WBC 2017 - 14th International Conference Web Based Communities and Social Media 2017

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Category Social Media, Online Communities, Social Network Sites, professional and private life, virtual presence, WEB 2.0, Virtual Communities, online social marketing, Multi-User Games, Universities as Online Communities

Deadline: June 02, 2017 | Date: July 20, 2017-July 22, 2017

Venue/Country: Lisbon, Portugal

Updated: 2017-05-30 01:50:17 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Lisbon, Portugal, 20 - 22 July 2017

(http://www.webcommunities-conf.org/)

Part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2017)

Lisbon, Portugal, 20- 23 July 2017

(http://www.mccsis.org)

* 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. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously.

* 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