[Air-L] Critical and Ethical Studies of Digital and Social Media CFP HICSS 2019

[Amelia Acker]

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Dear Colleagues,

Please consider submitting a paper to the Critical and Ethical Studies of
Digital and Social Media Minitrack at HICSS 52, which will take place
January 8-11, 2019 in Maui. Paper submissions are due on *June 15*.

This minitrack focuses on two themes: a) studies that critically
interrogate how and when digital and social media (DSM) support existing
power structures or realign power structures affecting underrepresented or
marginalized groups, and b) studies that raise awareness of or illustrate
the ethical issues associated with doing research on digital and social
media. Papers may range in approach/methods and may explore the following
topics and more:


   - Effects of DSM use in marginalized youth and other specified
   communities
   - Perpetuation of gender, race, ethno-nationalist and faith-based
   hostility and bullying in online environments
   - Presence of distinct values and worldviews in the design of DSM
   related hardware and software technologies
   - Challenges surrounding the relationship between data collection, use,
   and dissemination and DSM participation
   - Issues at the intersection of globalization and DSM development and use
   - Non-traditional, participatory, and/or experimental research methods
   developed for social media scholarship

The minitrack seeks both conceptual and empirical approaches to the theme.
Conceptual papers would contribute theoretical examinations of key
sociotechnical issues surrounding social and digital media use and
research. Empirical papers would draw on original studies of digital and
social media that illustrate the critical or ethical dimensions of digital
infrastructures, data creation and collection, social and digital media
design, or metadata use and reuse.


Please see the official minitrack CFP
<http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-52/digital-and-social-media/#critical-and-ethical-studies-of-digital-and-social-media-minitrack>
 for more information, and feel free to contact me or my co-chair Tonia
Sutherland (tsuther at hawaii.edu) with any questions or ideas. Additionally,
please help circulate this call to your colleagues and other networks. We
look forward to receiving your submissions!


Best wishes,

Jen Pierre




-- 
Dr. Amelia Acker
Assistant Professor
School of Information
University of Texas at Austin
1616 Guadalupe Suite #5.434
Austin, TX 78701-1213
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