<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;text-transform:uppercase">Call for Papers </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Asia Pacific Journal of
Information Systems (APJIS)</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Special Issue<span style="text-transform:uppercase">: Social Media for Business and Society</span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">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.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> 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. </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:17.85pt;line-height:13.5pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">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:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">- 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</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:6pt;line-height:12pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;text-transform:uppercase">Asia Pacific
Journal of Information Systems: </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;text-transform:uppercase"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">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 class=""> </span> [</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://apjis.or.kr/index.asp"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:windowtext">http://apjis.or.kr/index.asp</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">]<span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">SUBMISSION
GUIDELINES: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:windowtext">- The papers should be
submitted by email to the guest editor, Hee-Woong Kim (</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:kimhw@yonsei.ac.kr"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:windowtext">kimhw@yonsei.ac.kr</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:windowtext">). </span></p>
<p class="" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:windowtext">- </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Submissions
should follow standard formatting and style guidelines for the <i>Asia Pacific
Journal of Information Systems (</i></span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://apjis.or.kr/html/sub_07.asp"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">http://apjis.or.kr/html/sub_07.asp</span></a></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">)</span></i></p>
<p class="" style="line-height:13.5pt"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">- </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Full paper
submission due: September 31, 2014<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;text-transform:uppercase">Guest Editors </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;text-transform:uppercase"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Hee-Woong
Kim, Yonsei University, </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:kimhw@yonsei.ac.kr"><span style="font-size:9pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:windowtext">kimhw@yonsei.ac.kr</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Hock
Chuan Chan, National University of Singapore, </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:chanhc@comp.nus.edu.sg"><span style="font-size:9pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:windowtext">chanhc@comp.nus.edu.sg</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Sumeet Gupta, Indian Institute of Management
Raipr, </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:sumeetgupta@iimraipur.ac.in"><span style="font-size:9pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:windowtext">sumeetgupta@iimraipur.ac.in</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
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