[Commlist] CfP — HICSS Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies minitrack

We invite you to submit your research to the HICSS Communication, 
Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies minitrack. This minitrack 
focuses on the study of communication taking place on digital and social 
media.

Communication is the making of meaning and culture among people, with 
growing interconnections with a world of human-machine interactions. In 
mediated form, communication can involve text, emoticons, audio, images, 
video, virtual or augmented reality, or any combination thereof. The 
minitrack welcomes research on all forms of digital communication, 
including interpersonal, organizational, and mass communication, as well 
as a wide variety of contexts for communication, such as news, politics, 
entertainment, education, social movements and activism, etc. 
Additionally, this minitrack attends to the emerging interplay of 
human-machine communication—as evident, for example, in recent 
developments of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and the tools 
they afford for conversation and communication.

For further details about the minitrack and its aims, see 
https://CommunicationHicss.wordpress.com/ 
<https://communicationhicss.wordpress.com/>

This minitrack is part of the Digital and Social Media track of HICSS. 
The HICSS-58 conference will be held January 7-10, 2025, at the Hilton 
Waikoloa Village on the Kohala Coast of the Big Island of Hawaii, USA.

Submissions will be accepted until June 15, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. HST

This minitrack brings together researchers and innovators to explore 
Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies and their 
implications; to raise new socio-technical, theoretical, methodological, 
ethical, pedagogical, linguistic, and social questions; and to suggest 
new methods, perspectives, and design approaches.

The minitrack is the successor of the Mediated Conversation minitrack, 
which itself was a successor of the Persistent Conversation minitrack 
(established by Tom Erickson and Susan Herring at HICSS in 1999). The 
original minitrack was focused on the novelty of conversational 
persistence. With the prevalence of mediated conversation in 
contemporary life and a much wider landscape of digital communication 
that has emerged in recent years, we are called upon to consider a 
broader field of issues.

This minitrack explores Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media 
Technologies and their implications 1) to raise new socio-technical, 
theoretical, methodological, ethical, pedagogical, linguistic, and 
social questions and 2) to suggest new methods, perspectives, and design 
approaches. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Communication dynamics (from mass to interpersonal to other forms) 
that shape the development of digital media spaces and their role in 
public and private life
- The role of artificial intelligence in communication, including in 
areas such as mediated conversation, news, and social media
- Ethics of communication, digital conversation, and media technologies: 
e.g., privacy, safety, deception, freedom of speech, security, and 
information warfare
- Human-machine communication and related forms of conversation (e.g., 
chatbots)
- The role of conversation in understanding the interplay between media 
producers and media audiences
- The dynamics and analysis of large-scale conversation systems (e.g., 
MOOCs and big data applications)
- Methods for analyzing communication, mediated conversation, and media 
technologies: qualitative, quantitative, data analytics, etc.
- Innovation in the intersections of communication, mediated 
conversation, and media technologies
- The dark side of mediated conversation: e.g., hate speech, bullying, 
information overload
- Domain-specific applications, opportunities, and challenges of 
communication, digital conversation, and media technologies (e.g., in 
education, healthcare, social movements, government, citizen 
participation, management, and news media)
- Studies of virtual communities and the discourses in digital spaces
- Novel properties of platforms as they relate to 
communication/conversation dynamics
- Power dynamics and conversational patterns among social media users
- The role of communication, conversation, and media technologies in 
knowledge management and organizations
- Conversation visualizations and analytics
- The role of listeners, lurkers, and silent interactions

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/>)

Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies 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 M. Kalman
The Open University of Israel
(yoramka /at/ openu.ac.il) <mailto:(yoramka /at/ openu.ac.il)>
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