[Sigtis-l] ASIS&T SIG SI Newsletter, January 2014

Mon Jan 27 12:20:31 EST 2014

The ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Social Informatics (SIG SI) presents
our January 2014 newsletter, summarizing Winter 2014 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 our Web site:
https://asistsigsi.wordpress.com/2014/01/23/january-2014-newsletter/
 Conferences, symposiums and workshops Upcoming

*CHI 2014 Workshop on Values & Design in HCI Education*, Toronto, Canada,
April 27, 2014.
http://www.nyu.edu/pages/projects/nissenbaum/vid/chi2014.html. 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? (Deadline for submitting position papers:
January 17, 2014).

*iConference 2014*, Berlin, Germany, March 4 – 7, 2014.
http://ischools.org/the-iconference/. iConference 2014 will bring together
scholars and researchers from around the world who share a common concern
about critical information issues in contemporary society. (Submission is
closed, registration is open). Includes:

*2014 CSST iConference Workshop*: Breaking Down and Building Up:
Accelerating Sociotech Scholarship in the iSchool Community.
http://ischools.org/the-iconference/program/workshops/#workshop1. The
annual Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems (CSST) workshop
at the iConference perpetuates a tradition of providing sociotechnical
scholars with a place to surface areas and domains ripe for new or renewed
attention, highlight synergies that have gone unidentified previously, and
establish new relationships.

*Workshop on Interdisciplinary Practices at iSchools*.
http://interdisciplinarity.cci.fsu.edu. Interdisciplinarity is in the DNA
of the iSchools. This workshop invites you to discuss how
interdisciplinarity plays out in theory and practice.

*iConference 2014 Workshop: Exploring the Social Studies of Information*.
http://www.socialstudiesof.info/workshop14. This full day workshop builds a
new community of scholars interested in exploring the potential of the
“Social Studies of Information” (SSI) as a meta-identity for information
research informed by the humanities and social sciences.

*Theorizing the Web*, New York, USA, April 25 – 26, 2014.
http://theorizingtheweb.tumblr.com. What does it mean that digital
technologies are increasingly a part of everyday life? (Deadline for
abstract submission: January 19, 2014).

*42nd Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Information Science
& Inaugural Librarians’ Research Institute Symposium*, St. Catharines,
Ontario, Canada, May 28-30, 2014. Connecting Across Borders: Globalization
and Information Science Research. http://www.cais-acsi.ca. (Deadline for
submission: February 24, 2014).

*AMCIS 2014*, Savannah, Georgia, USA, August 7-10, 2014. Smart
Sustainability: the Information Systems Opportunity.
http://amcis2014.aisnet.org (Deadline for submission: March 1st, 2014).
Includes:

*AMCIS Mini-track: Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR
’14). http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/track-list/77-amcis-2014/105
<http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/index.php/track-list/77-amcis-2014/105>*.

*AMCIS Mini-track: Global and Cross Cultural Impacts of Big Data.*
https://asistsigsi.wordpress.com/2014/01/06/cfp-global-cultural-impacts-big-data-amcis-2014/
.

*ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci14)*, Bloomington, Indiana, USA, 23-26
June, 2014. http://websci14.org. Web Science studies the vast information
network of people, communities, organizations, applications, and policies
that shape and are shaped by the Web, the largest artifact constructed by
humans in history. Computing, physical, and social sciences come together,
complementing each other in understanding how the Web affects our
interactions and behaviors. (Deadlines: workshops – Jan. 17; Papers – Feb.
23; Posters – March 23).

*ISIC 2014: The Information Behavior Conference*, Leeds, UK, September 2-5,
2014. http://isic2014.com/call-for-papers/. Paper and poster topics of
potential relevance to social informatics and SIG SI members include
theories of the social aspects of information behavior; research on
collaborative information practices, communities, and boundaries; the
impact of organizational structures and processes on information behavior;
and the design of social media and Web 2.0 systems for meeting information
needs in organizational and disciplinary contexts. (Papers and posters due
by February 15, 2014).
Past

*77th ASIS&T Annual Meeting*: Connecting Collections, Cultures, and
Communities, Montreal, Canada, October 31- November 4, 2014.
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. Including:

*Social Informatics Symposium at ASIS&T 2013. *The Social Informatics of
Information Boundaries. Organized by SIG SI. Full Symposium schedule:
http://asistsigsi.wordpress.com/2013/09/18/schedule-for-the-9th-annual-social-informatics-research-symposium/
Campus events

*Indiana University Bloomington*

Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics 2014 speaker series. Varied
presenters and dates. More information at:
http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/speakerseries.html.
Call for papers (other than conferences)

*“The Democratization of Hacking and Making” – New Media & Society special
issue*.
http://asistsigsi.wordpress.com/2013/12/10/cfp-democratization-of-hacking-and-making/.
(Abstract proposals are due by May 1, 2014).
Academic and professional opportunities

*Faculty positions – Data Analytics and Cyber-Security*. College of
Computing and Information, University at Albany. Start Date:  Fall 2014.
http://albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp;jsessionid=B0666683F159FB5330D8263347939F40?JOBID=44980
.

*Lecturers – Informatics*. Informatics Department, University at Albany.
Start Date:  Fall 2014.
http://albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=44924.

*i3 PhD Teaching Fellows*. The University of Pittsburgh’s School of
Information Sciences seeks four doctoral students to serve as Teaching
Fellows at the upcoming 2014 iSchool Inclusion Institute (i3). Preference
will be given to applications submitted by *January 31, 2014*. More
information at:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ASISTsigSI/permalink/532334886862684/.

*Internships at Social Media Collective*. Microsoft Research, New England.
Application deadline is January 31, 2014.
http://socialmediacollective.org/2013/11/19/msr-social-media-collective-2014-phd-internships-now-open/
.
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 Lessard at telfer.uottawa.ca <Lessard at telfer.uottawa.ca> or
adam at adamworrall.org <adam at adamworrall.org>. Thank you!*
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