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Social Media and Digital Collaboration

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Track Chairs

Sirkka Jarvenpaa
University of Texas at Austin, USA
Sri Kudaravalli
HEC Paris
France
Jae Yun Moon
Korea University
Korea

Description

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.

The track does not cover topics related to the use of social media in the context of crowdfunding, crowdsourcing or the sharing economy. Authors of such papers should submit their work to the Crowdsourcing, Crowdfunding and Sharing Economy Track.

Topics of Interests

  • Social media and theories about digital collaboration
  • Virtual teams and collaboration technologies
  • Enterprise knowledge sharing and collaborative work
  • Personal knowledge management and social media
  • Social media-enabled business models
  • Organizational networking with social media
  • Use of social media for citizen and political participation
  • Mobilization of temporary organizations using social media
  • Policy challenges
  • Effects of algorithmic culture and mediators upon collaborative practice
  • Geo-spatial aspects of social media collaborations
  • The development and use of social media analytics
  • Digital methods for understanding social media collaboration (e.g. design science approaches, the computational turn; big data methods)
  • Critical perspectives on social media (e.g. how social is social media, what are negative side effects of social media use?).

Associate Editors

  • Katherine Chudoba, Utah State U., USA
  • Hope Koch, Baylor U., USA
  • Marco Marabelli, Bentley U., USA
  • Jean-Gregoire Bernard, Victoria U. of Wellington, New Zealand
  • Tat Koon Koh, Hong Kong U. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
  • Hui Kai Long, Hong Kong U. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
  • Steven Johnson, U. of Virginia, USA
  • Chee-Wee Tan, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
  • Kai Fischbach, Universität Bamberg, Germany
  • Salvatore Parise, Babson College, USA
  • Joao Baptista, Warwick Business School, UK
  • Leiser Silva, U. of Houston, USA
  • Netta Iivari, U. of Oulu, Finland
  • Nishtha Langer, Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
  • Priscilla Cristina Cabral Ribeiro, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
  • Stefan Smolnik, U. of Hagen, Germany
  • Boreum Choi, UNIST Graduate School of Technology Management, Korea
  • Lynn Wu, U. of Pennsylvania Wharton, USA
  • Jung Lee, KIMEP U., Kazakhstan
  • Xitong Li, HEC Paris, France
  • Maria Alexandra Cunha, Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paul, Brazil
  • Wenjing Duan, George Washington U., USA
  • Maha Shaikh, Warwick Business School, UK
  • Likoebe Maruping, Georgia State U., USA
  • James Howison, U. of Texas, USA
  • Ravi Vatrapu, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
  • Esther Gonzalez, California State University, USA
  • Raquel Benbunan-Fich, City University of New York, USA

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