Call for Papers Reminder!
Third International Conference on Communities and Technologies Michigan
State University, East Lansing, Michigan U.S.A.
June 28-30, 2007
Conference Website: http://ebusiness.tc.msu.edu/cct2007/
Conference Email: [log in to unmask]
Important Dates: November 13, 2006: Paper submission deadline
December 4, 2006: Workshop proposals
submission deadline
Following the success of two prior conferences, we cordially invite
submissions to the third International Conference on Communities and
Technologies (C&T 2007), hosted by Michigan State University. This
biennial meeting serves as a forum for stimulating and disseminating
research on the complex connections between communities - both physical
and virtual - and information and communication technologies.
Conference Organizers
Charles Steinfield and Brian Pentland, Michigan State University Mark
Ackerman, University of Michigan Noshir Contractor, University of
Illinois
Invited Speakers:
Judith Donath, Director of the Sociable Media Group, MIT Media Lab Rob
Malda and Jeff Bates, Co-founders of Slashdot Marc Smith, Director of
the Community Technologies Group, Microsoft Research
Conference Themes:
Topics appropriate for submission to this conference are manifold.
Examples of some of the vibrant areas of communities and technology
research include, but are not limited to:
- virtual community formation and development
- communities of interest and practice, knowledge sharing and
organizational
learning
- communities and innovation
- community informatics
- technical support for communities
- novel e-community applications
- ad hoc communities and ICTs
- innovations in community technology design and evaluation
- ICTs and geographical business communities (e.g. clusters and/or
regional
development)
- ICTs and virtual business communities
- community e-commerce business models
- interactions between online and offline communities
- social capital, communities, and technology
- communities and e-government
- ethnographic and case studies of virtual communities
- trust, privacy and security issues in virtual communities
- communities, technology and social movements
- interaction in large scale online communities
- persistent conversation in technology-facilitated communities
- supporting collaboration in local and distributed communities
- economics of technology-facilitated communities
- inter-organizational communities and technology
- communities, technology, learning and education
Both empirical and conceptual contributions are invited, involving a
range of methodologies encompassing both qualitative and quantitative
approaches.
These might include case studies and ethnographies, experiments, survey
research, network analyses and economic studies.
Submitting Papers and Workshop Proposals Completed research papers of
not more 20 pages must be submitted electronically to the conference
website, and will undergo a peer review process. Submission guidelines
are available at the conference web site.
We also invite the submission of proposals for workshops, which will be
held on June 28, the first day of the conference. Workshops can be
either half or full day in length and built around specific themes
relevant to the conference. Workshop proposals should be 4 pages in
length, and should define the theme(s) of the workshop, the main
activities and goals, the background and contact information of the
organizer(s), the maximum number of participants in the workshop, the
means of soliciting participants, and the method of selecting
participants. Proposals should also include a brief summary of no more
than 150 words suitable for describing the workshop in the conference
program.
Proceedings
The Conference on Communities and Technologies Proceedings will be
published by Springer.
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