[Sigtis-l] ASIS&T SIG SI Newsletter January 2013

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ASIS&T SIG SI Newsletter January 2013

The ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Social Informatics
Summary of Fall 2012 activities and upcoming conferences related to Social
Informatics. With many thanks to Secretary Lysanne Lessard and our
volunteers! This newsletter is also available on our new Web site at
http://asistsigsi.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/january-2013-newsletter/
Conferences, symposiums and workshops Upcoming

*iConference*, Fort Worth, Texas, Feb. 12-15, 2013. *Scholarship in action:
data, innovation, wisdom*.
http://www.ischools.org/iConference13/2013index/ (Submission
is closed).

Workshop *Big Data: Rewards and Risks for the Social Sciences*, March
21-22, 2013, University of Oxford, UK.
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/?id=557 Organized by the Oxford Internet
Institute. (Submission is closed).

*Twitter and Microblogging: Political, Professional & Personal Practices*,
Lancaster, UK, April 10-12, 2013.
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/twitter_and_microblogging/ (Submission
is closed).

*Symposium COSM 2013 – Collaborative Organizations and Social Media *2013,
Brunswick, Maine, April 12, 2013. Organized by the Social Network
Innovation Lab. http://socialnetworks.bowdoin.edu/cosm2013/ (Submission is
closed).

*Symposium on urban informatics: Exploring smarter cities*, June 11, 2013
at Drexel University, Philadelphia:
http://ischool.drexel.edu/urbaninformatics/ (Deadline for panelist
proposals: March 1st, 2013; submission for essay proposals is closed).

*Information: Interactions and Impact (i³)*, Aberdeen, UK, June 25-28,
2013. http://rgu-sim.rgu.ac.uk/i3conf/call13.htm (Deadline for abstract
submission: January 18, 2013).

*6th Intl. Conf. on Communities and Technologies (C&T 2013)*, Munich,
Germany, 29 June – 02 July 2013. http://www.ct2013.cnss.de/cfp/ (Deadline
for full papers and workshop proposals: Feb. 1, 2013; deadline for workshop
papers, posters and doctoral consortium: May 1, 2013).

*The 7th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
(ICWSM-13)*, Boston, Massachusetts, July 8-11, 2013.
http://www.icwsm.org/2013/submitting/call-for-papers/ (Deadline for
abstracts: February 11, 2013; deadline for full papers, posters and demos
submission: Feb.15, 2013).

*The 2013 Joint International Symposium on Open Collaboration (WikiSym +
OpenSym 2013),* Hong Kong, China, August 5-7, 2013.
http://www.wikisym.org/2012/11/26/wikisym-opensym-2013-general-call-for-submissions-papers/
(Deadline
for paper submission: March 17, 2013).

*AMCIS 2013*, Chicago, Illinois, August 15-17, 2013. *Hyperconnected World:
anything, anywhere, anytime*. http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/ (Deadline for
manuscript and panel submissions: February 22, 2013).

   - *AMCIS Mini-track: Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR
   ’13). *http://asistsigsi.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/cfp-amcis-stir-2013/
   - *AMCIS Mini-track: Global and Cross Cultural Aspects of Crowdsourced
   Content Production and Knowledge Repositories. *
   http://asistsigsi.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/cfp-amcis-global-cultural-content-production-knowledge-repositories/

*2013 World Social Science Forum*, Montréal, October 13-15, 2013. *Social
Transformations and the Digital Age*. http://wssf2013.org/ (Deadline for
submissions: January 15, 2013).

*Internet Research 14.0*, Denver, USA, 24-27 October 2013. *Resistance and
Appropriation**. *http://aoir.org/call-for-papers-ir-14-0/* *(Deadline for
Papers, Panels and Pre-Workshops submissions: March 1, 2013).

*Social Informatics (SocInfo 2013),* Kyoto University, Japan, 25-27
November, 2013.
http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/program?id=2724&s=SocInfo&f=Social%20Informatics
(CfP
to come).
Past

*Fourth International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo2012)*,
Lausanne, Switzerland, December 5-7, 2012. http://www.socinfo2012.com/

*ASIS&T* 75th Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, October 26-30,
2012. *Information,
Interaction, Innovation:  Celebrating the Past, Constructing the Present
and Creating the Future*. http://www.asis.org/asist2012/

*Social Informatics Symposium* at ASIS&T 2012, Baltimore, Maryland, October
27, 2012. *Past, present and future of social informatics*. Organized by
SIG SI. Full Symposium schedule:
http://www.asist.org/asist2012/SIG_SI_Workshop.html or Rob Kling Center for
Social Informaticshttp://rkcsi.indiana.edu

*Internet Research 13.0*, Manchester, U.K., October 18-21, 2012. *
Technologies.*  http://ir13.aoir.org/
Campus events Drexel University

“*Symposium on urban informatics: Exploring smarter cities*,” June 11, 2013
at Drexel University, Philadelphia:
http://ischool.drexel.edu/urbaninformatics/ (Still time for panelist
proposals! Deadline March 1st, 2013).

