[Commlist] Mediated Conversation minitrack at HICSS cfp

Please consider submitting to this minitrack of HICSS, the Hawaii 
International Conference on System Sciences, which is hosting its 53rd 
annual conference in January 2020 in Maui, Hawaii:

https://mediatedconversation.wordpress.com/

The Mediated Conversation minitrack focuses on the study of 
conversations taking place on digital and social media. Conversations 
are at the core of human communication.  Mediated conversations can use 
text, audio, images or video, or any combination thereof. The minitrack 
welcomes research on conversations that are interpersonal, as well as 
those that occur in organizational or mass communication, educational or 
political contexts, and in any other sphere of human activity, including 
the emerging interplay of human-machine communication.

Online CfP: 
http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-53/digital-and-social-media/#mediated-conversation-minitrack

Submission: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/

Some examples of highly cited papers that first appeared in this 
minitrack include:

·      Beyond Microblogging: Conversation and Collaboration via Twitter, 
by Honey & Herring;

·      Talk before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia, by Viégas, 
Wattenberg, Kriss and van Ham;

·      You Are Who You Talk To: Detecting Roles in Usenet Newsgroups, by 
Fisher, Smith and Welser;

·      Tweet, Tweet, Retweet: Conversational Aspects of Retweeting on 
Twitter, by boyd, Golder and Lotan; and,

·      Learning Conversations in World of Warcraft, by Nardi, Ly and Harris.

This minitrack brings together researchers and innovators to explore 
mediated conversation and its implications; to raise new 
socio-technical, ethical, pedagogical, linguistic, and social questions; 
and to suggest new methods, perspectives, and design approaches. The 
Mediated Conversation minitrack is the successor of the Persistent 
Conversation minitrack established by Tom Erickson and Susan Herring at 
HICSS in 1999, which was originally focused on the novelty of 
conversational persistence. With the prevalence of mediated 
conversation, we are called upon to consider a wider field of issues. 
Examples of appropriate topics include, but are not limited to:

·      Innovation in mediated conversational practice

·      The dynamics and analysis of large-scale conversation systems 
(e.g., MOOCs and big data applications)

·      Methods for analyzing mediated conversation: qualitative, 
quantitative, data analytics, etc.

·      Mediated collaboration

·      The dark side of mediated conversation: e.g., loafing, hate 
speech, bullying, and communication overload

·      Studies of virtual communities or other sites of mediated 
conversation

·      Ethics and mediated conversation: privacy, deception, freedom of 
speech, security, and information warfare

·      The role of mediated conversation in knowledge management

·      The role of mediated conversation in organizations

·      Domain-specific applications, opportunities, and challenges of 
mediated conversations and conversational exchanges (e.g., in education, 
healthcare, social movements, government, citizen participation, and 
news media)

·      Conversation visualization

·      The role of listeners, lurkers, and silent interactions

·      Novel properties of mediated conversation

·      A platform’s role in mediating the conversation

·      Power dynamics and conversational patterns among users of social 
media

·      The role of conversation in understanding the interplay between 
media producers and media audiences

·      Human-machine communication and related conversations (e.g., 
chatbots)

Fast-track journal opportunity: Authors of papers accepted for 
presentation in the minitrack will be offered the opportunity to submit 
an extended version of their papers for consideration for fast-track 
publication in the ACM journal ACM Transaction on Social Computing 
(https://tsc.acm.org/)

Important dates:

April 15 | 6:00 pm HST: Paper submission begins.
June 15 | 11:59 pm HST: Paper submission deadline.
August 17 | 11:59 pm HST: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
September 4 | 11:59 pm HST: Deadline for authors to submit the revised 
version of papers accepted with mandatory changes (A-M)
September 11: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection for A-M papers
September 22: Deadline for authors to submit final manuscript for 
publication

Minitrack Co-Chairs:

Sheizaf Rafaeli (Primary Contact)
University of Haifa
(sheizaf /at/ rafaeli.net) <mailto:(sheizaf /at/ rafaeli.net)>

Seth C. Lewis
University of Oregon
(sclewis /at/ uoregon.edu) <mailto:(sclewis /at/ uoregon.edu)>

Yoram M. Kalman
The Open University of Israel
(yoramka /at/ openu.ac.il) <mailto:(yoramka /at/ openu.ac.il)>



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