From wilsontd at gmail.com Sat Feb 3 08:19:57 2018 From: wilsontd at gmail.com (Prof. T.D. Wilson) Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2018 13:19:57 +0000 Subject: [Siguse-l] Exploring information behaviour Message-ID: Having had so little feedback, it is obviously not worth the effort of putting up chapters on the Wordpress blog, so I have now removed it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Professor T.D. Wilson, PhD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Editor in Chief: Information Research Website - http://InformationR.net/ir/ Photoblog - http://tomwilson.shutterchance.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------| E-mail: wilsontd at gmail.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------| -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From isto.huvila at abo.fi Mon Feb 12 03:35:38 2018 From: isto.huvila at abo.fi (Isto Huvila) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 09:35:38 +0100 Subject: [Siguse-l] 2 Marie Curie PhD positions in Information Studies @ Uppsala University Message-ID: <1BC04BAC-A711-4A30-8739-E1087481495C@abo.fi> The European Training Network ?Participatory Memory Practices. Concepts, strategies, and media infrastructures for envisioning socially inclusive potential futures of European Societies through culture? (POEM) invites applications for 13 PhD fellowships with international focus to be funded by the Marie-Sk?odowska-Curie ITN Action as part of the H2020 Programme of the European Commission. POEM is a consortium of high profile universities, acknowledged memory institutions, civil society organizations, and SMEs located in Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and the UK. Two of the PhD projects are placed at the Department of ALM, Uppsala University and are leading to a PhD in Information Studies. The call is open until March 15, 2018. All candidates applying for positions in Uppsala are required to submit an application to POEM network (see attachment for details) (no later than March 15, 2018) _AND_ directly to Uppsala University following instructions found at http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/details/?positionId=192158 (no later than March 20, 2018). More information about the call and projects at http://www.poem.uni-hamburg.de and in the attached call. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 2017-12-15 POEM Call for applicants.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 201160 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sanghee.oh at cnu.ac.kr Mon Feb 12 21:25:11 2018 From: sanghee.oh at cnu.ac.kr (Sanghee Oh) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 11:25:11 +0900 Subject: [Siguse-l] Call for Nominations (Due March 1): The 2018 SIGUSE Outstanding Contribution to Information Behavior Research Award Message-ID: C*all for Nominations: The 2018 SIGUSE Outstanding Contribution to Information Behavior Research Award * The purpose of the award is to recognize an individual for their outstanding contribution to information behavior research. The award is intended to be for achievements that have had a significant impact in the field. The award is for a systematic program of research at the level of a lifetime?s work. *Eligibility* (a) Persons who have made a significant contribution to information behavior research are eligible for the award. (b) The award is to be made to an individual, not an organization. (c) Persons who have received the Award in the past are not eligible in future years. *The nomination package shall consist of the following*: (a) Nominating letter (1-2 pages), stating why the candidate deserves the award; (b) The name, address, and phone number of the person making the nomination; (c) The name, address, and phone number of the candidate for the award; (d) Supporting documents including the nominee?s CV, up to two letters of support, and up to two publications that most reflect the nominee?s research contributions or impact. *Nominations must be submitted to the SIGUSE Awards Chair, Sanghee Oh (sanghee.oh at cnu.ac.kr ) by March 1. * Please find the detail about the award here: https://siguse.wordpress.com/ outstanding-contribution-to-information-behavior-research-award/ The past winners of the award are available from here: https://siguse .wordpress.com/academy-of-fellows/ Please feel free to email, Sanghee Oh, the SIGUSE Awards Chair ( sanghee.oh at cnu.ac.kr), for questions. Thank you! Sanghee Oh SIGUSE Awards Chair Xiaojun (Jenny) Yuan & Sarah Barriage SIGUSE Awards Members -- Sanghee Oh, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Library and Information Science Chungnam National University Tel: 82-42-821-6357 Email: sanghee.oh at cnu.ac.kr Homepage: http://shoh.cnu.ac.kr/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From D.Allen at lubs.leeds.ac.uk Fri Feb 16 06:56:15 2018 From: D.Allen at lubs.leeds.ac.uk (David Allen [LUBS]) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 11:56:15 +0000 Subject: [Siguse-l] Workshop: Developing Activity Theory in Information Studies (DATIS) Message-ID: Workshop Developing Activity Theory in Information Studies (DATIS): building the AT community in IS 25th June 2018 At the European Conference on Information Systems, Portsmouth, UK http://ecis2018.eu/call-for-workshops-or-tutorials/ Organizers: Dr Boyka Simeonova, b.simeonova at lboro.ac.uk, Loughborough University, UK Dr Stan Karanasios, stan.karanasios at rmit.edu.au, RMIT University, Australia Professor David K. Allen, d.allen at lubs.leeds.ac.uk, University of Leeds, UK Dr Jyoti Mishra, j.l.mishra1 at bradford.ac.uk, University of Bradford, UK Dr Alistair Norman, a.w.t.norman at lubs.leeds.ac.uk, University of Leeds, UK Over the last two decades the use of Activity Theory has developed within the field of information systems (IS) (Allen et al., 2013; Karanasios & Allen, 2013; Karanasios 2018; Malaurent and Avison 2015; Simeonova, 2017), as well as related fields such as Human Computer Interaction (Kaptelinin & Nardi, 2006; Kuutti, 1996; Nardi, 1996), information studies (Allen et al., 2011; Spasser, 1999; Wilson, 2008; Hasan et al., 2016), organisation studies (Engestr?m 2000; Jazrabkowski 2003) and communications (Spinuzzi, 2012). However, while there is a growing community, the use and development of Activity Theory in IS remains underdeveloped and fragmented. The purpose of the workshop is to strengthen and develop the community of IS scholars using Activity Theory as an analytic and explanatory framework to understand the relationship between information, knowledge, context, people and technology. While there is significant interest in this topic many of the researchers deploying Activity Theory are working as lone scholars within IS and related departments. The aim of the workshop will be threefold: 1. Strengthen and build the community of scholars within IS using Activity Theory to understand the relationship between information, knowledge, context, people and technology. 