[Siguse-l] 2013 ASIS&T SIG-USE Symposium: Call for Participants

[Lorri Mon]

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Theme: Information Behavior on the Move: Information Needs, Seeking, and
Use in the Era of Mobile Technologies

Date: November 2, 2013 (Saturday)

Time: 1:30 to 6:30 pm

Location: Centre Sheraton, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Keynote Speaker: TBA


ABOUT THE 2013 SIG-USE SYMPOSIUM:

We live in a time when mobile technologies are becoming more ubiquitous
within people’s everyday lives, facilitating new forms of information
seeking, sharing, creation, and re-use of information and data. Personal
computer ownership has been far surpassed by mobile phone ownership and
nearly equaled by smartphone ownership. In many developing countries,
mobile computing has leapfrogged over personal computing in order to
provide online access where none existed. Such prevalent use of cellphone
and mobile technologies to access information has a significant impact on
the study of information needs, seeking and use. These dramatic changes in
technology preferences and use can be seen as altering the very ecology for
the study of information behavior, and indeed, blur the contexts of systems
and users. It can be argued that even those interactions that do not
involve mobile technologies are influenced by the increasing mobility of
information use.

The 13th Annual SIG-USE Research Symposium at the 2013 Annual Meeting of
the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) will
explore the ways in which information “on the move” is transforming or
changing the nature of people’s information behaviors and the ways in which
people’s information behaviors are, in turn, shaping technologies,
services, work and leisure. We will also consider the impact of this
transformation on the general assumptions and premises informing the
research domain of information behavior. In this Symposium, we will explore
the above themes through a keynote speech, short presentations, and small
and large-group discussions.


TENTATIVE SCHEDULE:

1:30-1:45 Welcome and introduction

1:45-2:30 Keynote presentation

2:30-2:45 Break

2:45-3:20 Small group discussions

3:20-4:10 First round of Ignite talks

4:10-4:20 Break

4:20-5:10 Second round of Ignite talks

5:10-5:45 Small group discussions

5:45-6:15 Chatman Award research presentations by 2013 winner(s) (5
minutes), and 2012 winners, Joung Hwa “Joy” Koo, Yong Wan Cho, and Melissa
Gross of Florida State University (20 minutes). Joy and her colleagues will
present their research regarding the information seeking practices of North
Korean refugees in South Korea, with a focus on the relationship between
the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms of this population and
their information needs and information-seeking behaviors. Their
award-winning research project is entitled “Is Ignorance Really Bliss?:
Understanding the Role of Information-Seeking in Coping with Severe
Traumatic Stress among Refugees.” This portion of the Symposium will
conclude with a presentation of this year’s SIG USE awards (5 minutes).

6:15-6:30 Wrap-up: Large group discussion and evaluations


CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:

For the short presentations, we invite researchers, graduate students, and
practitioners to submit a ONE page proposal (no more than 500 words) in
which they outline the topic and themes they would like to address during
their Ignite talk. Each presenter will have 5 minutes to deliver his/her
Ignite talk – 15 seconds to address each of the 20 slides they will have
prepared for their talk, and will have an additional 3 minutes to take any
questions that SIG-USE attendees may have. For an example of an Ignite
talk, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRa1IPkBFbg<https://exchange.fsu.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=jVuYct__2Ey7st2N7NiWnwY-ZfOTSNAIJKBLyWvSL2QA4yViULdtCme1yjZnMw6TCeQvR9Bhorw.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.youtube.com%2fwatch%3fv%3drRa1IPkBFbg>
.



Proposed themes for submissions include:

●      Theoretical perspectives/frameworks that constitute the social,
cultural and technological underpinnings of information behavior “on the
move”;

●      The extent to which new information and communication technologies
(e.g., social media, mobile technologies) are revolutionary vs.
evolutionary within various information behavior contexts;

●      How environments in which information is literally “on the move” are
providing a technological platform that facilitates the kinds of informal,
social information sharing practices desired by users;

●      How a better understanding of people’s changing information
behaviors might be used to inform the future development of information and
communication technologies, services, practices, management and education;

●      What innovative strategies of inquiry and methods of data collection
might be used to systematically investigate and fully capture and map
“information behavior on the move”;

●      Any other themes that relate to the Symposium topic of “information
behavior on the move”.



Submission guidelines for Ignite talk proposals:

●      Include your name, title, and institutional affiliation at the top
of your proposal

●      Proposal text must not exceed 1 page (max. 500 words)

●      Submit proposal in pdf format

●      Name your file according to the following convention:
‘2013_SIGUSESymposium_Lastname.pdf’

●      E-mail your proposal to Beth St. Jean (bstjean at umd.edu) by midnight
EST on September 13, 2013. Please use “SIGUSE Ignite Talk Proposal” as the
subject line of your e-mail.

●      When you e-mail your submission, please be sure to indicate in the
text of your e-mail whether or not we may post your proposal to the public
SIG-USE website both before and after the Symposium is conducted.



IMPORTANT DATES:

September 13, 2013: Ignite talk proposals are due

October 4, 2013: Notification of acceptance of Ignite talk proposals

October 25, 2013: E-mail your slides for your Ignite talk for uploading



REGISTRATION FEES:

* SIG-USE Members: $110

* ASIS&T (but not SIG-USE) Members: $120

* Non-Members: $135

The registration fee will cover workshop costs, wireless Internet access,
and coffee breaks.



Please forward any questions that you have to Mega Subramaniam (
mmsubram at umd.edu) or Beth St. Jean (bstjean at umd.edu).

WORKSHOP PLANNING COMMITTEE MEMBERS:

Mega Subramaniam (Co-Chair), University of Maryland;

Beth St. Jean (Co-Chair), University of Maryland;

Isto Huvila, Åbo Akademi University, Finland;

Eric Meyers, University of British Columbia, Canada;

Pei Lei, Nanjing University, China;

Michael Olsson, University of Technology Sydney;

Maria Souden, University College Dublin, Ireland;

Xiaojun (Jenny) Yuan, University at Albany, State University of New York.



To register for the 2013 ASIS&T Annual Meeting:
http://www.asist.org/asist2013/register.html<https://exchange.fsu.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=jVuYct__2Ey7st2N7NiWnwY-ZfOTSNAIJKBLyWvSL2QA4yViULdtCme1yjZnMw6TCeQvR9Bhorw.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.asist.org%2fasist2013%2fregister.html>(early
bird registration deadline: September 20, 2013)


For more information about SIG-USE:
http://siguse.wordpress.com/<https://exchange.fsu.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=jVuYct__2Ey7st2N7NiWnwY-ZfOTSNAIJKBLyWvSL2QA4yViULdtCme1yjZnMw6TCeQvR9Bhorw.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fsiguse.wordpress.com%2f>


Hope to see you there!


Mega Subramaniam & Beth St. Jean
2013 ASIS&T SIG-USE Symposium Co-chairs


Beth St. Jean, Assistant Professor
College of Information Studies - "Maryland's iSchool"
Room 4117K Hornbake Bldg., South Wing
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
(301) 405-6573
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