-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] AMCIS 2019 CfP - Mini-track: "Social Media and Society" Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 18:07:35 +0100 From: Milad Mirbabaie mirbabaie@connected-organization.de To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

*25th Americas Conference on Information Systems* - Cancun, August 15-17 2019 - https://amcis2019.aisconferences.org/ https://amcis2019.aisconferences.org/ - *Minitrack: Social Media and Society* *Track: Social Computing*

*Minitrack Co-Chairs*

- Stefan Stieglitz, stefan.stieglitz@uni-due.de mailto:stefan.stieglitz@uni-due.de, University of Duisburg-Essen - Adriana Amaral, adriamaral@unisinos.br mailto:adriamaral@unisinos.br, UNISINOS - Milad Mirbabaie, milad.mirbabaie@uni-due.de mailto:milad.mirbabaie@uni-due.de, University of Duisburg-Essen

*Description of Minitrack* Social media have become an important way for private persons, politicians, media/journalists and organizations to communicate publicly. This offers new potentials for societies (e.g. transparency, consensus building) but also challenges such as misinformation, fake news or manipulation. Hence, there is an urgent need for comprehensive concepts as well as methods which exist independent of particular current platforms and applications. Therefore, in this mini track we are looking for research that investigates the impact of social media on welfare of societies. Moreover, current developments in data science, user behavior, privacy, and trust in the context of society could be considered in articles submitted to the mini track. In this minitrack we are looking for empirical studies (quantitative and qualitative) as well as conceptual papers and design orientated articles.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

- fandom in social media - social movements in social media - crisis situations (and communication) in social media - political communication in social media - impact of social media on the welfare of societies - negative effects: fake news, mis- and disinformation, rumours - automated accounts/social bots - social capital and social support - impact of social media on equality and inequality (e.g. of minorities, genders) within societies

*Important Dates*

- January 7, 2019: Manuscript submissions open - March 1, 2019: 10 am PST Deadline for paper submissions - April 15, 2019: Authors will be notified of decisions - April 24, 2019: Camera-ready submissions due

Dr. Milad Mirbabaie Postdoctoral Researcher and Teamleader at University of Duisburg-Essen Manager of Competence Center Connected Organization

Professional Communication in Electronic Media / Social Media Department of Computer Science and Applied Cognitive Science

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