[Air-L] CFP> HICSS 47 - Crowdsourcing Content Production and Online Knowledge Repositories

[Fichman, Pnina]

Call for Papers
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 47
Big Island, Hawaii, January 6-9, 2014

Minitrack: Crowdsourcing Content Production and Online Knowledge Repositories
Track: Digital and Social Media
As various forms of collaboration are enabled (and constrained) by the affordances available in social media, researchers are investigating a range of issues including: 1) the diverse ways in which people collaborate to create, manage, curate and manipulate online content and how these activities affect digital repositories; 2) how those who manage these repositories are responding to the dynamics of online co-creation of content; 3) the dynamics of crowdsourced online collaborations and online communities of practice; and 4) the ways in which we can best describe the socio-technical interaction networks that facilitate and inhibit mass knowledge production.
In this mini track we are interested in empirical and theoretical work that addresses these and related socio-technical issues.  Papers of interest will examine communities of online knowledge repositories such as YouTube, Yahoo! Answers, Wikipedia, and others and may address in this context topics such as:
. The socio-technical dynamics of crowdsourcing and mass knowledge production sites
. Vandalism and trolling in online mass knowledge production sites
. Conflict and cooperation in content production sites
. Issues of gender in collaborative content production sites
. Global, cross-cultural and international aspects of content production and online intercultural collaborations in online content creation communities
. Managing ethics in online mass knowledge production communities
. Building, maintaining and ending social relationships on online repositories sites
. Social question answering and collaborative information seeking behaviors
. Challenges and opportunities of digital curation
. Standards and quality of digital content online

Organizers:
Pnina Fichman, Indiana University Bloomington (fichman at indiana.edu<mailto:fichman at indiana.edu>) [Primary Contact]
Noriko Hara, Indiana University Bloomington (nhara at indiana.edu<mailto:nhara at indiana.edu>)
Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University Bloomington (hrosenba at indiana.edu<mailto:hrosenba at indiana.edu>)

Important Dates:
June 15, 2013           Submit full manuscripts
Aug 15, 2013            Acceptance Notifications
Sept 15, 2013           Submit final (camera-ready) paper
Oct 1, 2013               Early Registration fee deadline

Submission guidelines: Follow author instructions on the conference site: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/apahome47.htm

More information:
HICSS CFP: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/apahome47.htm
Conference site: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/47cfp.pdf
Minitrack CFP: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/track/dsm/DSM-Crowdsourcing.pdf


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Pnina Fichman
Associate Professor
Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics
SLIS, Indiana University, Bloomington
Informatics West #301
901 E. 10th St.
Bloomington IN 47408
Phone: (812) 856-1587
E-Mail: fichman at indiana.edu<mailto:fichman at indiana.edu>
Web: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/