From dpotnis at utk.edu Tue Dec 3 14:25:46 2013 From: dpotnis at utk.edu (Potnis, Devendra Dilip) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 19:25:46 +0000 Subject: [Sigtis-l] CfP for AMCIS 2014 Minitrack titled "ICTs for Financial Inclusion of the Unbanked Poor in Developing Economies" Message-ID: ***Apologies for Cross-posting*** Track: ICTs for Global Development Minitrack: ICTs for Financial Inclusion of the Unbanked Poor in Developing Economies We invite articles to be submitted to this mini-track at the 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2014) to be held on August 7-10, 2014 in Savannah, Georgia. AMCIS 2014 brings together academics and industry professionals around the world to exchange knowledge related to the AMCIS 2014 theme, Smart Sustainability, the Information Systems Opportunity. For more information visit: http://amcis2014.aisnet.org Minitrack Description Financial inclusion is critical for global development since it provides financial services at an affordable cost to the poor, who are left out of the formal financial sector. A 2009 study by the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), a donor consortium affiliated to the World Bank, found that the number of branches per 100,000 adults was only eight in developing countries compared to 24 in developed countries (CGAP, 2009). The CGAP study also established a relationship between lack of access to basic financial services and low incomes. Of the 2.9 billion "unbanked" adults, 2.7 billion were concentrated in developing economies. Traditional financial institutions do not serve the poor, especially in remote locations in rural areas, because it is risky and expensive. The poor are often illiterate and find it difficult to complete the paperwork required for financial services. They cannot also furnish collateral for any loans. Neither do they have any credit histories. The tiny profits from a small loan, or a savings account with a small balance, make it unprofitable for banks to serve the poor (Khavul, 2010). A more pertinent question is whether financial inclusion helps in lifting the poor out of poverty. An empirical study based on data from 160 countries found that access to finance had a positive impact on economic development (Honohan, 2006). The stark impact of financial exclusion can be seen in one statistic: 42% of India's population, or 490 million people, live under the poverty benchmark of USD1.25 per day at purchasing power parity according to a study published by the United Nations Development Program in 2009. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are creating new channels to reach the poor through branchless banking. Last-mile technologies such as ATMs (Prodem in Bolivia), mobile phones (Safaricom's M-Pesa in Kenya, GCash and Smart Money in Philippines), RFID, smart cards (Wizzit in South Africa), biometric identification (FINO in India) and Near Field Communication technologies (ALW's "bank in a box" in India) are used by microfinance institutions (MFIs), banks, and mobile network operators (Mas, 2009). Information systems also play a role in expanding the number of customers reached. SKS Microfinance and Equitas, two MFIs in India, implemented innovative systems to manage portfolio risk and monitor the performance of field agents, who contact borrowers (Mohan et al., In Press). ICTs have also played a transformational role in creating a new business model to serve the unbanked poor - online microlending. In this model, individual donors give loans to the poor for establishing or expanding their businesses rather than giving charitable handouts to them. Kiva.org was the first to launch a person-to-person website in 2005. As of October 2013, Kiva had reached over 1.5 million borrowers in over 73 countries, disbursing more than USD480 million from over 1 million lenders. Several implementation challenges hinder the objective of using ICTs for promoting financial inclusion in developing economies. An important issue is the use of ICT solutions applied to a poor business process. It is imperative that the business process for effecting financial transactions is streamlined before applying technology solutions. For instance, SKS Microfinance recognized the importance of reengineering the business process first (Mohan and Potnis, 2010). The financial illiteracy of the customer, lack of basic infrastructure in developing economies, and government policies are other barriers to be overcome. Untapped business opportunities at the bottom of the pyramid offer an exciting and lucrative proposition for IT professionals and businesses to develop innovative customer-centric technical solutions, financial products and services to serve the unbanked poor. Such innovations can be instrumental for global development by putting "the tools for a digital economy into the hands of the world's poor" (Heeks, 2009). Suggested Topics We invite papers from the following areas, although contributions are not limited to the topics listed below. 1. Frameworks for financial inclusion in developing economies 2. Adoption and continued usage of last-mile technologies for mobile banking 3. Case examples of applications of new technologies and information systems to serve the unbanked poor 4. Case examples of failed initiatives for financial inclusion in developing economies 5. Potential of value-added financial services (e.g., mobile applications) for the bottom of the pyramid 6. Innovative delivery models for financial services and products in the digital economy 7. Business process management issues for serving the unbanked poor 8. Government policies regulating the interplay between actors such as banks, mobile network operators, microfinance institutions, and the poor customers 9. Training for financial literacy of the poor in developing economies 10. Challenges, opportunities, and barriers to the adoption of ICTs by the poor 11. Human-computer interaction issues related to ICTs used for financial inclusion Minitrack Chairs Lakshmi Mohan School of Business, University at Albany, State University of New York l.mohan at albany.edu Devendra Potnis School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee at Knoxville dpotnis at utk.edu Instructions for Authors and Submission Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2014 will open in early January 2014. Exact dates and instructions to authors to follow as soon as these are made available. References Consultative Group to Assist the Poor. (2009). Financial Access 2009: Measuring Access to Financial Inclusion Around the World. Retrieved from http://www.cgap.org/gm/document-1.9.38735/FA2009.pdf Heeks, R. (2009). Emerging Markets: IT and the World's Bottom Billion. Communications of the ACM, April 22-24. Honohan, P. (2006). Household Financial Assets in the Process of Development (Vol. Policy Research Working Paper 3965). Washington, D.C.: