Introduction to Social Media: Culture, Identity, and Inclusion Minitrack

It is fitting that the 50 anniversary meeting of HICSS marks the initiation of this new minitrack related to social media. The focus on the intersections of digital and social media with culture, identity and, indeed, inclusion begins to fill an increasingly significant gap in our research, teaching, and practice. Digital and social media are now ubiquitous, and there has been much recent research related to social media and systems sciences. Yet oftentimes this work does not explore relations with culture, identity, or inclusion.