Deadline: June 15, 2022

Research of the Internet as a site for communication and networking has focused mostly on legal practices. Recent years have nevertheless seen a significant increase in cybercrime, including illegal commerce being conducted on various platforms. In the public eye, much of it is associated with the non-indexed Dark Web, but research tells us that it is likewise present on many clear web sites and being conducted via numerous social media and instant messaging services.

Rarely a day goes by without cybercrime being reported in the media. Examples include online trading in narcotics and other illicit goods and services, the hijacking of individual accounts and organizational systems, extortion, exit scams, fake investments in cryptocurrencies and even blatant information manipulation for financial gain.

This minitrack aim is to give insights and develop a theoretical and practical understanding of issues related to cybercrime without excluding any methodological approaches. We welcome conceptual, theoretical, empirical and methodological papers that enrich our understanding of illegal online practices. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Trading in illicit goods and services online
• The use of the Dark Web as a marketplace or information sharing environment
• Using social media and instant messaging services for illicit trading
• Ransomware
• Phishing and scamming
• Cryptomarkets and cryptocurrencies
• Information manipulation for commercial gain
• Dark Web deception, risk, security, and privacy
• Differences between legal and illegal online trading
• Regional differences in cybercrime
• Investigative techniques and methods for cybercrimes

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Author Instructions: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/

Esports minitrack website: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-55/internet-and-the-digital-economy/#cybercrime-minitrack

IMPORTANT DATES:

April 15, 2022: Paper submission begins (through HICSS systems: https://hicss-submissions.org/)

June 15, 2022: Paper submission deadline (11:59 pm HST)

August 17,2022: Notification of acceptance/rejection

September 22, 2022: Deadline for authors to submit final manuscript for publication

October 1, 2022: Deadline for at least one author for each paper to register for the conference

MINITRACK CO-CHAIRS:

Tuomas Harviainen (Primary Contact)

Tampere University

tuomas.harviainen@tuni.fi

Piotr Siuda

Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz

piotr.siuda@ukw.edu.pl

Robert W. Gehl

Louisiana Tech University

rgehl@latech.edu

Juho Hamari

Tampere University

juho.hamari@tuni.fi