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CfP: HICSS 56 minitrack on Critical and Ethical Studies of Digital and Social Media (6/15 Deadline)
by Nicholas Proferes 11 May '22

11 May '22

Hi all, Along with my colleagues Amelia Acker and Andrew Iliadis, I invite you to submit to the HICSS 56 Digital Social Media minitrack panel on Critical and Ethical Studies of Digital and Social Media: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-56/digital-and-social-media/#critical-and-e… This minitrack focuses on two themes: a) research that critically interrogates how and when digital and social media reify existing power structures or realign power for underrepresented or marginalized groups, and b) research that addresses ethical issues associated with doing research on digital and social media. The minitrack seeks both conceptual and empirical approaches to these two themes. Conceptual papers should address foundational scholarship and theories —e.g., important interventions for thinking about information exchange in communities and societies, key ideas, paradigms, and methods. Empirical papers should draw on original studies of digital and social media that illustrate the critical or ethical dimensions of digital infrastructures, social media platforms, or data use. Potential paper topics could explore the following topics and themes: - studies of the perpetuation of gender, race, ethno-nationalist, and faith-based hostility and bullying found in a range of online environments; - studies of the values and worldviews embedded within specific hardware and software technologies; - studies that look at the political economies and labor conditions of digital content creation, digital work, and the consequences of sharing economy platforms; - studies that look at mediated representations and practices of political community; - studies that examine digital power relations between individuals, collectives, and societal institutions. - case studies that grapple with the challenges and opportunities of unequal data access among digital and social media researchers (e.g., APIs, open vs. proprietary data); - studies that explore the situated ethics of social media research in different digital contexts - studies of the environmental impact that digital and social media researchers have on the planet by using and reusing data and metadata stored in resource-intensive ways; - studies of academic collaborations with actors that are a focus of controversies (e.g., military units, immigration enforcement officials, lobbying groups); - studies that mobilize non-traditional or experimental research methods developed for the specificities of digital and social media. Submissions are due 15 June 2022. For more information about dates and author instructions, please see: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/. Additionally, please share this CFP with interested colleagues, as you can. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out. All the best, Nick Nicholas Proferes, PhD Assistant Professor School of Social and Behavioral Sciences New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Arizona State University

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Convite: June 15 deadline — CfP: Mediated Conversation min... - qua. 15 jun. 2022 (air-l@listserv.aoir.org)
by luciopereiramello＠gmail.com 11 May '22

11 May '22

Você foi convidado para o seguinte evento. Título: [Air-L] June 15 deadline — CfP: Mediated Conversation minitrack of HICSS June 15 deadline for full-paper submissions to our Mediated Conversation minitrack of HICSS, the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.Please share widely with your networks. Thank you!--------CALL FOR PAPERS: Mediated Conversation minitrack of HICSSDEADLINE: June 15, 2022 (full papers)CONFERENCE: January 3-6, 2023, Maui, HawaiiThe Mediated Conversation minitrack focuses on the study of conversations taking place on digital and social media. https://mediatedconversation.wordpress.com/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,... Quando: qua. 15 jun. 2022 Agenda: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Quem: * luciopereiramello(a)gmail.com- organizador * air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Detalhes do evento: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=MG5lbG9vNDJmaGh2… Convite do Google Agenda: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ Você está recebendo este e-mail de cortesia na conta air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org por ser um participante deste evento. Para não receber atualizações futuras desse evento, recuse-o. Você também pode se inscrever para uma Conta do Google em https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ e controlar suas configurações de notificação de toda a sua agenda. Encaminhar este convite talvez permita que qualquer destinatário modifique sua resposta de RSVP, envie uma resposta ao organizador e seja adicionado à lista de convidados ou convide outras pessoas, independentemente do status de convite delas. Saiba mais em https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding

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June 15 deadline — CfP: Mediated Conversation minitrack of HICSS
by Seth Lewis 11 May '22

