From hrosenba at indiana.edu Fri Sep 8 15:59:13 2017 From: hrosenba at indiana.edu (Rosenbaum, Howard S.) Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 19:59:13 +0000 Subject: [Sigtis-l] OPEN RANK> Faculty Position in Information and Library Science, School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, Indiana University Message-ID: <09AA0B93-8AE4-4C66-AD0E-CDDA0DE6BDC2@indiana.edu> Title: Asst/ Assoc/ Full Professor Department: Information and Library Science Expected start date: 08/01/2018 Position summary: The School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering (SICE) at Indiana University (IU), Bloomington, invites applications for a tenured/tenure-track faculty position to begin in Fall 2018 in the Department of Information and Library Science (all subareas solicited with preference for media convergence, time-based media, the archiving of streaming and social media, digital forensics, and metadata). Duties include teaching, research, and service. The IU Department of Information and Library Science (ILS), formerly the School of Library and Information Science, has a long, successful history, having graduated over 8,000 students since it opened its doors in 1946. U.S. News & World Report ranks its Information and Library Science program ninth nationally. The SICE is the first of its kind and among the largest in the country, with unsurpassed breadth across Information and Library Science, Informatics, Computing, and Engineering. Its mission is to excel and lead in education, research, and outreach, spanning and integrating computing and information technologies. The school has over 110 tenure-line faculty, 1,400 graduate students, and 1,700 undergraduate majors on the Bloomington campus. Faculty research areas in ILS include digital humanities; digital libraries; documentation; data curation; computer-mediated communication; data science; information organization, retrieval, and visualization; human computer interaction; science studies; social informatics; CSCW; text mining; records management, and more. ILS offers Master?s degrees in Information Science and Library Science, and Ph.D. degrees in Information Science. Additional information about the School can be found at: http://www.sice.indiana.edu/ Information about the Department of Information and Library Science can be found at: https://www.ils.indiana.edu IU is renowned for its high-performance computing and networking facilities, top-ranked music school, and performing and fine arts. It is the home to world-renowned documentary and data institutes, such as the Lilly Library of rare books and manuscripts, the Kinsey Institute collection, the campus wide Media Digitalization and Preservation Initiative, the Mather Museum of world cultures, the ethnomusicology library, the Wells Library, and many more. Located in the wooded rolling hills of southern Indiana, Bloomington is a culturally thriving college town with a moderate cost of living and the amenities for an active lifestyle. Basic qualifications: Applicants should have an established record (for senior level) or demonstrable potential for excellence (for junior level) in research and teaching, and a Ph.D. in Information Science or a related field expected before August 2018. Interested candidates should submit their application at: https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/4495 Application should include curriculum vitae, statements of research and teaching, and names of three references (junior level), or six references (senior level). Salary and Rank: Commensurate with qualifications and experience For full consideration, completed applications must be received by December 1st, 2017. Informal and confidential inquiries may be sent to the ILS Chair, Ron Day (roday at indiana dot edu) or to Howard Rosenbaum, Search Committee Chair, (hrosenba at indiana dot edu) Members of the Search Committee will be attending the ASIS&T conference in October, 2017 and ALISE in February, 2018. Indiana University is an equal employment and affirmative action employer and a provider of ADA services. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ethnicity, color, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, disability status or protected veteran status. IU Bloomington is vitally interested in the needs of Dual Career couples. For Full Consideration Apply By: December 1, 2017. To apply, please click the ?Apply for this job? link at the top of this page https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/4495 and upload a letter of interest, a curriculum vitae, a statement of research and teaching, and the names of three references (junior level) or six references (senior level). ? Howard Rosenbaum Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Department of Information & Library Science School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering Indiana University From eric.meyer at oii.ox.ac.uk Mon Sep 11 17:52:56 2017 From: eric.meyer at oii.ox.ac.uk (Eric Meyer) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 21:52:56 +0000 Subject: [Sigtis-l] Register for ASIS&T SIG-SI pre-conference symposium Message-ID: <7B20F8B67F0AB44DBC01992D28122CCF8F0EB9@MBX04.ad.oak.ox.ac.uk> The 13th Annual Social Informatics (SIG-SI) Research Symposium "The Social Informatics of Knowledge" will be held from 8:30 - 12:30 on Saturday 28 October at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City, VA, USA, with papers from 13 presenters on topics including fake news, video game design, networks of male sex workers, digital nomads, scientific collaborations, data science norms, and many other cutting edge areas of research. We had a bumper crop of submissions to the workshop, and are excited the make the final schedule available here: https://asistsigsi.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/sigsi_schedule_final.pdf. Full information on the original call, the current schedule, and the related special issue call for JASIS&T are available at https://asistsigsi.wordpress.com/2017/07/12/the-13th-annual-social-informatics-sig-si-research-symposium-the-social-informatics-of-knowledge/. The deadline for early registration is nearing (the early bird rate for the ASIS&T Annual Meeting ends midnight Friday, September 15, 2017, https://www.asist.org/am17/register/), so register today! Prof Eric T Meyer, University of Oxford Professor of Social Informatics & Director of Graduate Studies, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Turing Fellow, The Alan Turing Institute, London Email: eric.meyer at oii.ox.ac.uk | Web: https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/eric-meyer/ | Twitter: @etmeyer Google Scholar: http://bit.ly/GS-ETMeyer | SSRN: http://ssrn.com/author=912385 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aylin.ilhan at hhu.de Thu Sep 21 03:30:10 2017 From: aylin.ilhan at hhu.de (Aylin Ilhan) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 09:30:10 +0200 Subject: [Sigtis-l] Collecting Signatures for the Formation of the New Special Interest Group Social Media (ASIS&T) Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I?m very glad that Erik and Kalpana give the permission to post the following request: My name is Aylin Ilhan, co-chair of the European Student Chapter and one of the new leaders of this year. Together, with Emil Levine, Isabelle Dorsch, Kaja J. Fietkiewicz and Wasim Ahmed, we are planning a new ASIS&T SIG: SIG Social Media and need now your help! In short: You?re on the spot! We attached the Special Interest Group (SIG) Social Media (SM) application proposal. If you say: "Hey, this is very awesome and I would like to support the formation of this new SIG? then please fill out the following formula: https://form.jotformeu.com/72153594954364 Furthermore, if the formation of this new SIG is successful we would be very pleased if we could work together and exchange common ideas and doing networking. We would be delighted if there is the possibility to distribute the promotion of this new SIG Social Media through your mailing list - if possible. We are looking forward to hearing from you. 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