[Asis-l] Announcement of the 2011 ASIS&T SIG-III International Paper Contest

[Shaheen Maqsood]

> Excuse me for cross-posting.
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> *Announcement of the 2011 ASIS&T SIG-III International Paper Contest*
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> The Special Interest Group on International Information Issues (SIG-III) of
> the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is
> pleased to announce its eleventh competition for papers to be submitted for
> the 2011 Annual Meeting, which will take place in New Orleans, Louisiana,
> October 7-12, 2011. (http://www.asis.org/asist2011/am11cfp.html)
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> Building from the overall conference theme, the theme for this year’s paper
> contest is:
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> *"Bridging the Gulf: Communication and Information in Society, Technology,
> and Work"*. Papers could discuss issues, policies and case studies on
> specific aspects of the theme from a global and/or international
> perspective. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following core
> areas:
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> 1.      Intercultural Information Ethics: Critical reflection on the
> ethical challenges related to the global and cross-cultural production,
> storage, and distribution of information, as well as the ethical dimensions
> of the global development and implementation of information systems,
> infrastructures, and policies.
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> 2.      Information Behavior: Information needs, information seeking,
> information gaps and sensemaking in various contexts including work,
> interests or every-day life activities by individuals or groups.
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> 3.      Knowledge Organization: Indexing, index construction, indexing
> languages, thesaurus construction, terminology, classification of
> information in any form, tagging (expert, userbased, automatic), filtering,
> metadata, standards for metadata, information architecture.
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> 4.      Information Systems, Interactivity and Design: How people use and
> communicate with information systems; the design, use and evaluation of
> interactive information technologies and systems, including interfaces and
> algorithms; search and retrieval, browsing, visualization, personalization.
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> 5.      Information and Knowledge Management: Information and knowledge
> creation, transfer and use at the personal, group, organizational and
> societal levels. The management of the processes and systems that create,
> acquire, organize, store, distribute, and use information and/or knowledge.
> Selected papers will be published in the International Journal of
> Information Management.
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> 6.      Information Use: How people re-purpose existing knowledge from a
> variety of sources (scientific, humanities, news, family, friends,
> colleagues), forms (articles, books, video, audio, tweets), locations (work,
> home, in transit) and mediums (cell-phones, PDAs, digital libraries) to
> advance knowledge, solve problems, improve information literacy, and learn.
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> 7.      Information and Society: Economic, Political, Social Issues:
> Copyright issues, policies and laws; national and international information
> policies; privacy and security; economics of information, personal rights
> vs. freedom of information; surveillance; globalization and the flows of
> information; computerization movements; social informatics.
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> *Selection Criteria*
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> There will be up to six winners who will be selected by a panel of judges
> including: Maqsood Shaheen (IRC, US Embassy Islamabad), Johannes Britz
> (UW-Milwaukee), Maria Haigh (UW-Milwaukee), Hong Xu (University of
> Pittsburg), Catherine Johnson (Western Ontario), Anindita Paul (University
> of Missouri), and Borchuluun Yadamsuren (University of Missouri).
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> The judging criteria will be based on:
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> 1.      Originality of paper in the developing world and global
> information ecosystem (originality of the project described, etc.)
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> 2.      Relevance to the paper contest theme
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> 3.      Quality of argument, presentation and organization
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> *Eligibility & Information for authors*
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> *Only papers by a principal author who is a citizen of, and resides in a
> developing country are eligible*. Winners in the 2007-2010 contests are
> not eligible. The papers should be original, unpublished, and submitted in
> English. We encourage submissions from librarians, information and network
> specialists, and educators involved in the creation, representation,
> maintenance, exchange, discovery, delivery, and use of digital information.
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> *Award*
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> The award for each winner is a two-year individual membership in ASIS&T. In
> the case of multiple authors, the principal author will be awarded the
> ASIS&T membership. In addition, depending on SIG III fundraising for this
> competition, the first place winner will be rewarded a minimum of $1,000
> toward travel, conference registration, and accommodations while attending
> the ASIS&T Annual Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, October 7-12, 2011.
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> *Style*
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> The international paper contest committee requires that submissions follow
> the International Information and Library Review instructions to authors.
> Detailed information is available under the heading, Guide for Authors at:
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> http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622845/authorinstructions
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> *Publishing opportunities*
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> Submitted papers will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of the
> *International*
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> *Information and Library Review*, subject to the usual peer refereeing
> process, for that journal.
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> *ASIS&T Copyright Policy*
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> ASIS&T will have the non-exclusive right to publish any of the papers
> submitted on its web site or in print, with ownership and all other rights
> remaining with the author.
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> Deadline for submission of full papers Authors are invited to submit
> manuscripts, not to exceed 5,000 words, by May 31, 2011, to Maqsood Shaheen
> at ShaheenMA at gmail.com, preferably as Microsoft Word or PDF attachments.
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Maqsood Shaheen
Chair, International Paper Contest Committee
ASIS&T, SIG III
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