[AISWorld] Subject: CFP for JMIS SI on the Metaverse

[paul.lowry.phd at gmail.com]

Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS) 
Call for Submission to the Special Issue 
Fostering the Design and Governance of the Metaverse

Guest Editors: Prof. Paul Benjamin Lowry, Virginia Tech; Prof. Waifong Boh,
Nanyang Technological University; Prof. Stacie Petter, Wake Forest
University; Prof. Jan Marco Leimeister, University of St. Gallen and
University of Kassel

JMIS, a top-tier scholarly journal, invites the best papers addressing the
components of the potential emergence of the Metaverse as a complement to
and a potential replacement for the current Web.

The Metaverse is envisioned as a collection of technologies and initiatives
intended to create a next-generation Internet (Web3) that is highly
immersive, persistent, in 3D, and based on the latest developments in
extended reality (XR)-an umbrella term for virtual reality (VR), mixed
reality (MR), and augmented reality (AR)-as supplemented by artificial
intelligence (AI), cloud computing, quantum computing, and other supporting
technologies. Given the compelling and disruptive potential for the
Metaverse to generate the Web3, several of the world's leading technology
companies are investing tens of billions of dollars on related software and
hardware to foster this market, including Meta (famously renamed from
"Facebook" as an all-in bet on the Metaverse), Microsoft, Snapchat, Amazon,
NVIDIA, Epic Games, Apple, among others.

This is an opportune time for researchers to examine what can be learned
from the past failed efforts of AR/VR platforms such as Second Life and
over-hyped failed AR technologies like Google Glass, and to examine the many
more successes that are occurring, perhaps more quietly, with XR (i.e., VR,
MR, AR) in education, manufacturing, gaming, branding, healthcare,
retailing, logistics, aerospace and defense, architecture, advertising, and
athletics. It is these successes and disruptive business models that are
likely to form what will be known as the Metaverse. However, this is no
minor feat, just as the Internet as we know it took decades to develop. To
create a truly persistent 3D, virtual, and immersive Metaverse, there will
need to be further advances in supporting hardware (goggles, headsets,
sensors), and an exponential increase in computing power, storage, and
memory. If the Metaverse is to succeed it must be based on making things
better for people than the status quo, and thus must foster innovative
business models that are profitable, and yet foster interoperability,
efficiency, remote work, reliability, fairness, accountability, open
governance, inclusivity, safety, community, and to do so in a manner that is
sustainable environmentally, socially and ethically.

This is the time for scientists to work with policy makers, companies, and
not-for-profit organizations to break the current social media models and
envision a Metaverse that can best serve collective global needs.
Accordingly, we are pleased to announce a Special Issue (SI) on this subject
at JMIS. Our strong preference is for contributions of original and rigorous
theory-guided behavioral or empirical data around information systems
artifacts that inform design, practice, research, and the products and
foundations of theory of meaningful aspects of the Metaverse. We seek any
methodological approaches that are legitimate and rigorous, and that can
shed light on important phenomena related to the Metaverse. However, we are
not seeking review papers or those that focus on discussions of further
research alone.

Honorary Senior Scholar advisors and editors to the special issue:
.	Patrick Y.K. Chau, University of Nottingham 
.	Alan Dennis, Indiana University
.	Juho Hamari, Tampere University
.	Suprateek Sarker, University of Virginia
.	Viswanath (Venki) Venkatesh, Virginia Tech
.	Doug Vogel, Harbin Institute of Technology

Dates:
.	First round submissions due date: May 1, 2023
.	First round decisions provided by: July 15, 2023
.	Second round submissions due date: November 15, 2023
.	Second round decisions provided by: January 15, 2024
.	Third round submissions due date: March 15, 2024
.	Final decisions on papers provided by: April 30, 2024
.	Special issue publication in late 2024

For full information on the CFP see:
<https://sites.google.com/site/professorlowrypaulbenjamin/jmis-si-on-the-met
averse-new?authuser=0>