[Commlist] CfP: Mediated Conversation minitrack of HICSS, the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

CALL FOR PAPERS: Mediated Conversation minitrack of HICSS

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, emoticons, audio, images, or video, or any 
combination thereof. The minitrack welcomes research on conversations 
that are interpersonal as well as those that occur via organizational or 
mass communication; involve journalistic, educational, or political 
contexts; or which appear in any other sphere of human activity, 
including the emerging interplay of human-machine communication. For 
details, see https://mediatedconversation.wordpress.com/ 
<https://mediatedconversation.wordpress.com/>

This minitrack is part of the Digital and Social Media track of HICSS, 
the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, which will host 
its 56th annual conference on January 3-6, 2023, at the Hyatt Regency, Maui.

The submission site opens mid-April. Submissions will be accepted until 
June 15, 2022, at 11:59 p.m. HST
This minitrack brings together researchers and innovators to explore 
mediated conversation and its implications; to raise new 
socio-technical, theoretical, 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, incivility, 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, 
management, and news media)
*Conversation visualizations and analytics
*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/ <https://tsc.acm.org/>)

Mediated Conversation minitrack co-chairs:

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

Gina M. Masullo
The University of Texas at Austin
(Gina.Masullo /at/ austin.utexas.edu) <mailto:(Gina.Masullo /at/ austin.utexas.edu)>

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

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