[Air-L] HICSS CfP: Games & Gaming

[Nathaniel Poor]

HICSS CfP: Game Scholars and Hawaii in January! Face to face!

Games & Gaming (Social and Digital Media)
55th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
January 4-7, 2022, at the Hyatt Regency Maui

For the sixth straight year, the Games & Gaming minitrack at HICSS is seeking papers that examine the social aspects of digital gaming. We feature work related to digital games and sociality that covers a variety of methods: qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods papers are welcome, ranging from interviews to big data analyses, as well as theoretical papers looking at digital gaming practices in general. Student authors are welcome! 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. Accepted papers will be published as part of the open access conference proceedings. Last year’s papers are available online at: https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/72169

DATES
April 15: Submission site opens (see http://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/)
June 15, 11:59 pm HST: Papers due
August 17: Decision notification
September 22: Camera ready version due
October 1: Deadline for at least one author to register for HICSS-55
January 4-7, 2022: 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
 
LINKS
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/