[Sigifp-l] Workshop for 2017 ASIST Annual Meeting

Mon Mar 20 10:31:57 EDT 2017

Thanks everyone for the great discussion and ideas so far.

I see three ideas emerging so far: First, a genuine interest in/ desire for a “teaching information ethics and policy” workshop, preferably with some tangible products like syllabi and/ or case studies. (I personally think having a set of case studies would be fantastically useful.) Second, a real need and interest in revising the proposal to make it more relevant to current events and current political realities. (This would make the proposal even more timely and interesting, I think, and thus more likely to be accepted.) Third, interest in a policymaker-partnership-alliance workshop/project.

I would suggest we have two components here: the teaching aspect and the partnership aspect (just using these “titles” as rough shorthand). The audience for each might overlap, but I’d think the audience for the partnership aspect might be quite broad.

I think the teaching component would be best as a half-day or full-day workshop. I lean toward half-day because it’s less expensive, more compact, and might be more attractive to folks than adding a full day to the conference. It might help enrollment, which has been an issue for SIG-IEP workshops in the past. Next, I suggest we address the partnership aspect in a panel presentation, sponsored by the SIG. As a panel presentation, I think it would be accessible to more people and thus spread name recognition of our SIG and increase attendance (and likely increase the practical application of what we discuss).

To the best of my knowledge, folks can attend a workshop without attending the full conference, but I will double-check. Perhaps the SIG could help cover attendance costs for non-academics who are presenting? I have no idea—let’s not circulate that idea yet, but I will try to investigate if others think that’s a decent idea.

-Shannon

Dr. Shannon M. Oltmann
Assistant Professor
School of Information Science
College of Communication & Information
University of Kentucky
shannon.oltmann at uky.edu<mailto:shannon.oltmann at uky.edu>
320 Lucille Little Library
Lexington KY 40506
859-257-0788
859-257-4205 (fax)

From: Sigifp-l [mailto:sigifp-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Bryce C Newell
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2017 9:51 AM
To: Alan Rubel
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Subject: Re: [Sigifp-l] Workshop for 2017 ASIST Annual Meeting

Jay Stanley at the ACLU and I will be talking on the phone about this later this week (he expressed interest when I reached out on Friday). I see two options here that might both be interesting for this sort of partner, one: we retain the teaching-focused idea, modifying last year's proposal to account for recent US and (world) politics and (related) changes in national information policy agendas. The focus could therefore be (partly) to generate a collective vision of how and what to teach in our courses, and to building current events and the associated policy-related implications into our syllabi with the intent to collectively inform our students about a core set of topics and issues that flow from the discussions at the workshop.

Second, either as part of this workshop, or perhaps in another setting at ASIS&T, it could be interesting to focus on building and establishing researcher-activist-policymaker alliances or partnerships, and to engage people in activities and discussions about identifying where such partnerships could be useful, what topics should be attacked as a group, and maybe to orient the workshop towards being an information policy research incubator of sorts...

It's great that we will be near DC, we should capitalize on that and try to get policy folks to join us and attend/participate, etc.

I'd love to have some more specific ideas to share with Jay on Friday, so I'll be watching this thread intently over the next few days. :)

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Bryce Clayton Newell, Ph.D., J.D.
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT)
Tilburg Law School
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On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 6:42 PM, Alan Rubel <arubel at wisc.edu<mailto:arubel at wisc.edu>> wrote:
Hi all,
I plan on attending the annual meeting, and I’d love to participate in the workshop. I have attached the final version of the workshop abstract and agenda. I also have prior versions and notes from our meetings that I can share. And I agree with Adam’s suggestion below about outcomes. That was one hope for last year’s version (syllabi, modules, assignments that could be shared and customized).
Also, it’s worth noting that other SIGs were interested in co-sponsoring. In particular, SIG-ED and the social informatics SIG might be interested.
One thing that folks seemed particularly interested in was less time for presentations and “talking heads” and more for workshop and breakout sessions.
Best, Alan

Alan Rubel
Associate Professor
iSchool (School of Library and Information Studies)
Legal Studies Program
University of Wisconsin, Madison
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alanrubel.com<http://alanrubel.com>

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Subject: Re: [Sigifp-l] Workshop for 2017 ASIST Annual Meeting

Hi all,
Another idea might be to advertise that participants will achieve a specific outcome for teaching in the area of information ethics. Something like generating assignments to use in classes or recent case studies/exercises.
I've also reached out to a contact at EFF and will see what he says.
-Adam

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Adam Kriesberg
Post-doctoral Scholar
University of Maryland College of Information Studies

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Unsworth,Kristene <ku26 at drexel.edu<mailto:ku26 at drexel.edu>> wrote:
I'm really excited about this too. Nadia great idea about sponsorship...I'll stop by the ACLU here and see if they would be interested.