World Bank. Khavul, S. (2010). Microfinance: Creating Opportunities for the Poor? Academy of Management Perspectives, 24(3), 57-71. Mas, I. (2009). The Economics of Branchless Banking. Innovations, 4(2), 57-75. Mohan, L., & Potnis, D. (2010). Catalytic Innovation in Microfinance for Inclusive Growth: Insights from SKS Microfinance. Journal of Asia-Pacific Business, 11(Special Issue on Value Creation, Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Global Economies), 218-239. Mohan, L., Potnis, D., & Alter, S. (In Press). Using Information Systems to Support "Door-step Banking": Enabling Scalability of Microfinance to Serve More of the Poor at the Bottom of the Pyramid. Communications of the AIS, 32(Special Issue on Information Systems in Emerging Economies). Mohan, L., Potnis, D., & Mattoo, N. (2013). A Pan-India Footprint of Microfinance Borrowers from an Exploratory Survey: Impact of Over-Indebtedness on Financial Inclusion of the Poor. Enterprise Development and Microfinance, 24(1), 55-71. Morawczynski, O., & Pickens, M. (2009). Poor People Using Mobile Financial Services: Observations on Customer Usage and Impact from M-PESA. World Bank. Washington, D.C. _____________________________________ Devendra Potnis, PhD Assistant Professor School of Information Sciences University of Tennessee 1345 Circle Park Dr., Suite 451 Knoxville, TN 37996 +1-865-974-2148; Twitter: DPotnis https://www.sis.utk.edu/users/devendra-potnis -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From thaigh at computer.org Wed Dec 4 19:07:57 2013 From: thaigh at computer.org (Thomas Haigh) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 18:07:57 -0600 Subject: [Sigtis-l] iConference: please help us in "Exploring the Social Studies of Information" Message-ID: <002b01cef14e$0de33420$29a99c60$@computer.org> Dear SIGTIS people, I'm sure you have already seen a number of calls to register for the iConference in Berlin. I'd like to alert you to an item of particular relevance there, a full-day workshop that I'm co-organizing on "Exploring the Social Studies of Information." We have three months before the workshop, and will be tweaking the exact format and lineup for much of that period based on the number of people registering and the lineup of people we can recruit to take part. The current description is at www.socialstudiesof.info/workshop14, and as we firm up the program more details will appear at the same place. However early registration for the iConference closes on December 15 so we'd like to get as many people as possible on board by then. http://ischools.org/the-iconference/registration/ This relates to, and is the launch event for, the idea of building a meta-community around concept of "Social Studies of Information" (SSI). We try to define that at http://www.socialstudiesof.info/about, but basically you could interpret it as "STS for iSchools" (where STS = Science and Technology Studies). We have a research group of the same name here at UWM, but the idea for a broader community came from the realization that there is no single email list reaching people with what I think of as STS interests across the iSchool spectrum. The Social Informatics and Sociotechnical research communities are relatively well defined (in part by lists such as this one), but there are also people working on areas such as information history, internet studies, information science, or archival studies who have similar STS perspectives and training. These people may see each other at meetings of the Society for Social Studies of Science but not do not coexist within any of the many established tribes of iSchool identity. The workshop will be quite informal, with no traditional research presentations and few formal talks of any kind. The program is being structured around roundtable "plenaries" and smaller breakout discussions on specific topics. Everyone who comes will have a chance to introduce themselves and their interests. This is a chance to get to know people with complementary interests from different research traditions and to collectively work out what, if any, steps could usefully be taken to continue and institutionalize engagement across research communities. . We are still looking for participants in a couple of roundtable discussions and people willing help to lead a breakout discussion on the relationship of a specific research community/tradition to SSI. So if you'd like to attend the conference and being listed on the workshop program would help you to arrange this then please contact me ASAP. . If you are already going to the iConference, please do register for this workshop and include it in your plans. (All workshops are held at the same time, on Tuesday, 4 March. This means that you can combine participation in the workshop with whatever session you may be scheduled in on the main conference which runs Wednesday to Friday). . If you aren't going to the iConference and don't want to, perhaps you would still consider signing up for the SSI listserv at http://www.socialstudiesof.info/user/register or supplying a syllabus for our growing repository at http://www.socialstudiesof.info/syllabi. Best wishes, Tom Haigh www.tomandmaria.com/tom -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From agreenwood at utpress.utoronto.ca Mon Dec 9 10:00:49 2013 From: agreenwood at utpress.utoronto.ca (Greenwood, Audrey) Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 15:00:49 +0000 Subject: [Sigtis-l] Special Issue of the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science Message-ID: Special Issue of the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science Title: Data, Records, and Archives in the Cloud Aims and Scope The cloud - on-demand access to a network of a shared pool of configurable computing resources - heralds unprecedented challenges for archivists as well as records and information managers. Data, records and archives are increasingly entrusted to Internet Providers who offer a large amount of on-demand online storage at a low cost, protected by a level of security that no single organization can afford, and in formats compatible with any user's system. However, the cloud environment is neither transparent nor regulated. Those who manage, appraise, control and preserve the material it stores, encounter problems related to ownership, provenance, and jurisdiction, among others, as they remain responsible without control, and accountable without knowledge. The aim of this proposed Special Issue is to explore the challenges presented by keeping data, records and archives in the cloud, report on research into possible solutions, examine existing and proposed policies, procedures, regulations and legislation, and describe cases of adoption of cloud models, case law, contractual agreements, and technological infrastructure. The goal would be to publish 8 to 10 articles which would constitute