Britta Ricker and Jim Thatcher invite your submission to a minitrack titled Digital Location <http://www.hicss.org/#!digital-location/c1nba>, which is a sub-track of the Digital and Social Media track at The Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS <http://www.hicss.org/>). HICSS is in its 50th year and will be held at the Hilton Waikoloa Village <http://www.hiltonwaikoloavillage.com/> from January 4-7, 2017 on the Big Island (more information on the venue and HICSS rates can be found here <http://www.hicss.org/#!venue/c13w>. HICSS is one of the premier conferences according to paper citation index ratings. Papers are peer-reviewed and accepted papers are published in the IEEE Digital Library and made available for free to all participants. There are also opportunities to fast track your paper to publication in a number of journals <http://www.hicss.org/#!hicss-50-fast-track-opportunities/cxfq>. The conference attracts a diverse, transdisciplinary set of researchers and promotes lively, interactive sessions. HICSS presents a unique environment for cross-pollination of ideas. You will find the published proceedings from previous HICSS here <http://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/hicss/index.html>. The conference 'Call for Papers' and more details about the format for submission may be found here <http://www.hicss.org/#!authors/ccjp>. *Papers are to be of 5-10 pages in length and will be double-blind peer reviewed.* The deadline for submission is June 15th, 2016. Details about the research paper formatting and submission may be found here <http://www.hicss.org/#!authors/ccjp>. Digital Location Minitrack Call for Papers: The purpose of this minitrack titled Digital Location is to comprehensively engage with research that investigates digital locational data. We call for papers that address the production, capture, and study of location information through both technical and theoretical perspectives. Research into the processes associated with data capture and analysis, including visualization techniques, is in high demand. This is in part due to the ever-growing production of locational data via emerging spatially-aware technologies. Here we invite papers that address ‘location information’ in a broad sense that includes both precise geolocated coordinates and more general expressions of space and place. Potential data sources include individuals and industries – for example, government open data initiatives, personal activity trackers, social media services, or aerial photography from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). We wish to engage with scholarship that addresses the technical considerations around working with locational data as well as its transformation into spatial media. 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 - New or emerging locational data collection techniques - 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 analyzed and 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 If you have any additional questions, please contact the minitrack organizers: Jim Thatcher jethatch@uw.edu Britta Ricker bricker0 at uw.edu