-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Call for Papers AMCIS 2019 Mini track: Fake News, Rumors and Other Unintended Consequences of Engagement in Virtual Communities Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2019 17:49:29 +0000 From: Vikas Jain VJAIN@ut.edu To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

AMCIS 2019 Mini track: Fake News, Rumors and Other Unintended Consequences of Engagement in Virtual Communities

We invite submissions to the new mini track titled "Fake News, Rumors and Other Unintended Consequences of Engagement in Virtual Communities" under the "Virtual Communities and Collaboration" track.

Mini-track 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.

Call for Papers:

The objective of this mini-track is to provide a forum for discussion and presentation of original research highlighting some of these unintended consequences and subsequent challenges/or solutions to deal with them. In alignment with the New Frontiers in Digital Covergence theme of AMCIS 2019, we are pleased to invite submission of completed research papers and research-in-progress. We welcome both quantitative and qualitative studies that explicate the theoretical, conceptual 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.

The papers in this mini-track could include, but not limited, to the following areas:

* 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

Mini-track chairs:

Vikas Jain, The University of Tampa, FL, USA, E-mail: vjain@ut.edumailto:vjain@ut.edu

Vishal Midha, Illinois State University, IL, USA, Email: vmidha@ilstu.edumailto:vmidha@ilstu.edu

Important Dates:

* January 7, 2019: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2019 begin

* March 1, 2019: AMCIS manuscript submissions (completed research and

Emergent Research Forum (ERF)) close for authors at 10:00am PST

* March 7, 2019: All papers have assigned reviewers

* April 15, 2019: Track Chairs recommendations are due

* April 24, 2019: Camera-ready papers are due

Best Regards,

Vikas Jain, Ph.D. Department of Information and Technology Management Sykes College of Business Office: JS 213 Box O Phone: 813-257-3968 The University of Tampa 401 W Kennedy Blvd, Tampa, FL 33606

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