[Air-L] CFP: Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies minitrack at HICSS
Yoram Kalman
yoram.kalman at gmail.com
Sat Mar 23 07:36:29 PDT 2024
Dear colleagues,
We invite you to submit your research to the HICSS Communication,
Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies minitrack. This minitrack
focuses on the study of communication taking place on digital and
social media.
Communication is the making of meaning and culture among people, with
growing interconnections with a world of human-machine interactions. In
mediated form, communication can involve text, emoticons, audio,
images, video, virtual or augmented reality, or any combination
thereof. The minitrack welcomes research on all forms of digital
communication, including interpersonal, organizational, and mass
communication, as well as a wide variety of contexts for communication,
such as news, politics, entertainment, education, social movements and
activism, etc. Additionally, this minitrack attends to the emerging
interplay of human-machine communication—as evident, for example, in
recent developments of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and
the tools they afford for conversation and communication.
For further details about the minitrack and its aims, see
[1]https://CommunicationHicss.wordpress.com/
This minitrack is part of the Digital and Social Media track of HICSS.
The HICSS-58 conference will be held January 7-10, 2025, at the Hilton
Waikoloa Village on the Kohala Coast of the Big Island of Hawaii, USA.
The submission site opens April 15. Submissions will be accepted until
June 15, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. HST
This minitrack brings together researchers and innovators to explore
Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies and their
implications; to raise new socio-technical, theoretical,
methodological, ethical, pedagogical, linguistic, and social questions;
and to suggest new methods, perspectives, and design approaches.
The minitrack is the successor of the Mediated Conversation minitrack,
which itself was a successor of the Persistent Conversation minitrack
(established by Tom Erickson and Susan Herring at HICSS in 1999). The
original minitrack was focused on the novelty of conversational
persistence. With the prevalence of mediated conversation in
contemporary life and a much wider landscape of digital communication
that has emerged in recent years, we are called upon to consider a
broader field of issues.
This minitrack explores Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media
Technologies and their implications 1) to raise new socio-technical,
theoretical, methodological, ethical, pedagogical, linguistic, and
social questions and 2) to suggest new methods, perspectives, and
design approaches. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Communication dynamics (from mass to interpersonal to other forms)
that shape the development of digital media spaces and their role in
public and private life
- The role of artificial intelligence in communication, including in
areas such as mediated conversation, news, and social media
- Ethics of communication, digital conversation, and media
technologies: e.g., privacy, safety, deception, freedom of speech,
security, and information warfare
- Human-machine communication and related forms of conversation (e.g.,
chatbots)
- The role of conversation in understanding the interplay between media
producers and media audiences
- The dynamics and analysis of large-scale conversation systems (e.g.,
MOOCs and big data applications)
- Methods for analyzing communication, mediated conversation, and media
technologies: qualitative, quantitative, data analytics, etc.
- Innovation in the intersections of communication, mediated
conversation, and media technologies
- The dark side of mediated conversation: e.g., hate speech, bullying,
information overload
- Domain-specific applications, opportunities, and challenges of
communication, digital conversation, and media technologies (e.g., in
education, healthcare, social movements, government, citizen
participation, management, and news media)
- Studies of virtual communities and the discourses in digital spaces
- Novel properties of platforms as they relate to
communication/conversation dynamics
- Power dynamics and conversational patterns among social media users
- The role of communication, conversation, and media technologies in
knowledge management and organizations
- Conversation visualizations and analytics
- The role of listeners, lurkers, and silent interactions
Fast-track journal opportunity: Authors of papers accepted for
presentation in the minitrack will be offered the opportunity to submit
an extended version of their papers for consideration for fast-track
publication in the ACM journal ACM Transaction on Social Computing
([2]https://tsc.acm.org/)
Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies minitrack
co-chairs:
Seth C. Lewis (Primary contact)
University of Oregon
[3]sclewis at uoregon.edu
Gina M. Masullo
The University of Texas at Austin
[4]Gina.Masullo at austin.utexas.edu
Yoram M. Kalman
The Open University of Israel
[5]yoramka at openu.ac.il
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Yoram Kalman
Associate professor
Department of Management and Economics
The Open University of Israel
Mobile: +972545747375
[6]http://www.openu.ac.il/Personal_sites/Yoram_Kalman.html
References
1. https://CommunicationHicss.wordpress.com/
2. https://tsc.acm.org/
3. mailto:sclewis at uoregon.edu
4. mailto:Gina.Masullo at austin.utexas.edu
5. mailto:yoramka at openu.ac.il
6. http://www.openu.ac.il/Personal_sites/Yoram_Kalman.html
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