[AISWorld] HICSS 57: Digital and Social Media in Enterprise Minitrack Call for Papers

[Tawei (David) Wang]

HICSS 57: Digital and Social Media in Enterprise Minitrack Call for Papers

https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-57/digital-and-social-media/#digital-and-social-media-in-enterprise-minitrack

Digital and social media (DSM) have transformed the workplace in
organizations. During the past two decades, electronic communication has
changed organizational forms, enabled electronic document management, and
preserved organizational storage.  Combined with the growth of digital and
social media technologies, organizations have been impacted in new ways.
Social media includes blogs, wikis, social networking sites, and
microblogging that provide new affordances to its users.  While some prior
studies have provided evidence to show the positive impacts of enterprise
social media on employees, work processes and performance, other studies
have uncovered negative effects of DSM use on employee productivity and
behaviors. For an organization to amplify the returns or benefits and to
mitigate the drawbacks of their DSM use, it is imperative for both
researchers and practitioners to deepen their understanding of the
implications of DSM use for organizational purposes.

The global outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic at the beginning
of 2020 has increased enterprise social media (ESM) use at home offices
when companies sent employees to work from home. Now three years in the
pandemic, some employees have gradually returned to offices while others
continue virtual work or adopt a hybrid work arrangement. The increasing
use of ESM in home office environments or in hybrid work arrangements has
called for further research on the effects of ESM use on employee
well-being, work-life balance, social media fatigue, and work performance
post the COVID-19 pandemic.

This minitrack focuses on organizations’ internal and external use of
digital and social media to facilitate work processes (e.g., communication,
collaboration and socialization) inclusive of both business (for-profit)
and non-profit organizations and to engage various organizational
stakeholders. Hence, research of this minitrack lies at the intersection of
multiple disciplines, namely Science & Technology, Organization Science,
Marketing, and Behavioral Science.

This minitrack welcomes theoretical and empirical studies addressing
organizational, managerial, technical, and behavioral perspectives on
digital and social media by enterprises and their employees.  Potential
issues and topics include, but are not limited to:

   - Digital and social media affordances
   - Dark side of enterprise social media
   - Digital and social media marketing
   - Diversity, equity, and inclusion on enterprise social media platforms
   - Digital and social media use & employee work-life balance
   - Digital and social media use & social capital
   - Enterprise social media use and employee well-being
   - Enterprise social media and digital transformation in organizations
   - Ethical implications in the implantation and use of enterprise social
   media
   - Information security and privacy and enterprise social media
   - Methodologies for studying social media privacy
   - Methodologies for studying digital and social media in enterprise
   - Organizational strategies and practices associated with digital and
   social media use
   - New theories to describe and explain the phenomenon of enterprise
   social media use
   - Roles and responsibilities of IS departments in the use of and support
   for digital and social media
   - The use of social media for organizational fundraising or donations
   - The use of social media for public perception management
   - Social media use and hybrid work post the COVID-19 pandemic

Selected minitrack authors of accepted conference papers will be invited to
submit a significantly extended version (min. +30%) of their paper for
consideration at the DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems or the
Journal of Information Systems. Submitted papers will be fast-tracked
through the review process.
Minitrack Co-Chairs:

*Tawei David Wang *(Primary Contact)
DePaul University
david.wang at depaul.edu

*Ester Gonzalez*
California State University, Fullerton
esgonzalez at fullerton.edu

*Xuefei Nancy Deng*
California State University, Dominguez Hills
ndeng at csudh.edu
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