[Asis-l] deadline extended -- SIG USE 07 symposium

[Erdelez, Sanda]

Dear colleagues:
There is still time to submit your position papers for SIG USE Symposium on
Mobility & Social Networks. The new deadline is 8/15.
The call for proposals is attached.

Cheers,
Symposium Organizers
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7th Annual Research Symposium
Special Interest Group on Information Needs, Seeking, and Use (SIG USE) of
the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)

Mobility and Social Networks in Information Behavior Saturday, October 20,
2007, 1-6 p.m., Hyatt Regency, Milwaukee, WI

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Extended Deadline: August 15, 2007

Searching WebMD, checking stock portfolios, meeting up through
dodgeball.com, chatting with friends on MySpace, playing online games,
sharing photos, making plane reservations, paying bills, and shopping-are
all information-intensive activities that can occur outside traditional
locales due to mobile technologies.  Beyond employing hi-tech tools,
mobility can also involve one's social networks-the people with whom one is
connected and shares information and other resources.  The 2007 SIG-USE
Symposium will engage in the discussion of mobility and social networks as
increasingly salient and important aspects of information behavior (IB) in
an effort to consolidate research approaches in these areas.

Following keynote presentations by Dr. Marc Smith (Senior Researcher,
Microsoft Research) and Dr. Caroline Haythornthwaite (Associate Professor,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Symposium participants will
discuss key studies and current research, and identify strengths and
limitations for understanding how mobility and social network factors
influence IB. The Symposium will follow a seminar format focusing on
participant discussion.

Researchers and professionals interested in participating should submit a
1-page position paper (about 300 words) reflecting upon critical questions
for IB research on the conjunction of mobility and social networking.
Experienced researchers can share information about their current research,
while those new to the field should describe their research or professional
interests related to the Symposium theme.
Potential areas include: 
* Types of mobility (e.g., technological tools, social, institutional) and
how they pertain to IB;
* Theoretical approaches to studying IB dimensions of mobility and social
networking
* Methodological approaches to studying mobility and social networking from
IB perspective
* Findings from empirical work on mobility and social networking within
specific populations or environmental contexts.

Papers must be emailed to IBSymposium at gmail.com by August 15, 2007. (Note:
extended from August 1).
Applicants will be notified by September 1. Participants must register with
ASIS&T for the Symposium. While formal papers will not be expected, the
participants' position papers will be posted on the SIG USE website
(www.asis.org/SIG/SIGUSE/) prior to the Symposium and will be used to
organize small-group discussions.   

Symposium Organizers:

Theresa Anderson, Information and Knowledge Management Program, Faculty of
Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney
(Theresa.Anderson at uts.edu.au)

Sanda Erdelez, School of Information Science & Learning Technologies,
University of Missouri-Columbia (sanda at missouri.edu) 
 
Karen E. Fisher, The Information School of the University of Washington
(fisher at u.washington.edu) 

Fee: 
Members $80, non-members $95, before Sept. 16 Members $90, non-members $105,
after Sept. 16 SIG USE members get an additional $10 off