Building a Better World through Information Systems

Social Media and Digital Collaborations

Recent years has been characterized by new class of IT-enabled collaborative tools, commonly referred to as social media and typified by tools such as Facebook, Twitter, and Linked In. These tools are having varied positive and negative impacts on individuals, organizations, and society at large in many domains and contexts. This track welcomes research that provides fresh theoretical perspectives and novel empirical insights on the collaboration aspects of these tools on individuals, organizations, and society.

We welcome research that utilizes a wide variety of methods, including qualitative methods, large-scale data analysis, surveys, digital experiments, simulations, and also research that utilize multiple methods.  We welcome research investigating a wide variety of applications and implications, including organizations, community management, and public policy.  Because the potential impact of social media on collaboration is so broad, we encourage authors to focus on the theoretical distinctiveness and implications of their work. 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

·         Social media and theories about digital collaboration

·         Enterprise knowledge sharing

·         Design of social media platforms for customers and business partners

·         Social media based massively collaborative business models

·         Policy challenges including privacy and intellectual property

·         Darkside of social media and digital collaboration

·         Business value and consumer surplus of social media

·         Innovation and co-creation

·         Social media and culture

·         Adoption and propagation of social media tools

·         Usage of multiple social media platforms

·         Complementarity of online and offline social networks

·         Building and sustaining of communities using social media tools

·         Novel uses and applications of social media

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