[Air-L] CFP for the mediated conversation minitrack at HICSS 2024 (June 15 deadline)

[Yoram Kalman]

   Dear colleagues,
   We invite you to submit your research to the HICSS Mediated
   Conversation minitrack. This minitrack focuses on the study of
   conversations taking place on digital and social media. The deadline to
   submit your research to the HICSS Mediated Conversation minitrack is
   June 15.
   Conversations are at the core of human communication.  Mediated
   conversations can use text, emoticons, audio, images, or video, or any
   combination thereof. The minitrack welcomes research on conversations
   that are interpersonal as well as those that occur via organizational
   or mass communication; involve journalistic, educational, or political
   contexts; or which appear in any other sphere of human activity,
   including the emerging interplay of human-machine communication — as
   evident, for example, in recent developments of generative AI tools for
   conversation.
   For details, see [1]https://mediatedconversation.wordpress.com/
   This minitrack is part of the Digital and Social Media track of HICSS,
   the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. HICSS-57
   conference will be held January 3-6, 2024, in Waikiki at Hilton
   Hawaiian Village (Oahu, Hawaii, USA).
   The submission site can be accessed from
   [2]https://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/. The submission deadline is June
   15, 2023, at 11:59 p.m. HST
   This minitrack brings together researchers and innovators to explore
   mediated conversation and its implications; to raise new
   socio-technical, theoretical, 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 role of artificial intelligence in mediated conversation
   * The dark side of mediated conversation: e.g., loafing, incivility,
   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, management, and news media)
   * Conversation visualizations and analytics
   * 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 ([3]https://tsc.acm.org/)
   Mediated Conversation minitrack co-chairs:
   Seth C. Lewis (Primary contact)
   University of Oregon
   [4]sclewis at uoregon.edu
   Yoram M. Kalman
   The Open University of Israel
   [5]yoramka at openu.ac.il
   Gina M. Masullo
   The University of Texas at Austin
   [6]Gina.Masullo at austin.utexas.edu
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Yoram Kalman
Associate professor
Head – MBA Program
Dept. of Management and Economics
The Open University of Israel

Cell: +972-54-574-7375
[7]http://www.openu.ac.il/Personal_sites/Yoram_Kalman.html

References

   1. https://mediatedconversation.wordpress.com/
   2. https://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/
   3. https://tsc.acm.org/
   4. mailto:sclewis at uoregon.edu
   5. mailto:yoramka at openu.ac.il
   6. mailto:Gina.Masullo at austin.utexas.edu
   7. http://www.openu.ac.il/Personal_sites/Yoram_Kalman.html