11 May '22

Hi, everyone — With apologies for cross-posting, this is a friendly reminder about our June 15 deadline for full-paper submissions to our Mediated Conversation minitrack of HICSS, the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Please share widely with your networks. Thank you! -------- CALL FOR PAPERS: Mediated Conversation minitrack of HICSS DEADLINE: June 15, 2022 (full papers) CONFERENCE: January 3-6, 2023, Maui, Hawaii 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/ 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/) Mediated Conversation minitrack co-chairs: Seth C. Lewis (Primary contact) University of Oregon sclewis(a)uoregon.edu<mailto:sclewis@uoregon.edu> Gina M. Masullo The University of Texas at Austin Gina.Masullo(a)austin.utexas.edu Yoram Kalman The Open University of Israel yoramka(a)openu.ac.il -- Seth C. Lewis, Ph.D. Professor, Shirley Papé Chair in Emerging Media, and Director of Journalism School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon New book: News After Trump<https://global.oup.com/academic/product/news-after-trump-9780197550359?lang…> (Oxford U Press, 2021) Sign up for RQ1<https://rq1.substack.com>, a newsletter about news research

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CfP: INDL-5: Features and futures of digital labor
by Julian Posada 11 May '22

11 May '22

INDL-5: Features and futures of digital labor Department of Sociology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Department of Economic and Social Sciences, Telecom Paris, Polytechnic Institute of Paris DiPLab (Digital Platform Labor), Telecom Paris, Polytechnic Institute of Paris Labor Institute of the General Confederation of Greek Workers International Labor Organization The INDL (International Network on Digital Labor) project started as ENDL (the “E” standing for “European”) 5 years ago with an inaugural meeting in Paris. Since then, it has expanded internationally, and its members have organized larger conferences in Paris (2019), Toronto (2019), Milan (2020, online), and Edinburgh (2021, online). INDL's next conference will take place on November 3-5, 2022 in Athens and will be the first in-person meeting since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. The network encourages the participation of researchers in all academic stages and from any part of the world. Call for submissions The concept of digital labor is central to the digital transformation of society. New jobs like online freelancing, gig-work, and remote crowdwork are made possible by digital intermediaries. Under the impetus of work from home, conventional jobs have changed to teleconferencing and have introduced algorithmic management. Despite the pervasiveness of this phenomenon, the notion of digital labor remains elusive. Different disciplines and fields in the social and economic sciences, political theory, law, and philosophy have attempted to capture the attributes of labor in the digital age. These academic endeavors take place against the backdrop of the rise of platformization of work and the introduction of new activities that produce data and meanings for large sociotechnical systems. Thus, digital labor not only necessitates the transformation of the traditional concepts and methodologies we employ to study this essential human activity but also calls for a new understanding of labor relations to overcome the looming threats of unfair remuneration, job instability, harsh working conditions, lack of social grounding and, very often, self-alienation. This conference aims to map these new working environments by connecting different disciplines and fostering dialogue around the nature of digital work, as well as the possible futures that academic research may help bring about. Place: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Dates: 3-5 November 2022 Please send your abstract (max. 300 words excluding title) to: contact(a)indl.network <mailto:contact@indl.network> Deadline for submission: 15/07/22 Acceptance notification: 10/08/22 For registration: TBA A non-exhaustive list of topics to be addressed by the conference: 1. New forms of digital labor a. Atypical work and platforms b. New types of contracts c. Digital labor platforms and labor as a service d. Platformization of remote work e. Covid-19 and the great “work-from-home experiment” 2. The transformation of the working subject a. Issues of personal identity (fragmentation, self-alienation) b. Emergent classes (digital nomads, precariat, cybertariat etc.) 3. Digital labor and economic theory a. Digital labor and value theory b. Surveillance as value-producing mechanism c. Cryptomining and new forms of capital accumulation d. From commodification to ‘assetization’ of work 5. Digital labor and inequalities 6. Digital labor and the Global Souths a. Coloniality b. Global supply networks c. Migrations d. Labor arbitrage e. Global workers’ competition 7. Digital labor and career development a. What jobs are available to former platform workers? b. Competency development c. Formal and informal skills d. Workforce polarization e. Platform labor and unemployment/underemployment 8. Organizing digital workers a. Negotiating the algorithm b. Unions and platforms c. Platform cooperativism d. Global digital activism and platform labor e. Labor regulations and digital markets f. Patterns of professional regulation g. Emerging working subjectivities Scientific committee: Paola Tubaro (CNRS), Antonio Casilli (Télécom Paris, Polytechnic Institute of Paris), Clément Le Ludec (Télécom Paris, Polytechnic Institute of Paris), Milagros Miceli (The DAIR Institute & Weizenbaum-Institut), Julian Posada (University of Toronto & Yale University), Uma Rani (International Labor Organization), Manolis Patiniotis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Iraklis Vogiatzis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Valia Aranitou (University of Crete), Christos Goulas (Labor Institute of the General Confederation of Greek Workers), Manos Spiridakis (University of the Peloponnese).

