[AISWorld] ECIS2017 about Censorship in academia

[Isabel Ramos]

Dear Colleagues,

Only now I became aware of this sequence of messages that mention
ECIS2017 and a comment that we supposedly deleted on our Facebook
page.

As Conference Co-Chair and on behalf of  the other 2 Conference
Chairs, Virpi Tuunainen and Helmut Krcmar, we inform all the community
that we never deleted any comment there and never saw the mentioned
comments:

"I have not, because then I would be banned from coming back to the
United States, thanks to Trump's executive order."

  "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.)"

posted by Nima Kordzadeh.

No one in the team managing the facebook page has ever deleted these
or other comments, or have instructions to delete comments.

We are  very sorry to hear that comments are being deleted there
without our knowledge. I cannot say who is doing this. I can only say
that it is NOT the ECIS2017 team.

Please, report to us if this happens again - contact at ecis2017.eu

Thank you very much,
Isabel Ramos

From: Nima Kordzadeh <n.kordzadeh at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [AISWorld] Censorship in academia
Date: 28 January 2017 at 22:21:39 GMT
To: Samir Chatterjee <profsamir1 at gmail.com>
Cc: "aisworld at lists.aisnet.org" <aisworld at lists.aisnet.org>


Dear Samir,

Thank you very much for your message. I know that scholars and academics
from all over the world are signing a petition to hopefully reverse the
executive order. As of now, the petition (available here
<https://notoimmigrationban.com/>) has been signed by 18 Nobel Laureates
and more than 4,000 academics from different disciplines. I would also
appreciate it if you (and other AIS community members) read the petition
and sign and share it with colleagues if you agree with it.

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

On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Samir Chatterjee <profsamir1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

Nima,
It is truly sad times we are living in. This is no longer the America that
I knew. I don't know how all this will be resolved except to say that
several lawsuits have started and perhaps some impeachment can happen.

But I would encourage all conference organizers to have videoconference
available to any participant that may be in the same situation as you.
Samir

On Jan 28, 2017 1:30 PM, "Nima Kordzadeh" <n.kordzadeh at gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for your response, Bill. I believe it has been done by the admin of
the AIS Facebook page as I received this private message from him/her
after
my first try to leave a comment on that post: "The conference is in
Portugal not the US." I am not sure how this response is related to the
issue though. I responded to that private message and explained the
situation, but still my following comments on that post were instantly
deleted.

Best.
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

On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Hefley, William <
William.Hefley at utdallas.edu> wrote:

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

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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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