[AISWorld] CFP: Mediated Conversation minitrack @HICSS-52

[Yoram Kalman]

You are invited to submit to the Mediated Conversation minitrack in the
Digital and Social Media track at HICSS: The Hawaii International
Conference on System Sciences.

The Mediated Conversation minitrack focuses on research of conversations
taking place on digital and social media. Conversations are at the core of
human communication.  Mediated conversations can use text, audio, images or
video, or any combination thereof. The minitrack welcomes research on
conversations that are interpersonal, as well as those that occur in
organizational or mass communication, educational or political contexts,
and in any other sphere of human activity.

Some examples of highly cited papers that first appeared in this minitrack
include: Beyond Microblogging: Conversation and Collaboration via Twitter,
by Honey & Herring; Talk before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia by
Viégas, Wattenberg, Kriss and van Ham; You Are Who You Talk To: Detecting
Roles in Usenet Newsgroups by Fisher, Smith and Welser; Tweet, Tweet,
Retweet: Conversational Aspects of Retweeting on Twitter by boyd, Golder
and Lotan; and, Learning Conversations in World of Warcraft by Nardi, Ly
and Harris.

This minitrack brings together researchers and innovators to explore
mediated conversation and its implications; to raise new socio-technical,
ethical, pedagogical, linguistic and social questions; and to suggest new
methods, perspectives, and design approaches. The Mediated Conversation
minitrack 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. With the
prevalence of mediated conversation, we are called upon to consider a wider
field of issues. Examples of appropriate topics include, but are not
limited to:

- Innovation in mediated conversational practice
- The dynamics and analysis of large scale conversation systems (e.g.,
MOOCs and big data applications)
- Methods for analyzing mediated conversation: qualitative, quantitative,
data analytics
- Mediated collaboration
 -The dark side of mediated conversation, e.g. loafing, bullying, and
communication overload
- Studies of virtual communities or other sites of mediated conversation
- Ethics and mediated conversation: privacy, deception, freedom of speech,
security and information warfare
- The role of mediated conversation in knowledge management
- The role of mediated conversation in organizations
- Domain specific applications, opportunities and challenges of mediated
conversations and conversational exchanges (e.g., in education, healthcare,
social movements, government, citizen participation)
- Conversation visualization
- The role of listeners, lurkers, and silent interactions
- Novel properties of mediated conversation
- The platform’s role in mediating the conversation

FAST TRACK JOURNAL OPPORTUNITY: Authors of papers accepted for presentation
in the minitrack will be offered the opportunity to submit an extended
version of their papers for consideration for fast-track publication in the
ACM journal ACM Transaction on Social Computing (https://tsc.acm.org/)

IMPORTANT DATES

April 15, 2018: submission site opens
June 15, 2018: paper submission deadline
August 17, 2018: notification of acceptance/rejection

For more details: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/

Or, contact us:

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
Arden University, UK
kent.carmel at gmail.com

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Yoram m Kalman
Associate professor
Department of Management and Economics
The Open University of Israel

Cell (USA): +1 737 781 4770
www.kalmans.com <https://kalmans.com/>