[AISWorld] Call for Virtual Communities and Collaboration Mini-Track Proposals for AMCIS 2021 (Deadline: October 16, 2020)

[Nah, Fiona]

Call for Virtual Communities and Collaboration (VCC) Mini-Track Proposals for AMCIS 2021 (Deadline: October 16, 2020)
 
The goal of the Virtual Communities and Collaboration track is to disseminate research and extend our knowledge and understanding of virtual communities and collaboration. Collaboration is a fundamental part of organizations and organizational partnerships. Following a continuing trend toward globalization, especially during the current Covid-19 pandemic, virtual communities and collaboration are an increasingly important part of organizations. Virtual communities are collective groups of individuals who utilize computer-mediated environments to interact and pursue mutual goals. They can be found in virtual worlds, social media, and crowdsourcing sites, among others. Organizations and teams can use computer-mediated environments to improve their processes and outcomes, as well as create business values. Therefore, researchers and practitioners need to address behavioral, social, cognitive, and technical issues in such environments. Research areas range from design issues in collaboration systems, sense of community and engagement in virtual communities, to impact of virtual communities and collaboration in domains as diverse as business, education, and government. The track aims to solicit contributions from a range of epistemological and methodological perspectives to extend our understanding of virtual communities and collaboration as well as enhance the theoretical foundation for research, share important empirical findings related to these venues, and provide guidance to practitioners.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
*	The design, development, deployment, use, and evaluation of virtual communities in business and educational settings
*	Individual and group behaviors in virtual communities and collaboration
*	Collaboration among and interplay between virtual communities, and the impact of these environments on participants and communities
*	Swift transitions from traditional collaboration to virtual collaboration in crisis situations
*	Individual and group behaviors, processes, and governance mechanisms in virtual communities and collaboration
*	The role of individual attitudes and characteristics on behaviors, processes and outcomes in virtual communities and collaboration
*	Ethics, privacy, security, and trust issues in virtual communities and collaboration
*	Intra- and inter-organizational communication and collaboration in virtual communities associated with social media, crowdsourcing and virtual worlds
*	Business and economic models of virtual communities associated with crowdsourcing, social media, and virtual worlds
*	Power and political issues related to individual, group, organizational, and societal behaviors in virtual communities and collaboration
*	Organizational and societal impacts of social networking in virtual communities and collaboration
*	Applications of virtual communities and collaboration in different social/cultural settings and business domains
*	Novel and innovative applications of virtual communities and collaboration
*	Social analytics and big data analytics of virtual communities and collaboration
*	Business implications of virtual reality and augmented reality in collaborative contexts
*	Methodological and measurement advances in virtual communities and collaboration

Potential Mini-Tracks:
*	Behavioral and Design Issues in Virtual Communities
*	Information Processing and Decision Making in Online Communities
*	Virtual Collaborations for Knowledge Sharing 
*	Virtual Collaboration during Crises
*	Fake News, Rumors and Other Unintended Consequences of Engagement in Virtual Communities
*	Analytics in Virtual Communities and Open Innovation
*	Learning in Virtual Communities
*	Virtual Crowdsourcing Communities
*	Crowdsourcing for Societal Advancement
*	Social Shopping: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
*	Value Appropriation and Creation in Platform-Mediated Collaborative Environments
*	Service Innovation in Virtual Communities
*	Sharing Economy

Please note the following important information for mini-track proposals:
*	Mini-tracks will be managed under tracks. The description of the "Virtual Communities and Collaboration" track is available at: https://amcis2021.aisconferences.org/track-descriptions/#toggle-id-28 
*	Mini-track proposals are due by *October 16, 2020*, and they must be submitted through the PCS system: https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions 
*	Instructions for mini-track submission can be found at: https://amcis2021.aisconferences.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Minitrack-Submissions-in-PCS-2.pdf

If accepted, mini-track chairs are expected to:
*	Promote their mini-track to generate manuscript submissions to the conference 
*	Solicit and assign reviewers for manuscripts submitted to the mini-track 
*	Provide a summary report to authors based on reviews 
*	Make recommendations to track chairs about each manuscript submitted to the mini-track 
*	Nominate best papers and reviewers
 
Below is the AMCIS 2021 tentative timeline:
September 21, 2020: PCS opens for mini-track proposals
October 16, 2020: Mini-track proposals due
October 23, 2020: Track chairs make recommendations on mini-tracks
October 30, 2020: Mini-track decisions announced
January 6, 2021: System opens for general paper submissions 
March 26, 2021: Reviews are due
April 8, 2021: Mini-track chair recommendations are due
 
We look forward to receiving your mini-track proposals for the Virtual Communities and Collaboration (VCC) track at AMCIS 2021.

Fiona Nah, Gert-Jan de Vreede, and Tom Meservy
AMCIS 2021 Virtual Communities and Collaboration Track Chairs
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Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Ph.D.
Editor-in-chief, AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction (THCI)
Professor of Business & Information Technology
Missouri University of Science and Technology
101 Fulton Hall
301 W 14th Street
Rolla, MO 65409
Tel: 573-341-6996
Email: nahf at mst.edu
URL: http://people.mst.edu/faculty/nahf/