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Location: Big Island of Hawaii, USA (at the Hilton Waikoloa Village)</div>
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Conference dates: January 5-8, 2027</div>
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Deadline to submit full papers: June 15, 2026</div>
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Dear colleagues,</div>
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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.</div>
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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.</div>
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For further details about the minitrack and its aims, see <a href="https://CommunicationHicss.wordpress.com/" data-outlook-id="b244e6bd-6aa2-4f30-8f5f-eab8d9e86241">
https://CommunicationHicss.wordpress.com/</a> </div>
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This minitrack is part of the Digital and Social Media track of HICSS. The HICSS-60 conference will be held January 5-8, 2027, at the Hilton Waikoloa Village, on the Big Island of Hawaii, USA. (For information about the conference, see
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https://hicss.hawaii.edu/)</a> </div>
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Submissions will be accepted until June 15, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. HST. To submit: <a href="https://hicss-submissions.org/" data-outlook-id="faf4f082-6f56-45e2-afbb-4ca5ac3e8fc0">
https://hicss-submissions.org/</a> </div>
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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.</div>
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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:</div>
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- 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</div>
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- The role of artificial intelligence in communication, including in areas such as mediated conversation, news, and social media</div>
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- Ethics of communication, digital conversation, and media technologies: e.g., privacy, safety, deception, freedom of speech, security, and information warfare</div>
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- Human-machine communication and related forms of conversation (e.g., chatbots)</div>
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- The role of conversation in understanding the interplay between media producers and media audiences</div>
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- The dynamics and analysis of large-scale conversation systems (e.g., MOOCs and big data applications)</div>
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- Methods for analyzing communication, mediated conversation, and media technologies: qualitative, quantitative, data analytics, etc.</div>
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- Innovation in the intersections of communication, mediated conversation, and media technologies</div>
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- 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)</div>
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- Studies of virtual communities and the discourses in digital spaces</div>
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- Novel properties of platforms as they relate to communication/conversation dynamics</div>
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- Power dynamics and conversational patterns among social media users</div>
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- The role of communication, conversation, and media technologies in knowledge management and organizations</div>
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- Conversation visualizations and analytics</div>
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- The role of listeners, lurkers, and silent interactions</div>
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Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies minitrack co-chairs:</div>
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Seth C. Lewis (Primary contact)</div>
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University of Oregon</div>
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sclewis@uoregon.edu</div>
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Gina M. Masullo</div>
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The University of Texas at Austin</div>
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Gina.Masullo@austin.utexas.edu</div>
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Yoram M. Kalman</div>
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The Open University of Israel</div>
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yoramka@openu.ac.il</div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima-Bold; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><b>Seth C. Lewis, Ph.D.</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 9pt;">Professor, Director of Journalism, and Shirley Papé Chair in Emerging Media</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 9pt;"><i>NEW BOOK:
</i><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7447271181805780993/" data-outlook-id="5584318b-248b-47c0-bb42-6ac9da1416cc" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><i>Journalism in the Age of AI</i></a><i>, coming
</i></span><span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 12px;"><i>August 2026</i></span></p>
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