HICSS CfP: Game Scholars and Hawaii in January! Games & Gaming (Social and Digital Media) 54th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) January 5-8, 2021, at the Grand Hyatt, Kauai For the fifth straight year, the Games & Gaming minitrack at HICSS is looking for research on the social aspects of digital gaming. We feature work related to digital games and sociality: qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods papers are welcome, ranging from interviews to big data analyses, or more broadly theoretical papers looking at digital gaming practices in general. Types of games studied may include mobile, social, free to play, AAA, MMOs, PC, console, multiplayer, and indie games. As part of the Digital and Social Media track, papers must contain a social dimension, examining, for example, sociability, social practices, communities (in-game, out-game, across multiple spaces or time), use of social affordances, or some other social dimension. DATES April 20: Submission site opens (see http://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/ ) June 15: Submission deadline August 17: Decision notification September 22: Camera ready version due October 1: Registration deadline January 5-8: Conference! TOPICS Esports Fantasy sports leagues Streaming gameplay (e.g., Twitch) Game curation via sites like Steam Fans and fan communities Community management Social affordances of games Network analysis of groups and communities in games Social practices (in-game, out-game, both) Player communities Toxicity online Multiplayer games Cooperative and competitive play Multigenerational play Intercultural play URLS HICSS: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/ Author Instructions: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/ Digital and Social Media track: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-54/digital-and-social-media/ CO-CHAIRS Nathaniel Poor (Primary Contact Co-Chair) Underwood Institute natpoor@gmail.com Kelly Bergstrom University of Hawai’i at Mānoa kelly.bergstrom@hawaii.edu Kishonna Gray University of Illinois, Chicago unicorn@uic.edu ------------------------------- Nathaniel Poor, Ph.D. (he/him/his) http://github.com/natpoor http://natpoor.blogspot.com/ http://sites.google.com/site/natpoor/ http://www.underwood-institute.org/