[AISWorld] Censorship in academia

[Hefley, William]

An interesting question is buried behind your email.  Were the supposed deletions a conscious action by an AIS volunteer or staffer, or was it done by some admin or informatics (software or program) at Facebook?

bill

Bill Hefley, Ph.D., CDP, COP
Clinical Professor
Naveen Jindal School of Management
The University of Texas at Dallas
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On 1/28/17, 3:08 PM, "AISWorld on behalf of Nima Kordzadeh" <aisworld-bounces at lists.aisnet.org on behalf of n.kordzadeh at gmail.com> wrote:

    Dear colleagues,
    
    As you may know, the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) will
    be held in Portugal in June 2017 and as a junior scholar, I would love to
    attend that conference to learn what research projects my colleagues are
    working on. I noticed that the AIS Facebook page has posted information
    about that conference and has asked: "Have you made your plans to join us
    in Portugal? ECIS 2017 will be fantastic." I left a comment on that post as
    follows:
    
    "I have not, because then I would be banned from coming back to the United
    States, thanks to Trump's executive order."
    
    
    That comment was deleted in five seconds apparently by the page admin. I
    re-posted this:
    
    "I have not, because then I would be banned from coming back to the United
    States, thanks to Trump's executive order. (PLEASE DON'T DELETE THIS
    MESSAGE LIKE YOU DID LAST TIME.)"
    
    
    And it was deleted instantly again.
    
    Given that we, the IS community, are supposed to study and promote the use
    of social media channels for effective communication in business,
    healthcare, education, etc., and to communicate our ideas, challenges, and
    concerns, is it acceptable that we have such an obvious and extreme case of
    censorship on the main social media page of our community? In general, is
    censorship acceptable in academia?!
    
    Your input would be greatly appreciated.
    
    Kind regards,
    Nima
    
    *--*
    
    *Nima Kordzadeh, Ph.D.*
    Assistant Professor of Informatics
    Southern AIS 2017 Program Chair
    
    College of Business
    Idaho State University
    Pocatello, ID 83209-8020
    Office: (208) 282-5731
    kordnima at isu.edu
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