Introduction to Social Networking and Communities Minitrack

The Social Networking & Communities minitrack focuses on questions of community building and management as mediated by social media and networking platforms. By 'communities', we include communities of practice, epistemic communities, communities of inquiry, as well as fully virtual communities, and social media use that supports or complements geographically based community. We called for research, theory, practice, or policy papers that address the way social media support communities for business, political, social, learning and gaming initiatives and outcomes.