[Air-L] CFP: Cybercrime minitrack at HICSS-58

[Piotr Siuda]

Dear Colleagues
We'd like to invite you to submit your research to the HICSS Cybercrime
minitrack.

Fast-track journal options are involved: selected articles (both rejected
and accepted) will be proposed to the special issue of the Journal of
Creative Communication (SAGE; IF: 1.5) with the guarantee of going to the
review stage.

Here is the full CfP:

Research of the Internet as a site for communication and networking has
focused mostly on legal practices. Recent years have nevertheless seen a
significant increase in cybercrime, including illegal commerce being
conducted on various platforms. In the public eye, much of it is associated
with the non-indexed Dark Web, but research tells us that it is likewise
present on many clear web sites and being conducted via numerous social
media and instant messaging services.

Rarely a day goes by without cybercrime being reported in the media.
Examples include online trading in narcotics and other illicit goods and
services, the hijacking of individual accounts and organizational systems,
extortion, exit scams, fake investments in cryptocurrencies and even
blatant information manipulation for financial gain.

This minitrack aim is to give insights and develop a theoretical and
practical understanding of issues related to cybercrime without excluding
any methodological approaches. We welcome conceptual, theoretical,
empirical and methodological papers that enrich our understanding of
illegal online practices.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Cybertrespass (e.g., unauthorized system access)
Cyberdeception and cybertheft (e.g., online fraud, identity theft)
Exploitation imagery (e.g., child sexual exploitation materials)
Cyberviolence (e.g., cyberstalking, cyberbullying)
Cyberterrorism (e.g., different intrusions, building extremist networks)
Trading in illicit goods and services online
The use of the Dark Web as a marketplace or information sharing environment
Using social media and instant messaging services for illicit trading
Ransomware
Phishing and scamming
Cryptomarkets and cryptocurrencies
Information manipulation for commercial gain
Dark Web deception, risk, security, and privacy
Differences between legal and illegal online trading
Regional differences in cybercrime
Investigative techniques and methods for cybercrimes

Selected articles (both rejected and accepted) will be proposed to the
special issue of the Journal of Creative Communication (SAGE; IF: 1.5) with
the guarantee of going to the review stage.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Author Instructions: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/
Cybercrime minitrack website:
https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-55/internet-and-the-digital-economy/#cybercrime-minitrack

IMPORTANT DATES:

April 15, 2024: Paper submission begins (through HICSS systems:
https://hicss-submissions.org/)
June 15, 2024: Paper submission deadline (11:59 pm HST)
August 17, 2024: Notification of acceptance/rejection
September 22, 2024: Deadline for authors to submit final manuscript for
publication
October 1, 2024: Deadline for at least one author for each paper to
register for the conference

MINITRACK CO-CHAIRS:

Piotr Siuda (Primary Contact)
Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland
piotr.siuda at ukw.edu.pl

J. Tuomas Harviainen
Tampere University
tuomas.harviainen at tuni.fi

Robert W. Gehl
York University
rwg at yorku.ca

Juho Hamari
Tampere University
juho.hamari at tuni.fi

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*Piotr Siuda* (PhD, Professor of Media Studies)

piotrsiuda.com

Faculty of Cultural Studies

Department of Game Studies and Digital Culture

Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland


Associate Editor; *Journal of Creative Communication
<https://journals.sagepub.com/home/crc> *(SAGE Journals)


*Recent papers:*

-- *Gaming and Gamers in Times of Pandemic*, *Bloomsbury Academic Press*,
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/gaming-and-gamers-in-times-of-pandemic-9798765110232/

*-- The Next Level of Horror Entertainment: Facing Fear in Cooperative
Interactive Drama Survival Horror Games*, *Proceedings of the 57th Annual
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences*,
https://hdl.handle.net/10125/106706

*-- The Problematic nature of evaluating esports' "genuineness" using
traditional sports' criteria: In-depth interviews with traditional sports
and electronic sports journalists,* *Leisure Studies*,
https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2023.2215471