[Air-L] Persistent Conversation CFP | 50th Anniversary HICSS | Deadline June 15

[Yoram Kalman]

   Dear AoIR-ers,
   The discussion of snapchat and its (lack of) persistence is a great
   opportunity to update you about the Persistent Conversation minitrack
   at HICSS. I think it will interest many of you. Details below.
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   The Persistent Conversation minitrack at HICSS is back. We invite you
   to submit your work to the upcoming 50th anniversary HICSS. The CFP is
   here: [1]http://www.hicss.org/#!persistent-conversation/c236g

   ABOUT THE MINITRACK:
   A significant consequence of communication technologies is that
   conversations are no longer ephemeral and volatile. Most conversations
   mediated by technology leave a persistent record and become persistent
   conversations. This persistence transforms the essence of conversation,
   and it is the focus of extensive academic and applied research. The
   persistent conversation minitrack is the home of this research at
   HICSS.
   Persistent conversations are being created using text, audio, images,
   and video, and they are a part of every aspect of life: From the
   Cluetrain Manifesto's "markets are conversations", through Robin
   Dunbar's conversations as devices for social grooming, conversations
   are at the heart of every human activity. Accordingly, the minitrack is
   open to research on persistent conversation from a variety of
   disciplinary perspectives including Communication, Management,
   Education, Computer Science, Sociology, Political Science, Psychology,
   Linguistics, Law, and the like.
   As noted by Tom Erickson and Susan Herring, who established the
   Persistent Conversation minitrack at HICSS in 1999, the persistent
   trace frees conversations from the lock-step synchrony of face-to-face
   talk. It allows to dramatically scale the number of participants within
   a single discussion and to distribute an interaction over geographies,
   time zones, and cultures. Human and machine access to those digital
   traces enables a wide set of prisms and analyses, leading to novel
   insights into the numerous forms of human activity.
   At the same time, the persistence of human communication imposes a new
   set of challenges. For example, what mechanisms perform the role of the
   ephemeral social cues of face-to-face conversation? What are the
   ethical consequences of the creation of potentially permanent records
   in terms of privacy, accountability, and the right to be forgotten? In
   addition, claims have been made about the loss of intimacy, depth, and
   quality of human communication when it is carried out digitally,
   especially in the case of massive open communication.
   The aim of this minitrack is to bring together researchers and
   innovators to explore digitally persistent conversation and its
   implications for learning, commercial transactions, entertainment,
   news, politics, and other forms of human interaction; to raise new
   socio-technical, ethical, pedagogical, linguistic and social questions;
   and to suggest new methods, perspectives, and design approaches.
   Examples of appropriate topics include, but are not limited to:
   - Innovation in digital conversational practice: turn-taking,
   threading, and other structural features of CMC
   - The dynamics and analysis of large scale conversation systems (e.g.,
   MOOCs and big data applications)
   - Methods for analyzing persistent conversation
   - Studies of virtual communities or other sites of digital conversation
   - The role of persistent conversation in knowledge management
   - The role of persistent conversation in organizational dynamics
   - Domain specific applications, opportunities and challenges of
   persistent conversations (e.g., in education, healthcare, social
   movements, government, citizen participation)
   - Conversation visualization, and visual cues
   - The role of listeners, lurkers, and silent interactions
   - Social presence and the persistence of an attributed user's identity
   The minitrack was launched in 1999 by Susan Herring and Tom Erickson,
   and was led by them until 2010. For details of the rich history of this
   minitrack and the accepted papers see Tom Erickson's page at:
   [2]http://tomeri.org/HICSS_PC_History.html
   The submission deadline is June 15. For other important dates, see
   [3]http://www.hicss.org/#!importantdates/c1j3s
   If you have any questions, contact the minitrack co-chairs:
   Sheizaf Rafaeli (Primary Contact)
   University of Haifa
   [4]sheizaf at rafaeli.net
   Yoram Kalman
   The Open University of Israel
   [5]yoramka at openu.ac.il
   Carmel Kent
   University of Haifa
   [6]kent.carmel at gmail.com
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Yoram Kalman, PhD
[7]www.kalmans.com
Cell: +972 54 574 7375

References

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   1. http://www.hicss.org/#%21persistent-conversation/c236g
   2. http://tomeri.org/HICSS_PC_History.html
   3. http://www.hicss.org/#!importantdates/c1j3s
   4. mailto:sheizaf at rafaeli.net
   5. mailto:yoramka at openu.ac.il
   6. mailto:kent.carmel at gmail.com
   7. http://www.kalmans.com/

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