a double issue of CJILS. Possible topics focusing on issues presented by the cloud include but are not limited to: ? Location independence, server sharing, and jurisdiction ? Metadata control and ownership ? Big data, open data, and open access ? Encryption, security and transparency ? Confidentiality and privacy policies ? Retention and disposition ? Storage costs ? Chain of custody and chain of evidence ? Audit, traceability and admissibility ? Terms of service and contractual agreements ? Records portability, continuity and sustainability ? Data and records reliability, accuracy and authenticity ? Authentication and certification ? Data, records and archives integrity ? Data, records and archives long term preservation ? Technology and mechanisms ? Reliability of infrastructure (e.g. obsolescence) ? Data provenance issues when dealing with mobile sensors ? Breaches, cybercrime, and information assurance ? Information governance ? Standards of trust ? Users control ? Accessibility, searchability, and usability ? Intellectual rights ? Use and misuse of social media ? Data leaks ? Individual behaviour in an Internet environment Managing the Special Issue: Lead Guest Editor: Dr. Luciana Duranti, University of British Columbia Editorial Board: Dr. Fiorella Foscarini, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto Dr. Ken Thibodeau, US National Institute for Standards and Technology Dr. Karen Anderson, Department of Archives and Computer Science, Mid-Sweden University Dr. Barbara Endicott-Popovsky, Information School, University of Washington Dr. Yale Li, Cloud Security Alliance, Seattle Chapter Timeline and schedule: Deadline for submission of proposals: March 31st 2014, with a decision by May 1st 2014 Deadline for submission of complete articles: September 30th 2014 Deadline for external reviewers for submission of their reviews: December 31st 2014 Deadline for submission of the revisions to accepted articles: March 31st 2015 ? Publication date: June 2015 ? Authors are invited to visit the journal's website for presentation guidelines and send their submissions in electronic format - an e-mail attachment in Word is preferred -to the following address: luciana.duranti at ubc.ca Dr. Luciana Duranti Num?ro sp?cial de la Revue canadienne des sciences de l'information et de biblioth?conomie Titre propos? : Donn?es, documents et archives dans le nuage informatique Objectifs et cadre de recherche propos?s L'informatique en nuage ou infonuagique - un acc?s sur demande par r?seau partag? ? un fonds commun de ressources informatiques configurables - pr?sente des d?fis sans pr?c?dent pour les archivistes ainsi que les gestionnaires de dossiers et d'information. Les donn?es, les documents et les archives sont confi?s de plus en plus ? des fournisseurs d'acc?s ? Internet, qui offrent de grandes capacit?s de stockage en ligne, accessibles ? la demande ? un faible co?t, prot?g?es par un niveau de s?curit? qu'aucune organisation ne peut se permettre ? elle seule, et dans des formats compatibles avec tous les syst?mes des utilisateurs. Cependant, l'environnement de l'informatique en nuage n'est ni transparent ni r?glement?. Ceux qui g?rent, ?valuent, contr?lent et pr?servent les mat?riaux qui leur sont confi?s, rencontrent des probl?mes li?s ? la propri?t?, la provenance et la comp?tence juridique, entre autres, en raison du fait qu'ils sont responsables alors qu'ils ne sont soumis ? aucun contr?le et qu'ils n'ont pas les connaissances appropri?es. L'objectif de ce projet de num?ro sp?cial est d'explorer les d?fis pos?s par la conservation de donn?es, de dossiers et d'archives dans un nuage informatique, de faire le point sur la recherche de solutions possibles, d'examiner les politiques existantes et celles qui sont propos?es, les proc?dures, les r?glements et la l?gislation, et de d?crire des cas d'adoption de mod?les d'infonuagique, de jurisprudence, d'accords contractuels, ainsi que les infrastructures technologiques qui les sous-tendent. L'objectif serait de publier de 8 ? 10 articles constituant un num?ro double de la RCSIB. Dans la mesure o? ils portent sur les questions soulev?es par l'infonuagique, les sujets possibles pourraient, sans s'y limiter, ?tre les suivants : ? L'ind?pendance des lieux d'h?bergement, le partage de serveurs et les comp?tences respectives ? Le contr?le des m?tadonn?es et les questions de propri?t? ? Les m?gadonn?es (big data), les donn?es ouvertes et l'acc?s ouvert ? Le chiffrement, la s?curit? et la transparence ? Les politiques de confidentialit? et de vie priv?e ? La conservation et la mise ? disposition ? Les co?ts de stockage ? La cha?ne de possession et la cha?ne de preuves ? L'audit, la tra?abilit? et la recevabilit? ? Les conditions d'utilisation et les accords contractuels ? La portabilit?, la continuit? et la durabilit? des dossiers ? La fiabilit?, l'exactitude et l'authenticit? des donn?es et des dossiers ? L'authentification et la certification ? L'int?grit? des donn?es, des documents et des archives ? La pr?servation ? long terme des donn?es, des documents et des archives ? La technologie et les m?canismes ? La fiabilit? des infrastructures (par exemple leur obsolescence) ? Les questions de provenance des donn?es lors de l'utilisation de capteurs mobiles ? Les infractions, la cybercriminalit? et l'assurance de l'information ? La gouvernance de l'information ? Les normes de confiance ? Le contr?le des utilisateurs ? L'accessibilit?, la facilit? de recherche et la facilit? d'utilisation ? La propri?t? intellectuelle ? L'usage et le m?susage des m?dias sociaux ? Les fuites de donn?es ? Le comportement individuel dans l'environnement Internet Direction scientifique : Directrice scientifique invit?e : Dr. Luciana Duranti, Universit? de la Colombie -Britannique Comit? ?ditorial : Dr. Fiorella Foscarini, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto Dr. Ken Thibodeau, US National Institute for Standards and Technology Dr. Karen Anderson, Department of Archives and Computer Science, Mid-Sweden University Dr. Barbara Endicott-Popovsky, Information School, University of Washington Dr. Yale Li, Cloud Security Alliance, Seattle Chapter Calendrier propos? : Date limite de soumission des propositions d'articles : 31 mars 2014, suivie d'une d?cision des examinateurs avant le 1er mai 2014 Date limite de soumission des articles en version int?grale : 30 septembre 2014 Date limite pour les commentaires des examinateurs externes : 31 d?cembre 2014 Date limite de soumission des r?visions apport?es aux articles accept?s : 31 mars 2015 Date de publication pr?vue : Juin 2015 Les auteurs sont invit?s ? consulter le site web de la revue afin de prendre connaissance du protocole de r?daction. Les propositions doivent ?tre envoy?es par voie ?lectronique (id?alement un fichier Word en pi?ce jointe ? un courriel) ? l'adresse suivantes : luciana.duranti at ubc.ca Dr. Luciana Duranti -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From apw06 at my.fsu.edu Mon Dec 9 13:53:05 2013 From: apw06 at my.fsu.edu (Adam Worrall) Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 13:53:05 -0500 Subject: [Sigtis-l] CFP: Values and Design in HCI Education CHI workshop Message-ID: A call for position papers has been posted for a workshop on Values and Design in HCI Education, to be held April 27th, 2014 at CHI in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Position papers are due January 17th; they should be 2-4 pages in length and describe prospective participants? interests in and experiences with values and design in educational environments. Position papers should be e-mailed to Jes Koepfler (koepfler at umd.edu). More details are included below, or are available in the full call at the following URL: http://www.nyu.edu/pages/projects/nissenbaum/vid/chi2014.html Good luck to all who submit! Adam Worrall Communications Officer, ASIS&T SIG SI Doctoral Candidate, Florida State University School of Library and Information Studies College of Communication and Information - Florida's iSchool apw06 at my.fsu.edu adam at adamworrall.org http://www.adamworrall.org -- -- -- *CHI 2014 Workshop on Values & Design in HCI Education: Call for Participation* *Organizers* Jes A. Koepfler, University of Maryland, US Luke Stark, New York University, USA Paul Dourish, University of California, Irvine, USA Phoebe Sengers, Cornell University, USA Katie Shilton, University of Maryland, USA *Key Dates* January 17, 2014 ? Position papers due in CHI Extended Abstracts format February 10, 2014 ? Notifications go out to potential participants April 27, 2014 ? Meet in Toronto, ON, for the Values & Design in HCI Education workshop *Workshop Summary* How do we teach future engineers, designers, and citizens to understand values issues that arise in the design of technologies, and to identify and embody specific values in design? This one-day workshop, on Sunday, April 27, 2014, will bring together researchers and practitioners in human-computer interaction (HCI), information science, product design, the learning sciences, educational technology, and related fields to share and develop research, strategies, and tools for teaching about values and design in HCI. We will consider learning environments from classrooms to conference workshops, industry events and more. Through group discussion and exercises, participants will develop solutions to the challenges of theorizing, describing, and teaching about values and design. *Topics* Together, workshop participants will explore: - Ways of discussing values with learners in a design context - Tools, approaches, and core questions related to values and design - Best practices and material approaches to values and design - Gaps in existing pedagogy and intersections with other approaches in HCI education *Participants* The intended workshop size is 15-20 people. Interested participants should submit a 2 - 4 page position paper that describes their interests and experiences in the workshop topic using the CHI Extended Abstracts format. Submissions should be sent to koepfler at umd.edu by January 17, 2014. Successful submissions will report on experiences teaching or exploring values and design, and report on successes, limitations, or both of particular approaches. At least one author of each accepted position paper must attend the workshop and all participants must register for the workshop and at least one day of the conference. Submission notifications will be sent by February 10, 2014. *Workshop Plan* Pre-workshop (2-4 weeks prior): The organizers will facilitate a pre-workshop discussion via email on what ?values and design? means to the participants. Each participant will briefly describe his/her framing of values, design, and the relationship between the two, along with 2-3 key references. The goal of this exercise is not to come to consensus on a unified definition of either values or design, but to identify the complexity of the topic and illuminate how that complex nature might affect approaches to teaching about values in HCI education. Warm up (30 mins): To start the workshop, the organizers will provide a synthesis of participant responses from the pre-workshop discussion and set out the goals and agenda for the workshop. Share (60 mins): Participants will form small groups and share examples of approaches they have used to teach values in design, emphasizing both successes and failures of the approach. Report (30 mins): Groups will be asked to synthesize their findings from the sharing session and describe best practices and lessons learned across approaches. Practice & Critique (60 mins): Best practices and lessons learned from the groups will be used as a framework for evaluating specific approaches to teaching values and design, including Envisioning Cards, Values-at-Play, values levers, and design workbooks. Each organizer will take on the role of instructor and guide a small group through an exercise using a technique. Group members, in the role of learners, will use the framework from the morning session to critique the approaches. Together the groups will refine new ways to use those methods for engaging students, practitioners, and other researchers. Report (30 mins): After lunch, groups will report on their new approaches to using techniques for teaching about values and design. Create (90 mins): With a set of criteria and best practices in place, new groups will form to apply lessons from the day into new tools for teaching values and design. Groups may choose to co-create a course syllabus, conference workshop, begin a report or publication for the SIGCHI Bulletin or interactions, or engage in another tangible deliverable related to values and design in HCI education. Report & Synthesize (60 mins): The workshop will end with a roundup of insights and opportunities for future work, including outlining an article for interactions magazine about compelling practices for addressing values and design in HCI education. Ongoing: Throughout the day, the organizers will document conversations and artifacts of the groups? efforts, and participants will leave with a set of vetted approaches and tools for teaching values and design. Post-workshop: Workshop participants and organizers will collaboratively create a poster based on the results of the workshop to be presented at the CHI 2014 workshop poster session. Papers and projects presented at and created during the workshop, will be collected and added to an existing online repository to further support dissemination of the group?s effort through other outlets such as the SIGCHI Bulletin, interactions, or other appropriate journals/scholarly magazines. