[AISWorld] Call for Papers for minitrack on Rhetoric, Technology, and (Dis)information AMCIS 2019

[Shah, Vishal]

Dear Colleagues,

We kindly invite you to submit your manuscripts to Rhetoric, Technology, and (Dis)information minitrack, under the Information Security and Privacy track of the 2019 AMCIS conference, which will take place on 15-17 August, 2019 in Cancun, Mexico Submission deadline is March 1, 2019. Following is a short description of the minitrack.


Minitrack Chair: James Melton, Central Michigan University, melto1jh at cmich.edu


This minitrack seeks to explore the relationship between rhetoric, social media platforms, and disinformation. One of the ways to deal with disinformation and to avoid exacerbating biases is to have a general population trained in rhetoric.  Because the discipline of rhetoric studies the effects of persuasion on audiences, it can help make those audiences more aware of mechanisms of spreading disinformation. For example, recent papers studied how to inoculate people against misinformation by asking them to play roles such as “clickbait monger” seeking to get clicks themselves or to act as “conspiracy theorist." It was found that when made aware of the ease that misinformation could be spread, people were more likely to be critical of it in the future (Roozenbeek et al. 2018; van der Linden et al. 2017). Such interventions demonstrate that rhetorical awareness of mechanisms that enable the spread of disinformation can help combat bias through awareness. We welcome papers at the intersection of rhetoric, psychology, and information systems that attempt to solve the problem of disinformation from an interdisciplinary standpoint.


This mini-track welcomes all types of empirical and theoretical contributions. Possible topics include but are not limited to:


- Political persuasion using technology

- Safeguards against "fake news"

- Technical solution(s) to identify and combat disinformation

- Impact of dis/misinformation on an individual, group, and societal levels

- Changes in the very meaning of "facts"

- Interaction of disinformation and supposed "self-expertise" (e.g., Dunning-Kruger Effect)

- Technical traps set up by bots to entice social media users, and its behavioral impacts

- Frameworks to combat disinformation/misinformation


Link to the track/minitrak: https://amcis2019.aisconferences.org/submissions/track-descriptions/#toggle-id-24


References:


Roozenbeek, J., & van der Linden, S. (2018). The fake news game: Actively inoculating against the risk of misinformation. Journal of Risk Research, DOI: 10.1080/13669877.2018.1443491


van der Linden, S., Maibach, E., Cook, J., Leiserowitz, A., & Lewandowsky, S. (2017). Inoculating against misinformation<http://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6367/1141.2>. Science, 358(6367), 1141-1142.


Submission Instructions:

https://amcis2019.aisconferences.org/submissions/types-of-submissions/



Timeline and Submission Details:

  *   January 7, 2019: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2019 begin
  *   March 1, 2019: AMCIS manuscript submissions closes for authors at 10:00am PST

  *   April 15, 2019:* Notification of initial decisions on Completed and ERF paper submissions
  *   April 24, 2019: Camera-ready papers are due

We look forward to receiving your best works for the mini-track. Feel free to contact us in case of any question.

Best,


Jim & Vishal


Vishal Shah

Assistant Professor | Business Information Systems Department
Grawn 336 | Central Michigan University
P: 989-774-4350 | E: shah3v at cmich.edu