[Sigtis-l] Call for Papers / Posters: ISIC 2014, The Information Behavior Conference

[Adam Worrall]

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


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From: Junus, Ranti <junus at mail.lib.msu.edu>
Date: Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 9:54 AM
Subject: [Asis-l] FW: Call for Papers ISIC: the Information Behaviour
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(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.
Conference Organsation

The conference is being jointly organised by the University of Leeds
Business School, University of Sheffield iSchool and the Department of
Information Studies, University of Aberystwyth.



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Ranti Junus,
Michigan State University Libraries
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