[AISWorld] CFP: Intelligence Implications of Social Media, for JITCAR 13:2

[Gordon, Steven]

JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CASE AND APPLICATION RESEARCH
CALL FOR PAPERS

"Intelligence Implications of Social Media"

How can analysis of social media and social networks be used to create useful intelligence for governments and multinational corporations?

This special issue will focus on a matter of critical concern to the intelligence community, including both government intelligence and business intelligence practitioners. We are concerned with how business or government organizations may harness social media to "make sense" of their environment.  On the government side, intelligence today is much concerned with overall national security, economic security, international criminal syndicates, terrorism, human trafficking and in some regions with war-fighting.   In private multinational enterprises, intelligence sometimes goes by the name of "competitive intelligence" or "business intelligence", but serves a similar purpose, that is ultimately the protection of the enterprise. 

Social media, including social networking, has grown rapidly and is challenging many models of information and social interaction on the Internet.   Businesses are using social media to recruit skilled employees, collect information on consumers, and build communities of interest.   Business intelligence operations are exploring how social media can short-cut research processes, or can help develop useful information regarding the market or the competition.   Government intelligence practitioners are examining the effect social media is having on international relations in places such as Iran, where it has revolutionized the communications activities of protesters. This special issue of JITCAR invites case studies on any of the following areas: 

Area 1 -- Analysis and "Sense Making" Technologies including (1) Technologies (or approaches) for automated analysis of social media, including social networks; and (2) Survey of advanced technologies that "data mine" social media for deriving intelligence for either government or business purposes. 

Area 2 -- Infrastructure Technology including Inter-social Media systems and portals (connecting whole or parts of one social media system with another). 

Area 3 -- Organizational Impact including (1) Case studies, of how information developed by analysis of social media, or developed through use of social media, can be organized and used for decision making; (2) Integration of organizational strategy with incoming intelligence derived from social media; (3) Human Resources (HR) and training issues associated with effective utilization of social media by the organization; or (4) Development of "surge" capabilities, that is, the rapid build up, use, and then tear down of specialized functional intelligence analysis groups made possible by social media, including inter-organizational collaboration. 

Step One - Submission of One-Half Page Precis

The first step is to submit a one-page precis that summarizes your research and a case study that fits the criteria herein.  The online form to submit your one-page page précis can be found at http://tinyurl.com/yjzcvku. 
	
Schedule for Authors

Jun 01, 2010      Submission of Précis 
Dec 15, 2010      Submission of Manuscript	
Mar 15, 2011      Reviews to Authors
May 25, 2011      Final Manuscripts Due	

Evaluation of Submissions

Each of these perspectives will be analyzed from the point of view of their possible effect on organizational intelligence, either government intelligence, or corporate (business) intelligence. Submissions also will be evaluated according to their clarity, depth of discussion and relationship to a known theory or the creation of a new one that can become a hypothesis for further research. Authors are invited to view an extended version of this call that includes a useful list of reference literature at http://www.jitcar.org/cfpSpecialIssueJITCAR13-2.pdf.

Guest Editors

Edward M. Roche Ph.D., J.D.
Grenoble Ecole de Management
Email: Edward-M.Roche at grenoble-em.com

Frank F. Blanco
Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA)
Email: FBlanco at insaonline.org

Editor-in-Chief
Steve Gordon
gordon at babson.edu