[Air-L] CfP - Social Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly!

[P. VIGNESWARA ILAVARASAN]

*The 15th IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society*

*I3E 2016*

*“**Social Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly!”*

*13-15 September 2016*

*Swansea, United Kingdom*


*Web: http://www.swansea.ac.uk/som/i3e2016/
<http://www.swansea.ac.uk/som/i3e2016/>  *



*CALL FOR PAPERS*

The ubiquity of social media has had a profound effect on the way we
communicate and is of significant importance to society and business.
Social media tools have helped break down geographical barriers that once
restricted communication and have led to an explosion of e-participation,
virtual presence, and online communities. Professional benefits of social
media include sharing of information, publicity, and giving and receiving
support and advice. Consumers have become increasingly empowered to exert
an influence on brands through online communities and businesses are able
to acquire rapid feedback and garner insight into individual preferences
without observer effects. Analysis of social media content via automated
techniques and systems can also help to safeguard society from organized
crime but such uses remain a delicate issue.

With seemingly endless benefits it is easy to overlook the disadvantages of
social media, which are an increasingly important consideration as social
media platforms continue to proliferate. Social media has facilitated a
loss of ownership and control of content as private, public and
institutional domains increasingly overlap. There is a need for careful
balancing of professionalism and freedom of speech, to ensure that posts do
not cause offence or harm reputations. Other drawbacks include time
pressure, plagiarism, misrepresentation, addiction, and negative
psychological consequences. While providing a means to protect public
safety, social media also provides a means of threatening it and enabling
new forms of cyber-crime.


This conference aims to bring together a variety of disciplines and a
community for the advancement of knowledge regarding the adoption, use,
impact, and potential of social media. To achieve this goal, we invite
researchers and practitioners to present their ideas and findings to the *15th
IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society* to be held
at *Swansea
University, UK in 2016*. Theoretical and empirical papers employing
quantitative, qualitative, and/or critical methods are welcomed.



*Topics of submission *may include but are not limited to:



   - Adoption and diffusion of social media
   - Appropriation and re-appropriation of social media
   - Blogging and microblogging
   - Business value of social media and how it can be exploited
   - Challenges and opportunities of social media
   - Collaboration and knowledge management using social media
   - Content and visual marketing using social media
   - Corporate social networks
   - Crisis management enabled by social media
   - Critical perspectives on social media
   - Crowdsourcing suing social media
   - Customer engagement and social media
   - Cyberbullying and trolling
   - Definition and taxonomy of different types of social media
   - Disaster prevention using social media
   - Economic and social effects of social media
   - Effects of social media on consumer choice
   - Ethical issues relating to social media
   - Impact of social media on marketing strategy
   - Information dissemination
   - Innovation through social media
   - Legal issues emerging from social media adoption and use
   - Managing presence and reputation on social media
   - Marketing campaigns on social media
   - Negative impacts of social media use
   - Personnel recruitment/management and social media
   - Policy challenges for social media
   - Political and social protests using social media
   - Privacy issues with social media
   - Rigour in social media research
   - Risks of social media
   - Semantics
   - Sentiment analysis.
   - Social commerce
   - Social media and policy consultation
   - Social media and public governance
   - Social media best practices
   - Social media business models
   - Social media data mining, analytics and intelligence
   - Social media for B2B marketing
   - Social media research and theory development
   - Social media strategy and integration
   - Social media to support education
   - Social media, product innovation, and product life-style
   - Social media, transparency, openness, and anti-corruption
   - ‘Social’ nature of social media
   - Sustainability of social media
   - The future of social media (the good/bad/ugly)
   - User-generated content
   - Value co-creation using social media

*LOCATION*

The 15th IFIP Conference will be held at Swansea University’s brand new Bay
Campus located on the majestic sweep of Swansea Bay and within easy reach
of the vibrant City Centre. As an industrial powerhouse of the 19th
century, Swansea and the surrounding areas are rich in history which can be
explored in a number of local museums. To the west of the City is the Gower
Peninsula where you can find Rhossili Bay voted Britain’s Best Beach and 9th
best in the world by TripAdvisors Travellers’ Choice.



*IMPORTANT DATES*

   - Paper Submission: *15 March 2016*
   - Authors Notification: *30 April 2016*
   - Early Bird Registration: *30 May 2016*
   - Conference dates: *13 to 15 September 2016*



*PAPER SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS *

Authors should submit original, unpublished research papers. All accepted
papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Submissions should
not be under consideration for any other conference or journal outlet.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended and
revised version of their paper for fast track review and publication
in *Journal
of Enterprise Information Management*, *Transforming Government: People,
Process and Policy*, or *International Journal of Electronic Government
Research*. Further information will soon be made available on the
conference website www.swan.ac.uk/som/i3e2016



*CONFERENCE COMMITTEE *



*Conference Co-Chairs:  *

Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Swansea University, UK

MP Gupta, IIT Delhi, India

Marc Clement, Swansea University, UK

Michael Williams, Swansea University, UK

Antonis Simintiras, Swansea University, UK

Nick Rich, Swansea University, UK.



*Program Co-Chairs and Co-Editors of Conference Proceedings:  *

Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Swansea University, UK

Matti Mäntymäki, University of Turku, Finland

M. N. Ravishankar, Loughborough University, UK

Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Marc Clement, Swansea University, UK

Emma L. Slade, Swansea University, UK

Nripendra P. Rana, Swansea University, UK



*Organisation Co-Chairs: *

Michael D. Williams, Swansea University, UK

Nick Rich, Swansea University, UK

Nripendra P. Rana, Swansea University, UK

Emma L. Slade, Swansea University, UK

Vigneswara Ilavarasan, IIT Delhi, India

Arpan Kumar Kar, IIT Delhi, India

G.P.Sahu, MNNIT Allahabad, India



*Conference Administrator:  *Helen Snaith, School of Management, Swansea
University, UK