Hi Everyone and sorry for the cross-notifications, 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) January 8-11, 2019, Grand Wailea, Maui, Hawaii PAPERS DUE: June 15, 2018 via the HICSS conference system This HICSS minitrack has been ongoing since 2003. The focus is primarily on social media and other social technologies and their interrelations with networks and communities (online and offline). We call for papers that address social networks and communities supported and/or complemented by social media for work, learning, socializing, economic and/or political processes, and/or that address theory, design, practices, use or evaluation of such social media use. This year we are adding an interest in viral phenomena within social networks. In order to leverage an interdisciplinary perspective and enable dialogue between social and technological disciplines, papers may be motivated by a broad range of theory-driven or data-driven perspectives and methods, including for example but not limited to social network analysis, content analysis, ethnographic investigations, and agent-based simulations. We particularly encourage papers that: * advance our understanding of social network growth, formation, structure and outcomes through social media; * explore how socio-technical affordances relate to social media use and outcomes; * examine how information and misinformation spread in social media and networks, and how algorithms, bots, and social media design affect this spread; * evaluate design of social media technologies and practices for effective community development and maintenance; and * develop theories, models and principles of social media design, use and outcomes for networks and communities. We are particularly interested in papers that explore new models, theories and methods rather than re-applying and repeating established results. ABOUT HICSS The Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, in its 52nd year, is one of the longstanding scientific conferences and is highly ranked among information systems conferences. Diverse disciplines unified by a focus on information technologies are woven together in a matrix structure of tracks and themes. By attending HICSS you are not only reaching the audience of your track and mini-track; you also have the opportunity to learn about what is happening in related fields and meet leaders in those fields. Other mini-tracks within the Digital and Social Media track are particularly relevant: see http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-52/digital-and-social-media/ <http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-52/digital-and-social-media/> Minitrack Co-Chairs: Karine Nahon (Primary Contact) The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) at Herzliya and University of Washington karineb@uw.edu <mailto:karineb@uw.edu> Dan Suthers University of Hawaii at Manoa suthers@hawaii.edu <mailto:suthers@hawaii.edu> Twitter: #hicss_snc Please see http://www.hicss.org/ <http://www.hicss.org/> for conference, venue and submission information. Papers are due June 15, 2018. This conference does not offer extensions to the deadline. ——————— Karine Nahon / eKarine.org Forbes list of 50 most influential women in Israel Associate Professor/Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) / University of Washington Author of Going Viral / Best Information Science Book Award and Outstanding Academic Title