From mrleach at fas.harvard.edu Mon Nov 2 11:06:13 2015 From: mrleach at fas.harvard.edu (Leach, Michael R.) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 16:06:13 +0000 Subject: [Students-l] ASIST Chapter Assembly - Draft Agenda - 8 November 2015 - St Lous MO USA Message-ID: Dear Chapter Leaders, Attached you will find a pdf draft Agenda for the upcoming Chapter Assembly, which will take place from 8:30am to 10:00am on Sunday, 8th November, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri (USA). If you have any other items to add to this Agenda, please let me know (email: mrleach at fas.harvard.edu) by Thursday of this week (5 Nov.). If you are unable to download and view this pdf formatted document, also let me know and I will send another version (e.g. Microsoft Word, if you wish). Chapter leaders - if you know who your representative will be at the Chapter Assembly meeting, could you email me their name? Just so we are prepared ahead of time. Thanks. 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Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS) is a series of international conferences aiming to provide a broad forum for the exploration and exchange of ideas in the field of Library and Information Science, Information Studies, and related disciplines. It welcomes diverse contributions offering empirical, theoretical and historical perspectives. The 9th conference in the series is organised by the Department of ALM, Uppsala University and Division of ALM, Lund University. Three keynote lectures by ? Prof. Geoffrey Bowker, University of California, Irvine, USA "Distributed and Potential Memory: remembering in an age of total recall" ? Prof. Louise Limberg, University of Bor?s, Sweden "Analysing or synthesising Library and Information Science : Sketching past achievements, current happenings and future prospects" ? Prof. Pamela McKenzie, University of Western Ontario, Canada "Context" in context: twenty years of an everyday concept in LIS/IS Consult the full Call for papers available at http://www.abm.uu.se/colis9/cfp for details about submissions, and the conference. Deadline for all submissions (apart from the doctoral forum) is Jan 15, 2016. Questions regarding paper submissions incl. posters should be directed to Dr. Isto Huvila (firstname.lastname at abm.uu.se). Questions regarding panels, workshops and other formats should be directed to Dr. Jutta Haider (firstname.lastname at kultur.lu.se). Questions about the conference should be sent to the conference chair Kerstin Rydbeck (firstname.lastname at abm.uu.se) or the co-chair Olof Sundin (firstname.lastname at kultur.lu.se) CoLIS9 is also on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/CoLIS9 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chirags at rutgers.edu Wed Nov 4 07:27:01 2015 From: chirags at rutgers.edu (Chirag Shah) Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 07:27:01 -0500 Subject: [Students-l] The Rutgers University iSchool Welcomes PhD Applications for Fall 2016 Message-ID: <84676FED-E309-4853-AE41-75D24FBDBB32@rutgers.edu> The Rutgers University iSchool Welcomes PhD Applications for Fall 2016 The Library & Information Science Department in the School of Communication & Information at Rutgers University, Rutgers? iSchool, invites creative and forward-thinking individuals to apply for the Ph.D. in Library and Information Sciences. Located in New Brunswick, NJ, within 90 minutes drive/train to both NYC and Philadelphia, Rutgers University?s iSchool provides an excellent environment for research in such areas as: Human Information Behavior; Information Retrieval, Language and Communication; Information Agencies and Artifacts; Learning, Youth, Information and Technology; and Social and Community Informatics. The school includes world-renowned faculty who lead and teach in these areas. Their accomplishments are reflected in a large pool of scholarly publications, awards and grants. Faculty have secured nearly $20 million in grant funding in recent years. Application deadline for Fall 2016 enrollment: Jan. 15, 2016 Listen to a podcast recorded by RU iSchool faculty outlining program features, and learn more about the program: http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/phd-program/lis-concentration.html More information on Ph.D. program admissions can be found here: http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/phd-program/admission-aid.html Most students admitted to the PhD program receive multiple years of funding in the form of research and teaching assistantships. The excellent funding package includes a full tuition and student fees waiver, full medical+dental coverage and a competitive yearly stipend. A colonial school, Rutgers will celebrate it?s 250th anniversary in 2016. There are 18 schools and colleges (including a medical school) on 2,688 acres across New Jersey. We are among the top 25 public universities, as ranked by U.S. News & World Report. We are an NCAA Division I School and a member of the Big Ten and Committee on Institutional Cooperation. Our location in central New