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<p class="MsoNormal">CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Savanah, Georgia, USA August 7-10, 2014.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Track: Social-Technical Issues and Social Inclusion (SIGSI)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">MiniTrack: ** Social Aspects of Social Media **<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We invite submissions to the mini-track, "Social Aspects of Social Media" within the Social Issues and Social
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<p class="MsoNormal">Inclusion Track for AMCIS 2014. This mini-track welcomes relevant theoretical, empirical, and intervention
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<p class="MsoNormal">research, in either full paper or research-in-progress format, that relates to the mission of SIG Social Inclusion
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<p class="MsoNormal">(SIGSI). The purpose of SIGSI is to promote research, pedagogy, and outreach on all aspects of social inclusion in
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<p class="MsoNormal">the field of Information Systems (IS). The goal of such efforts is to stimulate greater diversity of thought and
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<p class="MsoNormal">personnel in AIS and the IS field overall, and participation of all our members in a more socially-aware and
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<p class="MsoNormal">inclusive discipline.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Social Media, as exemplified in the ‘Web 2.0 concept’ by online applications such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube,
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<p class="MsoNormal">Flickr, LinkedIn, Bebo, Hi5, Pinterest, 43 Things, and many others (Kaplan and Haenlein, 2010), have been making
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<p class="MsoNormal">headlines in the national newspapers (Lanchester, 2006), not only for their high profile acquisition by major
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<p class="MsoNormal">media companies, but also for their ability to potentially create a whole new revenue stream, create a new
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<p class="MsoNormal">exploitation route, influence the outcome of the US presidential election, monitor natural disasters (Greengard
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<p class="MsoNormal">2011) or even effect wholesale political change such as in the Arab Spring (Stelter, 2008). These technologies
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<p class="MsoNormal">have now become accepted and ubiquitous.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">While the technology is important, as without this the whole phenomena would not exist, the interesting and
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<p class="MsoNormal">challenging element of social media is what people do with it, ie. the social aspect (Aguenza et. al., 2012). This
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<p class="MsoNormal">track aims to bring together related articles (theoretical and empirical papers, including survey and case/field
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<p class="MsoNormal">study research papers) that address the concept of social media and related phenomena.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Possible topics include (but are not limited to):<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Analysis of social networking patterns and trends<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Business value and the strategic impact of social media<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Frameworks and models of best practice for developing/sustaining/integrating social media systems
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<p class="MsoNormal">• Enterprise 2.0 business models and case studies; enterprise social media<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Issues of privacy and trust; information credibility
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<p class="MsoNormal">• Management of the ‘chatter’ of multiple social media channels (ie. the new ‘information overload’)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Mobile social media<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Social media analytics<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• New and alternative approaches to social media systems<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Positivist, interpretivist and critical approaches to social media<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• User adoption and diffusion of social media<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Instructions for Authors.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To submit a paper, please follow the directions at http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Submission:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please follow the instructions given at <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Important dates:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">March 1, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): Deadline for paper submissions<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">April 4 2014: Authors will be notified of acceptances on or about this date<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">April 18, 2014: Authors revisions due<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">April 25, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): For accepted papers, camera ready copy due<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">August 7-10, 2014: AMCIS Conference<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Minitrack Chair(s):<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Laurence Brooks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Brunel University<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Laurence.Brooks@brunel.ac.uk<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Roman Brandtweiner<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Vienna University of Economics and Business<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Roman.Brandtweiner@wu.ac.at<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Howard Rosenbaum<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Indiana University<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">hrosenba@indiana.edu<o:p></o:p></p>
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