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CfP. SI Pandemic disobedience, Mapping Covid19 Non-Conformities
by Nagy, V. (Veronika) 11 May '22

11 May '22

CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL ISSUE Pandemic disobedience, Mapping Covid19 Non-Conformities While some countries are now considering covid-19 an endemic, international and national responses to the pandemic are still characterized by inconsistencies, fuelling social conflicts and civil disobedience. From travel bans on an international level, national lockdowns, accessibility and availability of public places, vaccines and testing, to the spread of disinformation, social media censorship, and discussions on corporate responsibility have led to new types of social division and exclusion in society. These inconsistencies and the different narratives on Covid-19 have been met with diverse responses from individuals, governments, justice systems and the private sector. While some countries cite the ending of the pandemic, others have tightened regulation and introduced punitive measures for non-compliance with transient measures. These in turn have created pockets of individuals and larger collectives to engage in "Covid non-conformities". Recent studies refer to such incentives as `Covid fraud`, cultures of resistance, pandemic disobedience, or corruption of medical professionals, while others identify online criminal networks, that are assisting counterfeiting national Covid regulations and health care markets. However, due to the growing uncertainties and controversial decision-making practices, deviant responses are increasing in all corners of societies. In this special issue such non-conformities are defined from a greater scope as actions, images, initiatives, vernacular, or behaviour, that defy, challenge or draw into question Covid-19 measures imposed on the local or the international level and which are met with dissenting response. Covid-non conformities go beyond solely (il)legal conduct, but also include professional and moral deviance. In this special issue we invite contributions that examine the dynamics of deviance and the widening of what constitutes Covid non-conformity, to be published in the Autumn of 2022. We welcome innovative and original research representing interdisciplinary objectives, including cultural, critical theoretical approaches which identify these fault lines in society, as well as the responses to them. Contributions presenting qualitative or empirical inquiries seeking to describe and explore Covid non-conformities are highly encouraged, as well as multidisciplinary research from criminology, criminal justice, media and communication studies, anthropology, sociology and other humanities disciplines. Topics may include but are not limited to: * Illicit markets, forgery, buying, selling of vaccine passes, PCR test results, medical status documentation, medicines and treatments * Covid-19 misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy theories, propagation, effects, sources, responses, censorship * Scientific scepticism, professional (mis)conduct, scientific and professional debate, scientific authority and autonomy * Bioethics, medical ethics, autonomy and authority in medicine * Access to healthcare, health equity * Stigma, division, social exclusion, victimization, racism, inequality * Travel restrictions, national and international populations, travel and landing bans, designation of high risk countries * Health status and antisocial and prosocial behaviour * Corporate policing, corporate interests, transparency, access to health and equity * Covid-19 surveillance, law enforcement, document vérification, penalties, fines, quarantaines * Curtailment of human rights and freedoms * Covid-19 criminalization Timeline: Deadline for Initial Proposals: July 10, 2022 Prospective authors should submit a short article proposal as a Word document or PDF file to v.nagy(a)uu.nl<mailto:v.nagy@uu.nl>. The proposal should describe: * The name and contact information of the author(s), along with a brief bio. * The title of the proposed contribution and the topic the author(s) believe(s) that the contribution best fits under. * An abstract (max 500 words) and 4-7 keywords Potential authors are encouraged to contact the editor to discuss ideas for theme and format. There is no article processing charge. Authors are encouraged to use images but will be required to request permission from copyright-holders when needed. Notification of Acceptance: 20th of July, 2022 Deadline First Drafts: 10th of December, 2022 Peer review completed: 25th of January, 2023 Final Drafts Due: 31th of February, 2023 Editors If prospective authors have more questions, please contact one of the editors below. Veronika Nagy, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology in Utrecht (V.Nagy(a)uu.nl<mailto:V.Nagy@uu.nl>) Anna Laskai Ph.D. Assistant Professor at the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology in Utrecht (a.e.laskai(a)uu.nl<mailto:a.e.laskai@uu.nl>)