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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They may show a strong > cultural allegiance or map new interpretations and trajectories. These developments prompt us to revisit central questions: does the use of > hacking/making terminologies carry with them particular valences? Are they > deeply rooted in technologies, ideologies or cultures? Are they best > examined through certain intellectual traditions? Can they be empowering to > participants, or are they merely buzzwords that have been diluted and > co-opted by governmental and business entities? What barriers to entry and > participation exist? The current issue explores and questions the growing diversity of uses > stemming from this turn of hacking towards more popular uses and democratic > contexts. Submissions that employ novel methodological and theoretical > perspectives to understand this turn in hacking are encouraged. They should > explore new opportunities for conversations and consider hacking as rooted > in a specific phenomena, culture, environment, practice or movement. > Criteria for admission in this special issue include rigor of analysis, > caliber of interpretation, and relevance of conclusions. Topics may include: > > - Disparities of access and representation, such as gender, race and > ethnicity > > > - Open-access environments for learning and production, such as hacker > and maker spaces > > > - ?Civic hacking? and open data movements on city, state and national > levels > > > - Integration of hacking and making within industries > > > - Historical analyses of making/hacking such as phreaking and amateur > computing > > > - Popularization of terms like ?hacker? in newspapers, magazines and > other publications > > > - Open-source hardware and software movements > > > - Appropriation of technology > > > - Hacking in non-western contexts, such as the global south and China > > > - Political implications of a popular shift in hacker/maker culture > > Please email 400 word abstract proposals, along with a short author > biography, by May 1, 2014 to aschrock at usc.edu and jhunsinger at wlu.ca. > Final selected articles will be due during September 2014 and will undergo > peer review. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From apw06 at my.fsu.edu Tue Dec 10 11:15:41 2013 From: apw06 at my.fsu.edu (Adam Worrall) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 11:15:41 -0500 Subject: [Sigtis-l] Call for Papers / Posters: ISIC 2014, The Information Behavior Conference Message-ID: For the potential interest of both SIG USE and SIG SI members (please forgive any duplication). The call is also up on the ISIC 2014 Web site at http://isic2014.com/call-for-papers/. Please contact the conference organizers with any questions. Adam Worrall Communications Officer, ASIS&T SIG SI Doctoral Candidate, Florida State University School of Library and Information Studies College of Communication and Information - Florida's iSchool apw06 at my.fsu.edu adam at adamworrall.org http://www.adamworrall.org ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Junus, Ranti Date: Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 9:54 AM Subject: [Asis-l] FW: Call for Papers ISIC: the Information Behaviour Conference To: "asis-l at asis.org" (Forwarded by request. --ranti) Call for Papers ISIC: the Information Behaviour Conference. 2-5 September, 2014. The field of human information behaviour and practice is multi-disciplinary in scope: researchers from information science, information management, management science, psychology, social psychology, sociology, information systems, computer science, and other disciplines all contribute to this field of investigation. ISIC: the Information Behaviour Conference intends to reflect this interdisciplinary character through attracting papers from researchers in all of these areas. The issues of common interest include the relationship between the needs or requirements of the information user, the means for the satisfaction of those needs and the uses to which those means are put in practice by organizations or disciplines. Thus, papers that deal solely with technological aspects of system design, for example, will not be appropriate for the conference. Themes of the conference include the following: 1. Theories and models of information behaviour and information practice, including conceptualizations of the cognitive, affective, social and situational aspects of information needs, seeking, searching, use and sharing. 2. Research approaches and methodologies, both interpretative and positivist, employing either qualitative or quantitative methods. 3. Information behaviour and information practices in specific contexts: e.g., in different sectors and organisations (health care, education, business, industry, the public services and government, the emergency services); in everyday life, and in virtual social networks (including social media, gaming and virtual worlds as arenas for information exchange). 4. Collaborative information practices: communities, boundary spanning and innovation practices. 5. Information use and value: the nature of information and how information is used to help solve problems, aid or support decision making 6. Information behaviour and analytics (social media and enterprise analytics). 7. Organisational structures and processes and information behaviour and practices. 8. The role of information in building and enhancing the adaptive capacity of organisations: strategy and information absorption, transformation and integration. 9. The mediation of information behaviour: how human or software agents can respond to information needs. 10. The design of information delivery systems to meet information needs generally, or in organizational or disciplinary contexts, including social media and Web 2.0 developments such as blogs, wikis, e-learning platforms and open access information resources. 11. The communication of information to users: relationship between communication theory and information behaviour, including, for example, the relationship of information architectures to information seeking behaviour and the design of information products based on sound communication principles. 