[Sigtis-l] The 12th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium (SIG-SI): “The Social Informatics of Work and Play”

[Fichman, Pnina]

The 12th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium (SIG-SI): “The Social Informatics of Work and Play”

Please join us in Copenhagen and celebrate with us as we mark the 12th year of the SIG-SI Research Symposium!

Saturday, October 15, 2015, 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers
Copenhagen, Denmark

Organizers:
Pnina Fichman, Indiana University (fichman at indiana.edu)
Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University (hrosenba at indiana.edu)
Eric Meyer, Oxford Internet Institute, United Kingdom
Adam Worrall, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Sponsored by SIG-SI and the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics

Note: Early registration deadline for the conference and the workshop is Friday, 9/25/2015

Schedule

8:30-8:40 Welcome

8:40-9:10 Opening Keynote

Kalpana Shankar
University of Dublin

9:10-10:10 Papers

9:10-9:30 An Analysis of Canadian Media Regarding The Potential Impact of Social Media and Cyberspaces on young bisexual and gay men

Blake Hawkins; Elizabeth Saewyc

9:30-9:50 Coping with Private and Academic Information Needs Abroad: An exploratory Study of International Students

Jette Hyldegård and Morten Hertzum, Royal School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen

9:50-10:10 Impact of IT on Library Patrons: A Perspective from Pakistani Universities

Muhammad Sajid MirzaIslamic Research Institute, International Islamic University, Islamabad

10:10-10:30 Break

10:30-11:10 Papers

10:30-10:50 Rethinking STIN

Chase McCoy, Indiana University

10:50-11:10 Algorithms and the natural attitude

Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University

11:10-12:00 Awards

11:10-11:25 Best Student paper 

Tweet to learn: Expertise and centrality in conference Twitter networks

11:25-11:40 Best Social Informatics Paper Runner up 

Online Favela: The Use of Social Media by the Marginalized in Brazil

David Nemer, University of Kentucky

11:40-11:55 Best Social Informatics Paper 

Social Networks and the Success of Market Intermediaries: Evidence From the U.S. Residential Real Estate Industry

Kevin Crowston and Steve Sawyer, Syracuse University

12:00-12:30 Closing Keynote

Eric Meyer
Oxford Internet Institute


Registration Fees:

Early-bird: $90  Late:  $120

To register for the workshop (and the conference):

https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2015/register/

For more about the workshop:

https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2015/seminars-and-workshops/11th-annual-social-informatics-research-symposium-the-impacts-of-social-informatics-research-sigsi/

For more about Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics:

http://rkcsi.indiana.edu