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PhD and PostDoc positions @ Uppsala University InfoLab
by Matteo Magnani 11 May '22

11 May '22

Dear colleagues, we have two open positions that may be relevant for this list: PhD position on: Analysis of online communication https://uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/details/?positionId=501594 PostDoc position on: Social image analysis https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/details/?positionId=508164 The application deadline is May 31, 2022 for both. You find the description of the profiles in the linked pages. It would be great if you could share this information with prospective candidates if you know some. The successful candidates will join the Uppsala University Information Laboratory (https://uuinfolab.github.io) where we do research in social data science. The lab is part of the EU-funded Nordic Observatory for Digital Media and Information Disorder and has several ongoing collaborations with the Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences. The PhD position is for at most five years and includes department duties (mainly teaching) at a level of at most 20%. The PostDoc position is for two years, and also includes 20% department duties (mainly teaching). Knowledge of Swedish is not required, most of our courses can be taught in English. Uppsala is a great place where to live: a picturesque town with a thousand-year history, but also a growing city bustling with business and activities. Uppsala University plays a big role in the city, with around one fourth of the residents being students. Sweden has a generous welfare system that includes paid parental leave, affordable daycare and practically free medical care. Stockholm is 40 minutes away by train. If you have questions, you can contact Davide Vega (davide.vega(a)it.uu.se) for the first position and myself for the second. Best, -- Matteo Magnani Docent (Associate Professor) in Computing Science and Distinguished university teacher Coordinator, Master’s programme in Data Science Director, Uppsala University InfoLab (https://uuinfolab.github.io) Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University TW: @matmagnani @uuinfolab FB: @uuinfolab När du har kontakt med oss på Uppsala universitet med e-post så innebär det att vi behandlar dina personuppgifter. För att läsa mer om hur vi gör det kan du läsa här: http://www.uu.se/om-uu/dataskydd-personuppgifter/ E-mailing Uppsala University means that we will process your personal data. For more information on how this is performed, please read here: http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/data-protection-policy

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Internet Researchers' Conference 2022: #Home [May 25-27]
by Ambika Tandon 11 May '22

11 May '22

Dear All, We are excited to announce that the fifth edition of the Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC) will be held online on May 25-27, 2022! This annual conference series was initiated by the researchers@work (r@w) programme at CIS in 2016 to gather researchers and practitioners engaging with the internet in/from India to congregate, share insights and tensions, and chart the ways forward. This year, the conference brings together a set of reflections and conversations on how we imagine and experience the home —as a space of refuge and comfort, but also as one of violence, care, labour and movement-building. What has it meant to be at home, and what is home? What is and has been the role of the internet and digital media technologies in navigating the contours of a changing ‘normal’? How have/can digital technologies help overcome, or exacerbate existing social, economic and political challenges during the pandemic? What forms of digital infrastructure—tools, platforms, devices and services—help build, sustain and alter the notion of home? For more details see: https://cis-india.org/raw/irc-22-home A detailed conference schedule will be added shortly on our website. IRC is a free event, please do register to join, using this link: https://tinyurl.com/reg-irc22 Registration closes on Tuesday, May 24 at 4 PM IST/6.30AM ET. Please share with your networks, do write back if you have any queries. Best wishes, IRC22 Team

