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Journal of Information Systems (APJIS)</FONT></SPAN></I><SPAN lang=EN-US
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style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Special
Issue</FONT><SPAN style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">: Social Media for Business and
Society</FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">Social media describes the collection of web and
mobile-based technologies that mediate human and social communication via social
network. It enables individuals, groups and communities to gather, communicate
and share information, to collaborate or to play. Social media research has
become critical as the role of networks and other digital technologies become an
anchor for change in societies as well as business domain.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: ±¼¸²; mso-font-kerning: 0pt"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"> By facilitating access to user-generated contents,
social media also has become a democratic, personalized, and do-it-yourself
platform of communications as well as practical tools for business. Companies
can sense crowd opinion on products on social media and are devising innovative
methods to attain insights from user-generated contents for developing their
competitive strategy. Furthermore, citizens share opinions and participate in
the government policy development by using social media.
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">The fundamental objective of this
special issue is to assimilate the best practices and insights from academic and
industry research to support the effective use of social media and to understand
how social media impacts individual behavior and organizational/social
performance. We expect to identify the key features of social media, unveil
psychological and behavioral factors underlying the diffusion and growth of
social media, address economic and organizational/societal impacts of social
media, and explore different ways to manage user-generated data for effective
business/social analyses. The special issue also expects to demonstrate
innovative methods of handling data from digital and social media to analyze
business/social implications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited
to:</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: ±¼¸²; mso-font-kerning: 0pt"><FONT
face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">- Challenges and opportunities of social
media<BR>- Strategic use of social media to improve business/societal
performance<BR>- The value of social media to the society<BR>- Social media
based commerce<BR>- Cooperation with social media<BR>- Social network
analyses<BR>- Social business models<BR>- Social media and collective
intelligence<BR>- Social media and learning<BR>- Harness social media data to
increase business performance<BR>- Social media data analytics<BR>- Application
cases of social media for business/society</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">Asia Pacific Journal of Information
Systems: </FONT></FONT></SPAN></B><B><SPAN lang=EN-US
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style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems (APJIS) is
the premier journal on information systems research in the Asia Pacific regions.
The journal seeks to advance knowledge about the effective and efficient
utilization of information technology by individuals, groups, organizations,
society, and nations for the improvement of economic and social welfare.<SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">- The papers should be submitted by email to the guest
editor, Hee-Woong Kim (</FONT></SPAN><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">Hee-Woong Kim, Yonsei University, </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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color=#000000>kimhw@yonsei.ac.kr</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN></FONT><SPAN lang=EN-US
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