[Air-L] Culture, identity and inclusion mini-track at the 54th HICSS conference - deadline extended to July 15

[Filippo Trevisan]

With apologies for cross-posting:

The deadline for submitting papers to the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences has been extended to July 15th, 2020. The organizers expect to hold the conference on Kauai as planned, as it is known for its interdisciplinary interactions, and add that "if it becomes evident that face-to-face convening in Kauai is not advisable, we will propose an alternate solution to preserve as much as possible the HICSS experience." Regardless of what happens, all the accepted papers will be published in the HICSS proceedings, which are open access, highly cited and an excellent way for your work to reach diverse researchers. Consider submitting to our mini-track on Culture, Identity, and Inclusion within the Digital and Social Media track.
The CULTURE, IDENTITY & INCLUSION Digital and Social Media Minitrack 

The research possibilities and practice implications for systems sciences’ examinations of the complex intersections of digital and social media with culture, identity and inclusion are especially timely now and expanding rapidly. There is a need for multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural approaches and methodologies as well as for ethical and innovative analyses.  Papers addressing major societal including racial, generational, implicit and/or explicit inequalities and/or COVID 19 in the context of this minitrack are particularly encouraged. 

This minitrack welcomes a range of research foci, methods and frameworks as it addresses this vital and ever-changing research arena. Work is needed to focus on the culture kaleidoscope (the myriad levels of culture from small group and occupational to organizational, interorganizational and national) as well as the intersectionality of culture, gender, identity and material conditions including poverty. Similar to the culture kaleidoscope there are also multiple and complex identities including cultural, racial, gender, age, generational, and ability-related identities. Most importantly, the intersections among social media and the culture and identity kaleidoscopes presage additional research agendas as we examine social media design and usages and their outcomes in myriad contexts. Indeed, what is the relationship between social media and social change in the context of culture, identity and inclusion? Can the design and use of digital media platforms combat exclusion and, if so, how and under what conditions? Is there decolonization of social media, assuming digital media colonization? Similarly, can the use and design of digital and social media help shape (or reshape) identities? What are the overlaps among social media and power with regard to gender or identity or inclusion (and in what settings)? Do digital and social media have a role in relationship with major inequalities in society? 

The overall future trajectory of our field itself remains open and provides plentiful research challenges. More attention also needs to be focused on rigorous yet appropriate research methodologies for such exploration and the new ethical challenges that accompany this work. These presage increased collaboration across disciplines with a focus on the three I’s of internet, identity, and inclusion as they intersect with transformational social media and, indeed, impact human lives.

Possible paper topics include, but are not limited to:

Inter-cultural and Cross-cultural Use of Social Media
Gender, Disability, Race and Social Media
Social Media Design, Diversity and Inequalities
Social Media and Cryptocurrencies: Culture and Inclusion
Effective Access for Disabled, Indigenous & Other Minority Populations
Digital Activism, Politics & Inclusion
Online Harassment
Crowd-sourcing, Crowd-funding and Civic participation/inclusion
Social Media, Social Change, and Inclusion
Swarming, Social Media, and Exclusion
Identity Enactment, Adoption, and Policing
Aging and Social Media
Inter-generational Use of Social Media
Social Media, Online Education, & Inclusion
Social Media & Implicit Bias
Social Media, Culture & Change/Social Innovation
Social Media & Intersectionality
Social Media, Disruptive Innovation, and Capacity-Building For All
New Methods for Studying Intersectionality and Social Media
Social Media, Disinformation, Gender, and Identity
Artificial Intelligence, Social Media, Exclusion and Ethics
Social Media, Identity, and Human Rights Issues
Social Media and Diasporic Communication
Social Media, Images (including Deep Fakes), and Exclusion
Gender, Health, and Social Media
Comparative Social Media: Identity and Inclusion
Social Media Metrics, Impacts and Culture
Ethics, Creativity, and Social Media Metrics: Culture, Gender, Inclusion
Social Media Advocacy and Diversity
 

About HICSS 54:

54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)

January 5-8, 2021, Kauai, Hawaii


PAPERS DUE: JULY 15, 2020 – submit here: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/ <http://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/> 

The Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, in its 54th year, is one of the longstanding scientific conferences and is highly ranked among information systems conferences. Diverse disciplines unified by a focus on information technologies are woven together in a matrix structure of tracks and themes. By attending HICSS you are not only reaching the audience of your track and mini-track; you also have the opportunity to learn about what is happening in related fields and meet leaders in those fields. 



Minitrack Co-Chairs:

Nanette Levinson, Derrick Cogburn & Filippo Trevisan

Internet Governance Lab + Institute on Disability & Public Policy

American University

Washington, DC 20016

USA

 




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Dr. Filippo Trevisan
Assistant Professor - School of Communication
Deputy Director - Institute on Disability and Public Policy (IDPP)
American University
4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC - 20016

Tel: +1 (202) 885 6930
Email: trevisan at american.edu <mailto:trevisan at american.edu>
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Now in paperback: “Disability Rights Advocacy Online: Voice, Empowerment and Global Connectivity <https://www.routledge.com/Disability-Rights-Advocacy-Online-Voice-Empowerment-and-Global-Connectivity/Trevisan/p/book/9781138847828>” NY: Routledge, 2017.

All my publications: www.filippotrevisan.net/publications <http://www.filippotrevisan.net/publications>