[Air-L] Winners of ASIS&T SIG SI Awards - Best Paper, Emerging Social Informatics Researchers

[Adam Worrall]

It is my pleasure, as the Awards Coordinator for the Association for
Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Special Interest Group for
Social Informatics (SIG SI), to be able to announce the winners of our
2020* ASIS&T
SIG SI Awards*.

The first award to announce is our *Social Informatics Best Paper Award*.
Out of eight nominated papers, relevant papers received two reviews from
social informatics scholars, with those reviews then evaluated by our Best
Paper Award jury of Rachel Simons (SIG SI Chair), Kolina Koltai (SIG SI
Co-Chair-Elect), and Adam Worrall (SIG SI Awards Coordinator). Reviewers
and the jury evaluated papers on their relevance to social informatics; the
clarity of their methods, findings, and implications; their significance
and contribution to social informatics research; and their overall strength
as deserving of the Best Paper Award.

The award jury chose one winning paper whose authors will receive the $750
(US) prize: *Irene V. Pasquetto* (Harvard University), *Christine L.
Borgman *(University of California Los Angeles), and *Morgan F.
Wofford* (University
of California Los Angeles / University of Michigan), for their paper "*Uses
and reuses of scientific data: The data creators' advantage*," published
during 2019 in *Harvard Data Science Review*, volume 1 issue 2.
http://doi.org/10.1162/99608f92.fc14bf2d

Given the high quality of nominated papers, we also wish to recognize
two *honourable
mentions*:

   - *Carter Østerlund* and *Kevin Crowston* (both of Syracuse University),
   for their paper "*Documentation and access to knowledge in online
   communities: Know your audience and write appropriately?*", published
   during 2019 in the *Journal of the Association for Information Science
   and Technology*, volume 70 issue 6, pp. 619-633.
   https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24152
   - *Kyle M. L. Jones* (Indiana University, Indianapolis [IUPUI]), *Alan
   Rubel* (University of Wisconsin, Madison), and *Ellen LeClere* (University
   of Wisconsin, Madison), for their paper "*A matter of trust: Higher
   education institutions as information fiduciaries in an age of educational
   data mining and learning analytics*," in press and available in early
   view since 2019 at the *Journal of the Association for Information
   Science and Technology. *https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24327

The second and third awards we wish to announce are our inaugural *Emerging
Social Informatics Researcher Awards*. Four students self-nominated for
these awards, with their applications adjudicated by myself (as SIG SI
Awards Coordinator) and SIG SI Co-Chair-Elect Colin Rhinesmith. We assessed
the relevance of the student's current and future research to social
informatics, along with their submitted or accepted contributions to the
ASIS&T 2020 Annual Meeting and our own Social Informatics Research
Symposium. Two winners are being recognized as emerging researchers in
social informatics, who each receive free / reimbursed registration for
ASIS&T 2020 and the Social Informatics Research Symposium, where they will
be able to network and interact with other social informatics researchers.
They are:

   - *Diana Floegel <https://djfloegel.wixsite.com/mysite>*, a PhD student
   at Rutgers University. Diana will be presenting their co-authored paper
   with Kaitlin Costello (also of Rutgers University) titled "*'Predictive
   ads are not doctors': Mental health tracking and technology companies*
   <https://www.conftool.org/asist2020/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=367#paperID201>"
   on the morning of October 29th as part of ASIS&T 2020. Their research was
   self-described as looking at how "marginalized actors ... express agency
   within sociotechnical assemblages that are structurally inequitable, and
   therefore oppressive" with an aim to improving equity and building
   "substantive sociotechnical theory."
   - *Joseph Winberry <https://josephwinberry.org/>*, a PhD student at the
   University of Tennessee. Joseph will present his first-authored poster with
   Bharat Mehra (of the University of Alabama) titled "*US state libraries
   as strong institutions: Supporting justice for LGBTQ+ patrons?*" as part
   of the ASIS&T 2020 poster session. He described his research as focused in
   community informatics, and in particular on "how stakeholders from
   marginalized populations can utilize information and communications
   technology (ICTs) to better engage with community-embedded institutions."

All award winners will be recognized during the *2020 Social Informatics
Research Symposium*, co-organized by SIG SI, SIG SM (Social Media), and SIG
IEP (Information Ethics & Policy), to be held online on Saturday, October
31st and Sunday November 1st, as part of the ASIS&T 2020 Annual Meeting. A
reminder that early registration for the ASIS&T Annual Meeting ends today,
Friday August 7th. For more details on and to register for the Annual
Meeting and Social Informatics Research Symposium, please go to
https://www.asist.org/am20/.

Thanks to those who reviewed nominated papers for our Best Paper Award this
year: Catherine Dumas, Melissa Bica, Kristin Eschenfelder, Pnina Fichman,
Noriko Hara, Caroline Haythornthwaite, Kolina Koltai, Eric Meyer, Colin
Rhinesmith, Ana Roeschley, Howard Rosenbaum, Kalpana Shankar, Sarika
Sharma, and Rachel Simons. And congratulations again to Irene, Christine,
Morgan, Diana, and Joseph for their existing and emerging contributions to
social informatics. We hope to see everyone (virtually!) for our 2020
Social Informatics Research Symposium and the ASIS&T Annual Meeting!

Adam Worrall, Ph.D.
Awards Coordinator, ASIS&T SIG SI
Assistant Professor, University of Alberta
School of Library and Information Studies
5-168 Education North
Edmonton, AB T6G 2G5
worrall at ualberta.ca  (780) 492-0179
http://www.adamworrall.org