Jersey and close proximity to New York City makes us ideally suited for scholars exploring all types of libraries and information centers, as well as evolving information technologies and their users. For more information, contact Prof. Nick Belkin (belkin at rutgers.edu ) or Prof. Marie Radford (mradford at rutgers.edu ). **** Chirag Shah, PhD Assistant Professor of Information and Computer Science Rutgers University 4 Huntington St, New Brunswick NJ 08901 p. (848) 932-8807 f. (732) 932-6916 http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~chirags **** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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(QCENTRAL) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 23:09:48 +0000 From: QCENTRAL To: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" Subject: [Air-L] SMC PhD internship application call for 2016! Message-ID: <15996EE5-5B35-438D-97FD-B9ACC20FDCFB at indiana.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Please share with your favorite graduate students! (and sorry for crossposts and/or weird typos that make their way into this note!) http://wp.me/p1yguQ-Fk APPLICATION DEADLINE: JANUARY 29, 2016 Microsoft Research New England (MSRNE) is looking for advanced PhD students to join the Social Media Collective (SMC) for its 12-week 2016 Intern Program. The Social Media Collective scholars at MSRNE bring together empirical and critical perspectives to address complex socio-technical issues. Our research agenda draws on a social scientific/humanistic lens to understand the social meanings and possible futures of media and communication technologies. The ideal candidate may be trained in any number of disciplines (including anthropology, communication, information studies, media studies, sociology, science and technology studies, or a related field), but should have a strong social scientific or humanistic methodological, analytical, and theoretical foundation, be interested in questions related to media or communication technologies and society or culture, and be interested in working in a highly interdisciplinary environment that includes computer scientists, mathematician s, and economists. MSRNE internships are 12-week paid internships in Cambridge, Massachusetts. PhD interns are expected to be on-site for the duration of their internship. Primary mentors for this year will be Nancy Baym, Tarleton Gillespie, and Mary L. Gray, with additional guidance offered by our lab postdocs and visiting scholars. PhD interns at MSRNE are expected to devise and execute a research project (see project requirements below), based on their application project proposals, during their internships. The expected outcome of an internship at MSRNE is a draft of a publishable scholarly paper for an academic journal or conference of the intern?s choosing. Our goal is to help the intern advance their own career; interns are strongly encouraged to work towards a creative outcome that will help them on the academic job market. Interns are also expected to collaborate on projects or papers with full-time researchers and visitors, contribute to the SMC blog, give short presentations, attend the weekly lab colloquia, and contribute to the life of the community through weekly lunches with fellow PhD interns and the broader lab community. While this is not an applied program, MSRNE encourages interdisciplinary collaboration with computer scientists, economists, and mathematicians. PEOPLE AT MSRNE SOCIAL MEDIA COLLECTIVE The Social Media Collective is comprised of full-time researchers, postdocs, visiting faculty, Ph.D. interns, and research assistants. Current projects in New England include: ? How does the use of social media affect relationships between artists and audiences in creative industries, and what does that tell us about the future of work? (Nancy Baym) ? How are social media platforms, through algorithmic design and user policies, adopting the role of intermediaries for public discourse? (Tarleton Gillespie) ? What are the cultural, political, and economic implications of crowdsourcing as a new form of semi-automated, globally-distributed digital labor? (Mary L. Gray) ? How are predictive analytics used by law enforcement and what are the implications of new data-driven surveillance practices? (Sarah Brayne) ? What are the social and political consequences of popular computing folklore? (Kevin Driscoll) ? How are the technologies of money changing and what are the social implications of those changes? (Lana Swartz) SMC PhD interns may have the opportunity to connect with our sister Social Media Collective members in New York City. Related projects in New York City include: ? What are the politics, ethics, and policy implications of big data science? (Kate Crawford, MSR-NYC) ? What are the social and cultural issues arising from data-centric technological development? (danah boyd, Data & Society Research Institute) We are looking for applicants to focus their proposals on one of the following six areas:Audiences and the shifting landscapes of socially mediated entertainment ? Personal relationships and digital media ? Affective, immaterial, and other frameworks for understanding digital labor ? The social and political consequences of popular computing folklore ? The politics of big data, algorithms, and computational culture ? How emerging technologies shape countercultures, identities, and communities of difference ? Histories of computing and the internet that focus on the experiences of people from marginalized social, economic, racial, or geographic groups Applicants should have advanced to candidacy in their PhD program by the time they start their internship (unfortunately, there are no opportunities for Master?s students or early PhD students at this time). Interns will benefit most from this opportunity if there are natural opportunities for collaboration with other researchers or visitors currently working at MSRNE. Applicants from historically marginalized communities, underrepresented in higher education, and students from universities outside of the United States are encouraged to apply. For a complete list of all permanent researchers and current postdocs based at the New England lab see: Which is: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/labs/newengland/people/bios.aspx Previous MSRNE interns in the Collective have included Amelia Abreu (UWashington, information), Stacy Blasiola (University of Illinois, Chicago, communication), Jed Brubaker (UC-Irvine, informatics), Aleena Chia (Indiana U. communication and culture), Jade Davis (University of North Carolina, communication), Brittany Fiore-Silfvast (University of Washington, communication), Scott Golder (Cornell, sociology), Germaine Halegoua (U. Wisconsin, communications), Tero Karppi (University of Turku, media studies), Airi Lampinen (HIIT, information), Jessa Lingel (Rutgers, library and information science), Joshua McVeigh-Schultz (University of Southern California, interactive media), Alice Marwick (NYU, media culture communication), J. Nathan Matias (MIT Media Lab), Jolie Matthews (Stanford, learning sciences), Tressie McMillan Cottom (Emory, sociology), Andr?s Monroy-Hernandez (MIT, CSAIL), Laura Noren (NYU, sociology), Nick Seaver (UC Irvine, anthropology), Jaroslav Svelch (Charles U niversity, media studies), Katrin Tiidenberg (Tallinn University, Institute of International and Social Studies), Shawn Walker (UWashington, information), Omar Wasow (Harvard, African-American studies), Sarita Yardi (GeorgiaTech, HCI), and Kathryn Zyskowski (University of Washington, anthropology). For more information about the Social Media Collective, visit our blog: http://socialmediacollective.org/ APPLICATION PROCESS To apply for a PhD internship with the social media collective: ? Fill out the online application form: https://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/jobs/intern.aspx On the application website, indicate that your research area of interest is ?Anthropology, Communication, Media Studies, and Sociology? and that your location preference is ?New England, MA, U.S.? in the pull down menus. Also enter the name of a mentor (Nancy Baym, Tarleton Gillespie, or Mary Gray) whose work most directly relates to your own in the ?Microsoft Research Contact? field. IF YOU DO NOT MARK THESE PREFERENCES WE WILL NOT RECEIVE YOUR APPLICATION. So, please, make sure to follow these detailed instructions. Your application will need to include: ? A brief description of your dissertation project. ? An academic article-length manuscript (~7,000 or more) that you have authored or co-authored (published or unpublished) that demonstrates your writing skills. ? A copy of your CV. ? The names and contact information for 3 references (one contact name must be your dissertation advisor). ? A pointer to your website or other online presence (if available; not required). ? A short description (no more than 2 pages, single spaced) of 1 or 2 projects that you propose to do while interning at MSRNE, independently and/or in collaboration with current SMC researchers. The project proposals can be related to but must be distinct from your dissertation research. Be specific and tell us: 1) What is the research question animating your proposed project? 2) What methods would you use to address your question? 3) How does your research question speak to the interests of the SMC? and 4) Who do you hope to reach (who are you engaging) with this proposed research? This is important ? we really want to know what it is you want to work on with us and we need to know that it is not, simply, a continuation of your dissertation project. On Letters of Reference: After you submit your application, a request for letters will be sent to your list of referees, on your behalf. NOTE: THE APPLICATION SYSTEM WILL NOT REQUEST REFERENCE LETTERS UNTIL AFTER YOU HAVE SUBMITTED YOUR APPLICATION! Please warn your letter writers in advance so that they will be ready to submit them when they receive the prompt. The email they receive will automatically tell them they have two weeks to respond but that an individual call for applicants may have an earlier deadline. Please