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From: Jenny Preece <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: September 22, 2004 2:44:07 PM EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Fwd: call Conference on Communities and Technologies Reply-To: Jenny Preece <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I thought this might interest some people. Please distribute it to others who may be
interested.
Jenny
Call for Papers
The Second International Conference on Communities & Technologies (C&T 2005) Milan,
Italy, 13-16 June, 2005
The relationship between communities and technology is an increasingly important
research topic as the number of communities turning to technology for online and
face-to-face support grows. The Second International Conference on Communities &
Technologies (C&T 2005) conference provides a forum for stimulating and disseminating
research about all facets of community and technology support for communities.
To be successful this field requires multidisciplinary research efforts involving
researchers from different fields of applied computer science (Computer Supported
Cooperative Work, Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Artificial Intelligence,
Information Retrieval, Human Computer Interaction, Information Systems), the social
sciences (Economics, Management Science, Psychology, Political Science, Sociology,
Ethnography, Linguistics, Cultural Studies, Economics) and many application areas, such
as Education, Business, Medicine and civic engagement.
Communities are social entities whose participants share common goals, needs, interests,
and practices: they constitute the basic units of social experience. For a number of
reasons, researchers are increasingly interested in the topic of communities. First,
within a global knowledge-based society, communities play a pivotal role. Problems such
as new forms of political participation and civic engagement, maintenance of cultural
identity, or the integration of minorities need to be tackled on the community level.
Second, communities also re-shape the processes of learning and sharing knowledge in and
among organizations, formal and informal groups. The Internet and the Web make
communication possible across national boundaries and between cultures in ways that
could not happen before. Furthermore, mobile devices, particularly advanced phone
technologies, promise to open the Internet to people who have been denied access for
financial, technical and cultural reasons.
For information technologies to support communities research is needed to understand the
social, technical and usability needs of participants. Many topics need to be addressed
including: trust-building, maintaining (awareness of) social relations, social capital,
visualization of social relationships, matching (unknown) participants, bridging between
physical and electronically-mediated interaction, cultural needs.
The conference offers an opportunity to present and discuss empirical and conceptual
research. Topics covered include, but are not restricted to the following subjects:
Social science approaches of communities and technologies:
* models and theories
* online communities and organization theory
* communities and social network analysis
* ethnographic studies of virtual communities
Social dimensions of community technologies:
* privacy and security
* empathy and trust
* participation and non-participation
* community learning
Local communities and social capital:
* technologies and social capital development
* community informatics / digital cities
* case studies of community building and development
* cross-cultural communities
* communities and NGO's
* local, rural and regional communities
Communities in organizations and business:
* communities and business models
* consumer communities and electronic commerce
* online consumer and brand communities
* communities and knowledge management
Communities and innovation:
* communities of practice and communities of interest
* communities and innovation
* open source communities
* epistemic communities and technology development
Technologies for community support:
* virtual, networked and mobile community formation and development * novel forms of
technology support
* design and development methods
* technical architectures
* interoperability among community systems
* virtual community support for education, business, government, civic activities, et
* light-weight technologies
* visualization
Paper submission
Full research papers of not more than 20 pages should be produced in the conference
publications format. Papers must be submitted electronically. The conference website
will have a facility for this.
Workshops
Proposals should be no longer than 4 pages in the conference publications format and
should include a summary of no more than 150 words describing the theme(s) of the
workshop, a longer description of the workshop activities and goals, the background of
the organizer(s), the maximum number of participants, the means of soliciting
participation, and the means of selecting participants. Submissions are due in PDF or
Word format attached to an email sent to the following email address:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; the sender's email address will be used for further
contacts.
Proceedings The proceedings will be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers
Important Dates: November, 12, 2004: Submission deadline for papers; December, 03, 2004: Submission deadline for workshops; December, 23, 2004: Notification of acceptance for workshops; January, 15, 2005: Notification of acceptance for papers; February, 15, 2005: Submission of camera-ready papers; May, 13, 2005: early registration; June, 13 to 16, 2005: Conference held in Milano.
Website: http://www.cct2005.disco.unimib.it/
COMMITTEES: Conference Co-Chairs: Giorgio De Michelis - University of Milano Bicocca Carla Simone - University of Milano Bicocca
Program Co-Chairs:
Jennifer Preece - University of Maryland
Peter van den Besselaar - Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and University of Amsterdam
Workshops Chair: Fiorella De Cindio - University of Milano
Organization Co-Chairs: Alessandra Agostini - University of Milano Marcello Sarini - University of Milano Bicocca
Program Committee Mark Ackerman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA Alessandra Agostini, University of Milano, Italy Erik Andriessen, TU Delft, The Netherlands Stefania Bandini, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Andreas Becks, Fraunhofer FIT, Aachen, Germany John Carroll, Penn State University, USA Andrew Clement, University of Toronto, Canada Noshir Contractor, University of Illinois, USA Elesabeth Davenport, Napier University, USA Peter Day, University of Brighton, UK Fiorella De Cindio, University of Milano, Italy Giorgio De Michelis, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy Gerhard Fischer, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA Valerie Frissen, TNO-STB, Delft, The Netherlands Manuel Heitor, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Thomas Herrmann, University of Dortmund, Germany Pamela Hinds, Stanford University, USA Marleen Huysman, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands Toru Ishida, Kyoto University, Japan Yasmin Kaifa, UCLA, USA Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, Germany Helmut Krmar, Technical University of Munich, Germany Brian Loader, University of Teeside, UK Peter Mambrey, Fraunhofer-FIT, Germany Mark Maybury, MITRE, Bedford, USA Anders Morch, University of Oslo, Norway Keiichi Nakata, University of Tokio, Japan Bernhard Nett, Un. of Freiburg & Fraunhofer-FIT, Germany Davide Nicolini, University of Trento, Italy Markus Perkmann, Warwick Business School, UK Volkmar Pipek, University of Bonn, Germany Jenny Preece, University of Maryland, USA Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer-FIT, Germany Leslie Regan Shade, Concordia University, Canada Paul Resnick, University of Michigan, USA Markus Rohde, Int. Inst. for Socio-Informatics, Germany Harry Scarbrough, Warwick Business School, UK Doug Schuler, Evergreen State Collges, USA Gerhard Schwabe, University of Zurich, Switzerland Carla Simone, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy Charles Steinfield, Michigan State University, USA Larry Stillman, Monash University, Australia Yao Hua Tan, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands Peter van Baalen, Erasmus University, The Netherlands Peter van den Besselaar, KNAW & UvA, The Netherlands Bart van den Hooff, Un. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Etienne Wenger, CPsquare, USA Suzanne Weisband, University of Arizona, USA Barry Wellman, University of Toronto, Canada Volker Wulf, Un. of Siegen and Fraunhofer-FIT, Germany
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