19^thInternational Conference on Web Based Communities and Social Media

Zhanjiang, China during November 18-20, 2022.

Scope & Topics

The World Wide Web has migrated from information space into opportunities for social communication. Social Media are growing rapidly and play an increasingly important role in the development of Online Communities. They are all about identity, reputation, presence and relationships. Web based communities announce themselves both in your professional and private life through several new media such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Plaxo, etc. In order to keep you up to date with the pace of these new technological developments this Conference offers a dedicated overview and informative discussion on today’s most relevant issues in new media for social life on the web.

Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

The History, Architecture and Future of Virtual Communities

• From Mobility to Connectivity
• Strategic Investment in Social Networks
• Identity and Augmented Ideologies
• Visionary Web Architectures, Implanted Computers
• Network Revolutions, Post-Colonial and Post-Modern Societies
• Escaping from Reality, Virtual Reality and Multi-User Games

Expanding Markets Through Virtual Communities

• The WWW as Digital Market Place
• The Enterprise as a Learning Community
• The Learning as a Road Map for Business
• Universities as Online Communities
• Business-to-Business Communication in Profit and non Profit Sectors

Cyborgs, Teleworking, Telemedicine, Art Games and Learning Communities

• Fading Hierarchies and Epistemic Dictatorship
• Distributed Cognition, the Electronic Cortex and Constructivism
• Community Directories
• Mechanic World, Organic Computer
• Agents and the Virtual Self
• Beyond Metaphors: Imagining and Representation
• Communizing as a Marketing Approach

Collaborative Technologies

• Theory Foundations
• Technical Infrastructures
• Environments, Tools and Applications
• Benefits realization and Social Implications
• Future Concepts

Virtual Communities for People with Special Needs

• Access to Public Spaces
• Accessibility and Long-Term Disabilities
• Virtual Communities in Health Care

Group Processes and Self-Organization

• Tele-Democracy, Morality, Netiquette
• Social Networks, Tribal and Open Communities, Peace Education
• Computer Mediated, Hyper and Narrative Communication, Woven Stories
• MUDs, MOOs and Avatars
• Hosting Web-Based Communities
• Nationalities, Ethnicities and Gender Effects

Social Media

• Monitoring Trends in Social Media
• After Facebook, Myspace and LinkedIn?
• Effects of Web Experience on Consumer Choice
• Profiles of Social Networking Sites
• Adoption of Social Networking
• Connecting Small and Medium Enterprises
• Social Media for B2B Marketing
• Multicultural Organizations
• Social Networking at Work
• Social Media, Trust, Reputation and Public Opinion

Paper Submission

Submit your contributions to Electronic Submission System ( .pdf only)

Note: If you are interested in special sessions, after submission via system, please mail this to secretariat@webcommunities-conf.org

Important Dates