ensure that they expect this email (tell them to check their spam folders, too!) and are prepared to submit your letter by our application deadline of Friday 29 January, 2016. Please make sure to check back with your referees if you have any questions about the status of your requested letters of recommendation. You can check the progress on individual reference requests at any time by clicking the status tab within your application page. Note that a complete application must includ e three submitted letters of reference. TIMELINE Due to the volume of applications, late submissions (including submissions with late letters of reference) will not be considered. We will not be able to provide specific feedback on individual applications. Finalists will be contacted the last week in February to arrange a Skype interview before the internship slots available to us are assigned (note: number of available slots changes year-to-year). Please keep an eye on the socialmediacollective.org blog as we announce the 2016 PhD Interns on the blog by the end of March. If you have any questions about the application process, please contact Mary Gray at mLg at microsoft.com and include ?SMC PhD Internship? in the subject line. PREVIOUS INTERN TESTIMONIALS ?The internship at Microsoft Research was all of the things I wanted it to be ? personally productive, intellectually rich, quiet enough to focus, noisy enough to avoid complete hermit-like cave dwelling behavior, and full of opportunities to begin ongoing professional relationships with other scholars who I might not have run into elsewhere.? ? Laura Noren, Sociology, New York University ?If I could design my own graduate school experience, it would feel a lot like my summer at Microsoft Research. I had the chance to undertake a project that I?d wanted to do for a long time, surrounded by really supportive and engaging thinkers who could provide guidance on things to read and concepts to consider, but who could also provoke interesting questions on the ethics of ethnographic work or the complexities of building an identity as a social sciences researcher. Overall, it was a terrific experience for me as a researcher as well as a thinker.? ? Jessica Lingel, Library and Information Science, Rutgers University ?Spending the summer as an intern at MSR was an extremely rewarding learning experience. Having the opportunity to develop and work on your own projects as well as collaborate and workshop ideas with prestigious and extremely talented researchers was invaluable. It was amazing how all of the members of the Social Media Collective came together to create this motivating environment that was open, supportive, and collaborative. Being able to observe how renowned researchers streamline ideas, develop projects, conduct research, and manage the writing process was a uniquely helpful experience ? and not only being able to observe and ask questions, but to contribute to some of these stages was amazing and unexpected.? ? Germaine Halegoua, Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison ?Not only was I able to work with so many smart people, but the thoughtfulness and care they took when they engaged with my research can?t be stressed enough. The ability to truly listen to someone is so important. You have these researchers doing multiple, fascinating projects, but they still make time to help out interns in whatever way they can. I always felt I had everyone?s attention when I spoke about my project or other issues I had, and everyone was always willing to discuss any questions I had, or even if I just wanted clarification on a comment someone had made at an earlier point. Another favorite aspect of mine was learning about other interns? projects and connecting with people outside my discipline.? ?Jolie Matthews, Education, Stanford University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Daniel.Alemneh at unt.edu Fri Nov 6 13:56:01 2015 From: Daniel.Alemneh at unt.edu (Alemneh, Daniel) Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 18:56:01 +0000 Subject: [Students-l] Fw: [Chapters-l] ASIST Chapter Assembly - Draft Agenda - 8 November 2015 - St Lous MO USA In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear ASIS&T Student Chapter Advisors, Hope many of you will be able to attend the upcoming Chapter Assembly this Sunday (see Michael's message below). We would also like to cordially invite you to attend the traditional secret student party at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting. It will be a chance for you to interact with other student chapters, and to support the students. