[AISWorld] Announcing the Social Media Track for ISCRAM 2015

[Linda Plotnick]

*Getting ready for the unexpected – IS for Crisis Management in a complex
and uncertain world*

*Conference Dates:  May 24-27 2015*

 *TRACK: SOCIAL MEDIA STUDIES*



*Introduction to the track*



Our overall aim in this track is to showcase current research on how the
use of Social Media can help in crisis management and response.  Of
particular interest, given the theme of this conference, is how Social
Media- related tools and modes of use are and can be used for
“unpredictable” types of disasters.

*Track topics **(non-exhaustive list)*

Papers are invited that provide rich description and/or evaluation of the
design and/ or actual use of Social Media for collaboration and/or
widespread participation in any phase of crisis management, from initial
planning and preparedness, through detection, response, and recovery
phases.  This might include, among others:



   - Studies of the use of social media in crises, either for information
   sharing that can provide useful information for managers and citizens, as a
   pull technology, or for dissemination of information to the public as a
   push technology. This includes identification of barriers to effective use
   of social media by emergency response agencies.
   - Innovations in design or use of social media that solve potential
   problems such as issues of information overload, assessment of information
   trustworthiness, or ethical issues such as privacy.
   - Studies of virtual teams or virtual communities employing “social
   software” in the design or use of emergency management information systems,
   with data collection methods ranging from laboratory or field experiments
   to qualitative case studies.
   - Issues and techniques for mining and analyzing Social Media data.
   - Practitioner case studies concerning issues and benefits of Social
   Media use by agencies or NGOs are of great interest to this track.
   - Studies of crowdsourcing and other new practices such as the use of
   “digital volunteers” that engage the public and connect communities.



 *Track Co-Chairs*

Roxanne Hiltz (corresponding chair)

Roxanne.hiltz at gmail.com

NJIT (Distinguished Professor Emerita)


Amanda Hughes

amanda.hughes at usu.edu

Utah State University


Imran Muhammad

mimran at qf.org.qa

Qatar Computing Research Institute


Linda Plotnick

lplotnick at jsu.edu

Jacksonville State University


Christian Reuter

christian.reuter at uni-siegen.de
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Institute for Information Systems

University of Siegen, Germany


Kate Starbird

kstarbi at uw.edu

Human Centered Design and Engineering (HCDE)

University of Washington

Linda Plotnick, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Computer Information Systems
Jacksonville State University
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