[AISWorld] JMIS SI on the Metaverse deadline extended to June 30

[paul.lowry.phd at gmail.com]

We are pleased to announce that we have received an overwhelming response to
our call for papers for the Special Issue on the Metaverse at JMIS. To
accommodate the unprecedented demand, we have decided to extend the deadline
for the first round of submissions to June 30. To make the submission
process smoother and more efficient, we will be implementing a submission
system, which we will be introducing in the coming weeks. This will replace
the previous email-based submission process. We would like to reassure all
potential contributors that the general guidelines and aims of the special
issue remain unchanged. For more information on the special issue, please
see the details below, with the updated dates. Thank you for your interest,
and we look forward to receiving your submissions.

Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS) 
Call for Submission to the Special Issue 
Fostering the Design and Governance of the Metaverse

Guest Editors: Prof. Paul Benjamin Lowry, Virginia Tech; Prof. Waifong Boh,
Nanyang Technological University; Prof. Stacie Petter, Wake Forest
University; Prof. Jan Marco Leimeister, University of St. Gallen and
University of Kassel

JMIS, a top-tier scholarly journal, invites the best papers addressing the
components of the potential emergence of the Metaverse as a complement to
and a potential replacement for the current Web.

The Metaverse is envisioned as a collection of technologies and initiatives
intended to create a next-generation Internet (Web3) that is highly
immersive, persistent, in 3D, and based on the latest developments in
extended reality (XR)-an umbrella term for virtual reality (VR), mixed
reality (MR), and augmented reality (AR)-as supplemented by artificial
intelligence (AI), cloud computing, quantum computing, and other supporting
technologies. Given the compelling and disruptive potential for the
Metaverse to generate the Web3, several of the world's leading technology
companies are investing tens of billions of dollars on related software and
hardware to foster this market, including Meta (famously renamed from
"Facebook" as an all-in bet on the Metaverse), Microsoft, Snapchat, Amazon,
NVIDIA, Epic Games, Apple, among others.

This is an opportune time for researchers to examine what can be learned
from the past failed efforts of AR/VR platforms such as Second Life and
over-hyped failed AR technologies like Google Glass, and to examine the many
more successes that are occurring, perhaps more quietly, with XR (i.e., VR,
MR, AR) in education, manufacturing, gaming, branding, healthcare,
retailing, logistics, aerospace and defense, architecture, advertising, and
athletics. It is these successes and disruptive business models that are
likely to form what will be known as the Metaverse. However, this is no
minor feat, just as the Internet as we know it took decades to develop. To
create a truly persistent 3D, virtual, and immersive Metaverse, there will
need to be further advances in supporting hardware (goggles, headsets,
sensors), and an exponential increase in computing power, storage, and
memory. If the Metaverse is to succeed it must be based on making things
better for people than the status quo, and thus must foster innovative
business models that are profitable, and yet foster interoperability,
efficiency, remote work, reliability, fairness, accountability, open
governance, inclusivity, safety, community, and to do so in a manner that is
sustainable environmentally, socially and ethically.

This is the time for scientists to work with policy makers, companies, and
not-for-profit organizations to break the current social media models and
envision a Metaverse that can best serve collective global needs.
Accordingly, we are pleased to announce a Special Issue (SI) on this subject
at JMIS. Our strong preference is for contributions of original and rigorous
theory-guided behavioral or empirical data around information systems
artifacts that inform design, practice, research, and the products and
foundations of theory of meaningful aspects of the Metaverse. We seek any
methodological approaches that are legitimate and rigorous, and that can
shed light on important phenomena related to the Metaverse. However, we are
not seeking review papers or those that focus on discussions of further
research alone.
Dates:
.	First round submissions due date: June 30, 2023
.	First round decisions provided by: September 15, 2023
.	Second round submissions due date: January 15, 2024
.	Second round decisions provided by: March 15, 2024
.	Third round submissions due date: May 15, 2024
.	Final decisions on papers provided by: July 30, 2024
.	Special issue publication TBD in late 2024 or early 2025

For full information on the CFP see:
<https://sites.google.com/site/professorlowrypaulbenjamin/jmis-si-on-the-met
averse-new?authuser=0>