[Air-L] CFP: Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies minitrack at HICSS

[Yoram Kalman]

   Dear colleague,
   We invite you to submit your research to the HICSS Communication,
   Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies minitrack. This minitrack
   focuses on the study of communication taking place on digital and
   social media.
   Communication is the making of meaning and culture among people, with
   growing interconnections with a world of human-machine interactions. In
   mediated form, communication can involve text, emoticons, audio,
   images, video, virtual or augmented reality, or any combination
   thereof. The minitrack welcomes research on all forms of digital
   communication, including interpersonal, organizational, and mass
   communication, as well as a wide variety of contexts for communication,
   such as news, politics, entertainment, education, social movements and
   activism, etc. Additionally, this minitrack attends to the emerging
   interplay of human-machine communication—as evident, for example, in
   recent developments of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and
   the tools they afford for conversation and communication.
   For further details about the minitrack and its aims, see
   [1]https://CommunicationHicss.wordpress.com/

   This minitrack is part of the Digital and Social Media track of HICSS.
   The HICSS-58 conference will be held January 6-9, 2026, at the Hilton
   Waikoloa Village on the Kohala Coast of the Big Island of Hawaii, USA.

   Submissions will be accepted until June 15, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. HST. To
   submit: [2]https://hicss-submissions.org/
   The minitrack is the successor of the Mediated Conversation minitrack,
   which itself was a successor of the Persistent Conversation minitrack
   (established by Tom Erickson and Susan Herring at HICSS in 1999). The
   original minitrack was focused on the novelty of conversational
   persistence. With the prevalence of mediated conversation in
   contemporary life and a much wider landscape of digital communication
   that has emerged in recent years, we are called upon to consider a
   broader field of issues.
   This minitrack brings together researchers and innovators to explore
   Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies and their
   implications; to raise new socio-technical, theoretical,
   methodological, ethical, pedagogical, linguistic, and social questions;
   and to suggest new methods, perspectives, and design approaches. Topics
   of interest include but are not limited to:
   - Communication dynamics (from mass to interpersonal to other forms)
   that shape the development of digital media spaces and their role in
   public and private life
   - The role of artificial intelligence in communication, including in
   areas such as mediated conversation, news, and social media
   - Ethics of communication, digital conversation, and media
   technologies: e.g., privacy, safety, deception, freedom of speech,
   security, and information warfare
   - Human-machine communication and related forms of conversation (e.g.,
   chatbots)
   - The role of conversation in understanding the interplay between media
   producers and media audiences
   - The dynamics and analysis of large-scale conversation systems (e.g.,
   MOOCs and big data applications)
   - Methods for analyzing communication, mediated conversation, and media
   technologies: qualitative, quantitative, data analytics, etc.
   - Innovation in the intersections of communication, mediated
   conversation, and media technologies
   - The dark side of mediated conversation: e.g., hate speech, bullying,
   information overload
   - Domain-specific applications, opportunities, and challenges of
   communication, digital conversation, and media technologies (e.g., in
   education, healthcare, social movements, government, citizen
   participation, management, and news media)
   - Studies of virtual communities and the discourses in digital spaces
   - Novel properties of platforms as they relate to
   communication/conversation dynamics
   - Power dynamics and conversational patterns among social media users
   - The role of communication, conversation, and media technologies in
   knowledge management and organizations
   - Conversation visualizations and analytics
   - The role of listeners, lurkers, and silent interactions
   Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies minitrack
   co-chairs:

   Seth C. Lewis (Primary contact)
   University of Oregon
   [3]sclewis at uoregon.edu

   Gina M. Masullo
   The University of Texas at Austin
   [4]Gina.Masullo at austin.utexas.edu

   Yoram M. Kalman
   The Open University of Israel
   [5]yoramka at openu.ac.il
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Yoram Kalman, PhD
[6]https://www.kalmans.com
Cell: +972 (0)54-574-7375

References

   1. https://communicationhicss.wordpress.com/
   2. https://hicss-submissions.org/
   3. mailto:sclewis at uoregon.edu
   4. mailto:Gina.Masullo at austin.utexas.edu
   5. mailto:yoramka at openu.ac.il
   6. https://www.kalmans.com/