-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP - AMCIS 2020 Mini-track: Information Processing and Decision Making in Online Communities Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 13:30:01 -0700 From: Tom Meservy tmeservy@gmail.com To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

Mini-track: Information Processing and Decision Making in Online Communities Track: Virtual Communities and Collaboration

Description

Online communities consist of individuals who share a common interest and who use the internet to communicate with each other and work together in pursuit of shared interests. Individuals seek out information online for both utilitarian and hedonic reasons. Online forums are one example of a pervasive platform where individuals can submit and receive answers to questions as well as browse the experiences of others. Individuals with questions often turn to these forums, either directly or indirectly (through search engine results), to find answers to problems they face. While research has begun to address utilitarian and hedonic seeking and consumption of information, there is still much left unknown. This mini-track focuses on research related to understanding information processing and decision making in the context of online communities. The following is a list of sample topics (non-exhaustive) that would be a good fit for this mini-track:

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How individuals search for, filter, or adopt online information -

Online decision making processes -

Cognitive processing related to consumption of online information -

Validation of online content -

Community based cues -

Evaluation of different cue types (e.g., upvotes, star ratings) -

Design elements of tools to support online communities -

Crowdsourced knowledge -

Approaches to increase contributions/engagement -

Novel approaches to support online communities

Submission Types

- Full papers must not exceed 10 pages (approx. 5,000 words) - Emergent Research Forum (ERF) papers must not exceed 5 pages (approx. 2,500 words)

Submission Deadline

February 28, 2020: AMCIS manuscript submissions closes at 5:00pm MST

Mini-track Co-chairs

Tom Meservy, Brigham Young University, tmeservy@byu.edu Matt Jensen, University of Oklahoma, mjensen@ou.edu _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org