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From: Dhiraj Murthy <dmurthy(a)bowdoin.edu>
Date: Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 9:00 PM
Subject: [Air-L] CALL FOR PAPERS: Collaborative Organizations and Social
Media (COSM)
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Collaborative Organizations and Social Media 2013 (COSM2013)
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
Friday, April 12 2013 @ Bowdoin College
http://socialnetworks.bowdoin.edu/cosm2013/
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Social media and social networking sites have become important objects of
interdisciplinary study. “Collaborative Organizations and Social Media”
(COSM) is a one-day symposium which will consider the ways in which
developing scholarship might be incorporated into thinking critically about
how social computing may be affecting and even forming organizations. The
focus will be around exploring the use of social media in collaborative
organizational structures. We invite participants to this inaugural
conference. Details at:
http://socialnetworks.bowdoin.edu/cosm2013/
The program features invited speakers Nicole Ellison (Michigan), George
Ritzer (UMD), Peter Gloor (MIT), and Jennifer Earl (Arizona).
This conference will enable participants to present on their current
research in this emerging field. The questions and areas the conference
will address include, but are not limited to the following:
· How do we evaluate the utility of social computing technologies to
virtual organizations?
· Do we treat social computing technologies as merely deterministic
technologies?
· How do social media and social networking technologies shape
organizational structures?
· Can social media and social networking enhance trust relationships within
organizations?
· How do we identify and understand social media cyberinfrastructures
within virtual teams?
· What can social network analysis tell us about how social media affects
collaborative organizations?
· How does collaboration operate within organizational social media?
· What role do social media cyberinfrastructures play in creating and
fostering face-to-face and virtual collaborative communities?
· What are the impacts of social media on traditionally underrepresented
groups in organizations?
· What methods of visualization of social media-based organizational
networks are effective?
COSM2013 seeks to tackle, in particular, the ways in which we can use the
insights of multiple disciplines to answer these questions.
Dates and Location
The conference will be held April 12, 2013 on the campus of Bowdoin College
in Brunswick, Maine. The location is easily accessible from Boston as well
as by air from Portland Airport [PWM].
Format
We plan to curate some open submission panels as well as an invited panel
and a keynote session on social media and collaborative organizations. The
symposium will consist of invited talks from prominent researchers in the
field, oral paper presentations of selected papers, and a poster session.
Submission
Papers of three types are invited:
· Reports of original research results
· Reviews of previous research in one or more fields relevant to symposium
topics
· Position papers about research agendas for the field of social media
based organizations
Some of the papers submitted will be invited for oral presentation, others
for presentation as posters. Accepted papers will be indexed in Google
Scholar and other prominent portals via our arXiv proceedings.
Papers may be up to 15 pages in length. The deadline for submission is
November 7, 2013. Download the submission format at:
http://www.easychair.org/publications/easychair.zip. Papers should be
submitted through the EasyChair conference system at this address:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cosm2013
Important Dates
· Paper submission deadline: November 7, 2012
· Notification of paper acceptance / rejection: January 15 2013
· Camera-ready papers due: February 15, 2013
· Conference date: April 12, 2013
Sponsors
National Science Foundation
Social Network Innovation Lab
Bowdoin College
We encourage you to pass this information to others who may be interested.
For a more complete description of the scope, please visit
http://socialnetworks.bowdoin.edu/cosm2013/
We are hoping to be able to provide some limited travel support for
graduate students in the Northeast. Please send an email to snil [at]
bowdoin [dot] edu. to be considered for travel funds.
For any additional questions, please email snil [at] bowdoin [dot] edu
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Dhiraj Murthy
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Director, Social Network Innovation Lab
Bowdoin College
Brunswick, ME 04011
207-721-5152 (o)
207-725-3023 (f)
dmurthy [at] bowdoin [dot] edu
http://bowdoin.edu/faculty/d/dmurthy/
http://socialnetworks.bowdoin.edu/
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