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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="color:black;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2014</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="color:black;font-family:"Georgia","serif";font-size:12pt">Minitrack: </span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";font-size:12pt">Social Media, Social Action, and Politics</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";font-size:12pt"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Georgia","serif";font-size:10pt">Savannah, Georgia</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";font-size:10pt"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Georgia","serif";font-size:10pt">August 7-10, 2014</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";font-size:10pt"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Georgia","serif";font-size:10pt">Minitrack Chairs:</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";font-size:10pt"></span></p>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";font-size:10pt">A. F. <span> </span>Salam, </span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";font-size:10pt"><span> </span>The University of North Carolina at Greensboro,
USA<br>
</span><span style="color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:"Georgia","serif";font-size:10pt" lang="EN">Mike Gallivan, </span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";font-size:10pt">Georgia State University,
USA<br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";font-size:10pt">Rozan O. Maghrabi, </span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";font-size:10pt">The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA</span></div>
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<p style="margin:0in 45pt 10pt 31.5pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">“The power of social media … transforming
the political process in such a way that I can’t see any chances for the
traditional, formal institutions of our democratic systems to keep up with.”
President of Iceland Mr. Grimsson, during his interview with the CNN in 2011<span> </span></span></i></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"" lang="EN-GB">The increasing impact of social media on social
and organizational issues and politics over the past few decades has changed
how social media is viewed and used. The power of the online social tools in
promoting, facilitating, and developing political participation and social
action across the globe highlights the connection between technology diffusion
and digital media use and political change. Social media is also having a major
impact on business, sparking a revolution in the customer experience as well as
behaviour, and influencing transformation in organizations. With the
recognition of the powerful role of social media in these contexts, the
objective of Social Media, Social Action, and Politics minitrack is to provide
a forum for discussions and presentation of original research that critically
examines the constitution of ICTs and their roles in organizations and
societies. We believe that IS scholars are uniquely positioned to investigate
the larger role of Information Systems and Technologies in our social and
political systems both for the benefit of business organizations as well as for
the larger society.<span> </span>The </span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">minitrack
welcomes conceptual, theoretical, and empirical works that explore the
relationship between social media and organizational, social, and political
change and highlight the convergence of technological and social spheres and
the complex and contingent social-technical interactions to generate
unanticipated organizational, social, and political effects.<span> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Topics
for this minitack include but are not limited to the following:</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt/normal "Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">The association between social systems
and ICT innovative uses </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt/normal "Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">The impact of ICT on social life and
change</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Information Systems and social
awareness, entrepreneurship, and empowerment</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Information systems and online activism
and social movements (i.e online women right movement)</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Management and organizational behavior
of ICT-enabled social groups </span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Social, political, and economic
implications of e-politics</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Communication and Collaboration enabled
or constrained by ICT </span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Unintended consequences of ICT use in
organizations and social life</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt/normal "Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">The impact of IS on political
processes, strategies, and policies </span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">The development and implementation of
e-politics and e-democracy</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Frameworks/models and Case studies for
successful e-politics implementation </span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Social media and youth protest behavior</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Information Systems and the change in
the power game</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"" lang="EN">Electronic
Authoritarianism</span></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">ICT-enabled communities and the
governmental regulatory or organizational goal oriented practices<span> </span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt/normal "Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Cross country comparisons of e-politics
practices</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt/normal "Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Emerging community-related business
models </span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Firm level challenges and economic
implications of citizen ICT-enabled social and political power</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt/normal "Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Organizational implications of
user-generated content and customer collaboration </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">All submissions are to be made via
the AMCIS 2014 submission system at </span><a href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">ScholarOne’s ManuscriptCentral</span></a><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">. When submitting online, select 1. track "</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"" lang="EN-GB">Social-Technical Issues and
Social Inclusion</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">" and then 2. minitrack
"</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Social Media, Social
Action, and Politics</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">",
as well as a paper type (completed research paper, research-in-progress paper,
or panel proposal).</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 5pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">The submission deadline is <span>March 1, 2014</span>. <span>No submissions will be accepted after midnight, Savannah (EST) time, March
1, 2014.</span> Authors will be notified as to whether their submission was
accepted, conditionally accepted, or rejected by <span>April 4, 2014</span>.</span></p>
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