Reminder and final CFP: Interact with reputable colleagues from diverse disciplines at one of the oldest and top ranked conferences on information systems, while also enjoying the luxury of the Grand Wailea on Maui and our pleasant January weather! CFP: HICSS Social Networking and Communities 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) January 7-10, 2020, Grand Wailea, Maui, Hawaii PAPERS DUE: June 15, 2019 (see http://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/) We call for papers that investigate social networks and communities supported and/or complemented by social media and other social technologies for work, learning, socializing, or economic or political processes. Papers may address theory, design, practices, use or evaluation of social technologies. 'Social networks and communities' refers broadly to social phenomena that may range from fully virtual to geographically based communities, and includes communnities of inquiry, interest, or practice; epistemic communities and networked advocacy; as well as other collective phenomena emerging within networks of individuals. We solicit papers that examine relationships between social phenomena and technologies, including how social phenomena are embedded or emerge within technological settings, how communities use technologies to further their goals, or how technologies otherwise influence or are appropriated by social phenomena and entities. Individual actors as the unit of analysis may also be included as long as communities and technologies are involved; e.g., how individuals relate to communities via technologies. We are particularly interested in papers that explore new models, theories and methods rather than re-applying and repeating established results. In order to leverage the interdisciplinary nature of HICSS and enable dialogue between social and technological disciplines, papers may be motivated by a broad range of theory-driven or data-driven perspectives and methods, including for example but not limited to social network analysis, content analysis, ethnographic investigations, and agent-based simulations. We particularly encourage papers that: • advance our understanding of social network growth, formation, structure and outcomes through social media; • explore how socio-technical affordances relate to social media use and outcomes; • interrogate entanglements of technology and culture in community settings; • examine how information and misinformation spread in social media and networks, and how algorithms, bots, and social media design affect this spread; • evaluate design of social media technologies and practices for effective community development and maintenance; and • develop theories, models and principles of social media design, use and outcomes. Minitrack Co-Chairs: Dan Suthers (Primary Contact) Professor, Information and Computer Sciences University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa 1680 East West Road, POST 317 Honolulu, HI, 96822 USA +1(808) 956-3890 Email: suthers@hawaii.edu Twitter: @dan_suthers Tonia Sutherland Assistant Professor, Information and Computer Sciences University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa 2550 McCarthy Mall, HL 003B Honolulu, HI, 96822 USA Email: tsuther@hawaii.edu Twitter: @toniasutherland