[AISWorld] AMCIS 2024 CFP: Minitrack - Digital Frontiers of Social Computing for Social Good

[Weng, Qin]

CALL FOR PAPERS

AMCIS 2024 – Elevating Life through Digital Social Entrepreneurship
Salt Lake City, Utah
August 15-17, 2024
https://amcis2024.aisconferences.org

MINI-TRACK: Digital Frontiers of Social Computing for Social Good
TRACK: Social Computing

DESCRIPTION

As technology continues to evolve rapidly, we can expect to see more innovative and groundbreaking ways to use social computing to connect people and address the challenges we face. In recent years, new technologies, such as decentralized social networks, metaverse, and artificial intelligence (AI), are transforming how we think, behave, and interact. Although these emerging technologies bring forth both anticipated challenges and unexpected obstacles, they also offer unparalleled opportunities for us to provide innovative solutions to societal and environmental problems. Thus, it is imperative for IS researchers to explore how to unlock the potential of these new technologies for the greater good. This mini-track invites papers that identify new opportunities and innovative ways to use the digital frontiers of social computing to address existing and emerging challenges and promote social well-being and social good.

Empirical, theoretical, or position papers are all encouraged within this track. The digital frontiers of social computing include, but are not limited to:

- decentralized social networks
- metaverse
- blockchain-powered virtual world
- artificial intelligence for social computing

The topics of interest include using the digital frontiers for social good. Some examples include:

- Leveraging social computing to combat climate change
- Promoting sustainability through social computing
- Using social computing to address issues of poverty
- Advancing equity through social computing
- Bridging the financial digital divide using social computing
- Enhancing the accessibility and quality of education through social computing
- Leveraging social computing for societal health improvement
- Social computing for empowering the future workforce, i.e., preparing job displacement in the future workforce
- Harnessing social computing for charitable causes (e.g., transparent management of charity funds and building trust
- Utilizing blockchain-powered social computing for traceability and transparency
- Establishing a safer and higher-quality online entertainment environment
- Addressing issues of copyright and intellectual property in the realm of digital content through social computing
- Enhancing data privacy through social computing
- Facilitating collaboration and data sharing to support innovative research (medical, environment, etc.)
- Informing public policy by examining regulations related to frontier technologies
- Implementing disaster management/monitoring (e.g., through AI chatbots)
- Utilizing social computing for issues related to public welfare (e.g., food safety)
- Building social connections through social computing (e.g., metaverse, virtual church)
- Social computing for art and cultural preservation and accessibility (e.g., virtual museums)

SUBMISSION TYPES

    • Full papers must not exceed 10 pages.
    • Emergent Research Forum (ERF) papers must not exceed 5 pages.

All submissions must conform to the AMCIS 2024 submission template and will be peer-reviewed using a double-blind system. More details can be found at: https://amcis2024.aisconferences.org/submissions/types-of-submissions/

IMPORTANT DATES


  *   January 5, 2024: Manuscript submissions begin
  *   March 1, 2024: Submissions are due at 10 a.m. EST

MINI-TRACK CHAIRS

Dr. Qin Weng
Qin_Weng at baylor.edu<mailto:Qin_Weng at baylor.edu>
Baylor University

Dr. Phil Young
Philip_Young at baylor.edu<mailto:Philip_Young at baylor.edu>

Dr. Rongen (Sophia) Zhang
Sophia_Zhang at baylor.edu<mailto:Sophia_Zhang at baylor.edu>