploited to facilitate behaviors that
potentially bring about disruptive social, political, moral and
even economic unintended outcomes. Spreading of fake news and
rumors, and promotion of groundless opinions to gain some
political advantage are examples of such unintended consequential
behaviors. We welcome both quantitative and qualitative studies
that explicate the theoretical, conce
ptual and empirical nature of similar unintended consequences of
virtual communities. In addition, papers that model and analyze
impacts, spread and drivers of factors across similar topic areas
are welcome.
Potential topics may include (but are not limited to):
* Cyberbullying, cyber-aggression, and unwanted contact
* Harassment, intimidation and stalking * Damaged reputation due
to rumors or gossips
* Online deception
* Sex and violence
* Inadvertent disclosure of private information
* Changes to relationships between public and private sphere
* Suppression of alternate viewpoints
* Promotion of narratives disconnected from facts
* Data mining in virtual communities for malicious intent
* Use of personal data by third-parties, hacking and identify
theft
Submission Process:
Paper submissions must be made electronically through AMCIS 2020
Manuscript Submission Site
https://new.precisionconference.com/ais.
Papers will be peer reviewed using a double-blind system.
Important Dates:
Jan. 6, 2020: Submission system opens
Feb. 28, 2020: Completed Research and ERF submissions due
(5:00p.m. MST)
April 22, 2020: Camera-ready papers due (5:00p.m. MST)
More information is available at
https://amcis2020.aisconferences.org/track-descriptions/#toggle-id-26
Or by contacting the minitrack co-chairs.
Minitrack Co-Chairs:
Vikas Jain
Department of Information Technology and Management University of
Tampa, Tampa, FL
vjain@ut.edu
Vishal Midha
Department of Accounting
Illinois State University, Normal, IL
vmidha@illinoisstate.edu
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