Call For Papers: HICSS 43 Social Networking and Communities

Call For Papers: Social Networking and Communities

Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 43)
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/
January 5-8, 2010 Kauai

Papers due June 15, 2009
Note: All submissions are made through the HICSS site

PRIMARY CONTACT
Karine Barzilai-Nahon - University of Washington - [Primary Contact] – email:
karineb@u.washington.edu

MINI-TRACK CO-CHAIRS
Caroline Haythornthwaite - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Paul Benjamin Lowry - Brigham Young
Ian MacInnes - Syracuse University

Papers presented in previous years may be found at
http://ekarine.org/news/hicsscommunities/


CFP: Social Networking and Communities

Following the success of similar minitracks from the past seven HICSS
conferences, we invite submissions to the 2009 mini-track on social
networking and communities.

We call for papers that address technology and information in support of
communities at work, school, and home, supporting interests of business,
learning, play and society. We encourage papers from multidisciplinary and
interdisciplinary perspectives.

Topics of interest in these contexts include, but are not limited to the
following:

Social, economic and political impact of internet technologies
Communities as sociological phenomenon in the digital economy
Community development
Design and HCI aspects of social networking and communities
Online communities of practice
Business models of Second Life
E-learning: structures, implementations, and practices
Organizational behavior of communities
Disruptive strategies of virtual worlds
Peer-to-peer or mobile services for Virtual Communities
Case studies and topologies of Online Communities
Theoretical models of virtual worlds
Preventing predatory behavior
Online auctions
Collaborative gaming
Conflicts between real and virtual worlds
Diffusion and adoption of social networks
Digital personas
Economics of collaborative entertainment
Gaming communities and immersive gaming
Social networking agents
Social network studies of online community
Methodologies and development techniques
Mixed reality and virtual reality
Online addiction and anti-social behavior
Legal and ethical issues of virtual worlds
Privacy and security issues
Social blogging
Wireless social computing
Interaction between the off-line and online community

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

ABSTRACTS (optional)
Authors may contact Minitrack Chairs for guidance and indication of
appropriate content at anytime.

FULL PAPERS
June 15, 2009
* Note: this is a hard deadline *

Authors submit Full Papers to the Peer Review System, following the Author
Instructions found on the HICSS web site (http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/). All
papers must be submitted in double column publication format and limited to
10 pages including diagrams and references that conform to HICSS standards.
Papers undergo blind review.

ACCEPTANCE/REJECTION
August 15, 2009

Acceptance and Rejection notices are sent to Authors via the Peer Review
System.

FINAL VERSIONS OF ACCEPTED PAPERS
September 15, 2009

Authors submit the Final Version of papers following submission instructions
on the Peer Review System web site. At least one author of each paper must
register by this date with specific plans to attend the conference to present the
paper.


INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION
HICSS papers must contain original material not previously published, or
currently submitted elsewhere

Do not submit the manuscript to more than one mini-track. If unsure which
mini-track is appropriate, submit the abstract to the Track Chair for guidance.

Submit your full paper according to the detailed formatting and submission
instructions found on the HICSS website. Note: All papers will be submitted in
double column publication format and limited to 10 pages including diagrams
and references. HICSS will conduct double-blind reviews of each submitted
paper.

HICSS conferences are devoted to advances in the information, computer, and
system sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and practice.
Invited papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature.
Submissions undergo a blind peer review process and those selected for
presentation will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Submissions
must not have been previously published.

For the latest information visit the HICSS web site at:
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/
CONFERENCE ADMINISTRATION:
Ralph Sprague, Conference Chair
Email: sprague@hawaii.edu

Sandra Laney, Conference Administrator
Email: hicss@hawaii.edu

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Caroline Haythornthwaite
Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820

Mail will reach me at both haythorn@uiuc.edu AND haythorn@illinois.edu. NOTE: There is no 'u' before 'illinois' in this address.