[Asis-l] CFP> HICSS 2014 Minitrack: Crowdsourcing content production and online knowledge repositories

[Noriko Hara]

Apologies for cross-posting

HICSS 2014 Minitrack: Crowdsourcing content production and online 
knowledge repositories
January 6-9, 2014 Big Island, Hawaii, USA

Track: Digital and social media

We are pleased to invite you to submit a paper to the Crowdsourcing 
mini-track for HICSS 2014 taking place at the Hilton Waikoloa on the Big 
Island of Hawaii from Jan. 6-9th, 2014.

In line with the track emphasis on promoting digital and 
social-media-related research, this minitrack aims to expand the scope 
of research in HICSS and bring to the conference researchers interested 
in cutting edge topics involving socio-technical issues of mass 
knowledge production and crowdsourcing online knowledge repositories. 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

Detailed information about the conference can be found here

http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/apahome47.htm

Information for potential authors can be found here

http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/47cfp.pdf

Due date for submission of full papers is: June 15, 2013

Minitrack organizers

Pnina Fichman
Informatics West #301
901 East 10th Street
SLIS, Indiana University
Bloomington Indiana 47408
812 856 1587

Noriko Hara
1320 East 10th Street
SLIS, Indiana University
Bloomington Indiana 47405
812 855 1490

Howard Rosenbaum
1320 East 10th Street
SLIS, Indiana University
Bloomington Indiana 47405
812 855 3250

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Noriko Hara, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Science
SLIS Indiana University, Bloomington
Tel: 812-855-1490       Fax: 812-855-6166
http://norikohara.org