JOEUC Special Issue Call for Papers

Journal of Organizational and End User Computing (JOEUC)

（SSCI Q1, 2021 IF 7.4, ABDC List B Journal）

Special Issue

Digital Economy and Digital Society in the Metaverse

Introduction

Recently, a growing number of enterprises are actively deploying Metaverse applications. The Metaverse generally refers to an interactive, immersive, and collaborative virtual world environment that is shared among the online crowds (Kim, 2021). With digital technologies, the Metaverse can empower digital economy development and digital society management. Many industries, including health management, virtual game, smart tourism, and city planning are utilizing decentralized Metaverse techniques to afford socialization, play and work (Chen & Zhang, 2022).

Recently, several innovations have emerged in the new era of Metaverse (Zhang et al., 2020). For example, cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFT) enable users to truly own the digital assets purchased within the metaverse. Individuals in the metaverse can self-present themselves with the embodied avatars, and design more fancy creations combining reality and imagination. Virtual reality and augmented reality techniques are continuously upgrading to support the immersive virtual world (Di Pietro & Cresci, 2021).

The Metaverse not only includes the interpersonal interactions in virtual spaces, but also a mix of physical and virtual worlds to realize human-machine symbiosis. Consequently, the Metaverse will potentially bring about fundamental changes in the entire social environment and economic activities. Traditional theories, managerial wisdoms and operation rules of the digital economy and digital society might be challenged by the Metaverse (Chandra & Leenders, 2012; Cheng et al., 2016). New strategies need to be developed to utilize the Metaverse along with the other channels of websites with two-dimensional navigation, and offline (Zarifis, 2019).

Objective of Special Issue

This special issue invites contributions from a variety of conceptual and theoretical perspectives. We particularly welcome behavioral studies that explore the new interaction and collaboration modes regarding to Metaverse, provide multidisciplinary perspectives and theory adaptations, and/or adopt mixed methods research approaches. We hope the submissions can advance our understanding of how the Metaverse can be designed and managed for improving the digital economy and digital society. We also encourage theoretical explorations on how the economic ecosystems and behavioral rules could be set for a better digital society.

Recommended Topics

• Behavioral issues interacting with virtual reality and augmented reality

• Distributed collaboration in the Metaverse

• E-healthcare and management in the Metaverse

• Trust, privacy and security issues in the Metaverse

• Electronic business innovation in the Metaverse

• Digital society innovation and governance in the virtual world

• Virtual world and applications for the elderly

• Artifact design for an immersive virtual world

• Digital identity management in the virtual world

• Metaverse to afford online travel experiences

• Human-AI collaboration and interaction for the Metaverse

• Digital assets allocation and digital economy in the Metaverse

• Metaverse and decentralized (blockchain) infrastructures

• Algorithms design to support Metaverse management

• Metaverse as a part of a multichannel strategy

Special Issue co-editor(s)

Alex Zarifis, University of Cambridge, UK

Email: alex.e.zarifis@gmail.com      

Xusen Cheng（Corresponding Editor）, Renmin University of China, China

Email: xusen.cheng@ruc.edu.cn

Kai Li, Nankai University, China

Email:  likai@nankai.edu.cn

Submission Procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this special theme issue on Digital Economy and Digital Society in the Metaverse on or before January 31st, 2023. All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another publication. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNAL’S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at

http://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/.All submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind, peer review basis. Papers must follow APA style for reference citations.

This is a full open access journal. Authors of manuscripts that are accepted to publish in this special issue will be expected to pay the article processing charge.

All inquiries should be directed to the attention of : Alex Zarifis, Xusen Cheng, Kai Li

Guest Editors
Journal of Organizational and End-User Computing (JOEUC)
Email:   alex.e.zarifis@gmail.com

          xusen.cheng@ruc.edu.cn

          likai@nankai.edu.cn

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