Journal
Electronic Markets
Electronic Markets focuses on social, economic, and technological aspects of digital platforms and electronic business.
Cyberspace has offered unprecedented opportunities for the advancement of electronic markets and digital platforms, ranging from cultivating networked business endeavors and facilitating efficient knowledge management to enhancing public and business services. However, cyberspace also presents numerous risks and threats, including cyberattacks, corporate data breaches, consumer privacy invasion, supply chain vulnerabilities, misinformation and online fraud, market manipulation, and other concerns (e.g., Arechar et al., 2023; Li et al., 2022; Li et al., 2023). Notably, these issues not only significantly disrupt the digital landscape but also give rise to substantial risks for society, organizations, and individuals, as underscored by the United Nations (2020).
Cyberspace governance has established a secure, ethical, and efficient environment for the healthy development of electronic markets. By providing a framework for responsible behavior, it enables businesses to thrive within a trustworthy, transparent, and accountable digital platform ecosystem, ensuring data and systems security, user privacy, and fair competition. Meanwhile, with supply chains increasingly reliant on digital technologies, robust cyberspace governance strategies enhance supply chain visibility, safety, and resilience. Recently, the rapid advancement of big data and large language models has sparked a new wave of artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, bringing forth both fresh opportunities and challenges for cyberspace governance (Berente et al., 2021; Cheng et al., 2022).
Therefore, it is of paramount significance to explore the complex role of AI (Alt, 2022) in cyberspace governance in order to establish fair, secure, and responsible electronic markets. In pursuit of this objective, this special issue seeks contributions from technological, organizational, societal, and/or political perspectives to address the fundamental questions how cyberspace governance in the era of AI may impact electronic markets and networked business in general. Given the interdisciplinary and multifaceted nature of these topics, author teams with diverse backgrounds and contributions that advance state-of-the-art knowledge through integrative analytical perspectives are particularly encouraged. Through reshaping the discourse on cyberspace governance, these contributions are expected to have a profound impact on governments, society, organizations, and individuals. Collectively, these endeavors can pave the way for a more responsible and effective approach to cyberspace governance in the AI era.
Central issues and topics
Submissions are solicited specifically examining the intersection of cyberspace and digital platforms with governance issues and their connection to AI. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
+ Ethical considerations for AI-powered digital platforms and businesses
+ Cross-platform AI integration and interoperability
+ Algorithmic bias and FAT (fairness, accountability, and transparency) in AI
+ AI-powered virtual collaboration
+ Governance of digital platforms and supply chains
+ Role of regulations for platform operators and gatekeepers
+ Implications for business models and business services
+ Data misuse and customer privacy in the age of AI
+ Impact of AI on cybersecurity management
+ Risk management and mitigation through AI
+ Deepfakes and online fraud
+ AI and online content moderation
+ Automated governance and trustworthy AI
Keywords
Cyberspace governance, artificial intelligence, human-AI interaction, AI ethics, responsible AI
Important deadline
* Submission Deadline: August 31, 2024
All submissions undergo double-blind peer-reviewing as stated in the journal guidelines.
Further information and references can be found here.
Submit your manuscript to this collection through the participating journal.
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Xiao-Liang Shen, Wuhan University, P.R. China
(xlshen@whu.edu.cn) Full professor at Wuhan University in P.R. China. His research interests include social media and user information behavior, information ethics, and the dark sides of IT. Professor Shen is a highly productive and influential scholar, having authored over 70 research articles published in international academic journals and conference proceedings. With an H-index of 27 and a citation count of 4,178 on Google Scholar, Prof. Shen demonstrates a remarkable scholarly impact. -
Jian Mou, Pusan National University, South Korea
(jian.mou@pusan.ac.kr) Professor at the School of Business, Pusan National University, South Korea. His research interests include social media, online security, and meta-analysis. Dr. Mou's research has been published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Information and Management, Internet Research, International Journal of Information Management, Information Processing and Management, Computers in Human Behavior, Information Technology and People, Behaviour and Information Technology, and Electronic Commerce Research. -
Emma Gritt, Leeds University, United Kingdom
(e.l.j.dunkerley@leeds.ac.uk) Lecturer in Information Systems at Leeds University Business School, UK, where she also obtained her Ph.D. in Management. Her Ph.D. investigated the use of social media for information sharing in a policing context. Her research focuses on the role of digital technologies, in particular social media, AI and digital platforms, in organizational contexts, as well as the dark sides and ethical issues associated with these technologies. -
Jin Li, Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China
(jinlimis@xjtu.edu.cn) Associate Professor at the School of Management in Xi’an Jiaotong University. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Management Science from City University of Hong Kong. His recent research interests include electronic commerce, cloud computing, and data governance. His papers have appeared in journals such as Information Systems Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Electronic Markets, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Electronic Commerce Research and many others. -
Wei He, Texas Tech University, USA
(Wei.He@ttu.edu) James C. Wetherbe Regents Professor in Information Technology and the Area Coordinator of ISQS in the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University. Her research focuses on knowledge sharing and creativity, digital innovation and platforms, and organizational implications of IT use. Her work has been published at various journals, including MIS Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Decision Support Systems, Information & Management, and others.
