[AISWorld] CFP: Mediated Conversation minitrack. HICSS site now open for submission

[Yoram Kalman]

> Mediated Conversation
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> Conversations are at the heart of every human activity.  Mediated
> conversations that use text, audio, images and video are a part of every
> aspect of life: From the Cluetrain Manifesto’s “markets are conversations”,
> through Robin Dunbar’s conversations as devices for social grooming.
> Accordingly, this minitrack is open to research on mediated conversation
> from a variety of disciplinary perspectives including Communication,
> Management, Education, Computer Science, Sociology, Political Science,
> Psychology, Linguistics, Law, and the like. The mediated conversation
> minitrack is home for research of the interface of conversation and
> technology at HICSS.
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> As the role of mediated conversation in everyday life and in the workplace
> becomes more dominant, we encounter new research questions. Many mediated
> conversations leave a persistent record and become persistent
> conversations. This persistence transforms the essence of conversation that
> was, until recently, predominantly volatile and ephemeral. On the other
> hand, some forms of mediated conversation are deliberately ephemeral and
> impermanent, as demonstrated by media such as Snapchat.* This is the
> successor of the Persistent Conversation minitrack established by Tom
> Erickson and Susan Herring at HICSS in 1999*, which was originally
> focused on the novelty of conversational persistence.
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> Since then, the mediation of human communication has been imposing a new
> set of challenges. For example, what are the mechanisms that perform the
> role of the ephemeral social cues of face-to-face conversation? What are
> the consequences of the creation of potentially permanent records in terms
> of privacy, accountability, and the right to be forgotten? What of the
> ability to erase, steal, hijack and selectively leak and disseminate
> conversations that were meant to remain under the control of their
> participants? How do platforms affect or mediate conversations, for example
> by imposing algorithmic biases? Can we evaluate the claims about loss of
> intimacy, depth, and quality of human communication when carried out
> digitally?
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> This minitrack brings together researchers and innovators to explore
> mediated conversation and its implications for learning, commercial
> transactions, entertainment, news, politics, and other forms of human
> interaction; to raise new socio-technical, ethical, pedagogical, linguistic
> and social questions; and to suggest new methods, perspectives, and design
> approaches. Examples of appropriate topics include, but are not limited to:
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> * Innovation in digital conversational practice: turn-taking, threading,
> and other structural features of CMC
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> * The dynamics and analysis of large scale conversation systems (e.g.,
> MOOCs and big data applications)
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> * Methods for analyzing mediated conversation
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> * Studies of virtual communities or other sites of digital conversation
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> * The role of mediated conversation in knowledge management
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> * The role of mediated conversation in organizations
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> * Domain specific applications, opportunities and challenges of mediated
> conversations and conversational exchanges (e.g., in education, healthcare,
> social movements, government, citizen participation)
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> * Conversation visualization, and visual cues
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> * The role of listeners, lurkers, and silent interactions
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> * Novel properties of mediated conversation
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> * Social presence and the mediation of an attributed user’s identity
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> * The platform's role in mediating the conversation
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> Submit online at: https://confs.precisionconference.com/~hicss/
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> *Submission deadline: June 15, 2017, 11:59 pm HST*
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> For questions, please contact one of the co-chairs
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> *Minitrack Co-Chairs:*
>
> *Sheizaf Rafaeli* (Primary Contact)
> University of Haifa
> sheizaf at rafaeli.net
>
> *Yoram M Kalman*
> The Open University of Israel
> yoramka at openu.ac.il
>
> *Carmel Kent*
> University of Exeter, UK
> kent.carmel at gmail.com
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Yoram Kalman, PhD

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