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support and help to ASIS&T student chapters in the past year. The party will be on Sunday November 8, (8:30pm) at the conference hotel (Hyatt Regency B) in St. Louis, Missouri . Snacks and light refreshments will be served. Thanks, Daniel Gelaw Alemneh (University of North Texas) - Student Chapter Representative Karen Miller (University of South Carolina) - Student Chapter Alternative Representative ________________________________ From: Chapters-l on behalf of Leach, Michael R. Sent: Monday, November 2, 2015 10:06 AM To: ASIST ChaptersL; students-l at asis.org Subject: [Chapters-l] ASIST Chapter Assembly - Draft Agenda - 8 November 2015 - St Lous MO USA Dear Chapter Leaders, Attached you will find a pdf draft Agenda for the upcoming Chapter Assembly, which will take place from 8:30am to 10:00am on Sunday, 8th November, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri (USA). If you have any other items to add to this Agenda, please let me know (email: mrleach at fas.harvard.edu) by Thursday of this week (5 Nov.). If you are unable to download and view this pdf formatted document, also let me know and I will send another version (e.g. Microsoft Word, if you wish). Chapter leaders - if you know who your representative will be at the Chapter Assembly meeting, could you email me their name? Just so we are prepared ahead of time. Thanks. Let me know if you have questions, comments, ideas, etc. Sincerely, Michael Leach Director, Chapter Assembly mrleach at fas.harvard.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Chapter_Assembly_Agenda_8Nov15_draft_v2Nov.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 114661 bytes Desc: Chapter_Assembly_Agenda_8Nov15_draft_v2Nov.pdf URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: ATT00001.txt URL: From michel.menou at orange.fr Tue Nov 10 04:54:05 2015 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 10:54:05 +0100 Subject: [Students-l] Fwd: [Asis-l] Funded PhD Opportunities in Digital Privacy & Security - Info Session at UMD's iSchool In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5641BEBD.6080804@orange.fr> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Asis-l] Funded PhD Opportunities in Digital Privacy & Security - Info Session at UMD's iSchool Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 15:15:35 -0500 From: Ischool UMD To: asis-l at asis.org Are you interested in pursuing a PhD at Maryland?s iSchool with world-class faculty conducting impactful research? Are you passionate about information privacy and security? Join Assistant Professors Marshini Chetty, Katie Shilton, and Jessica Vitak for an online information session about funded opportunities for digital privacy- and security-related doctoral studies at UMD. Thursday, November 19, 3 - 4 p.m. EST athttps://webmeeting.umd.edu/phdinfo Please RSVP here: _http://go.umd.edu/4b3_ Learn more about Maryland's iSchool [ _http://ischool.umd.edu _ ] and the PhD in Information Studies program [_http://ischool.umd.edu/phd_ ]. For best consideration, apply online [ _http://go.umd.edu/4bo_ ] by January 15, 2016 (December 1, 2015 for international applicants). -- Katie Shilton Assistant Professor College of Information Studies University of Maryland, College Park kshilton at umd.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michel.menou at orange.fr Tue Nov 10 05:09:34 2015 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 11:09:34 +0100 Subject: [Students-l] Fwd: [Asis-l] The Rutgers University iSchool Welcomes PhD Applications for Fall 2016 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5641C25E.6000907@orange.fr> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Asis-l] The Rutgers University iSchool Welcomes PhD Applications for Fall 2016 Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 07:02:27 -0500 From: Brenda Sheridan To: asis-l at asis.org The Rutgers University iSchool Welcomes PhD Applications for Fall 2016 The Library & Information Science Department in the School of Communication & Information at Rutgers University, Rutgers? iSchool, invites creative and forward-thinking individuals to apply for the Ph.D. in Library and Information Sciences. Located in New Brunswick, NJ, within 90 minutes drive/train to both NYC and Philadelphia, Rutgers University?s iSchool provides an excellent environment for research in such areas as: Human Information Behavior; Information Retrieval, Language and Communication; Information Agencies and Artifacts; Learning, Youth, Information and Technology; and Social and Community Informatics. The school includes world-renowned faculty who lead and teach in these areas. Their accomplishments are reflected in a large pool of scholarly publications, awards and grants. Faculty have secured nearly *$20 million in grant funding* in recent years. Application deadline for Fall 2016 enrollment: *Jan. 15, 2016* Listen to a podcast recorded by RU iSchool faculty outlining program features, and learn more about the program: http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/phd-program/lis-concentration.html More information on Ph.D. program admissions can be found here: http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/phd-program/admission-aid.html Most students admitted to the PhD program receive multiple years of funding in the form of research and teaching assistantships. The excellent funding package includes a full tuition and student fees waiver, full medical+dental coverage and a competitive yearly stipend. A colonial school, Rutgers will celebrate