[AISWorld] CFP: Fake News, Rumors and Other Unintended Consequences of Engagement in Virtual Communities (AMCIS 2018)

[Midha, Vishal]

CALL FOR PAPERS

24th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) August 16-18, 2018, New Orleans, LA



Minitrack 5: Fake News, Rumors and Other Unintended Consequences of Engagement in Virtual Communities

(https://amcis2018.aisnet.org/submissions/track-descriptions/#toggle-id-29)





MINITRACK DESCRIPTION


Virtual communities enabled by social media are providing new opportunities for people to engage with each other. Such engagements span across personal, political, social, or economic spheres. Recently, such engagements have been exploited to spread fake news, rumors, biased reporting, or for promoting unsupported viewpoints. Some other unintended effects include cyberbullying, suppression of alternate viewpoints, or promotion of narratives disconnected from facts. These reflect unintended consequences of engagement in virtual communities that have the potential to significantly influence the discourse of social, political, moral, or economic debate. It cannot be denied that virtual communities hold a lot of potential for beneficial and positive engagement among the community members but there is a need to examine some of these unintended consequences prevalent in virtual communities. The objective of this mini-track is to provide a forum for discussion and presentation of original research highlighting some of these unintended consequences and subsequent challenges/or solutions to deal with them. We seek papers that address nature of unintended consequence of engagements in virtual communities from a theoretical, conceptual, or empirical perspective. Both quantitative and qualitative studies are welcome.



Topics that are of interest to this mini-track include, but are not limited to:



*      Models analyzing spread of fake news in virtual communities

*      Models identifying rumors/ fake news

*      Impact of rumors/fake news on participation in virtual communities

*      Drivers of rumors/fake news in virtual communities





SUBMISSION



January 15, 2018: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2018 begins

February 28, 2018: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2018 due

April 18, 2018: Authors notified about the disposition of their papers





MINITRACK CHAIRS



Vikas Jain, University of Tampa, vjain at ut.edu<mailto:vjain at ut.edu<mailto:vjain at ut.edu%3cmailto:vjain at ut.edu>>

Vishal Midha, Illinois State University, vmidha at illinoisstate.edu<mailto:vmidha at illinoisstate.edu <mailto:vmidha at illinoisstate.edu%3cmailto:vmidha at illinoisstate.edu%20> >

Gerard DeLeoz,  gdeleoz at ut.edu<mailto: gdeleoz at ut.edu<mailto:%20gdeleoz at ut.edu%3cmailto:%20gdeleoz at ut.edu>>





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Vikas Jain, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of Information and Technology Management

Skyes College of Business, Box O

The University of Tampa

401 W Kennedy Blvd, Tampa, FL 33606

Ph: 813-257-3968

Email: vjain at ut.edu<mailto:vjain at ut.edu>