[Asis-l] SIG-SI> Update on the 8th Annual Symposium

[Howard Rosenbaum]

The 8th Annual SIG-SI Research Symposium, held on October 27, 2012 at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology in Baltimore, MD was a great success. The theme of the Symposium was the past, present and future of social informatics. There were ten thought provoking presentations that addressed this theme, several posters and two best papers awards. The papers presented at the Symposium, which was organized by Pnina Fichman and Howard Rosenbaum, both of the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University, and was co-sponsored by the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics, will be published in 2014 in an edited volume “Social Informatics: Past, Present and Future” edited by the organizers. The awards were given for the following papers:

2011 Social Informatics Best Paper Award:
Eschenfelder, K., Desai, A.C. and Downey, G. (2011). The pre-internet downloading controversy: The evolution of use rights for digital intellectual and cultural works. The Information Society, 7, 69–91.

2011 Social Informatics Best Student Paper Award:
Lingel, J. (2011). Information tactics of immigrants in urban environments. Information Research, 16 (4).

Full Symposium schedule: 
http://www.asist.org/asist2012/SIG_SI_Workshop.html

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