-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] The Dark Side of Social Networking: CfP for AMCIS 2014 Mini-track Datum: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 14:05:26 +0100 Von: Tillmann Neben neben@uni-mannheim.de An: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

CfP The Dark Side of Social Networking

We invite authors to submit to this mini-track at the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2014).

Mini-track: The Dark Side of Social Networking — Social and Ethical Issues

Track: Social-Technical Issues and Social Inclusion Track (SIGSI)

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Addiction and compulsive use - Cyber bullying, stalking, and harassment - Cybersmearing, cyberslacking and cyberloafing - Risk to privacy and confidentiality - Violations of intellectual property right - Fraud and deception on social networking sites - Information overload caused by social networking sites - Negative impact of social networking on relationships - Addiction to games on social networking sites, such as Facebook games - Personality and mental health issues, such as social anxiety, and their relationship to social networking site usage - Social network surveillance and censorship - Ethical issues in social network analysis and mining

Mini track description: Recent years have witnessed a proliferation of online social networking sites that “allow individuals to (1) construct public or semi-public profiles within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users within whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within their system” (Boyd and Ellison, 2008).

By facilitating the establishment and maintenance of social relations as well as the sharing of interests and activities within individual networks, social networking sites (such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube, and Google+) have become increasingly integrated in our modern culture, changing the way we work, study, play and socialize, and how we spend our time and money.

Notwithstanding the many personal, educational, and work benefits offered by online social networking sites, their use raises a variety of social and ethical concerns (e.g., privacy and security threats, cyber-bullying, addiction, deception, censorship and surveillance).

The objective of this mini-track is to develop theoretical insight and understanding on topics and issues that address the troubling or dark side of online social networks. We welcome conceptual, theoretical, and empirical papers that enrich our understanding of the social and ethical issues of online social networks. All methodological approaches are welcome.

AMCIS website: http://amcis2014.aisnet.org

Mini-track chairs:

Bo Sophia Xiao University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa , Honolulu, HI, USA

Christy M.K. Cheung Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong

Tillmann Neben University of Mannheim, Germany

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