[AISWorld] AMCIS 2013: Call for Minitrack Proposals - "Virtual Communities and Virtual Worlds" Track

[Nah, Fiona]

We invite the submission of minitrack proposals to the Virtual Communities and Virtual Worlds Track at the 19th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2013), which will be held on August 15-17, 2013 in Chicago. The AMCIS 2013 theme is Hyperconnected World: Anything Anywhere Anytime.



The track details are as follows:

Track Co-Chairs:

Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Missouri University of Science and Technology, nahf at mst.edu<mailto:nahf at mst.edu>

Shu Schiller, Wright State University, shu.schiller at wright.edu<mailto:shu.schiller at wright.edu>

Brian Mennecke, Iowa State University, mennecke at iastate.edu<mailto:mennecke at iastate.edu>

Track Description:

The goal of the Virtual Communities and Virtual Worlds track is to further existing knowledge and understanding of virtual communities and virtual worlds, and offer implications for research and practice.  Virtual communities are collective groups of individuals who utilize computer-mediated environments to interact and pursue mutual goals.  A virtual world is a computer-generated three-dimensional space where users interact with one another and with objects in the environment through their avatars.  Virtual communities and virtual worlds are growing in importance and are used for various purposes – from information sharing to collective decision-making to collaborative work in both business and educational contexts.  This track aims to extend our understanding of virtual communities and virtual worlds to enhance the theoretical foundation for future research and to provide guidance to practitioners.



Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
•             The design, use, development, and evaluation of virtual communities and virtual worlds in business and educational settings
•             Individual and group behaviors in virtual communities and virtual worlds
•             Collaboration among and between virtual community and virtual world members, the interplay between virtual communities and virtual worlds, and the impact of these environments on participants and communities
•             Individual and group behaviors, processes, and governance mechanisms in virtual communities and virtual worlds
•             The role of individual attitudes and characteristics on behaviors, processes and outcomes in virtual communities and virtual worlds
•             Ethics, privacy, security, and trust issues in virtual communities and virtual worlds
•             Intra- and inter-organizational communication and collaboration and cultural issues in virtual communities and virtual worlds
•             Business and economic models of virtual communities and virtual worlds
•             Power and political issues related to individual, group, organizational, and societal behaviors in virtual communities and virtual worlds
•             Impact of social networking in virtual communities and virtual worlds
•             Impact of anytime, anywhere connectivity of virtual communities and virtual worlds
•             Novel and innovative applications of virtual communities and virtual worlds
•             Crowdsourcing and/or co-creation in virtual communities and virtual worlds
•             Social analytics and big data analytics of virtual communities and virtual worlds
•             Real-time business simulations in virtual worlds
•             Business implications of virtual reality and augmented reality



Responsibilities and Procedure



Minitrack co-chairs will be responsible for

·         promoting their minitrack to generate manuscript submissions to AMCIS 2013;

·         soliciting and assigning reviewers for manuscripts submitted to the minitrack;

·         making recommendations to track chairs about each manuscript submitted to the minitrack.



To submit a minitrack proposal, you must submit

·         minitrack co-chairs (names, emails, affiliation);

·         minitrack title;

·         short description of minitrack for the AMCIS 2013 website (up to 150 words);

·         call for papers for your minitrack.



To submit a minitrack proposal, visit:



http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2013_minitracks/<https://owa.northumbria.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2013_minitracks/> and http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=84&Itemid=60<https://owa.northumbria.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/index.php?option=com_content%26view=article%26id=84%26Itemid=60>



Important Dates



October 1, 2012:               Bepress opens for submission (Bepress is the new submission system for AMCIS)

October 18, 2012:             Minitrack proposals due


November 19, 2012:       Revised Minitrack proposal due


January 4, 2013:                Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2013 begin




To view the full schedule of activities for minitrack chairs, visit:

http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=53&Itemid=57<https://owa.northumbria.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/index.php?option=com_content%26view=article%26id=53%26Itemid=57>

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Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Ph.D.
Professor of Business & Information Technology
Missouri University of Science and Technology
101 Fulton Hall
Rolla, MO 65409
Email: nahf at mst.edu<mailto:nahf at mst.edu>
Tel: 573-341-6996
URL: http://www.mst.edu/~nahf
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