-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CFP--2019 AMCIS Minitrack: Dark Side of Social Media Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 16:29:55 -0600 From: Tawei (David) Wang wang131@gmail.com To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

Minitrack: Dark Side of Social Media

Minitrack Co-Chairs:

Yen-Yao Wang, yenyao@auburn.edu, Auburn University

Shih-Hui (Steven) Hsiao, shsiao@ltu.edu, Lawrence Technological University

Tawei (David) Wang, david.wang@depaul.edu, DePaul University

Social media has profoundly changed how individuals communicate and interact with other individuals or companies. Prior research has mostly focused on the “bright side” of social media, aiming to understand how social media could facilitate communications or enhance marketing activities. However, it is increasingly observable that social media presents enormous risks for an individual, organizational, and even for societal levels, which refers to the “dark side” of social media. Examples of the “dark side” of social media may include fake news, online witch hunts, cyberbullying, or privacy abuse. Despite the ubiquitous nature of social media and the development of data analytics skills, we still need to better understand the role and long-term consequences of this phenomenon.

This minitrack welcomes submissions of original work addressing issues and challenges in the context of the dark side of social media. We also encourage submissions of research in progress or studies that are more practically oriented. Relevant topics for this minitrack include, but are not limited to, the following:

· Applications of data analytics in the context of the dark side of social media

· Online firestorm of social media

· Cyberbullying of social media

· Online witch hunts of social media

· Addictive use of social media

· Deep learning approach of determining fake news

· Government issues on the dark side of social media

· Privacy issues related to social media

· Best practices or frameworks _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org