Call for Papers Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 47 Big Island, Hawaii, January 6-9, 2014 Minitrack: Crowdsourcing Content Production and Online Knowledge Repositories Track: Digital and Social Media As various forms of collaboration are enabled (and constrained) by the affordances available in social media, researchers are investigating a range of issues including: 1) the diverse ways in which people collaborate to create, manage, curate and manipulate online content and how these activities affect digital repositories; 2) how those who manage these repositories are responding to the dynamics of online co-creation of content; 3) the dynamics of crowdsourced online collaborations and online communities of practice; and 4) the ways in which we can best describe the socio-technical interaction networks that facilitate and inhibit mass knowledge production. In this mini track we are interested in empirical and theoretical work that addresses these and related socio-technical issues. Papers of interest will examine communities of online knowledge repositories such as YouTube, Yahoo! Answers, Wikipedia, and others and may address in this context topics such as: . The socio-technical dynamics of crowdsourcing and mass knowledge production sites . Vandalism and trolling in online mass knowledge production sites . Conflict and cooperation in content production sites . Issues of gender in collaborative content production sites . Global, cross-cultural and international aspects of content production and online intercultural collaborations in online content creation communities . Managing ethics in online mass knowledge production communities . Building, maintaining and ending social relationships on online repositories sites . Social question answering and collaborative information seeking behaviors . Challenges and opportunities of digital curation . Standards and quality of digital content online Organizers: Pnina Fichman, Indiana University Bloomington (fichman@indiana.edu<mailto:fichman@indiana.edu>) [Primary Contact] Noriko Hara, Indiana University Bloomington (nhara@indiana.edu<mailto:nhara@indiana.edu>) Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University Bloomington (hrosenba@indiana.edu<mailto:hrosenba@indiana.edu>) Important Dates: June 15, 2013 Submit full manuscripts Aug 15, 2013 Acceptance Notifications Sept 15, 2013 Submit final (camera-ready) paper Oct 1, 2013 Early Registration fee deadline Submission guidelines: Follow author instructions on the conference site: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/apahome47.htm More information: HICSS CFP: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/apahome47.htm Conference site: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/47cfp.pdf Minitrack CFP: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/track/dsm/DSM-Crowdsourcing.pdf ------------------------ Pnina Fichman Associate Professor Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics SLIS, Indiana University, Bloomington Informatics West #301 901 E. 10th St. Bloomington IN 47408 Phone: (812) 856-1587 E-Mail: fichman@indiana.edu<mailto:fichman@indiana.edu> Web: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/