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Call for Papers: HICSS 52

Posted May 16, 2018

Please consider submitting a paper to the Critical and Ethical Studies of Digital and Social Media Minitrack at HICSS 52, which will take place January 8-11, 2019 in Maui. Paper submissions are due on June 15. 

 

This minitrack focuses on two themes: a) studies that critically interrogate how and when digital and social media (DSM) support existing power structures or realign power structures affecting underrepresented or marginalized groups, and b) studies that raise awareness of or illustrate the ethical issues associated with doing research on digital and social media. Papers may range in approach/methods and may explore the following topics and more:

  • Effects of DSM use in marginalized youth and other specified communities
  • Perpetuation of gender, race, ethno-nationalist and faith-based hostility and bullying in online environments
  • Presence of distinct values and worldviews in the design of DSM related hardware and software technologies
  • Challenges surrounding the relationship between data collection, use, and dissemination and DSM participation
  • Issues at the intersection of globalization and DSM development and use
  • Non-traditional, participatory, and/or experimental research methods developed for social media scholarship 

 

The minitrack seeks both conceptual and empirical approaches to the theme. Conceptual papers would contribute theoretical examinations of key sociotechnical issues surrounding social and digital media use and research. Empirical papers would draw on original studies of digital and social media that illustrate the critical or ethical dimensions of digital infrastructures, data creation and collection, social and digital media design, or metadata use and reuse.

 

Please see the official minitrack CFP for more information, and feel free to contact me or my co-chair Jennifer Pierre ([email protected])  with any questions or ideas. Additionally, please help circulate this call to your colleagues and other networks. We look forward to receiving your submissions!