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

[Adam Worrall]

ASIS&T SIG SI Newsletter May 2013

The ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Social Informatics
Summary of Winter 2013 activities and upcoming conferences related to
Social Informatics. Compiled by Secretary Lysanne Lessard with the help of
our volunteers - thanks all! This newsletter is also available on the SIG
SI Web site at
http://asistsigsi.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/may-2013-newsletter/
Conferences, symposiums and workshops Upcoming

“*Symposium on urban informatics: Exploring smarter cities*,” June 11, 2013
at Drexel University, Philadelphia:
http://ischool.drexel.edu/urbaninformatics/ (Submission is closed).

*The 6th International Conference on Trust and Trustworthy Computing (TRUST
2013)*, London, UK, June 17-19, 2013. http://trust2013.sba-research.org/.
(Submissions are closed).

*Information: Interactions and Impact (i³)*, Aberdeen, UK, June 25-28,
2013. http://rgu-sim.rgu.ac.uk/i3conf/call13.htm (Submission is closed).

*6th Intl. Conf. on Communities and Technologies (C&T 2013)*, Munich,
Germany, 29 June – 02 July 2013. http://www.ct2013.cnss.de/cfp/ (Submission
is closed).

*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/ (Submission is
closed).

*The 7th international AAAI conference on weblogs and social media
(ICWSM-13)*, Boston, USA, July 11, 2013. http://www.icwsm.org/2013/.
(Submissions are closed).

*Workshop on Social Computing for Workforce 2.0.*
http://socialworkforce.wordpress.com/.

*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/
(Submission
is closed).

*AMCIS 2013*, Chicago, Illinois, August 15-17, 2013. *Hyperconnected World:
anything, anywhere, anytime*. http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/ (Submission is
closed).

*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/

*International Conference in Information Science and Social Media (ISSOME
2013)*, Borås, Sweden, September 11-13, 2013. (Submission is closed).

*Social Media and Society 2013 International Annual Conference (SM&S 2013).
*Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Sept 14-15, 2013.
http://socialmediaandsociety.com/. (Papers and panels due May 1, posters
May 30).

*Academic MindTrek Conference 2013*, Tampere, Finland, Oct 1-4, 2013. *Making
Sense of Converging Media*. (Papers/posters are due May 10).**

*2013 World Social Science Forum*, Montréal, October 13-15, 2013. *Social
Transformations and the Digital Age*. http://wssf2013.org/ (Submission is
closed).

*International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and
Technologies (HCist 2013),* in Lisbon, Portugal Oct 23-25.
http://hcist.eiswatch.org/ (Submission deadline May 15).

*Internet Research 14.0*, Denver, USA, 24-27 October 2013. *Resistance and
Appropriation**.*http://aoir.org/call-for-papers-ir-14-0/* *(Submission is
closed).

*Nexus, Confluence, and Difference: Community Archives Meets Community
Informatics*, Prato, Italy, October 28-30, 2013.
http://cirn.wikispaces.com/Conference+Call+2013. (Submissions due May 15,
2013).**

*76th Annual Meeting of The Association for Information Science &
Technology (ASIS&T 2013)*, Montreal, Canada, November 1-6, 2013
http://asistsigsi.wordpress.com/2013/01/08/asist-2013-cfp/. *Beyond the
Cloud: Rethinking Information Boundaries.* (Submissions for Papers, Panels,
Workshops & Tutorials: April 30th, 2013. Submissions for Posters, Demos &
Videos: July 1st. 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).

*Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2014),* Waikoloa,
Hawaii, USA, Jan. 6-9, 2014.
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/apahome47.htm (Papers due June 15,
2013).

*“Social Media and Learning” mini-track*.
http://www.open.ou.nl/rslmlt/HICSS_CFP_SocialMedia&Learning.htm.

*“Social Networking and Communities” mini-track.*
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/track/dsm/DSM-Communities.pdf.

*“Crowdsourcing Content Production and Online Knowledge Repositories”
mini-track.*
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/track/dsm/DSM-Crowdsourcing.pdf**

*ACM’s conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social
Computing (CSCW 2014)*, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, February 15-18, 2014.
http://cscw.acm.org/participation.html(Submissions due May 31, 2013).

