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Professor Stefan Smolnik is appointed Associate Editor for the ICIS2016-Track "Social Media and Digital Collaborations"

37th International Conference on Information Systems, December 11-14, 2016, Dublin, Ireland

The 37^th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2016) takes place on December 11-14, 2016 in Dublin, Ireland. The motto of ICIS 2016 is "Digital Innovation at the Crossroads". Professor Stefan Smolnik has been appointed Associate Editor for the track "Social Media and Digital Collaborations".

Description of the track:

This track addresses social media and digital collaboration, particularly when they intersect. Social media applications and platforms have become pervasive in many phenomena of interest to the information systems community such as social commerce, virtual teams, social networking, knowledge management, online communities, open source, open data and digital activism. This track invites research that provides fresh theoretical perspectives and novel empirical insights on ways of organizing and collaborating enabled by social media. We also invite studies that focus on the historical, cultural, political and economic contexts of social media use and digital collaboration, examining both positive and negative consequences.

We welcome research from any philosophical and theoretical standpoint. We welcome research that uses a wide variety of methods, including qualitative methods, large-scale data analysis, surveys, digital field experiments, simulations and multi-methods. We are also open to the study of social media in a variety of contexts – the work organization, civic society, humanitarian efforts, and disaster responses, to name but a few. A diversity of disciplinary backgrounds is also encouraged, in recognition of the contributions cultural, media and communication studies, and sociology, have made to social media research. We explicitly encourage submissions to this track that situate digital collaboration and social media, and the modes by which we can study these phenomena, historically, theoretically or empirically. We are particularly interested in papers that develop new theories of digital collaboration or challenge current conceptualizations of the new social media enabled contexts.

(Complete CfP) (ICIS 2016 Homepage)