[Siguse-l] HICSS-41 2008 VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES Mini-track

[Raya Fidel]

Sorry for cross-listing

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

HICSS-41 2008 VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES Mini-track

January 7-10, 2008

 

Mini-Track Chairs:

Karine Barzilai-Nahon
<blocked::http://www.ischool.washington.edu/karineb>  - University of
Washington - karineb at u.washington.edu
<blocked::mailto:karineb at u.washington.edu>  - [Primary Contact]

Caroline Haythornthwaite
<blocked::http://classweb.lis.uiuc.edu/~haythorn/>  - University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - haythorn at uiuc.edu
<blocked::mailto:haythorn at uiuc.edu> 

 

Additional details on this track may be found on:

http://projects.ischool.washington.edu/karineb/html/events/vc.html
<blocked::http://projects.ischool.washington.edu/karineb/html/events/vc.
html>  

 

VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES Mini-track Description

  

This mini-track calls for papers that address 'virtual communities' at
and for work, school, home and play. Virtual communities have become a
significant factor of the information society and it is important to
understand them better. 

 

The range of subjects is diverse and interdisciplinary, and so are the
methodologies, for example: 

-  Social, political and economic impact of Virtual Communities

-  Communities as sociological phenomenon in the digital economy 

-  Creation and maintenance of sense of community in online venues

-  Design for online communities

-  Online communities of practice

-  Community-related business models, services and best practices and
lessons learned

-  Online communities of inquiry

-  E-learning: structures, implementations, and practices

-  Management and organizational behavior of communities

-  Transaction-oriented Virtual Communities, Customer collaboration

-  Peer-to-Peer or mobile services for Virtual Communities

-  Personalization and use of customer profiles

-  Recommendation systems

-  Case studies and topologies of Online Communities

-  Design principles for community platforms

-  Formal or semi-formal models of communities and their platforms: 

   Conceptual frameworks, Organizational models, Cognitive models,
Multi-agent systems, Formalizations 

- Theoretical models and studies of online community

 

Important Dates: 

Abstracts: Optional

June 15, 2007: Authors submit full papers to the Peer Review System

August 15, 2007: Acceptance/Rejection notices are sent to Authors via
the Peer Review System.

September 15, 2007: Authors submit Final Version of papers 

 

This minitrack is part of the Internet and the Digital Economy track.

 

HICSS conferences are devoted to advances in the information, computer,
and system sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and
practice. Invited papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or
descriptive in nature. Submissions undergo a double-blind peer referee
process and those selected for presentation will be published in the
Conference Proceedings. 

Submissions must not have been previously published.

For the latest information visit the HICSS web site at: 

http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/ <blocked::http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/> 

 

-----------------------------------------

Dr. Karine Barzilai-Nahon

The Information School

University of Washington

Mary Gates Hall, Room 370B, Box 352840

Seattle, WA 98195-2840

Office tel. - (206) 685-6668,

Skype- karine-barzilai-nahon http://www.ischool.washington.edu/karineb
<blocked::http://www.ischool.washington.edu/karineb> 

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mail.asis.org/pipermail/siguse-l/attachments/20070303/8af0120d/attachment.html