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Second Call For Papers - HICSS 56 | Human-Centered Digital Privacy Solutions
by Michele A. L. Villagran 11 May '22

11 May '22

Conference: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-56) | January 3-6, 2023*Minitrack: Human-centered Digital Privacy Solutions for Digital and Social Media**Track: Digital and Social Media**Submission Deadline: June 15, 2022 (11:59 PM HST)* *Visit https://hicss.hawaii.edu/ <https://hicss.hawaii.edu/> for more details, and https://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/ <https://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/> for author submission details.* The burgeoning growth of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) solutions, the ubiquity of social media and digital repositories, and cross-platform data usage have raised the stakes of addressing digital privacy. Semi-structured digital records, like emails, and unstructured text, like social media posts, present a significant threat of privacy breaches. The enormity of data presents an uphill task to identify and mitigate private information on digital and social media platforms. While AI-powered privacy solutions are a welcomed step, it is only recently that researchers have focused on more human-centered and transdisciplinary (Polk, 2015) digital privacy solutions. Privacy protection is a legal and ethical responsibility of both public and private sector organizations, and AI development and deployment should account for the diversity of the target audience, the cultural contexts, and extant biases (Ehsan et al., 2021). Privacy solutions should not only be effective and accurate but also human-centered and accountable (Hepenstal et al., 2019). This minitrack aims to attract submissions on digital privacy solutions that bring different disciplines together, especially computer science, system sciences, information science, social science, and law. The focus of this minitrack is to bridge the gap between algorithmic development (automated decision-making systems, fair, accountable, and transparent systems) and human-centered approaches (usability studies, surveys, user interviews). We encourage submissions that address privacy concerns in digital and social media through inter- and trans-disciplinary approaches, including but not limited to AI and ML. Potential submissions for this minitrack should address (but are not limited to) the following research topics: - quantitative, qualitative, and computational studies on digital (e.g., images, webpages, emails, websites) and social media (e,g., Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, TikTok, Weibo) privacy; - qualitative studies using interviews, surveys, and usability studies to identify the privacy behavior of users (when using digital and social media); - quantitative work on digital privacy using statistical analysis; - machine and deep learning approaches to identify, classify, and mitigate sensitive and private information on digital and social media platforms; - novel privacy solutions using explainable AI, transparent ML algorithms, or any interdisciplinary methods. Minitrack Chair and Co-Chairs: Dr. Souvick Ghosh San Jose State University, USA souvick.ghosh(a)sjsu.edu Dr. Darra Hofman San Jose State University, USA darra.hofman(a)sjsu.edu Dr. Aylin Imeri (Ilhan) Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany Aylin.ilhan(a)hhu.de Dr. Michele A. L. Villagran San Jose State University, USA michele.villagran(a)sjsu.edu

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IAPMR@Dialogues Series webinar with the EBU - "EBU Research foci and opportunities for academic collaborations"
by Maria Michalis 10 May '22

10 May '22

[apologies for cross-posting] IAPMR@Dialogues Series Partners at Work **Wednesday 18 May, 14.00 CET FREE but registration required New webinar **EBU: Research foci and opportunities for academic collaborations This spring the International Association of Public Media Researchers (IAPMR) will give voice to our partners at work. In this season's first webinar, Dr. Florence Hartmann (Head of the European Broadcasting Union's Media Intelligence Service) will offer an overview of her team’s recent research activity and share with the community of PSM researchers what she sees as the most pressing issues for PSM research. The workshop aims to identify opportunities for academic collaborations and knowledge exchange. There will be an opportunity for attendees to ask questions and contribute to the discussion. The webinar will take place on Wednesday 18 May at 14.00 CET via Zoom. To register, please fill this form<https://forms.gle/eZNJoEdWzjj2eYEH9> and we will send you the link to the Zoom meeting when the date approaches. To register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe_y64hHlw-QYWpIIFyUKVgI8ioAMkRzXT… The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW. This message and its attachments are private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it and its attachments from your system.