Kristene Unsworth, Phd
ASIS&T SIG Director

College of Computing and Informatics
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA

On Mar 17, 2017 11:39 AM, Nadia Caidi <nadia.caidi at utoronto.ca<mailto:nadia.caidi at utoronto.ca>> wrote:
Hi folks,
I also think it is a good idea to bring back this workshop. I suggest rejigging it a bit to make it even more relevant in light of what is going on right now in the US and elsewhere.
However, SIG IEP has had lots of great ideas for workshops over the years but they often resulted in cancellation because of low registration. I suggest we have a strategy for dissemination and publicizing the workshops. Creating some buzz in other words by enticing people to attend the workshop: how will it benefit their teaching, research, line of work etc. Otherwise people will not pay the extra couple of hundred dollars.
Can we try and get some sponsorship from somewhere? ACLU? EFF? Etc.?

I would attend and participate.

Cheers,
Nadia

On Mar 17, 2017 2:24 PM, "Bryce C Newell" <bcnewell at uw.edu<mailto:bcnewell at uw.edu>> wrote:
Shannon, thanks for bringing this back to our attention. I am also on-board with reviving this workshop, so count me in!

- Bryce

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Bryce Clayton Newell, Ph.D., J.D.
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT)
Tilburg Law School
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On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 4:19 PM, Oltmann, Shannon M <shannon.oltmann at uky.edu<mailto:shannon.oltmann at uky.edu>> wrote:

Hello everyone. Last year, for ASIST 2016, we discussed a panel on teaching information ethics and policy and drafted a proposal. Ultimately, we had to withdraw it due to low face to face participation. The panel was titled: “Advancing Information Ethics and Policy Education: Designing Curriculum for Diverse Contexts, sponsored by SIG-IEP and SIG-ED” and the summary is pasted below.

I’m writing to see if there is interest in reviving this workshop for ASIST 2017, which will meet in Washington, DC. If so, we will need to update and revise the panel to fit this year’s theme. Details about ASIST 2017 can be found here: https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2017/asist-2017-call-for-papers/. If you would be interested in helping organize the workshop, and plan to attend the meeting, please let me know. If you would be interested in participating in some way (but not organizing), and plan to attend the meeting, please let me know. I am also seeking ideas on how to update/revise the workshop, so please share any thoughts in that regard.

Another option is that we could design a completely different workshop with a new focus. If you think this is a better approach for ASIST 2017, please share your thoughts on this as well.

I’m hoping to have a robust discussion via listserv, which we can eventually transfer to a virtual meeting. Thanks, everyone, for contributing your thoughts about this.

-Shannon Oltmann

Description of 2016 panel:

Organizers: Alan Rubel (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA), Shannon Oltmann (University of Kentucky, USA), A.J. Million (University of Missouri, USA), Lisa Nathan (University of British Columbia, Canada), Bryce Newell (Tilburg University, Netherlands), Emad Kharzraee (Kent State University, USA), Emily Knox (University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, USA), Colin Rhinesmith (University of Oklahoma, USA), Kristene Unsworth (Drexel University, USA)

Please join us for a full-day, collaborative workshop focusing on teaching information ethics and policy on October 14, 2016.

The SIG IEP, with the support of SIG ED, is sponsoring a workshop on teaching information ethics and policy at the ASIS&T annual meeting in Copenhagen. The workshop will be highly collaborative, with most of the day devoted to working groups focused on building curriculum ideas, pedagogical approaches, project ideas, and teaching tools. Each working group will be preceded by one or two very short presentations on the topic in order to spark discussion and collaboration. The goal of the workshop is to learn from other scholars and teachers of IEP about different approaches, topics, and teaching methods.

We are seeking participation from the broadest range of scholars and practitioners whose work includes, or relates to, information ethics and policy (broadly construed). Participation requires only registration and willingness to actively engage over the course of the workshop. We encourage, but do not require, participants to bring syllabi, reading lists, and other artifacts to share during the workshop. In addition, if you have a particularly novel, successful, or interesting approach, unit, assignment, or method for teaching information ethics and policy and would like to do a very short (less than 10 minutes) presentation, please send an abstract (approx.. 500 words) describing the presentation to Alan Rubel at arubel at wisc.edu<mailto:arubel at wisc.edu> (subject line: ASIS&T workshop) by August 30. We will notify accepted presentations by September 1, in time for conference early registration (which ends September 2, 2016).

Dr. Shannon M. Oltmann

Assistant Professor

School of Information Science

College of Communication & Information

University of Kentucky

shannon.oltmann at uky.edu<mailto:shannon.oltmann at uky.edu>

320 Lucille Little Library

Lexington KY 40506

859-257-0788<tel:%28859%29%20257-0788>

859-257-4205<tel:%28859%29%20257-4205> (fax)

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