With apologies for cross-posting. Our Digital & Social Media Mini-track: Culture, Identity & Inclusion looks forward to receiving your papers by June 15,2022 and welcomes paper reviewers. To serve as a reviewer, please email: nlevins@american.edu<mailto:nlevins@american.edu> or dcogburn@american.edu<mailto:dcogburn@american.edu> or trevisan@american.edu<mailto:trevisan@american.edu>. The conference is scheduled to be held on Maui from January 3-6, 2023. To submit a paper, please see: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/ Here is a description of our Mini-track: Technology-facilitated social media present opportunities for new frontiers of research as they interact with cultures, identities, and diversity. As digital inequalities are on the rise globally, the global pandemic makes understanding the internet and the related myriad divides, as well as increased reliance on digital technologies and social networking platforms more vital than ever. Recognizing the kaleidoscope and intersectionality of culture, gender, and identity, this mini-track presents innovative research across a wide range of methods and subjects. Exploring how social media technologies become interconnected with and embedded in existing socio-cultural contexts is essential to assess how these platforms affect key power dynamics in society. This mini-track sets the scene for analyzing better how digital and social media can foster (or serve as hindering factors for) diversity and inclusion in multiple settings, especially in a world coping with renewed calls for social justice and a pandemic increasingly indicating long-term impacts. In sum, this mini-track highlights findings from a range of disciplines and methodologies that focus on the three I’s of internet, identity, and inclusion as they intersect with transformational social media and perhaps now more than ever impact human lives. Possible topics include: * The pandemic & roles of social media in inclusion and/or exclusion * Diversity, equity & inclusion in Digital & Social Media * Inter-cultural and Cross-cultural use of Social Media * Crowdsourcing Processes and Inclusion Issues * Designing Social Media for Inclusion * Social media, identity, and collective action * Gendered Social Media * The construction and circulation of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion, and disability through the use of social media * Online Harassment * Identity Enactment, Adoption, and Policing * Reproduction of biases * Governance and Rules in Action * Aging and Social Media * Inter-generational use of Social Media * Impact and influence of social media on diversity * Social Media, MOOCS, & Inclusion * Social Media & Implicit Bias * Social Media, Culture & Change/Social Innovation * Social Media & Intersectionality * Social media, access and remote learning * Social media, accessibility, and digital disability * Social Media, Disruptive Innovation, and Capacity-Building for All * Inclusion & Platform Governance Minitrack Co-Chairs: Nanette Levinson American University nlevins@american.edu<mailto:nlevins@american.edu> Derrick Cogburn American University dcogburn@american.edu<mailto:dcogburn@american.edu??> Filippo Trevisan American University trevisan@american.edu<mailto:trevisan@american.edu> ——— Dr. Filippo Trevisan Associate Professor - School of Communication Deputy Director - Institute on Disability and Public Policy (IDPP) American University 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC - 20016 Tel: +1 (202) 885 6930 Email: trevisan@american.edu<mailto:trevisan@american.edu> Web: www.filippotrevisan.net<http://www.filippotrevisan.net/> Twitter: @filippotrevisan<https://twitter.com/filippotrevisan> Now in paperback: “Disability Rights Advocacy Online: Voice, Empowerment and Global Connectivity<https://www.routledge.com/Disability-Rights-Advocacy-Online-Voice-Empowerment-and-Global-Connectivity/Trevisan/p/book/9781138847828>” NY: Routledge, 2017. All my publications: www.filippotrevisan.net/publications<http://www.filippotrevisan.net/publications>