12. Cross-disciplinary contributions: integrating studies on information seeking and interactive retrieval; integrating information science, management science and information systems. For this forthcoming conference we are particular eager to see research papers engaged with virtual communities as well as communities that are currently under-represented or considered marginal (socially and/or culturally). Also, analytical, rather than descriptive investigations, will be sought, with strong connections to previous work and to theoretical or conceptual frameworks. Important Dates Paper and poster preparation and submission deadline is February 15, 2014. Paper Format The maximum length of a paper is 5500 words (excluding references). Paper presentation format in the conference includes full presentations (30 minutes) and short presentations (20 minutes). Author Guidelines Your paper should be prepared and submitted in accordance with the http://isic2014.com/call-for-papers/submission-procedure/ Submit your paper through the ISIC2014 paper submission site http://isic2014.com/ Doctoral Workshop We also invite doctoral students to submit an application for participation in the Doctoral Workshop held in conjunction with the Conference on 2nd September 2014. Conference Location ISIC is a biennial conference. The last ISIC conference was held in 2012 in Keio University, Tokyo, Japan and the earlier conference in 2010 in the Universidad de Murcia, Spain. We are delighted that in 2014 it will be hosted by Leeds University Business School. The Business School is internationally renowned for the quality of its teaching, its research and its facilities. The City of Leeds is a modern vibrant city which has excellent transportation links but is also provides access to the beautiful countryside and heritage of Yorkshire. 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Adam Worrall Communications Officer, ASIS&T SIG SI Doctoral Candidate, Florida State University School of Library and Information Studies College of Communication and Information - Florida's iSchool apw06 at my.fsu.edu adam at adamworrall.org http://www.adamworrall.org ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Davis, Jennifer Lauren - davis5jl Date: Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 11:37 AM Subject: [Air-L] Theorizing the Web 2014 To: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" Hi all, We are excited to announce the call for papers for Theorizing the Web 2014 #TtW14. See below. Please distribute widely. Best, Jenny L. Davis Assistant Professor of Sociology James Madison University TtW14 Organizing Committee Theorizing the Web 2014, #TtW14 April 25th & 26th 287 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211 Abstract Submission Deadline: January 19th What does it mean that digital technologies are increasingly a part of everyday life? We begin with such a broad question because, though the relationship between society and digital technologies is profound, we are only just beginning to make sense of their entanglement. Our understanding is limited, in part, because so much thinking about the Web is rooted in empirical analyses too disconnected from theory, from questions of power and social justice, and from public discourse. We need new priorities in our conversations about the Web. We invite you to propose a presentation for the fourth annual Theorizing the Web, which?by popular demand?is now a two-day event. Theorizing the Web is both inter- and non-disciplinary, as we consider insights from academics, non-academics, and non-?tech theorists? alike to be equally valuable in conceptualizing the Web and its relation to the world. In this spirit, we?ve moved the event away from conventional institutional spaces and into a warehouse. We have some plans for how to use this space to help rethink conference norms (and also to have some extra fun with this year?s event). We are looking for contributions that advance clear theoretical arguments; represent a diverse range of perspectives; embrace accessibility by demystifying jargon rather than using it as a crutch; and which, importantly, appeal to concerns of power, social (in)equality, and justice?themes that will also be emphasized in a keynote panel on race and social media. Some specific topics we?ll be looking for include (but are not limited to): Race, racism, ethnicity Sex, sex work, sexuality Gender Embodiment, cyborgism, post-humanism The self, subjectivity, identity, affect Privacy/publicity Surveillance, drones, the NSA Protest, social movements, revolution Capitalism, rationalization, exploitation, Silicon Valley Hate, harassment, trolling, the ?anti-social? web Disconnection, unplugging, loneliness, anomie News, journalism, knowledge, algorithms/filters Virality, memes, the sharing/attention economy Photography, video, GIFs, art Music, music production, the music industry Fiction, speculative fiction, scifi, futurism, literature Games, gamification, game culture theory, video/board/role-playing games Intersections of gender, race, class, age, sexual orientation, disability, and other forms of inequality (taken separately or woven into any of the above) Theorizing the Web is a conference for works-in-progress. Full papers are not required in order to submit, and papers need not be in finished form when presenting. However, we plan to curate a proceedings for full papers, essays, and art connected to the conference. Because Theorizing the Web deeply values public engagement, we seek abstracts that clearly convey the logic of the argument being made and that have titles that appeal to a general audience. While we are open to different forms of presenting one?s work, we are giving priority to presentations that can be enjoyed by people outside the presenter?s field of expertise. We expect the same spirit of accessibility in accepted presentations. Submissions will be blindly reviewed by a selections committee, and we expect selection to be competitive; in past years, we have only been able to accept ~25% of submissions. Abstracts should be 300-500 words and focus on the argument being made and its conclusions. Only the first 500 words of the abstract will be reviewed. Submission are due by 11:59 EST on January 19th, 2014. The submission form is located at: theorizingtheweb.org/submit In addition to the open submission sessions, #TtW14 will feature invited sessions. A keynote panel on race and social media will feature Lisa Nakamura (co-editor of Race After the Internet), Latoya Peterson (Owner/Editor of Racialicious), Ayesha Siddiqi (Editor at The New Inquiry), and Jenna Wortham (Staff Reporter for The New York Times). More invited speakers will be announced soon. More information can be found at the conference website: theorizingtheweb.org Registration for Theorizing the Web is whatever you deem fair or can afford, minimum 1$. Registration information can be found here: theorizingtheweb.org/registration The conference hashtag is #TtW14. