[Air-L] HICSS G&G CfP

[Nathaniel Poor]

HICSS CfP: Game Scholars and Hawaii in January!

Games & Gaming (Social and Digital Media)
54th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
January 5-8, 2021, at the Grand Hyatt, Kauai

For the fifth straight year, the Games & Gaming minitrack at HICSS is looking for research on the social aspects of digital gaming. We feature work related to digital games and sociality: qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods papers are welcome, ranging from interviews to big data analyses, or more broadly theoretical papers looking at digital gaming practices in general. Types of games studied may include mobile, social, free to play, AAA, MMOs, PC, console, multiplayer, and indie games. As part of the Digital and Social Media track, papers must contain a social dimension, examining, for example, sociability, social practices, communities (in-game, out-game, across multiple spaces or time), use of social affordances, or some other social dimension.

DATES
April 20: Submission site opens (see http://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/ )
June 15: Submission deadline
August 17: Decision notification
September 22: Camera ready version due
October 1: Registration deadline
January 5-8: Conference!

TOPICS
Esports
Fantasy sports leagues
Streaming gameplay (e.g., Twitch)
Game curation via sites like Steam
Fans and fan communities
Community management
Social affordances of games
Network analysis of groups and communities in games
Social practices (in-game, out-game, both)
Player communities
Toxicity online
Multiplayer games
Cooperative and competitive play
Multigenerational play
Intercultural play

URLS
HICSS: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/
Author Instructions: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/
Digital and Social Media track: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-54/digital-and-social-media/

CO-CHAIRS
Nathaniel Poor (Primary Contact Co-Chair)
Underwood Institute
natpoor at gmail.com

Kelly Bergstrom
University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
kelly.bergstrom at hawaii.edu

Kishonna Gray
University of Illinois, Chicago
unicorn at uic.edu

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Nathaniel Poor, Ph.D. (he/him/his)
http://github.com/natpoor
http://natpoor.blogspot.com/
http://sites.google.com/site/natpoor/
http://www.underwood-institute.org/