[AISWorld] Invitation to the Mediated Conversation mini track at HICSS

[sheizaf at univ.haifa.ac.il]

The Mediated Conversation mini track focuses on the study of conversations taking place on digital and social media.


Conversations are at the core of human communication.  Mediated conversations can use text, audio, images or video, or any combination thereof. The mini track welcomes research on conversations that are interpersonal, as well as those that occur in organizational or mass communication, educational or political contexts, and in any other sphere of human activity, including the emerging interplay of human-machine communication.


http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-53/digital-and-social-media/#mediated-conversation-minitrack


This mini track brings together researchers and innovators to explore mediated conversation and its implications; to raise new socio-technical, ethical, pedagogical, linguistic, and social questions; and to suggest new methods, perspectives, and design approaches. The Mediated Conversation mini track is the successor of the Persistent Conversation mini track established by Tom Erickson and Susan Herring at HICSS in 1999, which was originally focused on the novelty of conversational persistence. With the prevalence of mediated conversation, we are called upon to consider a wider field of issues. Examples of appropriate topics include, but are not limited to:


-Innovation in mediated conversational practice

-The dynamics and analysis of large-scale conversation systems (e.g., MOOCs and big data applications)

-Methods for analyzing mediated conversation: qualitative, quantitative, data analytics, etc.

-Mediated collaboration

-The dark side of mediated conversation: e.g., loafing, hate speech, bullying, and communication overload

-Studies of virtual communities or other sites of mediated conversation

-Ethics and mediated conversation: privacy, deception, freedom of speech, security, and information warfare

-The role of mediated conversation in knowledge management

-The role of mediated conversation in organizations
-Domain-specific applications, opportunities, and challenges of mediated conversations and conversational exchanges (e.g., in education, healthcare, social movements, government, citizen participation, and news media)

-Conversation visualization

- The role of listeners, lurkers, and silent interactions

-Novel properties of mediated conversation

-A platform’s role in mediating the conversation

-Power dynamics and conversational patterns among users of social media

-The role of conversation in understanding the interplay between media producers and media audiences

-Human-machine communication and related conversations (e.g., chatbots)

Fast track journal opportunity: Authors of papers accepted for presentation in the mini track will be offered the opportunity to submit an extended version of their papers for consideration for fast-track publication in the ACM journal ACM Transaction on Social Computing (https://tsc.acm.org/)


Important dates


April 15 | 6:00 pm HST: Paper submission begins at http://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/
June 15 | 11:59 pm HST: Paper submission deadline
August 17 | 11:59 pm HST: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
September 4 | 11:59 pm HST: Deadline for authors to submit the revised version of papers accepted with mandatory changes (A-M)
September 11: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection for A-M papers
September 22: Deadline for authors to submit final manuscript for publication

Minitrack Co-Chairs:

Sheizaf Rafaeli (Primary Contact)
University of Haifa
sheizaf at rafaeli.net<mailto:sheizaf at rafaeli.net>

Seth C. Lewis
University of Oregon
sclewis at uoregon.edu<mailto:sclewis at uoregon.edu>

Yoram M. Kalman
The Open University of Israel
yoramka at openu.ac.il<mailto:yoramka at openu.ac.il>