** Apologies for Cross-Posting ** As a Program Committee member I am pleased to make you aware about, and invite the submission of research papers to, the 15th IFIP I3E Conference to be held 13-15th September 2016 in Swansea, UK. The theme of the conference is ‘Social Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly!’. Deadline for submission of papers for review is 15th March 2016. Please visit the conference website http://www.swansea.ac.uk/som/i3e2016/. Submission is now open and can be made online at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=i3e2016. The Conference Co-Chair, Professor Yogesh K. Dwivedi, welcomes any queries regarding the conference and/or submission via email y.k.dwivedi@swansea.ac.uk<mailto:y.k.dwivedi@swansea.ac.uk>. The ubiquity of social media has had a profound effect on the way we communicate and is of significant importance to society and business. Social media tools have helped break down geographical barriers that once restricted communication and have led to an explosion of e-participation, virtual presence, and online communities. Professional benefits of social media include sharing of information, publicity, and giving and receiving support and advice. Consumers have become increasingly empowered to exert an influence on brands through online communities and businesses are able to acquire rapid feedback and garner insight into individual preferences without observer effects. Analysis of social media content via automated techniques and systems can also help to safeguard society from organized crime but such uses remain a delicate issue. With seemingly endless benefits it is easy to overlook the disadvantages of social media, which are an increasingly important consideration as social media platforms continue to proliferate. Social media has facilitated a loss of ownership and control of content as private, public and institutional domains increasingly overlap. There is a need for careful balancing of professionalism and freedom of speech, to ensure that posts do not cause offence or harm reputations. Other drawbacks include time pressure, plagiarism, misrepresentation, addiction, and negative psychological consequences. While providing a means to protect public safety, social media also provides a means of threatening it and enabling new forms of cyber-crime. This conference aims to bring together a variety of disciplines and a community for the advancement of knowledge regarding the adoption, use, impact, and potential of social media. To achieve this goal, we invite researchers and practitioners to present their ideas and findings at the 15th IFIP Conference on eBusiness, e-Services, and e-Society to be held at Swansea University, UK in 2016. Theoretical and empirical papers employing quantitative, qualitative, and/or critical methods are welcomed. PAPER SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS Authors should submit original, unpublished research papers. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Submissions should not be under consideration for any other conference or journal outlet. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended and revised version of their paper for fast track review and publication in Journal of Enterprise Information Management, Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, or International Journal of Electronic Government Research. Further information is on the conference website www.swan.ac.uk/som/i3e2016<http://www.swan.ac.uk/som/i3e2016> Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Karlsruhe Service Research Institute (KSRI) Institute of Information Systems and Marketing (IISM) Dr. Margeret Hall Head of Research Group: Participation and Collaborative Services Strategic Initiative Leader: Participation and Crowd Services Englerstr. 11, 11.40 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany Phone: +49 721 608-45873 Fax: +49 721 608-48399 Email: hall@kit.edu<mailto:hall@kit.edu> Web: http://www.ksri.kit.edu/ P Do you really need to print this email? KIT – The Research University in the Helmholtz Association