*Ninth annual iConference*, Berlin, Germany, 4-7 March, 2014.
http://iconference.ischools.org/iConference14/participation/. (Doctoral
Colloquium due August 26, 2013; Papers due August 15, 2013; Workshops and
Sessions due September 4, 2013; Notes and Posters due September 18, 2013).
Past

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

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.

*International Conference on Internet Science, *Brussels, Belgium, April
9-11, 2013. Organized by The Network of Excellence in Internet Science.
http://internetscienceconference.eu/.

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

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/.

*ACM Web Science 2013,* Paris, France, May 2-4, 2013.
http://www.websci13.org/.

Workshop *Creativity and attention in the age of the web.* May 1, 2013.
http://ac.aup.fr/~croda/tclab/creativity&attentionWorkshop2013.html#call.

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/.
Campus events Florida State University (Past events)

*Special Presentation on Social Media Research* by Stuart W. Shulman, PhD.
College of Communication & Information, January 18, 2013. More information
at:
http://news.cci.fsu.edu/slis-events/special-presentations-on-social-media-research/

Two talks by *Lee Rainie*, Director of the *Pew Research Center’s Internet
and American Life Project.* The first was Wednesday, February 6th from
3-4pm in the School of Library and Information Studies. The second was the
“Anderson-Ashby Lecture” at the School of Communication on Thursday,
February 7th at 3:30pm. Summary at:
http://www.fsunews.com/article/20130211/FSVIEW1/130210016/Pew-Researcher-lectures-Networked-News-
.
Northwestern University

*The Annual Science of Team Science Conference (SciTS2013), *June 24-27,
2013 at Northwestern University.
http://www.scienceofteamscience.org/2013-conference.**

*InfoSocial 2013*: *Bridging Media, Technology, and Social Science*.
Graduate student conference hosted by the Media, Technology, and Society
(MTS) program at Northwestern University. Evanston, IL, USA, October 25-26,
2013. http://comm.soc.northwestern.edu/mts-conference/.
Stanford University

Workshop *Governing Technology: Material Politics and Hybrid Agencies*.
Stanford’s first annual STS-grad conference. Stanford, USA, May 9-10, 2013.
https://sites.google.com/site/stanfordstsgrad/conference.
Publications

*SIG/SI 8th Annual Research Symposium a Success!* by Pnina Fichman and
Howard Rosenbaum, SIG/SI co-chairs. *ASIS&T Bulletin,* February/March 2013.
http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Feb-13/FebMar13_Fichman_Rosenbaum.html
Call for papers (other than conferences) Current

“Newcomer Participation in Online Communities”, a special issue of *Computers
in Human Behavior.*
http://asistsigsi.wordpress.com/2013/02/09/cfp-newcomer-participation-in-online-communities/.
(Papers due September 30, 2013).
Past

*Special Issue on Measuring Influence in Social Media*, *American
Behavioral Scientist*.  http://socialmedialab.ca/?page_id=7645.
(Submissions closed).
Academic and professional opportunities Current

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

*Postdoctoral Position.* Social Media Lab @ Northwestern.
http://socialmedia.northwestern.edu/postdoc/. (Review of applications will
continue until the position is filled).

*Postdoctoral Fellow in Infrastructure Studies. *Joint position at the
University of Michigan’s Department of Communication Studies and School of
Information.**http://www.si.umich.edu/aboutsi/post-doctoral-position-opening.
(The position will start September 1, 2013).
Past

*The 2013 Digital Societies and Social Technologies (DSST) Summer Institute.
* A joint effort of the Consortium for Science of Sociotechnical Systems
(CSST) and the Summer Social Webshop. It will be held July 28-August 1,
2013. This year there are opportunities for doctoral students, post-docs,
junior researchers and established scholars to participate as either
individuals or teams.http://casci.umd.edu/2013/03/dsst2013/ (Submissions
closed).

*Digital Methods Summer School 2013 (#dmi13)*, “On the challenges of
studying social media data”, University of Amsterdam, June 24 – July 5,
2013.https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/SummerSchool2013 (Submissions
closed).
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.utoronto.ca* <lysanne.lessard at mail.utoronto.ca>
* or**adam at adamworrall.org* <adam at adamworrall.org>*. Thank you!*
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