From rhill at asis.org Thu Oct 15 14:16:19 2015 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 14:16:19 -0400 Subject: [Carolinas_asist] Extended Hotel & Regustration Deadlines for ASIS&T 2015 AM Message-ID: <386-2201510415181619292@LEN-dick-2011> St. Louis Hyatt and ASIS&T are extending the cut off dates for discounts until OCTOBER 23. Rooms were tight and people were having problems. But rooms blocked for the potential World Series games have opened up so we are able to make this effort to help you save. _____ 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology -- Information Science with Impact: Research in and for the Community November 6-10, 2015 - Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch - St. Louis, Missouri Program and Registration at: https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2015/ The 2015 ASIS&T conference theme provides an opportunity for information science researchers ?including academics and practitioner? to discuss the impact of their research on industry, on government, on local/national/global community groups, on individuals, on information systems, on cultural institutions, and on other practice contexts. The theme highlights the introduction of a new conference focus on Applied Research, which recognizes that basic research in information science is also inspired by, and/or connected to, information practice contexts. 8 Preconference Workshops 40 Contributed Papers 18 Panel Discussions Plenary sessions: Aaron Doering -Building Community Online: Connecting People, Places, and Ideas through Innovative Design- Doering is associate professor in the LT Media Lab at the University of Minnesota, currently holds the Bonnie Westby Huebner Endowed Chair in Education and Technology. His research involves the design, development and evaluation of online and mobile teaching environments; technology integration in K-12 settings; and the innovative use of technology to support teaching and learning. Sarah Morton -Creating Impact: Issues, Challenges and Solutions- Morton works at the intersection of social research, policy and practice in a range of leadership roles. She is co-director of the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Also within the University of Edinburgh, Sarah is the knowledge exchange specialist for the Centre for Community and Public Health Sciences and an impact analyst. She is a director of What Works Scotland and she is also an associate of the research unit for research utilization at the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement and was a member of the Scottish Funding Council working group on Knowledge Exchange and Public Policy. Her research has investigated the process assessing the impact of research on policy and practice. She has a specialty in contribution analysis and uses this approach in a variety of projects, often working with non-academic partners, and also to assess the impact of research. Richard Hill Executive Director Association for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900 From swainham at msn.com Sat Oct 17 07:14:29 2015 From: swainham at msn.com (Deborah Swain) Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 07:14:29 -0400 Subject: [Carolinas_asist] Reminder and Link for Monday - Carolinas_ASIS&T: 2015 In-Reply-To: References: <200905181810.CUV24625@md2.mail.umd.edu>, , , , <1af06bde0905190918o5ee2dcb9ve40a897b0071ef7@mail.gmail.com>, , , , <001b01c9d95b$81207890$836169b0$@unc.edu>, , , , , Message-ID: Greetings and reminders,The Social Media Analysis workshop at the University of South Carolina is on Monday, October 19, is sponsored by our Carolinas Chapter of ASIS&T (CC: ASIST) and starts at 11:30am. Here is the link for livestream access to the workshop: https://livestream.com/accounts/1928792/events/4429982 Thank you, and we look forward your attending. If questions, contact Liya Deng ( dengl at email.sc.edu ). Also, reminder that the 2015 Health Informatics Career and Internship Fair/Symposium is Friday, October 23. You may still register over the weekend at: www.hicareerfair.com or email hicareerfair at nccu.edu. Contact me at dswain at nccu.edu if questions. Have a great week and month, and if in St. Louis soon, have a wonderful international conference. Regards, Dr. Deborah Swain Original Notice Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 11:17:02 -0400 CC: dswain at nccu.edu Subject: [Carolinas_asist] Carolinas_ASIS&T: 2015 Dear Carolinas Chapter of ASIS&T (CC: ASIST), Hope you have had a good year. To close out 2015, we have two chapter events in the Carolinas. Try to attend one or both. First, on Monday, October 19, the University of South Carolina will host a virtual and onsite workshop on "Social Media Analysis and Its Application in Research and Practice" with Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd, Associate Professor, Ryerson University, Canada and Dr. Amir Karami , Data Consultant. LOCATION: Room 318, Multi-media Lab in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of South Carolina, 800 Sumter St., Columbia, SC, 29208. The workshop will be live streamed. RSVP by October 9. (Contact Liya Deng at dengl at email.sc.edu for the live stream link.) Hope you can attend in person or view the broadcast. More details are below and in flyer attached. Great current topic for researchers and instructors. Secondly, CC: ASIST will be an exhibiting sponsor at the 2015 Health Informatics Career Fair in Durham, NC this year on Friday, October 23. It is for potential interns and employment for those working in data analytics and health informatics. The fair and symposium will be from 9:30-4:00pm at the NCCU Nursing Building off Alston Ave. Parking if available. Registration is free but you must register at www.hicareerfair.com by October 15. (There is also a poster competition.) Corporations such as SAS and Epic will be represented along with the 5 NC sponsoring universities with degree and certification programs in HI: Duke University, East Carolina, NC Central University, UNC-Chapel Hill, and UNC-Charlotte. Looking to share information about ASIS&T, our chapter, and our profession, and to recruit! Flyer attached, and more information will be sent later. If you would like to serve on the executive committee for the CC: ASIST chapter, please contact Dr. Deborah Swain, dswain at nccu.edu, 919-530-7502, committee chair and treasurer. Regards, Deborah Swain Details for October 19: Onsite and Virtual Workshop sponsored by the ASIS&T Carolinas ChapterWorkshop Theme: Social Media Analysis and Its Application in Research and PracticeTime and Date: 11:30am ? 