-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP - AMCIS 2020 Minitrack: Fake News, Rumors, and Other Unintended Consequences of Engagement in Virtual Communities Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 17:58:25 +0000 From: Vikas Jain VJAIN@ut.edu To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

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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