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dpotnis at utk.edu Tue Dec 17 20:49:53 2013 From: dpotnis at utk.edu (Potnis, Devendra Dilip) Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 01:49:53 +0000 Subject: [Sigtis-l] Seeking Nominations for ASIS&T SIG-III InfoShare Membership Award (Deadline: Feb. 16, 2014) Message-ID: *** Please excuse cross posting *** Dear Colleagues, The ASIS&T International Information Issues Special Interest Group (SIG-III) is pleased to announce that for 2014 we will be able to sponsor another group of deserving information professionals from developing countries for complimentary ASIS&T memberships (the financial burden of which would otherwise be prohibitive). We are soliciting nominations of candidates for the InfoShare Membership Award. The award will be given to students (master and/or PhD) and professionals. Please include a one-page curriculum vitae and a one-page description of why this person is deserving of membership, including their willingness to promote ASIS&T within their networks and build relationships between ASIS&T and the national/regional organizations. Awardees will be decided by a vote of the SIG-III officers. All curricula vitae will be kept private, accessible only to SIG-III officers. Each membership award will be for one year, with the possibility of renewal for a second year if the new member proves to be a strong advocate for ASIS&T in their home country during the course of the year. Awardees will be asked to submit a report on their activities by next year's Annual Meeting, which may include, but are not limited to: a. sharing ASIS&T publications that they receive (the Bulletin of ASIS&T and JASIS&T) with other colleagues b. promoting the SIG-III paper contest among their colleagues c. serving as a contact/coordinator for ASIS&T members traveling to their area who may be able to speak about ASIS&T and information science d. having the ability to strengthen the relationships between ASIS&T and the national/regional organizations, and e. sponsoring lectures on information science topics in their area on behalf of ASIS&T Nominators can mentor the award recipients for the above activities. We look forward to welcoming new members to ASIS&T from across the globe, especially from countries that have never been ASIS&T members or have limited ASIS&T membership. Women, minority, and candidates from underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply. Please feel free to circulate the Call in your professional networks (e.g., your alma mater listservs, professional contacts at IFLA, OCLC, international organizations, practitioner groups, academic institutions, etc.). Please send your nominations of deserving candidates to Devendra Potnis (dpotnis at utk.edu) or Selenay Aytac (selenay.aytac at liu.edu). The deadline for submitting nominations is February 16, 2014. Thank you! Devendra Potnis Selenay Aytac InfoShare Program, SIG-III, ASIS&T (Visit us at: https://www.asis.org/SIG/iii.html) Devendra Potnis, PhD School of Information Sciences University of Tennessee at Knoxville Email: dpotnis at utk.edu Phone: 865-974-2148 Follow me on Twitter @ DPotnis https://www.sis.utk.edu/users/devendra-potnis -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rhill at asis.org Mon Dec 23 09:05:01 2013 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 09:05:01 -0500 Subject: [Sigtis-l] CFP ASIS&T 2014 Message-ID: <3815-22013121231451184@LEN-dick-2011> Connecting Collections, Cultures, and Communities 77th ASIST Annual Meeting October 31 - November 4, 2014 Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA http://www.asis.org/asist2014/ The Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology is the premier international conference dedicated to the study of information, people, and technology in contemporary society. The ASIST AM gathers leading scholars and practitioners from around the globe to share innovations, ideas, research, and insights into the state and future of information and communication in play, work, governance, and society. ASIST AM has an established record for pushing the boundaries of information studies, exploring core concepts and ideas, and creating new technological and conceptual configurations -- all situated in interdisciplinary discourses. The conference welcomes contributions from all areas of information science and technology. The conference celebrates plurality in methods, theories and conceptual frameworks and has historically presented research and development from a broad spectrum of domains, as encapsulated in ASIST?s many special interest groups: Arts & Humanities; Bioinformatics; Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts; Classification Research; Critical Issues; Digital Libraries; Education for Information Science; Health Informatics; History & Foundations of Information Science; Human Computer Interaction; Information Architecture; Information Needs, Seeking and Use; Information Policy; International Information Issues; Knowledge Management; Library Technologies; Management; Metrics; Scientific & Technical Information; Social Informatics; and Visualization, Images & Sound. Important Dates Papers, Panels, and Workshops: Submissions: April 30th Notifications: June 11th Final copies: July 15th Posters: Submissions: July 1th Notifications: July 30th Final copies: August 20th (All deadlines: midnight, Hawaii Standard Time) . 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 fichman at indiana.edu Mon Dec 23 09:20:03 2013 From: fichman at indiana.edu (Fichman, Pnina) Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 14:20:03 +0000 Subject: [Sigtis-l] CFP>Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR '14) AMCIS 2014 Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-posting] Call For Papers: AMCIS Mini-track: Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR '14) 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS): Smart Sustainability, the Information Systems opportunity, Savannah, GA, August 7-10, 2014 Conference Website: http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/ DESCRIPTION: This Mini Track solicits papers that make use of social theory in information systems research drawing upon such approaches as sociotechnical theory, critical theory, social informatics, organizational theory, cultural anthropology, sociology and others. We are interested in understanding and supporting the evolution of social theory, socio-technical theory, and social informatics in information systems research. We want to highlight research that uses these approaches to critically examine the constitution of information and communications technologies, and their roles in organizations and society; these are among the most important questions about IS, organizations, and society. We particularly invite IS research that applies, builds on, compares, or critiques these social theories. We are interested in high quality empirical and conceptual work that uses social theory to study and theorize about application domains including large-scale social and organizational phenomena. We seek to attract research papers and research-in-progress papers from all IS researchers who are using the work of social theorists, organizational theorists, sociotechnical theorists, and cultural anthropologists, symbolic interactionists, and many others. We are particularly interested in research that makes use of social theory 1) to address issues of designing a smart and sustainable digital future, 2) to answer questions about how we are interacting with