2:30pm, October 19, 2015Location: Room 318, Multi-media Lab in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of South Carolina, 800 Sumter St., Columbia, SC, 29208. The workshop will be live streamed.The ASIS&T Carolinas Chapter is proud to present a joint North Carolina/South Carolina workshop exploring the role of social media analysis in academic research and professional practice. Our special guests, Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd of Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, and Dr. Amir Karami of the University of South Carolina, will discuss social media analysis in the context of the recent political crisis in Ukraine and the 2016 U. S. Presidential Campaign. The workshop will explore key concepts and terms in the field, the methodological foundations and practical implications of social media analysis, as well as the how-tos of data collection. Participants should leave the workshop being able to decide which concepts and tools they might want to study further for their own work or research agendas.The workshop is free. Lunch will be provided to onsite attendees. RSVP required by October 9 to Liya Deng at dengl at email.sc.edu if you plan to attend in person. The workshop will be live streamed. If you cannot join us in person, RSVP required to Liya Deng atdengl at email.sc.edu to receive the live stream link to join the workshop virtually.Workshop Presenters:Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd is an Associate Professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University, Canada, and Director of the Social Media Lab. He got his PhD in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research initiatives explore how the advent of social media and the growing availability of user-generated big data are changing the ways in which people communicate, collaborate and disseminate information and how these changes impact the social, economic and political norms and structures of modern society. Topic presented by Dr. Gruzd: The Use of Social Media During the 2014 Crisis in Ukraine.Social media offer researchers in social sciences a unique opportunity to study political events as they unfold and examine how different groups in a society react to these events and organize themselves in the real time. Online groups often connect people with shared interests and background. Studying these groups and their social structures enables researchers to take the societal ?pulse? on important events, such as the recent political crisis in Ukraine, and investigate the role of social media in supporting the collective action. This presentation investigates through the lens of social media how online groups are formed and sustained when the political polarization in the society is at its highest level. Amir Karami got his PhD in Information Systems from the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). He has also been a Data Science Consultant and extended his technical and research skills through collaborations with several scholars across the world. His research focuses on discovering thematic structure in text collections using both supervised and unsupervised techniques to create new models and applications in medical, social networks, cyber-security, library, and management. Topic presented by Dr. Karami: Data Collection in Social Media: A Twitter Case Study on the 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign.Social media, such as Twitter, provide an attractive platform for people to share their opinions. Twitter has more than 315 million active users monthly and 500 million tweets per day in more than 35 languages. Twitter?s popularity and low data collection costs encourage researchers in various domains to collect data and develop experiments on the data. It has fueled our ability to conduct large-scale experiments on social phenomena, such as the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. This presentation focuses on understanding the basics of collecting Twitter data with one illustrative example in R programming language to collect tweets about the potential 2016 presidential candidates.Thank you and we hope to hear from you soon. Dr. Deborah E. SwainAssociate ProfessorSchool of Library and Information SciencesNC Central University, Durham, NCCampus Office Phone: 919-530-7502 Fax: 919-530-6402Home Office: 919-833-9028 Cell: 919-906-2684 _______________________________________________ Carolinas_asist mailing list Carolinas_asist at mail.asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/carolinas_asist -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From swainham at msn.com Mon Oct 19 10:10:31 2015 From: swainham at msn.com (Deborah Swain) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:10:31 -0400 Subject: [Carolinas_asist] Twitter with Carolinas_ASIS&T: 2015 In-Reply-To: References: <200905181810.CUV24625@md2.mail.umd.edu>, , , , <1af06bde0905190918o5ee2dcb9ve40a897b0071ef7@mail.gmail.com>, , , , <001b01c9d95b$81207890$836169b0$@unc.edu>, , , , , Message-ID: We now have a Twitter account thanks to our South Carolina members. Please feel free to tweet starting today to #CCASIST15 . Use it to stay in touch at events:At 11:30am today the University of South Carolina will host a virtual and onsite workshop on "Social Media Analysis and Its Application in Research and Practice" with Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd, Associate Professor, Ryerson University, Canada and Dr. Amir Karami , Data Consultant. LOCATION: Room 318, Multi-media Lab in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of South Carolina, 800 Sumter St., Columbia, SC, 29208. The workshop will be live streamed. Livestream link to access the workshop is at: https://livestream.com/accounts/1928792/events/4429982And later this week CC: ASIST will be an exhibiting sponsor at the 2015 Health Informatics Career Fair in Durham, NC ( Friday, October 23.) It is for potential interns and employment for those working in data analytics and health informatics. The fair and symposium will be from 9:30-4:00pm at the NCCU Nursing Building off Alston Ave. Parking if available. Registration is free and you can register at the door or pre-register by emailing to hicareerfair at nccu.edu. Details at www.hicareerfair.com . Corporations such as SAS; Novant; Booz Allen Hamilton; Carolinas HealthCare System; Clinipace Worldwide; Colbert Enterprises; Community Care of NC, Duke Medical School (Masters in Clinical Health Management);Wingate University Pharmacy School; Northeastern (Charlotte campus); and Epic will be represented. The 5 NC sponsoring universities with degree and certification programs in HI organizing the event are Duke University, East Carolina, NC Central University, UNC-Chapel Hill, and UNC-Charlotte. And use Twitter at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting November 6-10 in St. Louis. See you soon! Regards, Deborah Swain, Executive Committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: