CFP: HICSS 42 : Social Networks and Virtual Worlds for Work, Learning, and Play
I'd like to encourage AoIRers to consider this HICSS minitrack I am chairing. I think it is well suited to the interests of us all on this list. Please contact me or any of my co-organizers if you have questions about this minitrack. Full papers due June 15th. (Please note HICSS does not extend deadlines). ----------- Call for Papers *Social Networks and Virtual Worlds for Work, Learning, and Play* Minitrack in the *Internet and the Digital Economy Track* Forty-Second Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS-42). Our online ways and means of connecting with others and maintaining ties for everyday life, community, work, learning and play are changing dramatically with the increasing adoption and use of social networking applications such as Facebook, MySpace, etc., immersive worlds such as Second Life, and more comprehensive online support environments such as collaboratories, virtual communities, and online communities of practice. These new settings provide the infrastructure for new patterns of connectivity, new ways of working, learning and playing with known and unknown others, locally and globally distributed, with common and diverse cultural experiences. This minitrack for HICSS 42 calls for papers that address the design, analysis, theory, review, experiments and/or observation of social networks, virtual communities, and virtual worlds in the contexts of work, school, home, community, and play. Papers from all methodological approaches are welcome, including design and user studies, quantitative and qualitative research, and theoretical work. Interdisciplinary work is particularly encouraged. All papers should be well grounded in the literature, present original work, and make a substantial addition to the literature in this area. Examples of topics for this minitrack include, but are not limited to the following: • Online communities: organizational, group and individual behavior • Design for online networks and communities • E-learning: structures, implementation, and practices • Interaction between the off-line and online community • Online gaming: design, economics, behavior • Collaborative work, learning or gaming online • Peer-to-peer or mobile services for virtual communities • Case studies and topologies of online communities • Theoretical models of virtual worlds • Business and organizational models of virtual worlds • Economic behaviors in virtual worlds, and game economies • Synergies and conflicts between real and virtual worlds • Identity in virtual worlds • Interface design for social networking, virtual worlds, virtual communities • Social networking agents • Anti-social behavior, online addiction, predatory behavior online • Legal and ethical issues of virtual worlds • Privacy and security issues in online networks IMPORTANT DATES: Abstracts (optional): April 15, 2008 Full Paper Submission: June 15, 2008 All papers must conform to HICSS formatting standards: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_42/authorinstruction.htm Please contact any of the organizers with questions about submissions to this minitrack. Abstracts may be sent to any of the organizers. Caroline Haythornthwaite (haythorn@uiuc.edu), Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Karine Barzilai-Nahon (karineb@u.washington.edu), The Information School, University of Washington Paul Benjamin Lowry (Paul.Lowry.PhD@gmail.com), Information Systems Department, Kevin Rollins Center for e-Business, Marriott School, Brigham Young Ian MacInnes (IMacInne@syr.edu), School of Information Studies, Syracuse University ---------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite Associate Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820
Global Internet Governance: An Interdisciplinary Research Field in Construction A GigaNet workshop, organized in cooperation with GDR TICS and DEL Networks Paris, 23 June 2008 Morning Preliminary Announcement and Call for Contributions The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) invites you to participate in a scholar workshop to be held in Paris, France, on the morning of June 23rd. This workshop is organized in cooperation with two main French pluridisciplinary networks of scholars in Internet-related studies: the ICT and Society (GDR TICS) and Electronic Democracy (DEL) Networks. The purpose of the workshop, the first of its sort, is to allow scholars involved in Internet Governance-related research to describe their ongoing research projects to other scholars in the field, in order to share ideas, forge possible collaborations, and identify emerging research themes in the field. Scholars from various academic disciplines and all regions of the world are welcome to contribute to this reflexive exercise, with the long-term objective of collectively building this interdisciplinary research field. What is global Internet governance and what it is not? Are there any differences in the way this process is understood, defined and implemented in different regions of the world? Is it sensitive to political and cultural backgrounds and traditions, and if so to which extent and in which ways? How is Internet governance different from, and related to, global governance of other information and communication technologies? What could be the invariants of a global governance process, irrespective of the domain area it addresses? What are the national and regional projects and networks currently pursuing research on Global Internet Governance? Is there any academic syllabus or other education program dedicated to these issues? These are among the many questions to be discussed by the workshop participants. Please send to the workshop organizing committee chair, Meryem Marzouki ( Meryem.Marzouki@lip6.fr) by April 15, 2008, your name, affiliation, e-mail address and CV along with no more than 500 words describing your ongoing projects. Rather than featuring academic paper presentations, the workshop aims at providing a survey of current academic activities in the field of global Internet governance. Invitees selected by the organizing committee for participation at round-table discussions will be notified by May 15, 2008. Attendance to the workshop is free and open to all interested parties. Organizing Committtee Eric Brousseau (GDR TICS), U. Paris X, France; Divina Frau-Meigs (GigaNet), U. Paris III, France; Nanette Levinson (GigaNet), American U., USA; Meryem Marzouki (GigaNet), CNRS, France; Milton Mueller (GigaNet), Syracuse U., USA; Thierry Vedel (DEL), CNRS, France; Rolf Weber (GigaNet), U. Zürich, Switzerland. NOTE GigaNet will hold its third annual Symposium in India, in conjunction with the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). The call for papers will be issued by end March 2008. www.igloo.org/giganet
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