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 -------------------------------------- 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.