Hello all, Building off of last year, we are organizing a mini-track for HICSS 49 centered around engagements with and analyses of location information as part of the Digital and Social Med Track. The full CFP is available here: http://faculty.washington.edu/bricker0/HICSS16.html Details follow: We call for papers that address the production, capture, and study of location information in social media through both technical and theoretical perspectives. Papers are encouraged to address ‘location information’ in a broad sense that includes both precise geolocated coordinates and more general expressions of space and place. This includes, but is not limited to, papers that: offer new technical and methodological solutions to the capture, interpretation, analysis or visualization of spatial media; examine the epistemological and ontological effects of spatial social media upon users; present empirical work on the creation or consumption of spatial social media; advance our understanding of how spatial social media relate to social and political processes; present new work on the role of economic forces in the creation and use of spatial social media, for example, location-specific advertising; or explore spatial social media as a means of better understanding urban and non-urban environments. More specifically, we encourage papers that engage with the following topics or related areas: Spatial Informatics, data mining and data exploration of spatial information Crowdsourced spatial information Resistance and/or surveillance through spatial digital information and social media Mapping Social media for humanitarian efforts FOSS technologies for location aware research Social media and citizen science initiatives Governmental Open Data distributed through social media Gendered representations in spatial digital information and social media Ethical considerations associated with the use of spatial digital media for information sharing Scale and information relevance related to social media networks and location Qualitative research on the use of spatial social media by end-users and firms New or alternative methodological techniques for the collection, analysis and visualization of spatial social media information. The deadline for submission is June 15th, 2015. Please see author instructions for submission informationhere <http://www.hicss.org/#!call-for-papers/c1cd9>. If you have any additional questions, don’t hesitate to contact the organizers: Jim Thatcher jethatch at uw.edu Britta Ricker bricker0 at uw.edu Stéphane Roche stephane.roche at scg.ulaval.ca