[Air-L] Mediated Conversation minitrack: HICSS 2021 CFP

[Yoram Kalman]

   Dear AoIR colleagues,

   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.
   This minitrack is part of the Digital and Social Media track of HICSS,
   the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, which will host
   its 54th annual conference (see HICSS-54) on January 5-8, 2021, at the
   Grand Hyatt Kauai.
   The submission site is now open. Submissions will be accepted until
   June 15, 2020, at 11:59 p.m. HST
   For details see [1]https://mediatedconversation.wordpress.com/
   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
   * Mediated conversation and COVID-19
   * 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
   ([2]https://tsc.acm.org/)
   Mediated Conversation minitrack co-chairs:
   Sheizaf Rafaeli (Primary Contact)
   University of Haifa
   [3]sheizaf at rafaeli.net
   Seth C. Lewis
   University of Oregon
   [4]sclewis at uoregon.edu
   Yoram Kalman
   The Open University of Israel
   [5]yoramka at openu.ac.il

References

   1. https://mediatedconversation.wordpress.com/
   2. https://tsc.acm.org/
   3. mailto:sheizaf at rafaeli.net
   4. mailto:sclewis at uoregon.edu
   5. mailto:yoramka at openu.ac.il