[Air-L] CFP>: 3rd Social Informatics Research Symposium @ ASIST 07

Rik Hunter hunter.rick.l at gmail.com
Tue Aug 7 16:46:24 PDT 2007


A nearby con. Wanna go?

Rick L Hunter
PhD Student: Composition & Rhetoric
Instructor: ENG 201 & Writing Center
Department of English
University of Wisconsin-Madison
rlhunter at wisc.edu



Howard Rosenbaum wrote:
> [Apologies for cross-posting]
>
> Call for papers and participation: 3rd Annual Social Informatics  
> Research
> Symposium: The social web, social computing and the social analysis of
> computing (SIG SI)
>
> Friday October 19th, 1-6pm; Hyatt Regency Milwaukee Wisconsin
>
> The purpose of this ASIST preconference research symposium is to
> disseminate current research and research in progress that investigates
> the social aspects of information and communications technologies (ICT)
> across all areas of ASIST.  The symposium includes members of many SIGs.
>
> The symposium defines "social" broadly to include critical and  
> historical
> approaches and well as contemporary social analysis; and, it defines
> "technology" broadly to include traditional technologies (i.e.,  
> paper) as
> well as state of the art computer systems This year's theme is "The  
> social web:
> Web 2.0, social computing and the social analysis of computing"
>
> We are pleased to announce that the keynote will be given by Dr.  
> Alice Robbin,
> Director of the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics and Associate  
> Professor
> in the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana  
> University. Her topic
> will be "Planning the Future of Social Informatics in ASIST." Dr  
> Robbin will lead
> a lively discussion focusing on
>
> ~Funding opportunities for research on the social impacts of technology
> ~How social informatics reseachers in library and information science  
> and
> related disciplines might collaborate in the development of  
> innovative research
> proposals
>
> Call for papers and posters:
>
> Submit a short paper (3000 words) or poster (1000 words) by August  
> 31,2007
>
> Submissions may include empirical, critical and theoretical work, as  
> well
> as richly described practice cases and demonstrations.
>
> Acceptance announcements made by September 10, in time for conference
> early registration (ends Sept 14th).
>
> Tentative Schedule
>
> Paper presentations: 1-2:30 pm
> Break: 2:30-2:45 (with poster viewing)
> Paper presentations: 2:45-4:15
> Poster 15 minute madness: 4:15 to 4:30
> Break: 4:30-4:45 (with poster viewing)
> Closing Keynote Discussion: 4:45-6:00 pm
>
> For further information and instructions for submitting papers and  
> posters
> see: https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/eschenfelder/web/si2007.
>
> Kristin Eschenfelder
> Associate Professor
> School of Library and Information Studies
> University of Wisconsin-Madison
> eschenfelder at wisc.edu
> 1-608-263-2105
> http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~kreschen
>
> Howard Rosenbaum
> Associate Professor
> School of Library and Information Science
> Indiana University
> hrosenba at indiana.edu
> 812 855 3250
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