it?s 250th anniversary in 2016. There are 18 schools and colleges (including a medical school) on 2,688 acres across New Jersey. We are among the *top 25 public universities*, as ranked by U.S. News & World Report. We are an NCAA Division I School and a member of the Big Ten and Committee on Institutional Cooperation. Our location in central New Jersey and close proximity to New York City makes us ideally suited for scholars exploring all types of libraries and information centers, as well as evolving information technologies and their users. For more information, contact Prof. Nick Belkin (belkin at rutgers.edu ) or Prof. Marie Radford (mradford at rutgers.edu ). -- Brenda Sheridan, EdD Director of Strategic Communications Office of the Dean School of Communications and Information Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901 p: 848-932-7078 f: 732-932-6916 c: 856-261-0089 brenda.sheridan at rutgers.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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January start Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 16:54:26 +0000 From: Richard Heeks To: Richard Heeks * Could you please forward to those who might be interested? * Starting each year in late January, the MSc in Management & Information Systems aims to develop the "hybrid" mix of management and information systems skills that we know from experience is essential to the successful and strategic application of ICTs in socio-economic development. Applications are now being accepted, with a deadline of 15 Jan 2016, and links to this and other details of MSc M&IS DL can be found at: _http://bit.ly/ManMISDL_ We may be able to offer a fee reduction to groups of participants from the same organisation. If you have any questions about the programme or fee concessions, please email the Programme Director, Prof. Richard Heeks: _richard.heeks at manchester.ac.uk_ With thanks! Richard -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michel.menou at orange.fr Wed Nov 18 09:20:21 2015 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 15:20:21 +0100 Subject: [Students-l] Fwd [Air-L] Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme, 2016 Message-ID: <564C8925.5030809@orange.fr> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 16:06:39 +0000 From: Victoria Nash To: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" Cc: David Sutcliffe , Jordan Copeland Subject: [Air-L] Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme 2016 Message-ID: <273800c0-2273-46dc-be59-9fdcd82de899 at HUB05.ad.oak.ox.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear all, It's my very great pleasure to announce that the application process is now open for SDP 2016. This will take place in Oxford from the 4th-15th July, and as usual will be designed to help late-stage PhD students improve their dissertations whilst immersing them in two weeks of intense multi-disciplinary seminars, classes and debate. And there will be punting... For more information go to our SDP pages at: http://sdp.oii.ox.ac.uk/ or feel free to contact us personally. All best wishes, Vicki PS If any fabulous potential tutors are likely to be passing through the UK then, please do also get in touch. Dr Victoria Nash Deputy Director Policy & Research Fellow Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/ Tel: 0044 1865 287231 Tw: VickiNashOII From chirags at rutgers.edu Thu Nov 19 18:12:23 2015 From: chirags at rutgers.edu (Chirag Shah) Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 18:12:23 -0500 Subject: [Students-l] CFP for Workshop on Usefulness of interactive IR systems at CHIIR 2016 Message-ID: <4BD2A950-3078-4443-812F-6F09CD8F5054@rutgers.edu> ################################ 1st Workshop on Usefulness of Interactive IR Systems CALL FOR PAPERS In conjunction with the CHIIR 2016 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA 13-17 March 2016 Workshop 2016: http://www.gesis.org/veranstaltungen/konferenzen/workshop-usefulness-of-interactive-ir-systems/ CHIIR 2016: http://sigir.org/chiir2016 ################################ --------- Important dates Submission deadline: January 8, 2016 Notification of acceptance: January 22, 2016 Camera ready: February 12, 2016 Workshop date: March 7, 2016 --------- Contact Claus-Peter Klas GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany Contact: claus-peter.klas at gesis.org Motivation Information Retrieval (IR) systems aim at helping a user to solve an information seeking problem. There is a long-standing tradition in IR research to measure the quality of an IR system in terms of the relevance of the documents returned (so-called Cranfield paradigm). However, due to the high interactivity of current IR systems it turned out that pure relevance-based measures fail to capture many factors that should be taken into account for IR evaluations, such as learning, task completion and effort. Current IR research therefore started to "take a broader perspective of the information seeking process to explicitly include users, tasks, and contexts in a dynamic setting" (Cole et al. 