[AISWorld] GITMA 2018 CFP - July 8-10, 2018 in Mexico City_ Cultural & Societal Issues Track

[Hajer Kefi]

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The 18th Global Information Technology Management Association (GITMA)

world conference will be on July 8-10, 2018 in Mexico City, Mexico!

You can find more info at www.gitma.org as well as a link for paper

submissions.

Please note that the submission deadline is December 15, 2017.



GITMA aims to bring together researchers from around the world to advance

research that explores the use of ICT (Information and Communications

Technology). A unique conference, GITMA is acknowledged by past attendees

for its friendly setting that encourages, nurtures and enhances a culture

of knowledge co-creation. This conference provides a unique opportunity to

all IT educators, researchers, and practitioners from all countries to get

together to network, develop lasting relationships, and exchange ideas. The

clear strength is the international participation and the following people

should attend:



- Educators, researchers, and practitioners from North America (including

US, Mexico, and Canada)

- Educators, researchers, and practitioners from all other parts of the

world, including developed, developing, and under-developed nations.

- Educators, researchers, and practitioners doing work in all areas of

Global IT Management



Conference tracks will include: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Data

Analytics, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security and Privacy, Digital

Transformation, Electronic Commerce, Emerging Issues, Global IT, Healthcare

IT. Internet of Things, IT Management, Diverse Issues in IS, Mobile

Computing, Outsourcing and Offshoring, Societal and Cultural Issues, and

Social Media.



*Please consider submitting your work to the societal & cultural issues
track (see below). For the other tracks, more information is available on
www.gitma.org <http://www.gitma.org>*


*Track Title:*

Societal & Cultural Issues



*Track Chair:*

Dr. Hajer Kefi



*Track Aim*

Information and Communication Technologies are an integral part of our
personal, professional and social life. They are affecting our way to
learn, communicate, work and interact with each other. We can now witness
the emergence of new online behaviors giving birth to new cultural groups
and communities and also new use practices that are affecting how people
buy commodities, meet other people and socialize, express their opinions
and claim their differences. While many of these phenomena present
undeniable beneficial outcomes, in terms of social capital enhancement and
knowledge dissemination for example, some negatives effects have also to be
pointed out, such as technostress and information overload, lack of
privacy, addiction to Internet and social media related behaviors,
cyberbullying and malicious activities. The aim of this track to bring
together researchers from different fields to think about these issues and
provide theoretical insights and methodological tools to address them.



*Track Topics*

The track welcomes papers that cover the following topics (non exhaustive
list):



·         Effects of culture on IT adoption and use. Culture refers here to
at least 4 meanings: national cultures, corporate culture, cultural
heritage institutions and industries and IT culture.

·         Adoption and use of social media by cross-national virtual teams

·          Hacker culture: emergence and impacts

·         IT Ethics, norms and legislations across cultures

·         IT values and generational effects (Generation Z vs Millennials,
vs Generation X vs Baby boomers)

·         Factors influencing communities on the Internet

·         IT-related  addiction and dependence

·         Social Media and online communities dynamics

·         Social media in politics

·   Cultural mediation by information systems on the Internet and/or in
mobile environments.

·         Mobile computing societal impacts

·         Dark side of IT use in the organizational settings



Papers judged as high quality by the reviewers will be considered for

publication on an expedited basis in the Journal of Global Information

Technology Management (JGITM), Journal of Information Technology Cases &

Applications Research (JITCAR), and Journal of Information Privacy and

Security (JIPS).



*For questions, please contact:*

Conference Chair: Dr. Prashant Palvia, University of North Carolina at

Greensboro, pcpalvia at uncg.edu

Program Co-Chairs: Dr. Prashant Palvia, University of North Carolina at

Greensboro, pcpalvia at uncg.edu, and Dr. Hajer Kefi, Paris School of

Business, h.kefi at psbedu.paris

Local Chair: Mr. Gustavo Pares, Partner Nearshore Delivery Solutions,

gustavo at nearshoremx.com


*P.S. Please put on your calendar July 08-10, 2018 for the GITMA (Global
Information Technology Management Association) World Conference in Mexico
City. The submission deadline is December 15, 2017. Details to follow soon.*
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Hajer KEFI
Professeur
PSB Paris School of Business
Invited Professor, N.U.S School of Computing, Singapore
Délégation CNRS DRM UMR 7088 Université Paris Dauphine
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