CFP: HICSS Social Networking And Community (Twitter:
#hicss_snc)
TRACK: Digital and Social Media
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 49, January 5-8,
2016, Grand Hyatt, Kauai, Hawaii
PAPERS DUE: June 15, 2015 via the HICSS conference system
ORGANIZERS
Karine Nahon, University of Washington and the Interdisciplinary Center at
Herzliya,
karineb@uw.edu<mailto:
karineb@uw.edu> (Primary Contact)
Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of British Columbia,
c.haythorn@ubc.ca<mailto:
c.haythorn@ubc.ca>
This HICSS minitrack has been ongoing since 2003 under various titles. Papers
address the interrelationship between social networking and communities in all
aspects of our (online and offline) lives. We call for papers that
address research, theory, practice, and/or policy around our new interlinkages
via social media in support of communities of practice, inquiry, and interest
for business, political, social, learning, and gaming initiatives and outcomes.
In previous years, the minitrack has been among the largest at the conference,
and ‘best papers’ from the minitrack have often received the ‘Best Paper in
Track’ awards.
We call for papers that address social networks and communities supported
and/or complemented by social media for work, learning, socializing, economic
and/or political processes, and/or that address theory, design, practices, use
or evaluation of such social media use. We encourage papers that address
communities in a broad sense of its use, including communities of practice,
epistemic communities, or communities of inquiry; as well as fully virtual
communities, and social media use that supports or complements geographically
based community. We particularly encourage papers that: advance our
understanding of social network growth, formation, structure and outcomes
through social media; advance out understanding of the design of social media
technologies and practices for effective community development and maintenance;
studies of socio-technical aspects of social media use that explore how the
technology relates to social outcomes; theoretical studies that explore models
and principles of social media design, use and outcomes. This year we will give
space to more exploratory and theoretical papers than in the past.
Examples of possible interdisciplinary topics of interest in these contexts
include, but are not limited to the following:
- Social, political and/or economic impact of social media
- Crowds and Communities as sociological phenomenon in the digital economy
- Community development and community informatics
- Design, development, and user studies of social media
- Design of online crowds and/or communities of practice, inquiry or interest
- Online learning communities: structures, implementations, and practices
- Serious leisure online
- Organizational behavior of communities
- Behavior in online gaming communities
- Social network studies and analyses of online crowds and communities
- Mobile applications, services and use for and by online communities
- Case studies and topologies of online communities
- Case studies and analyses of the rise and fall of social network sites and
online communities
- Theoretical models of online crowds and communities, social media use, etc.
- Models and cases of synergies and/or conflicts between offline and online
worlds
- Critical perspectives on social media and local and/or virtual community
- Research methods for the study of social networking and community
MORE INFOMRATION ABOUT HICSS
http://www.hicss.org
The Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) is one of the
high-quality and longest-standing continuously running scientific
conferences. It brings together researchers from diverse
fields (Information, computer, social and system science) and is devoted to the
advance in the information, computer and system sciences.
IMPORTANT DEADLINES FOR AUTHORS
June 15, 2015 -- SUBMIT FULL MANUSCRIPTS FOR REVIEW as
instructed. The review is double-blind; therefore, this initial submission must
be without author names.
Aug 15, 2015 -- Review System emails Acceptance Notices to authors.
It is very important that at least one author of each accepted paper attend the
conference. Therefore, all travel guarantees – including visa or your
organization’s fiscal funding procedures – should begin immediately. Make
sure your server accepts the review system address
https://precisionconference.com/~hicss.
Sept 15, 2015 -- SUBMIT FINAL PAPER. Add author names to your
paper, and submit your Final Paper for Publication to the site provided in your
Acceptance Notice. (This URL is not public knowledge.)
Oct 1, 2015 -- EARLY REGISTRATION FEE DEADLINE. At least one author
of each paper should register by this date in order secure publication in the
Proceedings. Fees will increase on Oct 2 and Dec 2.
Oct 15, 2015 -- Papers without at least one paid-in-full registered
author may be deleted from the Proceedings and not scheduled for presentation;
authors will be so notified by the Conference Office.
