Dear all, below you will find the basic info for this year's Academic Mindtrek Conference. The conference has altogether 5 tracks featuring the following themes: 1) Social Media, 2) Ambient and Ubiquitous Media, 3) Digital Games, 4) Open Source, 5) Media Business, Media Production and Media Management. All the accepted papers will be published in the ACM digital library. There are also plans to publish a selected set of papers as a book. The detailed Call for papers can be found at http://www.mindtrek.org/2010/academic Looking forward to seeing you in Tampere! Olli Olli Sotamaa // Senior Research Fellow Department of Information Studies and Interactive Media // University of Tampere olli.sotamaa@uta.fi // +358 50 420 1472 // www.uta.fi/~olli.sotamaa/ ============================================================= Academic MindTrek 2010: Call for Papers, Tutorials and Workshops 6th - 8th October, 2010, Tampere, Finland http://www.mindtrek.org/2010/academic ============================================================= The MindTrek Association hosts MindTrek as a yearly conference, and the Academic MindTrek conference has been a part of this unique set of events, comprising competitions, world famous keynote speakers, plenary sessions, media festivals, and workshops since 1997. It is a meeting place where experts and thinkers present results from their latest work regarding the development of Internet, interactive media, and the information society. September 6th is the main Academic day, featuring the following themes: 1) Social Media, 2) Ambient and Ubiquitous Media, 3) Digital Games, 4) Open Source, 5) Media Business, Media Production and Media Management. Submission Deadlines - 23rd Apr: Deadline for long papers, workshops and tutorial proposals (6-8 pages) - 21st May: submission of short papers, poster presentations and tool demonstrations (3-4 pages) - 30th July: paper submission deadline for workshops - 1st August: Camera ready papers and copyright forms Key-Dates - 15th May: notification for workshops & tutorials - 28th May: notification of acceptance/rejection for long papers - 24th June: notification of short papers and posters - 6th-8th October 2010: MindTrek academic conference