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There’s still time to submit a 500 word abstract to our ECIS 2022 workshop “The Dark Side of Social Media and Digital Platforms: Exploring Critical and Ethical Challenges”. Deadline 18th April! </div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Relevant dates<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Submission Deadline: April 18, 2022<br>
Acceptance notification to Authors: April 22, 2022<br>
Workshop date: June 20, 2022</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Submission email: </span></b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">E.forsgren@leeds.ac.uk</span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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Dr Emma Forsgren, Leeds University Business School, Leeds, UK. <u>E.forsgren@leeds.ac.uk</u><br>
Dr Emma Gritt, Leeds University Business School, Leeds, UK. <u>E.L.J.Dunkerley@leeds.ac.uk</u><br>
Prof. Dr Lisa Giermindl, University of Applied Sciences St.Gallen, Switzerland, <u>lisa.giermindl@fhsg.ch</u><br>
Dr Helena Vallo Hult, University West and NU Hospital Group, <u>helena.vallo-hult@hv.se</u><o:p> </o:p></p>
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This full day workshop will include a combination of presentations by participants, panel discussions and a keynote speaker.<o:p> </o:p></p>
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Participants are invited to submit an extended abstract of 500 words focusing on one of five themes listed, or other topics related to the workshop subject area.<br>
The extended abstract could describe completed, ongoing or planned research related to the themes and may also be conceptual.<br>
Accepted abstracts will be presented at the workshop.<o:p> </o:p></p>
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The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers with an interest in critical and ethical challenges associated with social media and digital platforms. The purpose is to further our understanding of the negative effects and unintended consequences
of social media. The integration of social media into everyday life and work have fundamentally changed the social practices and dynamics of how people produce and share knowledge in novel ways, as well as connect with each other across boundaries (e.g.
Leonardi & Vaast, 2017). However, whilst previous literature has built up a strong sense for the opportunities that emerge from interaction in these platforms, e.g. increasing innovation (Bhimani et al., 2019), employee efficiency and performance (Kane,
2015; Sykes et al., 2014), collaboration and teamwork (Beck et al. 2014; Forsgren & Byström 2017; Kudaravalli et al., 2017; Safadi et al., 2020) in private and public organisations, the negative effects of these digital technologies have received far less
attention. Therefore, we believe there is a pressing need for critical research beyond the dominant discourse (Giermindl et al., 2017; Wynn & Vallo Hult 2019). As Stein and colleagues (2016, p.12) state, the field of IS needs “a space (such as at ECIS) for
more critical, reflexive questioning of the topics and methods of IS research”. Therefore, whilst social media have been portrayed as democratic processes and ideology of empowerment and expression, recent incidents have underpinned how social media can
also be used in damaging ways, leading to harmful consequences on people’s lives, work and for the wider society (Baccarella et al., 2018; Fuchs, 2017; Sun et al., 2021; Zuboff, 2019). For instance, Covid-19 has highlighted an environment where misinformation
can spread rapidly through social media, which potentially impacts people’s attitudes and behaviours towards the pandemic and vaccinations (Laato et al., 2020). The pandemic has also created a space where new work practices are emerging leading to more hybrid
forms of work and use of digital platforms (Richter, 2020). As digital technologies and social media become increasingly important for work, there is a potential for such technologies to be used as surveillance and monitoring of employees (Lukacs, 2017; Taylor
& Dobbins, 2021). This has led to some scholars suggesting that “the dark underbelly of technology has never been so exposed” (Hassan et al., 2018, p.264). As researchers of information systems and related areas, it is our responsibility to engage in questions
that examine what makes work, life and society better (Adler, 2010), but likewise study what does not, and in doing so, reveal the harmful effects.<o:p> </o:p></p>
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The workshop has three main goals: (1) To establish an informal community of scholars interested in critical perspectives and their contribution to the study of social media and digital platforms; (2) To learn about each other’s ongoing research projects,
and gain an understanding of the critical approaches undertaken at present; (3) To explore future directions and set out a research agenda, including the methodological and theoretical approaches that could be useful in doing so.<o:p> </o:p></p>
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Possible themes about social media and digital platforms include but are not limited to:<o:p> </o:p></p>
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<b>Control, panopticism and surveillance</b>, e.g. the potential/experience of being watched or monitored by others (e.g. management), the fear of being controlled and how this regulates behaviour on platforms or leads to underutilisation of digital platforms.<o:p> </o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt">
<b>Ethics, security and privacy</b>, e.g. concerns of data breaches, user privacy and confidentiality; information security and compliance; ethical data usage; commodification of users’ social media content and behaviour, focusing on people’s personal data
and how this is being sold; trade-offs between analytics initiatives and security/privacy concerns as well as how to assure that ethics, integrity and privacy are upheld via policies and strategies.<o:p> </o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt">
<b>Blurring boundaries of private and professional, and the implication on well-being</b>, e.g. role identity: blurring between professional versus private roles/life; shadow IT; cyberloafing and cyberslacking; problematic usage of social media and digital
platforms and their undesirable impact on users’ mental health such as negative effects on performance, social and information overload, as well as technostress.<o:p> </o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt">
<b>The implications of fake news and misinformation, </b>e.g. the phenomenon of fake news and its related challenges; misinformation and ethically undesirable online practices.<o:p> </o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt">
<b>Possible solutions, regulations and strategies, </b>e.g. how individuals, organisations and society can mitigate the above-described undesired or detrimental effects. Considering the numerous negative impacts of social media, (community) managers and policy-makers
find themselves confronted with a complex choice of whether these platforms should be regulated and, if so, how.<o:p> </o:p></li></ol>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin:0px">Kind regards,<br>
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<span>Helena Vallo Hult </span></div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin:0px"><span>PhD in Informatics with specialization in Work Integrated Learning<br>
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helena.vallo-hult@hv.se</span></div>
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