WBC 2016 - 13th International Conference Web Based Communities and Social Media 2016

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Category Social Media; Online Communities; Social Network Sites; virtual presence; WEB 2.0; Virtual Communities;

Deadline: May 13, 2016 | Date: July 01, 2016-July 03, 2016

Venue/Country: Funchal, Portugal

Updated: 2016-04-29 01:58:19 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Professor emerita Gunilla Bradley, Informatics, School of ICT, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden

* Conference Scope

Social Media are growing rapidly and play an increasingly important role in the development of Online Communities. Web based communities announce themselves both in your professional and private life through several new media such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Plaxo, etc. Social media allow dynamic roles in participation, virtual presence and online communities. These new ways to communicate via online social media are having great societal effects and are motivating the creation of best practices to help individuals, corporations and authorities to make the best of it.

The mission of WBC conference is to publish and integrate scientific results and act catalytically to the fast developing culture of web communities, while helping to disseminate and understand the latest developments social media and their impact.

For more information about the seven main areas of this conference please see http://www.webcommunities-conf.org/call-for-papers

* Paper Submission

This is a blind peer-reviewed conference. Authors are invited to submit their papers in English through the conference submission system by May 13, 2016. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously.

* Important Dates:

- Submission Deadline (last call): 13 May 2016

- Notification to Authors (last call): 3 June 2016

- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (last call): Until 17 June2016

- Late Registration (last call): After 17 June 2016

* Paper Publication

The papers will be published in book and electronic format with ISBN, will be made available through the Digital Library available at http://www.iadisportal.org/digital-library/showsearch.

The conference proceedings will be submitted for indexation by IET’s INSPEC, Elsevier, EI Compendex, Scopus, Thomson Reuters Web of Science, EBSCO and other important indexing services.

The best papers will be selected for publishing as extended versions in the “International Journal of Web Based Communities" (IJWBC); ISSN: 1477 - 8394 [4 issues per year] and also in journals from INDERSCIENCE Publishers.

* Conference Contact:

E-mail: secretariatwebcommunities-conf.org

Web site: http://www.webcommunities-conf.org/

* Organized by: International Association for Development of the Information Society

* Registered participants in the Web Based Communities and Social Media conference may attend the other conferences part of MCCSIS 2016 free of charge.