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Dear Colleagues,
We kindly invite you to submit your manuscripts to Social media
and disinformation minitrack, under the Information Security and
Privacy track of the 2019 AMCIS conference, which will take place
on 15-17 August, 2019 in Cancun, Mexico Submission deadline is
March 1, 2019. Following is a short description of the minitrack.
Minitrack Chair: Rishikesh Jena, University of Alabama,
rjena@cba.ua.edu
This minitrack seeks papers that elaborate an address the
underlying causes of disinformation through technological means.
Researchers have identified how false information is spread more
quickly, deeper, and further due to human nature accepting rumors
more quickly over truthful statements (Vosoughi, Roy & Aral
2018). The use of social technologies, which allow for quick
dissemination of information further encourages this dynamic by
offering strong user engagement but little to no context to users.
A balancing act is required in the use of these technologies
between mechanisms for disseminating information while allowing us
to check the validity of this information. Technological
developments (algorithms, big data, artificial intelligence,
Internet of Things and smart technologies) hold the promise of
combating misinformation. At the same time, artificial
intelligence, big data, and algorithms offer little to no access
to information that they make inferences about our online actions
that are often used to present advertisements or information to
us.
While the impact of disinformation is mostly believed to influence
socio-political opinion, however, it is also likely to affect the
world of business. For example, troll farms are buying advertising
to disseminate information on a scale that can potentially reach
millions of users. Additionally, this information can spread
within an organization via “Enterprise Social Media” (ESM)
(Leonardi, Huysman, & Steinfield, 2013). ESM can spread
disinformation within the organization, hence making internal
operations of an organization susceptible to
disinformation/misinformation. This can become especially
problematic if the organization is in the business of information
dissemination such as Facebook and Twitter. What mechanisms
frameworks are needed to ensure institutions have immunity against
“fake news”. Thus, combating disinformation is a dual challenge,
as it can impact the supply and demand side of information
dissemination business.
We encourage submissions dealing with social media and interaction
of “fake news” at an individual level as well as enterprise
levels.
In this track, we are therefore looking for research on the
diverse causes of misinformation/disinformation in social
technologies and a variety of ways that these technologies can
help us combat it. We welcome articles that detail how
technological enterprises such as Facebook or Twitter as a unit)
develop strategies to combat disinformation as well as theoretical
frameworks we can draw on to develop such strategies.
This mini-track welcomes all types of empirical and theoretical
contributions. Possible topics include but are not limited to:
- Enterprise responses to fight disinformation
- Case Studies of enterprises that have fallen prey to
disinformation campaigns
- Technical solutions and their scalability to protect the
integrity of information
- User education and usage policies in the space of 'fake news"
- The ability of ESM to discriminate between real and doctored
information given that technical tools (such as algorithms, big
data, artificial intelligence etc.) are also used by
disinformation campaigns
References:
Leonardi, P., Huysman, M., & Steinfield, C. (2013); Enterprise
social media: Definition, history, and prospects for the study of
social technologies in organizations, Journal of Computer-Mediated
Communication 19(1), 1–19.
Vosoughi, S., Roy, D., & Aral, S. (2018). The spread of true
and false news online. Science 23(59), 1146-1151.
Link to the track/minitrak:
https://amcis2019.aisconferences.org/submissions/track-descriptions/#toggle-id-24
Submission Instructions:
https://amcis2019.aisconferences.org/submissions/types-of-submissions/
Timeline and Submission Details:
* January 7, 2019: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2019 begin
* March 1, 2019: AMCIS manuscript submissions closes for authors
at 10:00am PST
* April 15, 2019: Notification of initial decisions on Completed
and ERF paper submissions
* April 24, 2019: Camera-ready papers are due
We look forward to receiving your best works for the mini-track.
Feel free to contact us in case of any question.
Best,
Rishi & Vishal
Vishal Shah
Assistant Professor | Business Information Systems Department
Grawn 336 | Central Michigan University
P: 989-774-4350 | E:
shah3v@cmich.edu
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