May 16th, 2017, Paris School of Business, 59 Rue Nationale, 75013 Paris
The Big Data & Market Insights Chair in sponsoring this new international research workshop that focuses on the ‘dark’ effects of social media. The level of analysis is the individual, group, organization or the society as a whole, when those actors are interacting with the platforms, services and emerging technological artefacts commonly known as social media (Kaplan & Haenlein, 2010).
A large body of research has considered the positive aspects of social media. However, emerging research and practice are beginning to focus on complex and often alarming ways in which use of social media may harmfully affect individuals, organizations and societies. For example, data leakage prevention and suspicious networks detection, negative word-of-mouth dynamics and their repercussions on marketing and e-reputation, privacy violation, anxiety and depression, addiction, misrepresentation and negative psychological consequences are some of the issues that have been studied so far.
Many others require a deepened interest, especially within the organizational settings, in which social media pervasive usage might contribute to jeopardize systems security, disrupt work habits and impoverish individual performance via information overload, technostress and fatigue. Larger effects include enabling racism, terrorism and cyber-crime.
This workshop welcomes submissions form diverse domains including sociology, psychology, marketing, human resources, computer science, etc. All methodological approaches are equally appreciated, including qualitative, quantitative and mixed methodologies, conceptual building and design science.
Jennifer Widom is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, and the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs in Stanford’s School of Engineering. She served as chair of the Computer Science Department from 2009-2014. Jennifer received her Bachelor’s degree from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in 1982 and her Computer Science Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1987. She was a Research Staff Member at the IBM Almaden Research Center before joining the Stanford faculty in 1993. Her research interests span many aspects of nontraditional data management. She is an ACM Fellow and a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences; she received the ACM-W Athena Lecturer Award in 2015, the ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award in 2007, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000. She has served on a variety of program committees, advisory boards, and editorial boards.
