[Air-l] Call for Participation: Social Informatics Workshop

[noriko hara]

A Social Informatics Workshop for Library and Information Science Research

A Workshop at the American Society for Information Science and 
Technology Annual Meeting
November 12-17, 2004
Providence, Rhode Island
http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM04/

*Workshop time and location: Sunday November 14th *8:30am to noon.
Location TBA within conference hotel*

Social Informatics (SI) is a label for the study of the design, uses and
consequences of information and communications technologies (ICT) that
specifically takes into account ICT interaction with institutional and
cultural contexts. Carrying on the work of the late Dr. Rob Kling- a
leading proponent of social informatics within LIS - this half-day
workshop is intended to encourage development of new social informatics
research within LIS.  The workshop will have three goals:

1.	To provide a friendly writers' workshop environment to help
	improve draft research and forward ideas.
2.	To encourage social networking among workshop participants.
3.	To collaboratively produce a workshop report summarizing
	contemporary issues in social informatics research within LIS.  
	This report will be made available on the Web and will attribute
	authorship to all workshop participants.

Through a combination of small group work and interactive discussions, the
workshop will explore the following aspects of social informatics research
including:

* Conceptual issues 
* Methods
* Funding and research site access

Participants' research interests will drive the sessions, and an
experienced SI scholar will facilitate each group and provide examples
from their own research. 

Scholars, both beginning and established, who would like to learn more
about how to conduct SI research, who want to better understand what to
expect from SI work, or who want to network with other SI researchers are
encouraged to attend.  All participants will be engaged in the group work
and larger discussion sessions: this is a hands-on and heads-in workshop. 

The workshop is charging a fee of $50 cover room, AV, and refreshment
costs.  The organizers are currently applying for grant money to subsidize
the costs for PhD students who wish to attend.  Please indicate if you are
a current PhD student on your abstract, so we can contact you if we
receive the grant to subsidize costs.

INSTRUCTIONS:  To register and pay for the workshop, see the general
registration for the ASIST conference (we are listed as a pre-conference
seminar): http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM04/registration.html   
In order to facilitate organization of the workshop, and to better promote
social networking among attendees, please should send an up to 500 word
abstract of the ideas you will bring to the workshop to organizer Noriko
Hara <nhara at indiana.edu> by October 1.  Late abstracts will be considered
on a space available basis.    Abstracts will be published on the Web and
advertised to all registered participants.

DUE DATES: Registrations due by October 1 2004 to qualify for early
registration rate of $50.
http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM04/registration.html   Please send
abstracts in to Noriko Hara by October 1th 2004.  Maximum 500 words.  If
you are a PhD student and seeking subsidized workshop fees, it would be
helpful to know of your intent to attend prior to the October 1
registration deadline.

All other questions, email Kristin Eschenfelder at eschenfelder at wisc.edu

Workshop organizers (in alphabetical order)

Kristin R. Eschenfelder
School of Library and Information Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
eschenfelder at wisc.edu

Noriko Hara
School of Library and Information Science
University of Indiana
nhara at indiana.edu

Roberta Lamb
College of Business Administration
University of Hawaii
rlamb at HAWAII.EDU

Howard Rosenbaum, 
School of Library and Information Science
University of Indiana
hrosenba at indiana.edu

Steve Sawyer
School of Information Sciences and Technology
The Pennsylvania State University
sawyer at ist.psu.edu



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Noriko Hara, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Information Science
SLIS, Indiana University
1320 E. 10th Street, LI Room 011
Bloomington, IN 47405-3907

(812) 855-1490 - phone
(812) 855-6166 - fax

http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~nhara
e-mail : nhara at indiana.edu