Technologies transform city life in countless ways. The symposium on Urban
Informatics will bring together designers, city planners and managers,
technologists, scholars and entrepreneurs in Philadelphia, at the heart of
the northeast urban corridor, to explore the frontiers of the urban
environment. The event will be hosted at the Expressive and Creative
Interaction Technologies (ExCITe) research center on the Drexel University
campus.
Florida State University

“*Teaching Social Media: A Panel Discussion,*” August 23, 2012 at the
College of Communication & Information (CCI):
http://news.cci.fsu.edu/slis-news/advice-for-success-in-social-media-from-panel-of-tallahassee-experts/

Florida State University’s College of Communication and Information (CCI) (
http://cci.fsu.edu/) hosted a panel of local experts in social media on
August 23, 2012.  Panel members noted that students hoping to work in the
field should develop strong writing, creative, listening, and
problem-solving skills in order to be able to create great content and work
with clients.  The event was organized by Assistant Dean Ebe Randeree to
assist faculty in developing syllabi and to assist students in choosing
courses and study areas.

Todd Bacile. “*Influencer Marketing: Controversies Surrounding Social Media
Influence in the Age of Personal Media,*” October 23, 2012 at TEDxFSU:
http://www.cob.fsu.edu/TEDxFSU-spotlights-doctoral-business-student-s-social-media-expertise
Also
see http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/7212

FSU College of Business (COB) (http://www.cob.fsu.edu) Ph.D. student Todd
Bacile presented on “Influencer Marketing: Controversies Surrounding Social
Media Influence in the Age of Personal Media” during the TEDxFSU “Digital
Directions” event on October 23rd, 2012.  Bacile, who teaches and
undergraduate electronic-marketing course in the COB, uses Klout (
http://klout.com/home) to help his students learn about social media
engagement.

Adam Worrall.* *“*The Role of Digital Libraries as Boundary Objects Within
and Across Social and Information Worlds*,” defense of Dissertation
Prospectus, November 30, 2012 at the Florida State University School of
Library and Information Studies.

Worrall’s dissertation is a study of the role of digital libraries as
social phenomena and boundary objects, using a theoretical framework and
approach that synthesizes Star and Griesemer’s boundary object theory
(1989), Strauss’ social world perspective (1978), and Burnett and Jaeger’s
theory of information worlds (2008). Worrall’s supervisory committee is
chaired by Michelle M. Kazmer and includes Gary Burnett, Sanghee Oh, and
Deb J. Armstrong.
Indiana University

Virginia Eubanks. “*Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the
Information Age*,” November 2, 2012 at the RKCSI Spring 2012 Speaker
Series: http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/Speakers/Current.shtml

Nathan Ensmenger. “*From Cosmo Girls to Computer Boys: A Gendered History
of the Computer Revolution*,” October 19, 2012, at the RKCSI Spring 2012
Speaker Series: http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/Speakers/Current.shtml
Publications

Hardin, R., & Clarke, K. M. (Eds.) (2012). *Transforming Ethnographic
Knowledge*. The University of Wisconsin Press.
http://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/4567.htm

Widén, G., & Holmberg, K. (Eds.). (2012). *Social Information Research*.
Emerald. Table of content:
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=1876-0562&volume=5

*Web 2.0 and User-Generated Content as Communication Systems*. Special
Issue of the *Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication* *18*(1), 2012.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2012.01588.x/abstract

Kazmer, M. M. (2012). *The process of disengaging from online learning
community revealed through examination of threaded discussions*. *International
Journal of Web-Based Communities, 8*(4), 521-536.
doi:10.1504/IJWBC.2012.049564.
Call for papers (other than conferences)

Call for chapters: *Global Wikipedia: International and cross-cultural
issues in online collaboration*. Proposals Submission Due: January 15,
2013. For more information:
http://asistsigsi.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/call-for-chapters-global-wikipedia/
Academic and professional opportunities

*Job postings* on sociotech.net:
http://www.sociotech.net/v2/links/job-postings

*MSR Social Media Collective 2013 Summer Internships* (for PhD students):
http://socialmediacollective.org/2012/12/03/msr-social-media-collective-2013-summer-internships/(Application
deadline: January 30, 2013)
For more information on Social Informatics and related groups

ASIS&T SIG SI website: http://asistsigsi.wordpress.com/

ASIS&T SIG SI on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ASISTsigSI

ASIS&T SIG SI on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/134354579994052/

Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems:
http://www.sociotech.net

Gurstein’s Community Informatics (blog): http://gurstein.wordpress.com/

Researchers of the socio-technical (Facebook):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/sociotech/?ref=ts&fref=ts

Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics: http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/

Social Informatics Blog: http://socialinformaticsblog.com/

*ASIS&T SIG SI is the Special Interest Group for Social Informatics of the
Association for Information Science and Technology. SIG SI brings together
researchers who are interested in the social aspects of computerization,
including the roles of ICT in social and organizational change, the uses of
IT in social contexts, and the ways that the social organization of IT is
influenced by social forces and social practices.*

*If you are aware of SI-related activities taking place on your campuses,
at conferences that you’re attending, or elsewhere, please share them with
us at “**lysanne.lessard AT mail DOT utoronto DOT ca“ **or “**adam AT
adamworrall DOT org“**. Thank you!*
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