[AISWorld] AMCIS 2014 - Call for Minitracks in the Virtual Communities and Virtual Worlds Track

[Mennecke, Brian E [SCIS]]

We invite the submission of minitrack proposals to the Virtual Communities and Virtual Worlds Track at the 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2014), which will be held on August 7-10, 2014 in Savannah, Georgia. The AMCIS 2014 theme is Smart Sustainability: the Information Systems Opportunity (http://amcis2014.aisnet.org).



The track details are as follows:

Track Co-Chairs:

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

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>

Track Description:

The goal of the Virtual Communities and Virtual Worlds track is to disseminate research and extend our knowledge and understanding of virtual communities and virtual worlds.  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 continue to grow in use and importance.  In fact, an important trend in domains as diverse as business, education, and government is to identify the potential applications and opportunities created by virtual communities and virtual worlds.  This track aims to extend our understanding of virtual communities and virtual worlds to enhance the theoretical foundation for research, share important empirical research that has examined these venues, 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

*         Impacts of social networking in virtual communities and virtual worlds

*         Novel and innovative applications of 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 2014;

*         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 information about a) minitrack chairs (names, emails, affiliation); b) minitrack title; c) short description of minitrack for the AMCIS 2014 website (up to 150 words); d) call for papers for your minitrack. To submit a minitrack proposal, visit:

http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014, login and select the appropriate track.



Important Dates



November 4, 2013: Submit minitrack proposals via the online submission system.

January 4, 2014: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2014 begin



To view the full schedule of activities for minitrack chairs, visit:
http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/track-list


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