Games & Gaming (Social and Digital Media) 52nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) January 8-11, 2019, at the Grand Wailea, Maui The Games & Gaming minitrack focuses on digital gaming and its many social aspects. We are looking for 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 15: Submission site opens June 15: Submission deadline August 17: Decision notification September 22: Camera ready version due October 1: Registration deadline January 8-11: Conference! TOPICS Social affordances of games Network analysis of groups and communities in games Social practice (in-game, out-game, both) Player communities Fans and fan communities Community management Toxicity online Multiplayer games Cooperative and competitive play eSports Fantasy sports leagues Multigenerational play Intercultural play Streaming gameplay (e.g., Twitch) Game curation via sites like Steam URLS HICSS: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/ Author Instructions: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-and-minitracks/authors/ Digital and Social Media: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-52/digital-and-social-media/ CHAIRS Nathaniel Poor (Primary Contact Co-Chair) Underwood Institute natpoor@gmail.com Mia Consalvo Concordia University mia.consalvo@concordia.ca Kelly Bergstrom University of Hawai’i at Mānoa kelly.bergstrom@hawaii.edu ------------------------------- Nathaniel Poor, Ph.D. http://github.com/natpoor http://natpoor.blogspot.com/ http://sites.google.com/site/natpoor/ http://www.underwood-institute.org/