[Sigtis-l] SIG SI best paper award call nominations due July 10 (paper and student paper awards)

[Kristin Eschenfelder]

Call for nominations for the annual Social Informatics Best Paper Awards
Nominations due July 10, 2017
Self-nominations encouraged

The Special Interest Group for Social Informatics (SIG-SI) is seeking nominations for the following annual awards:

Best paper published in a peer reviewed journal on a topic informed by social informatics during the 2016 calendar year:    The author or authors will receive a $1,000 cash award and will be invited to present their paper at the Annual SIG-SI Symposium at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Washington DC in late October, 2017.

Best paper written by a PhD student on a topic informed by social informatics:  Nominations for the PhD student paper may include a published paper in a peer reviewed journal or a conference proceedings in the 2016 calendar year.  The winners will receive a $500 cash award and will be invited to present their work at the Annual SIG-SI Symposium at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Washington DC in October 2017.

Nomination statements for both awards should be sent to Kristin Eschenfelder by July 10, 2017 and must include a full citation, a brief explanation for the nomination, and an e-copy of the article. Self-nominations are encouraged.

Winners will be notified in mid-August.

For more information about the Special Interest Group for Social Informatics

(SIG-SI): https://asistsigsi.wordpress.com/

For past award winners see: https://asistsigsi.wordpress.com/awards/




Kristin R. Eschenfelder
Director and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor
SLIS, the iSchool at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
eschenfelder at wisc.edu<mailto:eschenfelder at wisc.edu>
608-263-2105
608-263-2900

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