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CFP Esports minitrack HICSS56
by Piotr Siuda 10 May '22

10 May '22

CALL FOR PAPERS: ESPORTS AT THE 56TH HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES Esports research is a field with conflicting definitions and multiple perspectives. Despite the differences between approaches to esports, all emphasize its technological specificity and competitiveness. In the last decade, esports has ceased to be seen solely as entertainment for the youth and has become the fastest-growing area in sports. This view is supported by the increase in the number of events organized, their popularity among millions of viewers, and the growing number and professionalization of gamers. Traditional sports are still generally larger in size and reach than the biggest esports, with substantially more revenues and larger player salaries in traditional sports. However, esports is quickly catching up, given the growing number of broadcasted games and events, tournament prize pools, availability of media rights, and increasing advertising and sponsorship potential of esports games. Despite the increasing popularity of esports, the research is still in its nascency. After an initial descriptive stage, the focus shifts from explaining what esports is to a more nuanced understanding of multiple phenomena present in the industry. This minitrack aims to provide insight into esports’ theoretical development and practical understanding without excluding any methodological approach or scientific disciplines. Conceptual, theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions that enrich our understanding of esports are welcome. Given the diverse goals of this minitrack, possible topics include, but are not limited to: Business, e.g. discovering esports consumers’ motivations; designing effective marketing tools; understanding players’/esports’ networks and organizations; gamers/fans as consumers; esports finances and revenues; esports management and governance Cognitive Science/Psychology, e.g. studying factors influencing athletes’ performance; their abilities and skills; cognitive and behavioral differences between athletes; team management. IT, e.g. using game telemetry, biometrics, user-generated data, or text mining to study esports; team dynamics; interactions of players; in-game performance. Sociology, e.g. gamers’ and athletes’ interactions and identities; live events and streaming dynamics; gender issues (gender gap). Media Studies and Communications, e.g. cultural examinations; relations between esports, traditional sports, and the media; offline spaces versus live-streaming, understanding esports in terms of virtual versus real; how technology mediates gaming and how esports’ communities fit here. Law, e.g. copyright issues, intellectual property. Health, Wellness and Medical Sciences, e.g., health and wellness of players; comparing esports and traditional sports; esports as ‘real’, ‘genuine’ sports or new quality. Technology, e.g. augmented, virtual, mixed and extended reality; haptic technology and gaming. Authors of accepted papers have the option to fast-track extended versions of their papers to: Journal of Electronic Gaming and Esports. Rejected manuscripts will be recommended to be submitted to JEGE for further review. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Author Instructions: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/ Esports minitrack website: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-55/internet-and-the-digital-economy/#esport… IMPORTANT DATES: April 15, 2022: Paper submission begins (through HICSS systems: https://hicss-submissions.org/) June 15, 2022: Paper submission deadline (11:59 pm HST) August 17,2022: Notification of acceptance/rejection September 22, 2022: Deadline for authors to submit final manuscript for publication October 1, 2022: Deadline for at least one author for each paper to register for the conference MINITRACK CO-CHAIRS: Piotr Siuda (Primary Contact) Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz piotr.siuda(a)ukw.edu.pl Maciej Behnke Adam Mickiewicz University macbeh(a)amu.edu.pl David P. Hedlund St. John’s University hedlundd(a)stjohns.edu -- *Piotr Siuda* (PhD, Professor of Media Studies) piotrsiuda.com Institute of Social Communication and Media Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland *Recent papers:* *--** Microtransaction politics in FIFA Ultimate Team: game fans, Twitch streamers, and Electronic Art*, in*: **EA Sports FIFA: Feeling the Game, Bloomsbury Academic Press*. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ea-sports-fifa-9781501375347 *-- **Cancer entertainment education and Netflix – an exploratory study, **Educational Media International**, *59(1), doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/09523987.2022.2054115 *-- Sports gamers practices as a form of subversiveness - the example of the FIFA ultimate team*, *Critical Studies in Media Communication*, https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2021.1876897

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