Special Issue: “Social Issues Regarding Recent Advances in Internet Applications” (WiCON 2019)

Theme and Scope
Recent advances on Internet applications have unleashed considerable effort to our daily life and rise amounts of social issues, such as commercial deviance, infringement, social network problems, and education matters. The effort is involved in many different fields of social science; in particular, sociology, jurisprudence, politics, economics, and management. Therefore, it is necessary to rely on professional knowledge and expertise to recognize the implications of shifts between new Internet applications and our society.
This special issue is made for practitioners to contribute with their original research and review papers responding to the requirements of interdisciplinary studies, which provide substantive responses to Internet-related social issues arising in connection with Internet applications. Consequently, our significant achievements are (i) understanding changes toward Internet usages and (ii) predicting the coming tasks in our society. There is an extreme demand to reflect the advanced ideas of Internet usages in different areas.
As industrial and academy move on to exploit the technologies, more people will be involved in the benefits and drawbacks of the emerging technology. Hence, significant challenges regarding the researches of the impacts brought by information technology remained.

Topics appropriate for this special issue include, but are not limited to:
 Commercial deviance and blockchain
 Data protection and security matters
 E commerce and “micro business”
 Finical deviance and fintech
 Finical deviance and P2P lending
 Intellectual property matters regarding recent advances on Internet applications
 Issues regarding applications of e service
 New-emerging issues in e management
 New-emerging social network problems
 Political anticipations and Internet usages
 Recent advances to applications of education matters

Instructions for Manuscripts
Selected Manuscripts must be prepared according to the standards for submission to the Journal of Internet Technology; see instructions for Authors in:
https://jit.ndhu.edu.tw/about/submissions#authorGuidelines
The sample format can be downloaded from
https://jit.ndhu.edu.tw/about/submissions#authorGuidelines
Manuscripts must also be uploaded through the electronic submission system: https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/internet-tech
Please specify that the manuscript is for the “Social Issues Regarding Recent Advances in Internet Applications” special issue.

Important Dates
Manuscript Due: March 31, 2020
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection/Revision: June 15, 2020
Revise Manuscript Due: July 15, 2020
Final Manuscript Due: August 15, 2020
Tentative Publication Date: 4th Quarter, 2020 (Tentative)

Guest Editors
Prof. Chun-Hsien Sung
Department of Finance and Law,
Overseas Chinese University, Taiwan,
Email: scotsung@gmail.com

Prof. Cheng-Yong Liu
School of Civil and Commercial Law,
Beijing Institute of Technology, Zhuhai,
Email: priliu36@gmail.com

Prof. Der-Jiunn Deng
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering,
National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan,
Email: djdeng@cc.ncue.edu.tw

Prof. Mohammed Atiquzzaman
School of Computer Science,
University of Oklahoma, USA,
Email: atiq@ou.edu