Due date is June 15. Please consider sumbitting for the HICSS Virtual Communities Track. /Caroline -------------- CALL FOR PAPERS HICSS-41 VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES Mini-track January 7-10, 2008 Mini-Track Chairs: Karine Barzilai-Nahon <http://www.ischool.washington.edu/karineb> - University of Washington - karineb@u.washington.edu - [Primary Contact] Caroline Haythornthwaite <http://classweb.lis.uiuc.edu/~haythorn/> - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - haythorn@uiuc.edu VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES Mini-track Description This mini-track calls for papers that address 'virtual communities' at and for work, school, home and play. Virtual communities have become a significant factor of the information society and it is important to understand them better. The range of subjects is diverse and interdisciplinary, and so are the methodologies, for example: - Social, political and economic impact of Virtual Communities - Creation and maintenance of sense of community in online venues - Design for online communities - Online communities of practice - Community-related business models, services and best practices and lessons learned Additional details on this track may be found on: http://projects.ischool.washington.edu/karineb/html/events/vc.html Important Dates: June 15, 2007: Authors submit full papers to the Peer Review System August 15, 2007: Acceptance/Rejection notices are sent to Authors via the Peer Review System. September 15, 2007: Authors submit Final Version of papers For more information visit the HICSS web site at: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/ ---------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite Associate Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820