Paper Deadline: Friday, Feburary 26, 2010 


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Freundliche Grüße aus Kassel, 

Jan Marco Leimeister




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Call for Papers - Minitrack Virtual Communities
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16th Americas Conference on Information Systems 
August 12-15 2010, Lima, Peru 
http://www.virtual-community.org. 

(Supported by Fachgruppe CSCW of Gesellschaft fuer Informatik, 
http://www.fgcscw.gi-ev.de/)

This Mini-Track builds on the success of the preceding AMCIS mini-tracks 
on Virtual Communities and Social Networking. During the last ten years we 
have been gathering a community of researchers who are interested in the 
field of Virtual Communities and Social Networking and related issues. 
Please visit the Mini-Track website at http://www.virtual-community.org 

Virtual communities and social networking based on message boards, chat 
rooms, user groups blogs and other web 2.0 technologies have emerged as 
high activity domains on the Internet and more and more in the relam of 
mobile devices and mobile internet usage. Virtual communities and social 
networks are designed for a variety of purposes, ranging from Communities 
of Interest, Communities of Relationship (Facebook, etc.), Gaming 
Communities (e.g. in Wolrd of Warcraft, Second Life, etc.), and 
Communities of Transaction to Peer-to-Peer Communities or Mobile 
Communities. Web 2.0 Mechanisms are also boosting the development of 
Virtual Communities and the role of user-generated content within Virtual 
Communities. The significance of these communities is evident by the 
impact they have on information generation and transmission, and 
socialization. For example, today, blogs are quickly becoming a primary 
source of information in a variety of domains. The dynamic and interactive 
nature of these forums makes them very attractive for users and operators. 
An additional value offered by many of these communities is their ability 
to support socialization and offer an identity for the participants. While 
most virtual communities share these characteristics, it is also important 
to recognize that virtual communities are not homogeneous; they differ 
significantly based on the domain, purpose and benefits. Well-organized 
communities even expand their power across various channels and into the 
Offline world. 

Within the field of information systems researchers are interested in 
studying interaction patterns, social structures and interactions, 
transaction processes, management aspects, business models, and design 
aspects of information systems and services for virtual communities. 
Community members interact via digital media and contribute value in the 
form of content, reviews, and recommendations. Related issues are trust, 
network effects, transaction costs and the design of services as well as 
the generation of innovations. "Wisdom of Crowds", "Collective 
Intelligence" and "Crowdsourcing" are important new terms describing 
mechanisms around user-generated content in Virtual Communities and Social 
Networks. 

This mini-track welcomes empirical, conceptual and theoretical work. 
Despite the increasing popularity of virtual communities and social 
networking, several questions relating to virtual communities and social 
networking remain largely unexplored. 

This minitracks welcomes empirical, conceptual and theoretical work. We 
call for papers on all aspects of Virtual Communities. Possible topics 
include (but are not limited to): 

We call for papers on all aspects of Virtual Communities. Possible topics 
include (but are not limited to) 

Social, political and economic impact of Virtual Communities 
Community models, platforms, services, and interactions, multi-channel 
communities 
Management and organizational behaviour of communities 
Community-related business models 
Social Network Analysis in and around Virtual Communities & Social Media
Innovation generation and Virtual Communities (e.g. case studies on 
"wisdom of crowds", "collective intelligence", etc.) 
User-generated content and customer collaboration in Virtual Communities 
Peer-to-Peer or mobile services for Virtual Communities 
Case studies and empirical studies, best practices and lessons learned 
Motivation of participants in virtual communities 
Benefits of participation in and competition among virtual communities 
Information dispersion in virtual communities 
Typologies and taxonomies of virtual communities 
Evolution of and innovation in virtual communities
Mobile Communities & Ubiquitous Computing for Social Networks and Virtual 
Communities
Gaming Communities 
...

Please visit the Mini-Track website at http://www.virtual-community.org. 


Important Dates 
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February 26, 2010: Deadline for paper submissions. 
April 12, 2010: Notification of acceptance of papers. 
April 26, 2010:For accepted papers, camera ready copy due 


Mini-track Chair Information 
=======================

Prof. Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister (Primary Contact)
Kassel University
Wirtschaftsinformatik | Information Systems 
Forschungszentrum IT-Gestaltung (ITeG) | Research Center for IS Design 
(ITeG)
http://www.inf.wirtschaft.uni-kassel.de | http://www.iteg.uni-kassel.de
Nora-Platiel-Straße 4 | 34127 Kassel | Germany
tel: +49- 5 61-8 04 28 80 | fax: +49-5 61-8 04 37 08
leimeister@uni-kassel.de


Prof. Balaji Rajagopalan, PhD
School of Business Administration
Oakland University
Rochester, MI 48309, USA
rajagopa@oakland.edu


Prof. Dr. Ulrike Lechner
Universität der Bundeswehr München
Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39
D-85577 Neubiberg, Germany
Ulrike.lechner@unibw.de


Prof. Subhasish Dasgupta, Ph.D.
Information Systems and Technology Mangement
George Washington University
2201 G Street, NW, Funger Hall 515, Washington, DC 20052, USA
dasgupta@gwu.edu




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