[AISWorld] AMCIS 2022 CFP - Dark Side of Virtual Collaborative Environments: Fake News, Rumors, and Other Unintended Consequences.

[Vikas Jain]

AMCIS 2022 CFP - Mini-track: Dark Side of Virtual Collaborative Environments: Fake News, Rumors, and Other Unintended Consequences.



Minneapolis August 10-14, 2022

Mini-track: Dark Side of Virtual Collaborative Environments: Fake News, Rumors, and Other Unintended Consequences.

Track: Virtual Collaborative Environments



Virtual communities enabled by social media are providing new opportunities for people to engage with each other. Recently, such engagements have been exploited to spread fake news, rumors, biased reporting, or for promoting unsupported viewpoints. Such interactions 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



Mini-track topics are therefore focused on but not limited to the following list.

  *   Cyberbullying, cyber-aggression, and unwanted contact
  *   Harassment, intimidation and stalking
  *   Damaged reputation due to rumors or gossips
  *   Online deception
  *   Sex and violence
  *   Inadvertent disclosure of private information
  *   Changes to relationships between public and private sphere
  *   Suppression of alternate viewpoints
  *   Promotion of narratives disconnected from facts
  *   Data mining in virtual communities for malicious intent
  *   Use of personal data by third-parties, hacking and identify theft





Mini-track co-chairs:

Vikas Jain, University of Tampa, Tampa, Florida, USA, vjain at ut.edu<mailto:vjain at ut.edu>



Vishal Midha, Illinois State University, Illinois, USA, vmidha at ilstu.edu<mailto:vmidha at ilstu.edu>



We look forward to receiving your submissions. If you have any questions, feel free to contact the minitrack co-chairs.



Important Dates:

January 15, 2022              PCS opens for submissions

March 1, 2022                   PCS closes for full papers and ERFs

March 8, 2022                                 Full papers and ERFs are assigned to reviewers

March 25, 2022                Paper reviews are due

April 15, 2022                   Review decisions are sent to authors


Submission Instructions: https://amcis2022.aisconferences.org/submissions/call-for-papers/

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Vikas Jain, Ph.D.
Department of Information and Technology Management
Sykes College of Business
Office: JS 213 Box O
Phone: 813-257-3968
The University of Tampa
401 W Kennedy Blvd, Tampa, FL 33606