[Air-L] Mediated Conversation: HICSS-53 CFP

[Yoram Kalman]

   Members of AoIR and of the Air-L listserv who research aspects of
   online conversation are invited to submit papers to HICSS, the 53rd
   Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) that will
   take place in the island of Maui, Hawaii in January 2020.


   [1]https://mediatedconversation.wordpress.com/


   The Mediated Conversation minitrack focuses on the study of
   conversations taking place on digital and social media. Conversations
   are at the core of human communication.  Mediated conversations can use
   text, audio, images or video, or any combination thereof. The minitrack
   welcomes research on conversations that are interpersonal, as well as
   those that occur in organizational or mass communication, educational
   or political contexts, and in any other sphere of human activity,
   including the emerging interplay of human-machine communication.


   Online CFP:
   [2]http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-53/digital-and-social-media/#mediated
   -conversation-minitrack

   Submission: [3]http://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/


   This minitrack brings together researchers and innovators to explore
   mediated conversation and its implications; to raise new
   socio-technical, ethical, pedagogical, linguistic, and social
   questions; and to suggest new methods, perspectives, and design
   approaches. The Mediated Conversation minitrack is the successor of the
   Persistent Conversation minitrack established by Tom Erickson and Susan
   Herring at HICSS in 1999, which was originally focused on the novelty
   of conversational persistence. With the prevalence of mediated
   conversation, we are called upon to consider a wider field of issues.
   Examples of appropriate topics include, but are not limited to:

   •             Innovation in mediated conversational practice

   •             The dynamics and analysis of large-scale conversation
   systems (e.g., MOOCs and big data applications)

   •             Methods for analyzing mediated conversation: qualitative,
   quantitative, data analytics, etc.

   •             Mediated collaboration

   •             The dark side of mediated conversation: e.g., loafing,
   hate speech, bullying, and communication overload

   •             Studies of virtual communities or other sites of mediated
   conversation

   •             Ethics and mediated conversation: privacy, deception,
   freedom of speech, security, and information warfare

   •             The role of mediated conversation in knowledge management

   •             The role of mediated conversation in organizations

   •             Domain-specific applications, opportunities, and
   challenges of mediated conversations and conversational exchanges
   (e.g., in education, healthcare, social movements, government, citizen
   participation, and news media)

   •             Conversation visualization

   •             The role of listeners, lurkers, and silent interactions

   •             Novel properties of mediated conversation

   •             A platform’s role in mediating the conversation

   •             Power dynamics and conversational patterns among users of
   social media

   •             The role of conversation in understanding the interplay
   between media producers and media audiences

   •             Human-machine communication and related conversations
   (e.g., chatbots)


   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
   ([4]https://tsc.acm.org/)


   Important dates

   April 15 | 6:00 pm HST: Paper submission begins.

   June 15 | 11:59 pm HST: Paper submission deadline.

   August 17 | 11:59 pm HST: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection

   September 4 | 11:59 pm HST: Deadline for authors to submit the revised
   version of papers accepted with mandatory changes (A-M)

   September 11: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection for A-M papers

   September 22: Deadline for authors to submit final manuscript for
   publication


   Minitrack Co-Chairs:

   Sheizaf Rafaeli (Primary Contact)

   University of Haifa

   [5]sheizaf at rafaeli.net


   Seth C. Lewis

   University of Oregon

   [6]sclewis at uoregon.edu


   Yoram M. Kalman

   The Open University of Israel

   [7]yoramka at openu.ac.il


--
Yoram Kalman, PhD
[8]https://www.kalmans.com
Cell: +972 (0)54-574-7375

References

   1. https://mediatedconversation.wordpress.com/
   2. http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-53/digital-and-social-media/#mediated-conversation-minitrack
   3. http://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/
   4. https://tsc.acm.org/
   5. mailto:sheizaf at rafaeli.net
   6. mailto:sclewis at uoregon.edu
   7. mailto:yoramka at openu.ac.il
   8. https://www.kalmans.com/