[AISWorld] CALL FOR PAPERS ­ ACIS 2014. Social Media Track

[Rosemary Stockdale]

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CALL FOR PAPERS – ACIS 2014. Social Media Track

The 25th Australasian Conference on Information Systems will be held from 8th - 10th December 2014 (before ICIS 2014) in  Auckland, New Zealand

http://bis2.aut.ac.nz/acis2014/

Conference Theme: Integral IS - The Embedding of Information Systems in Business, Government and Society



Track Title: Social Media and Social Technologies for Organisations and Individuals

Social media or social networking sites are widely adopted by individual users and organisations around the world. Organisations are increasingly deploying social media for innovation and entrepreneurship. Unique characteristics of social media such as user created content, multiplatform access, transparency, synchronous as well asynchronous communication and networking enables novel ways of interacting with customers and business partners for new business opportunities, to enhance business, to source and recruit best employees, establish new business trends and to innovate processes, services and management.  Social media such as blogs, wikis, Linkedin, Facebook, Yammer and a myriad other social networking sites are changing organizational communication, publishing and information dissemination trends supporting dynamic content,digital democracy and rapid development of interactive online services. Although organisational social media and networking offer new opportunities, organisations are still struggling with the challenges of an appropriate social media strategy, achieving ROI from social media investment, keeping up with new social media developments, social media data analytics and new social business models.

Individuals are using social media for collaboration, communication, information sharing, presenting enhanced data - ‘mashed up’ (combined) from different sources,  24 by 7 information access as well as user generated content on responsive interfaces. User benefits of social media use is wide ranging with types of information shared by individuals varying from personal communication to professional, opinions, comments, diaries, etc. From a user’s perspective, social networking increases individuals’ social capacity measured by the number of people an individual shares information with.

Although information shared by individuals via social media adds value to individuals in the same way it does to organisations and the society, information on social networking sites also results in problems making users potential targets of spammers, for phishing, and malware attacks, gossips, privacy risks from unintentional disclosure of personal information and dissemination of this information by third parties.  Hence it is important to understand the types of information users disclose on social networking sites, as well as implications of different types of information on social media.

This track will solicit the most recent perspectives on organisational social media applications for innovation andentrepreneurship, and types of information shared by individual users with user benefits and costs of information presented on and shared via social networking sites. This track intends to solicit full research papers, research in progress papers and case studies on concepts, theories, methods and empirical findings on social media and networks with a focus on innovation and entrepreneurship for organisations, and benefits and costs for users.  The objective is to provide a platform for a discussion of scholarly research work that will address critical issues ranging from adaptation of fundamental theories and concepts to industry and user experiences as well as best practices in social media use in organisations.

We are inviting and encouraging academia and industry researchers to contribute papers based on their research, including but not limited to empirical, theoretical, conceptual and action research, as well as case studies on social media from both organisations as well with user perspectives.

Representative themes and topics include but are not limited to the following:


·      Social Media in Organizations - Strategy, Models and Theories

o   Theories, concepts and tools for organizational social networking

o   Social media strategy for organisations

o   Analysing and managing ‘organisational social media data'

o   Crowd sourcing, organizational identity, virtual communities, strategic alliances, business intelligence,

o   Managing partners with social media


·      Social Media and the New Workplace

o   Empowering employees through organizational social networking

o   Identifying and recruiting employees via social media

o   A new workplace culture

o   Social media for organizational communication and information dissemination

o   Employee relationship management



·      Social media for marketing

o   Customer service and marketing

o   Advertising

o   Tapping into customers’ and customers’ friends’ likes and dislikes

o   Forecasting demand and future trends from social media

o   Text-mining for customer and marketing trends



·      Ethics in social media use in organisations

o   Applicable ethical framework for social media use in organisations

o   A workable governance system

o   Reconciling social media with regulation

o   Ethics in social recruitment

o   Screening job applicants via social media

o   Identifying people for positions from social networking sites

o   Social media profiling



·      Types of user information on social media

o   Social media information classification schemes

o   Relevant theories for analysis information types on social media

o   Future implications of social media communication

o   Social media language

o   Social media information management issues



·      Implications of information shared via social media

o   User benefits of information shared and presented on social media

o   User costs of information shared on social media

o   Future impact of irresponsible social media information

o   Social media information etiquette

o   Social media information ethics

o   Social media information standards

ACIS 2014 calls for original, unpublished submissions in English and these must be made via the ACIS 2014 submission system via the quick link:
   ACIS2014 Submission System <https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acis20140>

All submissions will then undergo a double-blind peer review process.

Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: ..............  1st August 2014
ACIS Doctoral Consortium: ................  6th - 7th December 2014
ACIS Conference: .............................  8th - 10thDecember 2014

Track Chairs
Professor Mohini Singh
RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
mohini.singh at rmit.edu.au<mailto:mohini.singh at rmit.edu.au>

A/Professor Rosemary Stockdale
Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia
rstockdale at swin.edu.au<mailto:rstockdale at swin.edu.au>

Dr Jason Sargent
Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia
jsargent at swin.edu.au<mailto:jsargent at swin.edu.au>





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Assoc. Professor Rosemary Stockdale
Head of Department
Department of Information Systems
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