[Air-l] CFP: MindTrek Conference in October (deadline: August 6)

[Katri Lietsala]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

MindTrek Conference | Social Media Stream
October 3-4, 2007 | Tampere, Finland
http://www.mindtrek.org/

DEADLINES
Deadline for submission abstracts: August 6, 2007
Notification of acceptance to authors: August 23, 2007
Registration to the conference ends: September 17, 2007
Conference: October 3–4, 2007 | Online publication: December 2007

We are happy to invite you to MindTrek Conference in October 3–4.
MindTrek is a two-day conference to explore current and emerging topics
of social media and the participatory culture of Internet.
This is the call for the Social Media Stream of the conference.

Please, send your extended abstract (max 1 000 words) for a review.
Reviewers evaluate submissions on the basis of significance and 
originality.
Abstracts should base on academic research, tested business solutions,
case studies, pilot results or innovative future scenarios.

The goal is to build up better knowledge about social media
(blogs, wikis, tags, feeds, media sharing and networking sites etc.).

MindTrek association publishes selected abstracts
in the conference proceedings and online. You will also
have the option to continue your abstract into full paper.
These papers will be published online after the event.

MindTrek was established in 1997. It has attracted
delegates and presenters from many fields including education,
business, government, and media to discuss their experiences
with media and web technologies. According to estimation,
the conference will bring together 500 participants this year.

The stream will be interdisciplinary: We invite presentations
from social science, business studies, computer and web science
and related disciplines. Hopefully, the conference will strengthen
further the network of social media researchers
from different countries.

POSSIBLE TOPICS

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Media and journalism transforming
* Online community networking and development
* Social capital, participatory economy, business models
* Online activism, including online campaigning
* Participatory design, mediators
* Filtering and folksonomy

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

Conference Chair, director Jarmo Viteli
MindTrek Association, Hypermedia Laboratory (UTA)

Organising Committee
* Karsten D. Wolf, University of Bremen
* Artur Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology
* Esa Sirkkunen, University of Tampere
* Katri Lietsala, University of Tampere

CONFERENCE VENUE

MindTrek takes place at Hotel Scandic Rosendahl,
in Tampere, Finland. The organiser of the conference
has booked quota for the conference delegates
from this hotel. Please, look for more information
on accommodation and registration later from our website.
Note that the participation fee does not include
the accommodation.

ACTIVITIES

The stream is open to all conference participants to join.
Every participant with the accepted abstract will have
their own presentation slot. On Wednesday evening,
MindTrek Award Party (included to the conference fee)
motivates further discussions and networking.

On Thursday, the stream continues with fabus
which means open participatory group work.
Participants and volunteer fabu coordinators
will create together the program for these
unconferencing sessions of the second day.

SUBMISSION

Please, send your abstract with our e-form:
www.mindtrek.org. Check also registration
and program details later from the website.

Conference fee is 190 euros (+ VAT) for 2 days.
Fee includes the whole conference
(also the other streams on open source,
ubiquitous media and games),
lunches for both days and the invitation
to the MindTrek Award Party.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Social Media Stream
Katri Lietsala, skype katri.lietsala, katri.lietsala at uta.fi
Esa Sirkkunen, tel. +358 (0)3 215 6424, esa.sirkkunen at uta.fi

MindTrek Conference
Jukka Matikainen, +358 (0)40 5336 379, jukka.matikainen at mindtrek.org
www.mindtrek.org

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