[AISWorld] CFP: SI- Digital Economy and Digital Society in the Metaverse in JOEUC

[Xusen Cheng]

Dear Colleagues,

Welcome to submit papers to the special issue on ‘*Digital economy and
digital society in the Metaverse’ ,  Journal of Organizational and End User
Computing.*


Recently, a growing number of enterprises are actively deploying Metaverse
applications. The Metaverse generally refers to an interactive, immersive,
and collaborative virtual world environment that is shared among the online
crowds (Kim, 2021). With digital technologies, the Metaverse can empower
digital economy development and digital society management. Many
industries, including health management, virtual game, smart tourism, and
city planning are utilizing decentralized Metaverse techniques to afford
socialization, play and work (Chen & Zhang, 2022).

Recently, several innovations have been emerged in the new era of Metaverse
(Zhang et al., 2020). For example, cryptocurrencies and non-fungible token
(NFT) enables users truly own the digital assets purchased within the
metaverse. Individuals in the metaverse can self-present themselves with
the embodied avatars, and design more fancy creations combining reality and
imagination. Virtual reality and augmented reality techniques are
continuously upgrading to support the immersive virtual world (Di Pietro &
Cresci, 2021).

The Metaverse not only includes the interpersonal interactions in virtual
spaces, but also a mix of physical and virtual worlds to realize
human-machine symbiosis. Consequently, the Metaverse will potentially bring
about fundamental changes in the entire social environment and economic
activities. Traditional theories, managerial wisdoms and operation rules
regarding to digital economy and digital society might be challenged by the
Metaverse (Chandra & Leenders, 2012; Cheng et al., 2016).

This special issue invites contributions from a variety of conceptual and
theoretical perspectives. We particularly welcome behavioral studies that
explore the new interaction and collaboration modes regarding to Metaverse,
provide multidisciplinary perspectives and theory adaptations, and/or adopt
mixed methods research approaches. We hope the submissions could advance
our understanding of how the Metaverse could be designed and managed for
improving digital economy and digital society. We also encourage
theoretical explorations on how the economic ecosystems and behavioral
rules could be set for a better digital society.



*Topics of Interest:*

Topics that are of interest to this special issue include, but are not
limited to:

l  Behavioral issues interacting with virtual reality and augmented reality

l  Distributed collaboration in the Metaverse

l  E-healthcare and management in the Metaverse

l  Trust, privacy and security issues in the Metaverse

l  Electronic business innovation in the Metaverse

l  Digital society innovation and governance in the virtual world

l  Virtual world and applications for the elderly

l  Artifact design for an immersive virtual world

l  Digital identity management in the virtual world

l  Metaverse to afford online travel experiences

l  Human-AI collaboration and interaction for the Metaverse

l  Digital assets allocation and digital economy in the Metaverse

l  Metaverse and decentralized (blockchain) infrastructures

l  Algorithms design to support Metaverse management



*Special issue Guest Co-Editors:*

Dr. Alex Zarifis

School of Business, University of Nicosia

Email: alex.e.zarifis at gmail.com



Prof. Xusen Cheng

School of Information, Renmin University of China

Email: xusen.cheng at ruc.edu.cn



Prof. Kai Li

School of Business, Nankai University

Email: likai at nankai.edu.cn



*Important Dates*

l  Submission due date:  31 January 2023

l  First round review decision:  15 March 2023

l  Revised submission due:  30 April 2023

l  Second round review decision:  31 May 2023

l  Revised submission due:  15 July 2023

l  Final review decision:  15 August 2023



Kind Regards

Xusen Cheng, Ph.D
Professor of Information Systems
School of Information, Renmin University of China
Beijing, China, 100872
Email: xusen.cheng at gmail.com