<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><font>Call for Papers:</font></span><b style="font-size:12.571428298950195px"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Best Practices in Social Media at Non-profit, Public, Education, and Healthcare Organizations</span></b></p>
<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.571428298950195px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">A special issue of <i>Social Science Computer Review</i> (SSCR) Journal</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.571428298950195px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b><span lang="EN-CA"><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">Guest Editors</font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.571428298950195px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-CA"><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">Gohar Feroz Khan, Korea University of Technology & Education, email: <a href="mailto:gohar.feroz@kut.ac.kr" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">gohar.feroz@kut.ac.kr</a></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.571428298950195px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-CA"><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">Mark C. Hoffman, Grand Valley State University, email: <a href="mailto:hoffmanm@gvsu.edu" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">hoffmanm@gvsu.edu</a></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.571428298950195px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-CA"><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">Tomasz Misztur, Cracow University of Economics Poland, email: <a href="mailto:miszturt@uek.krakow.pl" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">miszturt@uek.krakow.pl</a></font><font size="1"></font></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-CA">Key Dates </span></b></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.571428298950195px;background-color:white">
<span lang="EN-CA">Deadline for Submissions: <b> </b>July 30, 2013<br>First Review Due: September 30, 2013<br>Author Notification: October 15, 2013<br>Revised Version Due: November 30, 2013 </span></p>
<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.571428298950195px;background-color:white"><span lang="EN-CA">Acceptance: December, 15, 2013<br>Special Issue Published: Early 2014<b></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.571428298950195px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<b><span lang="EN-CA">Introduction </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.571428298950195px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span lang="EN-CA">Interaction facilitated by social media is becoming an integral part of life in contemporary society, tweaking the human psyche’s deep need to connect. Having changed the creation, sharing, and consumption of information, it inevitably must be integrated into the operation of most human organizations. While some organizations readily adapt themselves to social media, the majority have struggled. While many public-serving organizations are trying to embrace social media, these government, nonprofit, education, and healthcare organizations have complex legal and ethical environments that create special concerns and constraints. For these organizations, social media can be a challenge to: perceived non-partisanship and fairness; student, patient, victim, or client confidentiality; facility security; employee productivity; protection of intellectual capital; information and reputation management; and regulatory compliance and enforcement processes.<b></b></span></p>
<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.571428298950195px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-CA">The special issue of SSCR aims to investigate and understand different aspects of social media use in government, nonprofit, education, and healthcare organizations. We are soliciting original contributions in the form of evidence-based, “best practices” studies, scholarship on legal and ethical issues, case studies, and empirical research. All lenses of inquiry, including strategic, organizational, behavioural, legal, economic, and technical are encouraged. We are particularly interested in interdisciplinary and international research that develops and applies multiple perspectives. We are interested in success stories, but we believe that valuable lessons can be learned from failures as well. Areas to address include, but are not limited to, those listed below:</span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px"><span lang="EN-CA">How are government, nonprofit, education, and healthcare organizations using social media to engage, educate, connect and collaborate with their external communities? Or with their volunteers and employees?</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px"><span lang="EN-CA">What should employees say and how should they identify themselves when using social media? Will their contacts differentiate their personal activity from their official activity?</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px"><span lang="EN-CA">How is both freedom of speech and a safe, civil environment ensured in a social media environment?</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px">
<span lang="EN-CA">How can privacy and security be protected when photos, videos, and comments are distributed live, and then quickly redistributed?</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px"><span lang="EN-CA">What should be done when third parties (such as former employees and contractors) violate the privacy of clients, expose confidential information, or disseminate misinformation?</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px"><span lang="EN-CA">How are employees and volunteers informed about social media policies?</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px"><span lang="EN-CA">How is the effectiveness of a social media strategy monitored and measured?</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px"><span lang="EN-CA">What mechanisms retard the spread of scams, misinformation and manipulations.</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.571428298950195px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span lang="EN-CA"> </span><b><span lang="EN-CA">Empirical questions</span></b></p><ul type="disc" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.571428298950195px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:0in">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px"><span lang="EN-CA">What are the costs and risks associated with integrating social media?</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px"><span lang="EN-CA">How do social media influence administrative ethics and professionalism?</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px"><span lang="EN-CA">How is social media bridging international and jurisdictional borders?</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px"><span lang="EN-CA">Do social media enhance or hinder connections to specific audiences based on age, income, or other socio-demographic characteristics?</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px"><span lang="EN-CA">Which social media tools are most used and most effective?</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px"><span lang="EN-CA">How often do social media support knowledge-sharing between organizations?</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px"><span lang="EN-CA">How much do social media improve fund-raising and volunteer recruitment efforts?</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px"><span lang="EN-CA">What is the cost of social media addiction in the workplace?</span></li>
</ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.571428298950195px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span><b><span lang="EN-CA">Submission Guidelines</span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">About SSCR</span></h1><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.571428298950195px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-color:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<em><span lang="EN-CA" style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">SSCR</span></em><span lang="EN-CA"> is an interdisciplinary journal covering social science instructional and research applications of computing, as well as societal impacts of information technology. Published quarterly, topics include: artificial intelligence, business, computational social science theory, computer-assisted survey research, computer-based qualitative analysis, computer simulation, economic modeling, electronic modeling, electronic publishing, geographic information systems, instrumentation and research tools, public administration, social impacts of computing and telecommunications, software evaluation, and world-wide web resources for social scientists.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.571428298950195px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><strong><span lang="EN-CA" style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Impact Factor:</span></strong><span lang="EN-CA"> </span><span lang="EN-CA">1.075<br>
<strong><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Ranked: </span></strong>58 out of 99 in Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications, 26 out of 89 in Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary and 28 out of 83 in Information Science & Library Science. </span><span lang="FR-CA">Source: 2011 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters, 2012)</span></p>
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<strong><span lang="EN-CA" style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Send inquiries and manuscripts to Dr. Khan at <a href="mailto:gohar.feroz@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="font-weight:normal">gohar.feroz@gmail.com</span></a>, Phone: <span class="skype_pnh_container" dir="ltr" tabindex="-1" style="background-color:transparent!important;background-image:none!important;border:0px none rgb(0,0,0)!important;border-collapse:separate!important;clear:none!important;display:inline!important;float:none!important;letter-spacing:0px!important;list-style:disc outside none!important;overflow:hidden!important;padding:0px!important;table-layout:auto!important;word-spacing:normal!important;color:rgb(0,175,253)!important;font-size:1em!important;font-family:'Helvetica Neue Regular',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif!important;font-weight:normal!important;margin:0px!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;width:auto!important;direction:ltr!important;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat!important"> <span class="skype_pnh_highlighting_inactive_common" dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent!important;background-image:none!important;border:0px none rgb(0,0,0)!important;border-collapse:separate!important;clear:none!important;display:inline!important;float:none!important;letter-spacing:0px!important;list-style:disc outside none!important;overflow:hidden!important;padding:0px!important;table-layout:auto!important;word-spacing:normal!important;font-size:1em!important;margin:0px!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;width:auto!important;direction:ltr!important;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat!important"><span class="skype_pnh_textarea_span" style="background-color:transparent!important;background-image:none!important;border:0px none rgb(0,0,0)!important;border-collapse:separate!important;clear:none!important;display:inline!important;float:none!important;letter-spacing:0px!important;list-style:disc outside none!important;overflow:hidden!important;padding:0px!important;table-layout:auto!important;word-spacing:normal!important;font-size:1em!important;margin:0px!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;width:auto!important;direction:ltr!important;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat!important"><img class="skype_pnh_logo_img" src="chrome-extension://lifbcibllhkdhoafpjfnlhfpfgnpldfl/numbers_button_skype_logo.png" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; border: 0px none rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; border-collapse: separate !important; bottom: auto !important; clear: none !important; clip: auto !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; left: auto !important; letter-spacing: 0px !important; list-style: disc outside none !important; overflow: hidden !important; padding: 0px !important; page-break-after: auto !important; page-break-before: auto !important; page-break-inside: auto !important; position: static !important; right: auto !important; table-layout: auto !important; text-shadow: none !important; top: auto !important; word-spacing: normal !important; z-index: 0 !important; font-size: 1em !important; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px !important; vertical-align: middle !important; width: 1em !important; direction: ltr !important; height: 1em !important; max-width: 24px !important; min-width: 8px !important; max-height: 24px !important; min-height: 8px !important; background-position: 0px 0px !important; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat !important;"><span class="skype_pnh_text_span" style="background-color:transparent!important;background-image:none!important;border:0px none rgb(0,0,0)!important;border-collapse:separate!important;clear:none!important;display:inline!important;float:none!important;letter-spacing:0px!important;list-style:disc outside none!important;overflow:hidden!important;padding:0px!important;table-layout:auto!important;word-spacing:normal!important;font-size:1em!important;margin:0px!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;width:auto!important;direction:ltr!important;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat!important">+82-10-5510-8071</span></span></span></span>.</span></strong></p>
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