[AISWorld] AMCIS 2018: SIGDSA Minitrack on Social Media and Network Analytics

[Deokar, Amit]

Dear Colleagues,

We kindly invite you to submit your manuscripts to the Data Science &
Analytics minitrack under (SIGDSA) track of the 2018 AMCIS conference,
which will take place on 16-18 August, 2018 in New Orleans, LA. The
submission deadline is Feb 28, 2018 (Central Time noon).

Following is a short description of the minitrack.

The novel IT capabilities of social media platforms are affecting the
underlying theories of social network analysis that were primarily
developed for traditional offline social networks. Online social networks
are different from traditional networks in both structure (e.g., Facebook
'friends', Twitter 'followers', LinkedIn 'connections') and content (e.g.,
eWOM via reviews, tweets, likes, thumbs, emoticons). These properties allow
lean, yet rich communications, which differ in nature, frequency, reach,
and propagation speed by orders of magnitude, and can be continuously
captured at the finest level of granularity. To address the unique research
challenges offered by this context, this mini-track invites papers in
topical areas such as (but not limited to): adoption of social media
technologies and its impact on human behavior and decision-making;
analytical techniques used to understand social influence and impacts;
understanding sentiments in unstructured data including nuances such as
uncertainty, specificity; data models for social media, social network
structures, and information diffusion.

We look forward to your submissions and if you have any questions, do not
hesitate to contact us.

Regards,
Amit Deokar, Assistant Professor of MIS, University of Massachusetts Lowell
(amit_deokar at uml.edu)
Haya Ajjan, Associate Professor of MIS, Elon University (hajjan at elon.edu)
Uday Kulkarni, Associate Professor of MIS, Arizona State University  (
uday.kulkarni at asu.edu)