[Air-L] CFP for Academic Mindtrek Conference 2010, Oct 6-8, Tampere, Finland

[Olli Sotamaa]

Dear all,

below you will find the basic info for this year's Academic Mindtrek 
Conference. The conference has altogether 5 tracks featuring the 
following themes: 1) Social Media, 2) Ambient and Ubiquitous Media, 3) 
Digital Games, 4) Open Source, 5) Media Business, Media Production and 
Media Management.

All the accepted papers will be published in the ACM digital library. 
There are also plans to publish a selected set of papers as a book.

The detailed Call for papers can be found at 
http://www.mindtrek.org/2010/academic

Looking forward to seeing you in Tampere!

Olli

Olli Sotamaa // Senior Research Fellow
Department of Information Studies and Interactive Media // University of 
Tampere
olli.sotamaa at uta.fi // +358 50 420 1472 // www.uta.fi/~olli.sotamaa/



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Academic MindTrek 2010: Call for Papers, Tutorials and Workshops
6th - 8th October, 2010, Tampere, Finland

http://www.mindtrek.org/2010/academic
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The MindTrek Association hosts MindTrek as a yearly conference, and the 
Academic MindTrek conference has been a part of this unique set of 
events, comprising competitions, world famous keynote speakers, plenary 
sessions, media festivals, and workshops since 1997. It is a meeting 
place where experts and thinkers present results from their latest work 
regarding the development of Internet, interactive media, and the 
information society.

September 6th is the main Academic day, featuring the following themes: 
1) Social Media, 2) Ambient and Ubiquitous Media, 3) Digital Games, 4) 
Open Source, 5)
Media Business, Media Production and Media Management.

Submission Deadlines
- 23rd Apr: Deadline for long papers, workshops and tutorial proposals 
(6-8 pages)
- 21st May: submission of short papers, poster presentations and tool 
demonstrations (3-4 pages)
- 30th July: paper submission deadline for workshops
- 1st August: Camera ready papers and copyright forms

Key-Dates
- 15th May: notification for workshops & tutorials
- 28th May: notification of acceptance/rejection for long papers
- 24th June: notification of short papers and posters
- 6th-8th October 2010: MindTrek academic conference