[Air-L] HICSS G&G CfP Updated

[Nathaniel Poor]

HICSS CfP: Game Scholars and Hawaii in January?
Submission deadline extended to July 15.  

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

UPDATE from the Conference Organizers, who live in Hawaii:
We recognize that present circumstances are difficult for many and that uncertainty about the evolving situation demands flexibility. Together with the Grand Hyatt Kauai and the Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau, we are constantly monitoring the outbreak situation with the goal to safely welcome you to HICSS. As we get closer to the conference date, we will  provide you on our website with more details about the conference arrangements, and advise you when and how to prepare for your trip to Hawaii. And if it becomes evident that convening in Kauai is not advisable, we will timely propose an alternate solution to preserve as much as possible the HICSS experience.
 
 
G&G CfP:
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
 
DATES
April 20: Submission site opens (see http://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/ )
NEW July 15: Submission deadline (changed from June 15)
NEW August 23: Decision notification (changed from August 17)
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/