[AISWorld] CFP: Special Issue on Dark Sides of Social e-Commerce

Babak Abedin babak.abedin at gmail.com
Thu Jul 6 03:05:04 EDT 2017


*Call for Papers: Dark Sides of Social e-Commerce*


*Special issue of the Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic
Commerce Research (2016 impact factor=1.44)*


*OBJECTIVES*

The growing popularity of social IT and social media has opened new
opportunities for electronic commerce, often referred to as social
e-commerce (Liang & Turban, 2011). Social e-commerce utilizes generic Web
2.0 platforms such as Facebook and Twitter as well as specialized social
websites like Tripadvisor, Shopee, and Pintrest to facilitate electronic
commerce and transactions for products and services acquisition. It also
gives users a platform for exchanging reviews, experiences, and other
contributions (Hajli, 2015).

However, research shows that most of studies in the field have primarily
focused on the benefits and positive aspects of social commerce, leaving
the dark and problematic sides under researched (Berger et al. 2014). While
previously studies have reported a number of negative and problematic
aspects of social e-commerce, such as information overload and
inappropriate expectations (Fox and Moreland 2015), deception (Tsikerdekis
and Zeadally 2014), and risks with user-generated ratings (Flanagin et al.,
2014), more research is still needed to explore risks that may threaten
organizations as well as users (Turel & Qahri-Saremi, 2016).

Thus, this special issue highlights the need for conceptualization efforts
and empirical studies of the problematic and dark sides of social
e-commerce, and the risks that different groups of users may face when they
use Web 2.0 platforms for online commerce and transactions. We particularly
call for studies into risks of social e-commerce for vulnerable users such
as older people, young kids, and people with less computer and Internet
literacy.

For this special issue, we call for high quality research studies from
academia, industry, governments, and non-profits, especially collaborations
among these groups, to address theoretical and practical issues with social
e-commerce. We welcome examination of these synergies and/or tensions at
the societal, organizational, group/team, and individual levels of
analysis.  We solicit case studies, surveys, experiments, qualitative
research, and collaborative action research among academics, executives,
and policy makers that illustrate innovative approaches, resolutions, and
solutions to these tensions, risks, and challenges. We especially seek
papers that offer theoretical models combined with evidences of the
consequences or findings of observations related to these models.


*Subject Coverage*

We specifically encourage papers related to dark sides and problematic
aspects of social e-Commerce. Particular topics to be addressed might
include, but are not limited to the following:


1. A User Perspective

   - Qualitative as well as quantitative studies of the risks of social
   e-commerce
   - Risk and disaster management for dealing with social e-commerce
   negative consequences
   - Impacts of social e-commerce on users’ wellbeing
   - Negative word of mouth
   - Social informatics of negative user behaviour
   - New theoretical development and confirmation in social e-commerce
   - Ethical and legal issues of social e-computing
   - Cross case studies and comparison of social e-commerce risks in
   different countries
   - Challenges with user generated reviews and e-comments
   - Negative and misleading social advertising


2. A Technology Perspective

   - Affordances of social commerce technologies and platforms
   - Cyber security and cyber crime in social platforms
   - Social platforms’ features and characteristics
   - Problematic aspects of social 3D and virtual technologies
   - Privacy control and risks
   - Technology design and interface



*About JTAER*

The Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research (ISSN
0718-1876) is published quarterly. The intended audience includes
academicians, researchers and professionals in computer science,
information management, telecommunications, business administration,
sociology, law, financial services, as well as specialists in the field of
electronic commerce.JTAER is indexed/abstracted by SCOPUS, ISI THOMSON
REUTERS, EBSCO, PROQUEST, and other major academic databases. The journal's
2016 impact factor is 1.44


*Notes for Potential Authors*

We are seeking original manuscripts on conceptual and methodological issues
related to research on problematic and dark sides of social e-Commerce, as
well as papers reporting on recent empirical results in the field.
Qualitative and quantitative research as well as detailed review studies
are encouraged. Submitted papers should not have been previously published
nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Author guidelines can be found at http://www.jtaer.com/author_guidelines.doc.
All submissions will be refereed by at least three reviewers. Submissions
should be directed by email to babak.abedin at uts.edu.au . For more
information, please visit the following web site: http://www.jtaer.com.


*Important dates*

   - Full paper submission: 1 November 2017
   - Notification of acceptance: 1 Feb 2018
   - Revised submission: 1 April 2018
   - Final acceptance notification: 30 April 2018
   - Camera ready version of paper: 15 May 2018


*Guest Editors*


Dr Babak Abedin, Information Systems

University of Technology Sydney
Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology

Sydney, Australia

Babak.Abedin at uts.edu.au <jtaer.open.data at utalca.cl> Prof. Sergiu Dascalu

University of Nevada, Reno

Computer Science and Engineering

Reno, USA

Dascalus at cse.unr.edu Professor Ghassan Beydoun

University of Technology Sydney
Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology

Sydney, Australia

Ghassan.Beydon at uts.edu.au


*Selected Reference *

Berger, K., Klier, J., Klier, M., and Probst, F. 2014. "A Review of
Information Systems Research on Online Social Networks," Commun Assoc
Inform Syst. (35:1), p. 8.

Fox, J., and Moreland, J. J. 2015. "The Dark Side of Social Networking
Sites: An Exploration of the Relational and Psychological Stressors
Associated with Facebook Use and Affordances," Computers in Human Behavior
(45), pp. 168-176.

Liang, T. P., & Turban, E. (2011). Introduction to the special issue social
commerce: a research framework for social commerce. International Journal
of electronic commerce, 16(2), 5-14.

Hajli, N. (2015). Social commerce constructs and consumer's intention to
buy. International Journal of Information Management, 35(2), 183-191.

Flanagin, A. J., Metzger, M. J., Pure, R., Markov, A., & Hartsell, E.
(2014). Mitigating risk in ecommerce transactions: perceptions of
information credibility and the role of user-generated ratings in product
quality and purchase intention. Electronic Commerce Research, 14(1), 1-23.

Tsikerdekis, M., and Zeadally, S. 2014. "Online Deception in Social Media,"
Communications of the ACM (57:9), pp. 72-80.

Turel, O., Qahri-Saremi (2016). Problematic Use of Social Networking Sites:
Antecedents and Consequence from a Dual-System Theory Perspective. Journal
of Management Information Systems, 33(4), 1087-1116.



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