[AISWorld] Call for Papers for minitrack on Social media and disinformation AMCIS 2019

[Shah, Vishal]

Dear Colleagues,

We kindly invite you to submit your manuscripts to Social media and disinformation 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: Rishikesh Jena, University of Alabama, rjena at cba.ua.edu


This minitrack seeks papers that elaborate an address the underlying causes of disinformation through technological means. Researchers have identified how false information is spread more quickly, deeper, and further due to human nature accepting rumors more quickly over truthful statements (Vosoughi, Roy & Aral 2018). The use of social technologies, which allow for quick dissemination of information further encourages this dynamic by offering strong user engagement but little to no context to users. A balancing act is required in the use of these technologies between mechanisms for disseminating information while allowing us to check the validity of this information. Technological developments (algorithms, big data, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things and smart technologies) hold the promise of combating misinformation. At the same time, artificial intelligence, big data, and algorithms offer little to no access to information that they make inferences about our online actions that are often used to present advertisements or information to us.

While the impact of disinformation is mostly believed to influence socio-political opinion, however, it is also likely to affect the world of business. For example, troll farms are buying advertising to disseminate information on a scale that can potentially reach millions of users. Additionally, this information can spread within an organization via “Enterprise Social Media” (ESM) (Leonardi, Huysman, & Steinfield, 2013). ESM can spread disinformation within the organization, hence making internal operations of an organization susceptible to disinformation/misinformation. This can become especially problematic if the organization is in the business of information dissemination such as Facebook and Twitter. What mechanisms frameworks are needed to ensure institutions have immunity against “fake news”. Thus, combating disinformation is a dual challenge, as it can impact the supply and demand side of information dissemination business.

We encourage submissions dealing with social media and interaction of “fake news” at an individual level as well as enterprise levels.

In this track, we are therefore looking for research on the diverse causes of misinformation/disinformation in social technologies and a variety of ways that these technologies can help us combat it. We welcome articles that detail how technological enterprises such as Facebook or Twitter as a unit) develop strategies to combat disinformation as well as theoretical frameworks we can draw on to develop such strategies.


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


- Enterprise responses to fight disinformation

- Case Studies of enterprises that have fallen prey to disinformation campaigns

- Technical solutions and their scalability to protect the integrity of information

- User education and usage policies in the space of 'fake news"

- The ability of ESM to discriminate between real and doctored information given that technical tools (such as algorithms, big data, artificial intelligence etc.) are also used by disinformation campaigns


References:


Leonardi, P., Huysman, M., & Steinfield, C. (2013); Enterprise social media: Definition, history, and prospects for the study of social technologies in organizations, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 19(1), 1–19.

Vosoughi, S., Roy, D., & Aral, S. (2018). The spread of true and false news online. Science 23(59), 1146-1151.



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



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,


Rishi & Vishal


Vishal Shah

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