[Commlist] "Social Media and Government" track of the dg.o 2024 - Digital Government Conference

The Call for Papers for the dg.o 2024 - Digital Government Conference to 
be held in June 2024 in Taipei, Taiwan: 
https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024/call-for-papers 
<https://dgsociety.org/dgo-2024/call-for-papers>.

We would like to invite you to consider applying for the *"Social Media 
and Government*", managed by Rodrigo Sandoval Almazan (Universidad 
Autónoma del Estado de México, México), J. Ignacio Criado 
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/jicriado/> (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 
<https://www.linkedin.com/company/universidad-autonoma-de-madrid/>, 
Spain) and Nadzeya Sabatini (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland).


The potential of social media and government maintains its growing 
interest for scholars and managers in parallel with the evolution of 
technologies and advances in the field. As it has been experienced 
during the last years, this area of digital government research is one 
of the most dynamic including the attention to new audiences, metrics, 
platforms, uses, and regarding evolving every year. During the last 
years, we have learned about the risks for governments and political 
institutions using social media. At the same time innovation 
capabilities have emerge from the last evolutions of social media and 
government. Among other issues, TikTok or virtual reality, and other 
social platforms and areas have abruptly emerged as global players in 
the entertainment sector, promoting government and other actors to 
engage with new audiences and social groups. Besides, some political and 
public institutions challenges remain in process of evolution. Here, 
some of the key aspects include polarization of the public sphere, 
growing claims about the potential harm of social media for our 
democratic communities, or the potential limitations of institutional 
communications with citizens because of the lack of trained human 
resources and government specialists.

For this year’s theme - “Internet of Beings: Transforming Public 
Governance” - we especially will welcome papers related to the 
conference’s central theme – the Internet of Beings focuses on digital 
technologies that enable integration, are people-centric, and the 
creation of open platforms for collaborative multi-user to co-create 
services and products. Particularly, the post-COVID-19 has forced 
government, private, and non-profit agencies worldwide to find new ways 
to deliver services, and this is especially important using social media 
technologies. In addition, we are open to other aspects of governments’ 
service delivery and social media, including theoretical and conceptual 
advancements, methodological and data innovations, or case and practical 
implications coming from diverse contexts. We will welcome papers on 
both traditional and emerging issues, including opportunities, risks, 
and policies in public services delivery in cross-national contexts, 
social media motivations to use and audiences, political mobilizations 
and polarization, social media contents and sentiment analysis, fake 
news, artificial intelligence and algorithms-based systems and virtual 
agents in government, instant messaging apps in government, 
entertainment platforms for political engagement, or social media for 
crisis and emergency management. Also, we will continue working on 
including exciting research questions, rigorous empirical studies, and 
in-depth case studies to enrich the theories, research methods, data, 
and available cases and practical applications in this research area.

*IMPORTANT DATES*

January 26, 2024: Papers, workshops, tutorials, and panels are due

February 15, 2024: Application deadline for doctoral colloquium

March 8, 2024: Author notifications (papers, workshops, tutorials, panels)

March 10, 2024: Posters and demo proposals due

March 15, 2024: Poster/demo author notifications

March 22, 2024: Author registrations are due

March 15, 2024: Doctoral colloquium notification

March 31, 2024: Paper revision due (straight to TAPS)

March 31, 2024: Early registration closes (this is only on the website)

April 01, 2024: Regular registration begins

April 30, 2024: ACM Copyrights approval and TAPS due)

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