From ku26 at drexel.edu Tue Oct 6 17:24:24 2015 From: ku26 at drexel.edu (Unsworth,Kristene) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 21:24:24 +0000 Subject: [Sigifp-l] SIG-IEP issue of the Bulletin Message-ID: <36DF838FDB1BE048866CF3ACE977294EB30B40EB@MB4.drexel.edu> Hi all, It?s that time of year ? we need your submissions for our issue of the Bulletin. Take a look at these links ? one for a great issue put together by SIG-III and another for the contributor guidelines. Please let me know if you have questions and are willing to submit to the Bulletin. These articles are not intended to be scholarly journal pieces, but have a less formal feel. Scan the sample issue and please submit! The time frame is tight?I?d like your submissions as close to the 15th of this month as possible. We?d like to have the issue mapped out before the Annual conference. http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/submit.html http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Jun-14/ Thanks Kris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kristene Unsworth, PhD. Assistant Professor The College of Computing & Informatics Drexel University 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tel: 215.895.6016 | Fax: 215.895.2494 Drexel.edu/cci From: Unsworth,Kristene Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2015 5:20 PM To: 'JENNIFER PIERRE' Cc: A.J. Million (ajmillion at gmail.com) Subject: RE: IEP Best Student Paper Award Hi Jennifer and AJ, Thanks for getting in touch. Take a look at this issue of the Bulletin from last year ? this will give you a general idea of what we?re going for. The next link is for the submission guidelines. We?re on a tight schedule and would like to get the revised articles back as close to 15th as possible. Take a look at these two and let me know what questions you have going forward. http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Jun-14/ http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/submit.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kristene Unsworth, PhD. 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Assistant Professor ASIS&T SIG-IEP, Chair The College of Computing & Informatics Drexel University 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tel: 215.895.6016 | Fax: 215.895.2494 Drexel.edu/cci _____________________________ From: Michael T Zimmer > Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 11:29 AM Subject: Call for Book Chapters: "Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Cases and Challenges? Call for Book Chapters: "Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Cases and Challenges? Editors: Michael Zimmer and Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda Publisher: Peter Lang: Digital Formations (Steve Jones, series editor) Synopsis: The Internet and related social media technologies and platforms have opened up vast new means for communication, socialization, expression, and collaboration. They also have provided new resources for researchers seeking to explore, observe, and measure human opinions, activities and interactions. Increasingly, social media tools are used to aid traditional research: subjects might be recruited through Facebook or Twitter, surveys are administered and shared online, and data is often stored and processed on social and collaborative Web-based platforms and repositories. Social media has also emerged as a preferred domain for research itself: ethnographies take place within massively online social environments, entire collections of Facebook profile pages are scraped for data analysis, and public Twitter streams are routinely mined for academic purposes. Process data such as timestamps or logs are allowing researchers to model usage across time and space employing new computational methods. In short, academic research has begun to fully embrace what Maria Azua describes in her book, ?The Social Factor: Innovate, Ignite, and Win through Mass Collaboration and Social Networking,? as ?the social age,? the leveraging of the Internet and pervasive connected devices to enhance communication, information exchange, collaboration, and social interactions. As a result, researchers studying the internet find themselves immersed in a domain where information flows freely but potentially bound by contextual norms and expectations, where platforms may oscillate between open and closed information flows, and where data may be user-generated or proprietary. They are confronted with new economies of attention, where algorithms, memes and crowdfunding play a role in what is made visible on the Internet. As in its offline counterpart, Internet and social media-based research raises critical ethical issues of risk and safety to the human subject. The many disciplines already long engaged in human subjects research (such as medicine, anthropology, psychology, communication) have long-standing ethical codes and policies intended to guide researchers and those charged with ensuring that research on human subjects follows both legal requirements and ethical practices, and ethical review boards are charged with approving, monitoring, and reviewing research involving humans to ensure the rights and welfare of the research subjects are protected. But in the so-called ?social age? ? where individuals increasingly share personal information on platforms with porous and shifting boundaries, the aggregation of data from disparate sources is increasingly the norm, and web-based services, and their privacy policies and terms of service statements change too rapidly for an average user to keep up ? the ethical frameworks and assumptions traditionally used by researchers and review boards alike are frequently challenged and, in some cases, inadequate. Researchers using the Internet as a tool or a space of research ? and their ethical review boards ? are confronted with a continuously expanding set of ethical dilemmas: What ethical obligations do researchers have to protect the privacy of subjects engaging in activities in ?public? Internet spaces? Which national or international ethical standards apply when researching global networks, communities, or information flows? How is confidentiality or anonymity assured online? How is and should informed consent be obtained online? How should research on minors be conducted, and how do you prove a subject is not a minor? Is deception (pretending to be someone you are not or withholding identifiable information) in online spaces a norm, or a harm? Is ?harm? possible to someone existing online in digital spaces? What are researchers? obligations in spaces which are governed by platform providers? How should contend with inequalities in data access and uncertainties about data provenance and quality? In recent years, a growing number of scholars have begun exploring this new domain of Internet research ethics, numerous scholarly associations have drafted ethical guidelines for Internet research, and government regulatory authorities are starting to confront the myriad of ethical concerns Internet-based research brings to light. ?Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Cases and Challenges? will provide a necessary update to this existing scholarship in four critical ways: ? First, as Internet tools and platforms continue to evolve at a rapid pace, we will seek to include brief case studies highlighting unique uses ? and related ethical concerns ? of the current state-of-the-art technologies and platforms, including new social media platforms like Vine and Tinder, cloud and distributed computing, wearable devices, health tracking applications, and so on. ? Second, we will strive to expand the disciplinary terrain impacted by Internet-based research, expanding the investigation of research approaches within the social sciences to include computer science, medicine, engineering, and business, resulting in a more inclusive umbrella of domains that must confront the challenges of Internet research ethics. ? Third, we will strive for a more global approach to the challenges of Internet research ethics, soliciting contributions from researchers in diverse regulatory environments, as well as those dealing with the complex ethical dimensions of researching platforms and users that cross borders. ? And fourth, we will also pay attention to the new ?players? in the domain of internet research ethics, such as platform providers and other commercial data owners who might engage in their own research, frequently disrupting traditional mechanisms of ethical review. Submissions: We envision two kinds of submissions for ?Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Cases and Challenges?: - New Cases in Internet Research Ethics: We seek to include brief case studies highlighting unique uses ? and related ethical concerns ? of current state-of-the-art technologies and platforms within research contexts. Case studies can be descriptive and illustrative, and don?t necessarily need to resolve the ethical concerns. Cases could be examples from one?s own research, or an overview of various related projects in the field. Examples from industry, government, and academia are welcome. Topics for cases include, but are not limited to: ? Social network analysis ? Meta-data and log analysis ? Digital ethnography ? Mechanical Turk ? Library of Congress Twitter archive ? Mobile applications ? Wearable computers ? Facebook Emotion Contagion debate ? Apple HealthKit ? Internet shaming - New Challenges in Internet Research Ethics: Complementing the inclusion of various emerging cases, the 2nd part of the volume will provide broader discussions of new challenges in Internet research ethics. These chapters will tend to be more normative and analytical, engaging with the conceptual dimensions of Internet research ethics. We especially seek examples that consider a global perspective. Topics for discussion of challenges include, but are not limited to: ? What constitutes a human subject? ? What is the nature of Informed consent in online environments? ? Issues of privacy and anonymity ? Tracking & location privacy ? Citizen science & crowdsourcing data collection ? Information security ? Data sharing & openness ? Transnational information flows ? Internal and industry-sponsored research Submission details and timeline: Potential contributors are invited to submit a 2-3 page chapter proposal to InternetResearchEthicsBook at gmail.com by December 1, 2015, detailing the chapter?s contribution and fit with the book, and the structure of the proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by January 15, 2016 as to the status of their proposal and sent formatting requirements. Full chapters should be 5,000-8,000 words in length (case studies may be shorter) and are due on May 1, 2016. After a round of editorial reviews, final revised manuscripts will be due on August 15, 2016. Editors: Dr. Michael Zimmer School of Information Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Dr. Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Institute for Web Science and Technologies at Koblenz University Publisher: The book will be published within the Peter Lang ?Digital Formations? series, edited by Dr. Steve Jones (UI-Chicago). Target publication date is late 2016/early 2017. -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Associate Professor and PhD Program Director, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm at uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: ATT00001.txt URL: From rhill at asis.org Thu Oct 15 14:15:39 2015 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 14:15:39 -0400 Subject: [Sigifp-l] Extended Hotel & Regustration Deadlines for ASIS&T 2015 AM Message-ID: <387-2201510415181539761@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 crhinesmith at ou.edu Thu Oct 22 00:50:59 2015 From: crhinesmith at ou.edu (Rhinesmith, Colin H.) Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 04:50:59 +0000 Subject: [Sigifp-l] ASIS&T SIG IEP Call for Nominations Message-ID: <7E0CFB49-5966-440A-9C1A-2C5BA5577FEC@ou.edu> The ASIS&T Special Interest Group for Internet Ethics and Policy (SIG IEP) is seeking nominations for officers for 2015-2016. Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague for one of the following positions: * Chair-elect * Treasurer * Communications / Social Media SIG Information Ethics and Policy (IEP) helps ensure that ASIS&T members are aware of legislation and regulation affecting the information field and/or members of the information professions. It provides venues which encourage research on and discussion of current and emergent information policies as they affect society. It will promote awareness of state/provincial, national and international policies of public and private entities. Nominations can be emailed to Kristene Unsworth, SIG IEP Chair at ku26 (AT) drexel (DOT) edu and should include your name, affiliation, position of interest, and what you hope to accomplish in the position. Nominations will be accepted through October 30, 2015. We will send out an email to all members to vote by the Nov 5th and will announce new leaders by the 9th. If necessary we will hold a vote at our SIG meeting on Nov 10th at 4:45 in Sterling 5 at the conference hotel in St. Louis. Thank you! 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