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Digital and Social Media
Witnessing the exponential speed of digitalization in all aspects of human activities, the HICSS conference organizers and the new co-track chairs envision expanding the scope of the Digital Media track to augment the role of HICSS in promoting digital and social-media-related research. Defined in a broad sense, digital media are digitized content (text, graphics, audio/video) that can be archived and transmitted over multiple networks such as cable, satellite, telecommunications, and broadband networks to a variety of digital devices from mainframe systems to individual smart phones. Social media describes the collection of web and mobile-based technologies that mediate human and social communication via social networks and that enable individuals, groups and communities to gather, communicate and share information, to collaborate or to play. Digital and social media research are closely related, as both address basic communications processes (defined as the sharing of meaning) and increasingly critical as the role of networks and other digital technologies become an anchor for change in societies.
We view this track as a convening platform for researchers to share and discuss their cutting-edge research in a number of current and hot issues related to digital and social media. Issues and topics include, but are not limited to:
Track Chairs
Kevin Crowston
School of Information Studies
348 Hinds Hall
Syracuse NY 13244-4100
Tel: 315-443-1676
Fax: 315-443-5806
Email: crowston@syr.edu
Karine Nahon
Information School, Suite 330W
POB 352840, Mary Gates Hall
University of Washington
Seattle WA 98195
Tel: 206-685-6668
Fax: 206-616-3152
Email: karineb@uw.edu
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