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IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WEB BASED
COMMUNITIES 2004
March 25-26, 2004 - Lisbon, Portugal (http://www.iadis.org/WBC2004)
-- CALL FOR PAPERS
* Conference background and goals
The mission of this conference is to publish and integrate scientific
results and act catalytically to the fast developing culture of web
communities. The conference invites original papers, review
papers, technical reports and case studies on WWW in particular
the emerging role of so-called WWW-based Communities.
Domain: It is increasingly important for our culture to bring
people together and to promote dynamics in professional
organizations, mutual understanding, learning and harmony.
Creating "virtual communities" is one major way to do this. The
Web Based Communities 2004 conference aims at sharing and
aggregating scientifically proven methods on how to organize and
moderate WWW-based communities. These communities do not
limit participants to particular locations - the international and
multicultural dimension is a most challenging one. Good WWW
communities undergo a continuous evolution and adapt to the
changing world. The nature of these communities can be
corporate, scientific, social or educational. Pragmatic questions
which need to be addressed include: What software tools are the
most adequate and how to use them? How to promote your
community so that new members can find it? How to protect the
members' privacy? How to moderate discussions and how to
provide information that people can use? How to create and
maintain a sense of trust and commitment among the members?
In addition, sociology, education, communication and philosophy
issues are addressed as the main disciplines reflected in building
WWW-based communities, although critical theories on societies
and post-modernism are also relevant starting points. New and
imminent technologies will be discussed.
Objectives: The Web Based Communities 2004 Conference aims
at bringing together new vital understanding of WWW
communities and what new initiatives mean. Each new
perspective is potentially a catalyst for finding new architectures.
National and regional-oriented communities may soon be
relegated to a subordinate position compared to interest-oriented
communities. Multiculturalism, critical thinking, expressing
aesthetic aspects of our identity, and finding sparring partners for
sharpening our ideologies, are all processes that need the new
communication infrastructures.
The targeted audience is scientists and members and moderators
of WWW communities who feel responsible for optimizing its
quality and effect.
* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise invited talks and oral presentations.
The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form
of a book. The better papers will be candidate for the recently-
started "International Journal of Web Based Communities"
(IJWBC);
ISSN: 1477 - 8394 [4 issues per year]
* Types of submissions
Full and Short Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels
and Doctoral Consortium.
All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process.
* Subject indications (but not limited to)
The history, architecture and future of virtual communities
1. From mobility to connectivity
2. Identity and augmented ideologies
3. Visionary web architectures, implanted computers
4. Network revolutions, post-colonial and post-modern
societies
5. Escaping from reality, virtual reality and multi-user games
6. Towards alternative ways of presence
Group processes and self-organization
1. Tele-democracy, morality, netiquette
2. Social networks, tribal- and open communities, peace
education
3. Computer mediated, hyper and narrative communication,
woven stories
4. MUDs, MOOs and avatars
5. Hosting web-based communities
6. Nationalities, ethnicities and gender effects
Cyborgs, teleworking, telemedicine, art games and learning
communities
1. Fading hierarchies and epistemic dictatorship
2. Distributed cognition, the electronic cortex and
constructivism
3. Community directories
4. Mechanic world, organic computer
5. Agents and the vectorized self
6. Beyond metaphors: imagining and representation
7. Communizing as a marketing approach
Expanding markets through virtual communities
1. The WWW as digital market place
2. The enterprise as a learning community
3. The learning as a road map for business
4. Universities as online communities
5. Business-to-business communication in profit- and non
profit sectors
Virtual communities for people with special needs
1. Access to public spaces
2. Accessibility and long-term disabilities
3. Virtual communities in health care
* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline: 7 October 2003
- Notification to Authors: 9 December 2003
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 19
December 2003
- Late Registration: After 19 December 2003
- Conference: Lisbon, 25 to 26 March 2004
* Conference Location The conference will be held in Lisbon,
Portugal.
* Secretariat
IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WEB BASED
COMMUNITIES 2004
Rua Sao Sebastião da Pedreira, 100, 3º 1050-209 Lisbon,
Portugal
E-mail: [log in to unmask] Web site: http://www.iadis.org/wbc2004
* Scientific Committee
Conference Co-Chairs
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal
Program Chair
Miguel Baptista Nunes, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
for the full Committee Members list please access
http://www.iadis.org/wbc2004/committees.asp
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José Miguel Baptista Nunes, Lic Mat Apl., MSc, PhD, ILTM, FIMIS
Lecturer in Information Management
Department of Information Studies
University of Sheffield
Regent Court
Sheffield S1 4DP
Tel: +44 (0)114 22 22645
Fax: +44 (0 114 2780300
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Url: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/~is/people/nunes.html
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