2009). This novel paradigm in IR evaluation expands the perspective to the entire search process instead of just evaluating single search results (cp. Dumais 2012). In addition, modern digital libraries offer more functionality besides search e.g. - browsing relations, recommender, storing and structuring information, sharing information -- broadening the user-system interaction possibilities. These interactions lead to more valuable data for a better understanding of user needs and contexts and what is useful or not. The notion of usefulness was first introduced by Cole et al. (2009) as a general criterion evaluating "how well the user is able to achieve their goal". However, there is still a lack of computational usefulness metrics that can be taken to evaluate interactive IR systems. The main goal of the workshop is to provide an international forum for discussing novel approaches that might contribute to an approximation of usefulness in interactive information retrieval. The workshop aims at bringing together experts from both 'user' and 'system' oriented information retrieval for a fruitful exchange of ideas and discussion how to tackle the evaluation of interactive IR from the perspective of usefulness. The long-term research goal is to develop and evaluate new approaches for measuring usefulness of interactive IR systems. More specifically, we address questions such as: * What is usefulness and how can it be measured? * How can logging tools and frameworks look like to better capture usefulness? * How can usefulness be evaluated? * What can usefulness contribute to the improvement of interactive IR systems? Workshop Topics Contributions are solicited on, but not limited to, following topics: * Evaluation of interactive information retrieval * Information seeking behavior * Task based user modelling, interaction and personalization * Logging frameworks for sessions and tasks * Analyzing user behavior Format, Structure and Audience The format of the workshop should reflect a form of grass root movement, meaning to go bottom up in order to identify real measurements, to analyze existing logs and the gap in logs to measure usefulness along several dimensions. The workshop will be a full-day workshop with a keynote speech and paper sessions laying the ground of understanding in the morning. The paper sessions will focus on the following areas: * Theoretical measures for usefulness * How can usefulness be observed? - Tools - Case studies - Evaluation methods and metrics For the afternoon we propose a world cafe format to enable brainstorming of ideas and deeper discussions of the approaches presented in the morning. We intend to have discussion rounds of 15-30 minutes at max. four tables which are moderated by the organizers and/or participants. The participants should move from table to table after each round. In the final session the discussion result will be presented by the moderators. It workshop is intended for around 20 researchers in the field of interactive information retrieval and digital libraries and librarians interested in a better understanding of users and user needs and provide better system support to enhance the digital libraries systems. Submissions Short Papers (4 pages): Position papers or work in progress Poster and Demonstrations (2 pages): Poster and presentation of systems or prototypes Submissions have to follow the ACM template, see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates and should be submitted as PDF files to EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=uiirs2016 . All submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. At least one author per paper needs to register for the workshop and attend the workshop to present the work. In case of no-show the paper (even if accepted) will be deleted from the proceedings AND from the program. Output Workshop proceedings will be deposited online in the CEUR workshop proceedings publication service (ISSN 1613-0073). This way the proceedings will be permanently available and citable (digital persistent identifiers and long term preservation). All accepted workshop papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Program Committee * Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow, UK * Stefano Mizzaro, University of Udine, IT * Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany * Claus-Peter Klas, GESIS-Leibniz-Institute for the SocialSciences, Germany * Peter Mutschke, GESIS-Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany * Vivien Petras, Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin, Germany * Chirag Shah, Rudgers University, USA References * Cole, M., Liu, J., Belkin, N. J., Bierig, R., Gwizdka, J., Liu, C., Zhjang, J., Zhang, X. (2009): Usefulness as the Criterion for Evaluation of Interactive Information Retrieval. Proc. HCIR, 1-4. * Dumais, S. (2012): Whole-session evaluation of interactive information retrieval systems. Compilation of Homework, NII Shonan Workshop, Oct 8-12, 2012, http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/sdumais/niishonanworkshop-web/NII-Shonan-CompiledHomework_Final.pdf **** Chirag Shah, PhD Assistant Professor of Information and Computer Science Rutgers University http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~chirags **** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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GSLIS?s flexible program ensures that each student receives the intellectual guidance and experiences necessary to prepare them for vibrant research careers in a wide range of academic, business, and government settings. Additional information about the PhD program is available at http://www.lis.illinois.edu/academics/degrees/phd or by contacting lis-apply at illinois.edu. Students from historically underrepresented groups are particularly encouraged to apply. *Deadline for PhD applications is December 15, 2015.* -- Kim Schmidt Director of Publications and Media Relations Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel Street Champaign, IL 61820 (217) 265-6391 www.lis.illinois.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michel.menou at orange.fr Sun Nov 22 12:49:56 2015 From: michel.menou at orange.fr (Michel Menou) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 18:49:56 +0100 Subject: [Students-l] Fwd: [Asis-l] Funded doctoral position in scholarly communication In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <56520044.7010206@orange.fr> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Asis-l] Funded doctoral position in scholarly communication Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 20:17:27 -0500 From: Cassidy Sugimoto To: asis-l at asis.org The School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University Bloomington seeks to recruit an exceptional doctoral student with interest in issues related to scholarly communication for the IDEASc fellowship program, funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and hosted by the Department of Information and Library Science (ILS) and the University Libraries at Indiana University Bloomington (IUB). IDEASc ? Integrated Doctoral Education with Application to Scholarly Communication ? is a fellowship program designed to further scholarship and practice in the area of scholarly communication by integrating practical experience in the library with the research and classroom experiences that comprise the traditional education of doctoral students. The Fellow will be provided with intensive mentoring, wide-ranging opportunities to work and conduct research in scholarly communication, and comprehensive training in pedagogy, curricular development, and in-class instruction. Our efforts are motivated by an awareness of the complex transformations of library roles in the scholarly communication environment and the increasing need to educate future LIS faculty with an integrated understanding of research and practice to meet the needs of future MLS students. The Fellow will receive a stipend of $23,000, health insurance, tuition, travel assistance, and funding for publication in an open access journal for three consecutive years as part of this program. The Fellow will also have an opportunity to work in the library with experienced and innovative librarians and with leading faculty studying the diverse range of issues related to scholarly communication. Potential topics of interest include, but are not limited to, digital libraries, scientometrics, intellectual property, metadata, social media metrics, university presses, data curation, digital humanities, scholarly publishing, institutional repositories, and copyright. Additional information can be found on the project website: http:info.ils.indiana.edu/IDEASc Indiana University Bloomington is particularly well-situated to support this proposal given its campus-wide focus on issues of scholarly communication as well as the strengths of both the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries and the Department of Information and Library Science in this domain. This is a time of systemic change in how institutions create, sustain, and provide access to information, and libraries and LIS professionals are uniquely situated to influence the direction of this change. The project will graduate doctoral students who are not only familiar with issues of scholarly communication but will also, as leaders in the field, understand scholarly communication from the varying perspectives of practice, education, and research. Applicants will need to apply to and meet the requirements for the ILS Ph.D. program. Information on the Ph.D. application process can be found on the departmental website (http://ils.indiana.edu/phd/). Students will additionally be asked to send their personal statement, writing sample, and CV/resume directly to Dr. Cassidy R. Sugimoto (sugimoto [at] indiana.edu ). *Applications should be received by January 1, 2016 for full consideration.* -- Cassidy R. Sugimoto, PhD Associate Professor School of Informatics and Computing Indiana University Bloomington http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~sugimoto -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: