[Sigtis-l] CFP-Feb. 29, "Information Credibility: Let's Get Serious"

[Peyina Lin]

The Credibility Commons Project invites faculty and students to pariticipate in the wildcard session titled Information Credibility: Let’s Get Serious”on Friday, February 29 from 1:30pm to 3:00pm at the 2008 iConference<http://www.ischools.org/oc/conference08/> . The sessions goals are to:



1)    Discuss the new concerns and challenges of information credibility raised by new developments in search technology, online participatory publishing models, and social networking tools for both consumers and producers of information



2)    Envision potential research, design and development directions to address these new challenges.



Senior researchers on information credibility will briefly present their research and engage in discussions with participants to meet the sessions goals.



Space is limited. Register by January 31!

Registration is very simple, and should take only 5 minutes. For more information, check out our call for participation page http://credibilitycommons.org/index.php/iconference2008_cfp_wildcard/.



We look forward to engaging in discussions with you in this wildcard session!



Feel free to email us with questions.





The Credibility Commons Project Team

The Information School

University of Washington

credible at u.washington.edu<mailto:credible at u.washington.edu>



Session organizers:

Michael Eisenberg, Co-Director of the Credibility Commons Project, Dean Emeritus and Faculty

Peyina Lin, PhD Candidate

Yuan Lin, PhD Student

The Information School, University of Washington



Panelists:

Michael B. Eisenberg, Co-Director of the Credibility Commons Project, Dean Emeritus and Professor at the Information School of the University of Washington



David Lankes, Co-Director of the Credibility Commons Project, Director of the Information Institute of Syracuse, and Associate Professor at Syracuse University


Miriam Metzger, Associate Director of the Center for Film, Television, and New Media and Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California Santa Barbara.
Soo Young Rieh, Assistant Professor at the School of Information, University of Michigan
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