[Sigtis-l] SIG name change vote needed

[Jeremy Hunsinger]

Personally,  while I think social informatics is important and  
strongly identify some of my research as being in that arena.   I  
think that TIS is the broader and more encompassing category, and has  
less theoretical, methodological, and related implications for the  
future of the group, and as such I think that the group should not  
change its identity to what I view as a more narrow category.

contrarily i would say that if there is interest Asist should  
establish an independent Sig-SI separate from this group instead of  
renaming this group.  I recognize the value of the Sig-SI agenda.

In short, I think that there is likely members of this group that do  
not do social informatics or do not do social informatics all of the  
time and thus may not be interested in being part of the group that  
reimagine's itself in that way.   I'm not sure why things are being  
moved in this way, but I would like to hear from other people in  
support or against this directly.

I do not think people should support the renaming.  I think people  
should support the creation of a  new Sig-SI

Thanks,

On Sep 22, 2005, at 10:54 AM, KRISTIN R ESCHENFELDER wrote:


> Dear SIG-TIS member
>
> You receive this e-mail because you are a member of ASIS&T SIG
> Technology, Information, and Society (TIS).  The purpose of the  
> email is
> to ask for your vote regarding a proposed change to the name of the  
> SIG.
>
> The current SIG leadership are proposing changing the name of SIG- 
> TIS to
> SIG-Social Informatics (SIG-SI).  To register support or opposition,
> send an email to:
>
> socinformatics at yahoo.com
>
> The advantages of changing the name to SIG-SI include:
>
> (1) The term “social informatics” or “SI” is already recognized by  
> many
> practitioners and researchers in the field of information science;  
> thus
> it is relatively easier to expand membership;
> (2) A number of SIG-TIS members identify themselves SI researchers;
> (3) The SIG will have a narrowly defined and easily identifiable  
> focus.
>  This will be of help when we sponsor panels and mini-conferences.
> (4) SIG-TIS content is already being identified by the term “social
> informatics” in the ASIST proceedings.  (See the Sunday Oct 30  
> column of
> tracks at http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM05/program.html)
>
> The procedure for changing a SIG name requires approval by at least  
> 10%
> of the current SIG membership.  According to listserv records, the SIG
> currently has 174 members; therefore, in order to change the name, we
> need emails of support from at least 18 members.  If you approve or
> disapprove of the proposal to change the name, please send an email to
> the following address socinformatics at yahoo.com expressing your  
> opinion.
>  All comments will be registered!
>
> The results of the vote are sent to the ASIST SIG Steering Committee
> (which oversees all SIGs) for discussion and approval.
>
> *** To register support or opposition for the name change, send an  
> email to:
>
> socinformatics at yahoo.com
>
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> Sincerely,
>
> SIG TIS officers
>
> Kristin Eschenfelder
> Noriko Hara
> Bin Li
>
>
>
> Kristin Eschenfelder
> Assistant Professor
> School of Library and Information Studies
> University of Wisconsin-Madison
> eschenfelder at wisc.edu
> 1-608-263-2105
> http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~kreschen
>
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jeremy hunsinger
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www.cddc.vt.edu
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