[AISWorld] CfP HICSS-51: Minitrack on Social Media and Government

[Rony Medaglia]

Call for Papers
Minitrack on Social Media and Government
Track on Electronic Government
http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/hicss51/social-media.php

Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-51)
January 3-6, 2018 | Hilton Waikoloa Village

Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2017
Submit at: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-and-minitracks/authors/

The use of social media by public agencies and citizens has now become mainstream. Platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and WeChat represent global tools that bring in the potential to transform the interaction between government agencies, businesses, and citizens.

Social media is, in fact, potentially not only just another channel of information exchange between government agencies and users, but also a powerful tool for service delivery, a device of citizen participation, and an arena of public deliberation.

However, while the vast majority of observers acknowledge the potential of social media in government, there is still a strong need for unpacking some of the core phenomena established by social media in government at local, regional, or central level.

On the one hand, social media carries the promise of increased government transparency, a more active citizen participation through e.g., citizen-sourcing, or social media-enabled value co-creation with businesses. But how intense is citizen participation really?

On the other hand, many issues related to privacy, information leakage, blurred boundaries between private and public spheres, and government surveillance, must all be urgently addressed. Is there a need to clarify the challenges about social media? Should an awareness be developed in the population?

This minitrack aims at attracting high-quality research papers investigating various aspects of social media use, both by citizens (e.g., information, opinions and ideas exchange, political action and mobilization), and by government agencies (e.g., information dissemination, transparency improvement, collection of feedback, knowledge, experience and creative ideas, promotion of citizens’ participation, value and service co-creation). We welcome papers adopting a wide range of approaches on content, metrics, case studies or theoretical models to advance this area of research.

Minitrack topics include, but are not limited to:

·         Social media and government information sharing and transparency

·         Social media and citizen participation

·         Social media and citizen value co-creation

·         Social media and government services delivery

·         Evaluation of government social media practices

·         Internal exploitation of information and knowledge collected by government agencies through social media

·         Citizen political discussion and mobilization on social media

·         Relationship between online social media use and offline political action

·         Predicting election and other political events using social media content

·         Government social media policy and implementation challenges

·         Government social media and privacy

·         Social media and information overload

·         Social media use for supporting public agencies’ internal activities and internal knowledge sharing

·         Social media use in public-private networks

·         Social media and awareness

For further information, please contact the Minitrack Co-Chairs:

Rony Medaglia (Primary Contact)
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
rm.itm at cbs.dk<mailto:rm.itm at cbs.dk>

Margit Scholl
Technische Hochschule Wildau, Germany
mscholl at th-wildau.de<mailto:mscholl at th-wildau.de>

Euripidis N. Loukis
University of the Aegean
eloukis at aegean.gr<mailto:eloukis at aegean.gr>


Rony Medaglia
Associate Professor, PhD
Department of Digitalization (DIGI)
Copenhagen Business School
Howitzvej 60
DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Denmark
Tel.: +45 2479 4327
www.cbs.dk/en/staff/rmitm