2. Provide an opportunity for scholars to reflect and gain feedback on work in progress or gain fresh perspectives. 3. Provide support for researchers that are starting to explore Activity Theory. Submission details and dates ? Submission of short paper (500 words): 15th April 2018; should be e-mailed to Boyka Simeonova, b.simeonova at lboro.ac.uk, with the words ?DATIS Workshop? in the title. ? Short paper submission is not required for attendance at the workshop. Deadlines for submission: 15th April 2018 Notification of acceptance: 25th of April 2018 References Allen, D., Karanasios, S., & Slavova, M. (2011). Working with activity theory: Context, technology, and information behavior. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 62(4), 776-788. doi: 10.1002/asi.21441 Allen, D. K., Brown, A., Karanasios, S., & Norman, A. (2013). How should technology-mediated organizational change be explained? A comparison of the contributions of critical realism and activity theory. MIS Quarterly, 37(3), 835-854. Engestr?m, Y. (2000). Activity Theory and the Social Construction of Knowledge: A Story of Four Umpires. Organization 7(2): 301-310. Hasan, H., Smith, S., & Finnegan, P. (2017). An activity theoretic analysis of the mediating role of information systems in tackling climate change adaptation. Information Systems Journal, 27(3), 271-308. Jarzabkowski, P. (2003). Strategic practices: An activity theory perspective on continuity and change." Journal of Management Studies 40(1): 23-56. Kaptelinin, V., & Nardi, B. (2006). Acting with technology: Activity theory and interaction design: The MIT Press. Karanasios, S., & Allen, D. (2013). ICT for development in the context of the closure of Chernobyl nuclear power plant: an activity theory perspective. Information Systems Journal, 23(4), 287-306. doi: 10.1111/isj.12011 Karanasios, S. (2018). Toward a Unified View of Technology and Activity: The Contribution of Activity Theory to Information Systems Research. Information Technology & People (forthcoming). Kuutti, K. (1996). Activity Theory as a Potential Framework for Human-Computer Interaction Research. In B. A. Nardi (Ed.), Context and Consciousness: Activity Theory and Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 17-44). Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. Malaurent, J. and Avison, D. (2015). Reconciling global and local needs: a canonical action research project to deal with workarounds. Information Systems Journal 26(3): 227?257. Nardi, B. A. (1996). Activity theory and human computer interaction In B. A. Nardi (Ed.), Context and Consciousness: Activity Theory and Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 1-8). Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. Simeonova, B. (2017). Transactive memory systems and Web 2.0 in knowledge sharing: A conceptual model based on activity theory and critical realism. Information Systems Journal, 1-20, doi:10.1111/isj.12147. Spasser, M. A. (1999). Informing information science: The case for activity theory. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 50(12), 1136-1138. Spinuzzi, C. (2012). Working Alone Together: Coworking as Emergent Collaborative Activity. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 26(4), 399-441. Wilson, T. D. (2008). Activity theory and information seeking. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 42, 119-161. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From WHe at odu.edu Sun Feb 4 21:16:19 2018 From: WHe at odu.edu (He, Wu) Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 02:16:19 -0000 Subject: [Siguse-l] Call for Papers - Information Discovery and Delivery In-Reply-To: References: , , , Message-ID: Information Discovery and Delivery aims to cover information discovery and access for digital information researchers. This includes educators, knowledge professionals in education and cultural organizations, knowledge managers in media, health care and government, as well as librarians. The journal publishes research and practice which explores the digital information supply chain ie transport, flows, tracking, exchange and sharing, including within and between libraries. It is also interested in digital information capture, packaging and storage by ?collectors? of all kinds. Information is widely defined, including but not limited to: *Records *Documents *Learning objects *Visual and sound files *Data and metadata and *User-generated content (social media data analytics, big data, data mining, etc). The journal is also looking for quality papers on the following specific themes: *Information aggregation and fusion *Perspectives on medical information *Image discovery and delivery *Managing Big Online/Social Media Data *Query log analysis *Disciplinary information discovery and delivery services (i.e., medical, legal, business, educational) *Emerging applications and systems for information discovery and delivery Further enquiries can be directed to Dr. Wu He (whe at odu.edu) at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA. The journal website is at http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=idd To submit your paper, please go to the journal website at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/idd -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: