[AISWorld] The Dark Side of Social Networking: CfP for AMCIS 2014 Mini-track

[Tillmann Neben]

CfP The Dark Side of Social Networking

We invite authors to submit to this mini-track at the Americas
Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2014).

Mini-track: The Dark Side of Social Networking — Social and Ethical
Issues

Track: Social-Technical Issues and Social Inclusion Track (SIGSI)

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Addiction and compulsive use
- Cyber bullying, stalking, and harassment
- Cybersmearing, cyberslacking and cyberloafing
- Risk to privacy and confidentiality
- Violations of intellectual property right
- Fraud and deception on social networking sites
- Information overload caused by social networking sites
- Negative impact of social networking on relationships
- Addiction to games on social networking sites, such as Facebook games
- Personality and mental health issues, such as social anxiety, and
their relationship to social networking site usage
- Social network surveillance and censorship
- Ethical issues in social network analysis and mining

Mini track description:
Recent years have witnessed a proliferation of online social networking
sites that “allow individuals to (1) construct public or semi-public
profiles within a bounded system, (2)  articulate a list of other users
within whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their
list of connections and those made by others within their system” (Boyd
and Ellison, 2008).

By facilitating the establishment and maintenance of social relations as
well as the sharing of interests and activities within individual
networks, social networking sites (such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn,
Pinterest, YouTube, and Google+) have become increasingly integrated in
our modern culture, changing the way we work, study, play and socialize,
and how we spend our time and money.

Notwithstanding the many personal, educational, and work benefits
offered by online social networking sites, their use raises a variety of
social and ethical concerns (e.g., privacy and security threats,
cyber-bullying, addiction, deception, censorship and surveillance).

The objective of this mini-track is to develop theoretical insight and
understanding on topics and issues that address the troubling or dark
side of online social networks. We welcome conceptual, theoretical, and
empirical papers that enrich our understanding of the social and ethical
issues of online social networks. All methodological approaches are
welcome.

AMCIS website: http://amcis2014.aisnet.org


Mini-track chairs:

Bo Sophia Xiao
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa , Honolulu, HI, USA

Christy M.K. Cheung
Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong

Tillmann Neben
University of Mannheim, Germany