ICTs in our work and social lives in ways that help and hinder the move towards sustainability, and 3) to critically examine the constitution of ICTs, and their roles in the design, maintenance and dissolution of sustainable organizations and social groups. This will be the 14th consecutive year for the Mini Track at AMCIS, and we hope to continue a tradition of high quality paper submissions, thought-provoking presentations and lively discussion for all IS researchers using, or considering the use of, social theory in their work. SUGGESTED TOPICS In addition to research aligned with the conference theme we are also interested in high quality empirical and conceptual work that uses social theory to study and understand: * The implications of social networks for organizations and social groups * Conceptual and empirical work focusing on the ways ICT can promote or hinder social inclusion * The significance of cyberinfrastructure for commerce, governing and research and development * The relationships between ICTs and people as they participate in online communities and virtual teams * Online communities of practice, their processes and outcomes * The dynamics of crowdsourcing online * Hacktivism and the use of technology to mobilize resources and advance ideology * Unintended consequences of technology implementation and use in organizations and in social life * Scientific collaboration and scholarly communication as enabled and constrained by ICTs * The impacts of social computing on our social and work lives Minitrack chairs: Howard Rosenbaum, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University hrosenba at indiana.edu Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University fichman at indiana.edu Submission Process: Instructions for authors and more information is available at: http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers Full paper submissions must be made electronically through the AMCIS on-line submission system. 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School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University http://ils.indiana.edu/faculty/smilojev/ Title: Harnessing the power of words to understand science February 14, 2014 Sean Goggins Missouri's iSchool and the University of Missouri Informatics Institute http://www.seangoggins.net Title: TBA February 28, 2014 Ann Majchrzak Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California http://www.marshall.usc.edu/faculty/directory/majchrza Title: TBA March 14, 2014 Philip N. Howard University of Washington & Central European University http://philhoward.org/ Title: Digital media and the Arab Spring April 4, 2014 Karine Nahon The Information School, University of Washington http://eKarine.org/ Title: Going Viral April 18, 2014 Harmeet Sawhney Dept. of Telecommunications, Indiana University http://www.indiana.edu/~telecom/people/faculty/sawhney.shtml Title: TBA ------------------------ Pnina Fichman Associate Professor, School of Informatics and Computing Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Affiliated Associate Professor, School of Global and International Studies 901 East 10th Street, Informatics West #301 Indiana University, Bloomington, 47408 Phone (812) 856-1587 E-Mail fichman at indiana.edu Web http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hrosenba at indiana.edu Fri Dec 27 22:59:37 2013 From: hrosenba at indiana.edu (Howard Rosenbaum) Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 22:59:37 -0500 Subject: [Sigtis-l] AMCIS 2014> CFP: Global and Cross Cultural Impacts of Big Data Minitrack Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS: AMCIS Minitrack - Global and Cross Cultural Impacts of Big Data 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS): Smart Sustainability, the Information Systems Opportunity, Savannah, GA, August 7-10, 2014 Conference Website: http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/ DESCRIPTION Manyika et al. (2011; 4) note ?big data has now reached every sector of the global economy. Like other essential factors of production ? much of modern economic activity simply couldn?t take place without it.? An emerging grand challenge involves gathering, organizing, curating, managing, analyzing, visualizing and disseminating these heterogeneous data over the lifecycle of the data for such purposes such as scientific discovery, medical advances, entrepreneurial activity and public policy formulation. People in the public and private sectors are taking note of this development as are academics, who are exploring ways of dealing with big data, defined by the National Science Foundation (2012) as: ?large, diverse, complex, longitudinal, and/or distributed data sets generated from instruments, sensors, Internet transactions, email, video, click streams, and/or all other digital sources available today and in the future. This minitrack solicits high quality conceptual and empirical work that focuses on the global impacts of big data on governments, multinational companies, NGOs and other organizations. Big data datasets and the technologies for analyzing them are developing faster than our understanding of the ways in which this phenomenon is impacting and will impact the ways work is done in a wide range of settings. As scholars and researchers begin to investigate the impacts of Big Data, this minitrack provides a venue for them to share their work. Appropriate topics for this minitrack include (but are not limited to) the following: ? Big data use in organizational, national and international settings ? How the introduction of big data affects organizational and group work flow ? Ways that big data is affecting organizational and group decision making ? Security and privacy impacts of big data use ? The intended and unintended consequences of big data ? The dark side of big data: surveillance, illicit activities, discriminatory analytics, and the end of privacy ? Big data as a social, political, economic, and/or cultural phenomenon Minitrack chairs: Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University fichman at indiana.edu Howard Rosenbaum, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University hrosenba at indiana.edu SUBMISSION PROCESS: Full paper submissions must be made electronically through the AMCIS on-line submission system no later than March 1, 2014. Manuscript Central will start accepting paper submissions on January 5, 2014 at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014 Additional instructions for authors: http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/call-for-papers Important Dates: March 1, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): Deadline for paper submissions April 4 2014: Authors will be notified of acceptances on or about this date April 18, 2014: Authors revisions due April 25, 2014: (11:59 PM EST): For accepted papers, camera ready copy due