Call for Papers
The Second International Conference on Communities & Technologies (C&T 2005)
Milan, Italy, 13-16 June, 2005; http://www.cct2005.disco.unimib.it/
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:
[log in to unmask]; 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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