[Asis-l] Second call for ISIC 2010

[Tom Wilson]

With apologies for the long message and posting to multiple lists

Call for Papers

The field of human information behaviour is multi-disciplinary in
scope: researchers from information science, information management,
psychology, social psychology, sociology, information systems,
computer science, and other disciplines all contribute to this field
of investigation.

ISIC: the Information Behaviour Conference intends to reflect this
interdisciplinary character through attracting papers from researchers
in all of these areas. The unifying characteristic, which we see as
essential in developing a programme is the relationship between the
needs or requirements of the information user, the means for the
satisfaction of those needs and the uses to which those means are put
in practice organizations or disciplines. Thus, papers that deal
solely with technological aspects of system design, for example, will
not be appropriate for the conference.

Themes of the conference include the following:

1. Theories and models of information seeking and searching:
particular theoretical frameworks that are currently of interest
include (but are not restricted to) social network theory, actor
network theory, cultural-historical activity theory, genre theory,
etc.
2. Research approaches and methodologies, both interpretative and
positivist, employing either qualitative or quantitative methods.
3. Information seeking, searching and use in specific contexts, e.g.,
health care, education, business, industry, the public services and
government, the emergency services, etc.
4. Organizational structures and processes and information seeking,
searching and use.
5. Information seeking and searching in virtual social networks,
including gaming and virtual worlds as arenas for information
exchange.
6. Information behaviour in everyday life; in communities both real
and virtual, including its role in indigenous communities.
7. Integrating studies on information seeking and interactive retrieval.
8. Information use: the nature of information and how information is
used to help solve problems, aid decision making or satisfy an initial
need.
9. The mediation of information behaviour: how human or software
agents can respond to information needs.
10. The design of information delivery systems to meet information
needs generally, or in organizational or disciplinary contexts,
including Web 2.0 developments such as blogs, wikis, e-learning
platforms and open access information resources.
11. Information seeking and information requirements - integrating
information science and information systems.
12. The communication of information to users: relationship between
communication theory and information behaviour, including, for
example, the relationship of information architectures to information
seeking behaviour and the design of information products on sound
communication principles; including audio and visual communication
media.

Papers that deal with the information behaviour of practitioner
groups, such as scientists, engineers, local government works,
politicians, and other less-studied (in this context) groups, will be
particularly welcome. Also, analytical, rather than descriptive
investigations, will be sought, with strong connections to previous
work and to theoretical or conceptual frameworks.

For the 2010 Conference we shall be particularly interested in papers
in any of these areas that address the connection between information
research and information practice.

Paper preparation and submission deadline February 1, 2010 Please,
submit a prepared paper in Microsoft Word format (.doc or .rtf files)
to: isic2010 at um.es

We also invite doctoral students to submit an application for
participation in the Doctoral Workshop held in conjunction with the
Conference on 28th September. We especially welcome submissions from
researchers and doctoral students based in Spain, Portugal and Latin
America.

-- 
Professor Tom Wilson, PhD, Ph.D.(h.c.),
Publisher and Editor-in-Chief
Information Research: an international electronic journal
Website: http://InformationR.net/
E-mail: wilsontd at gmail.com
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