[Air-L] Speakers Announced for The 17th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium and the 3rd Annual Information Ethics and Policy Workshop

[Colin Rhinesmith]

Dear colleagues,

The Planning Committee for The 17th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium and the 3rd Annual Information Ethics and Policy Workshop: Sociotechnical Perspectives on Equity, Inclusion, and Justice (SIG-SI and SIG-IEP) are excited to share the speakers and schedule for the joint SIG-SI and SIG-IEP Workshop on Sociotechnical Perspectives on Equity, Inclusion, and Justice on Friday, October 29th, 2021 from 8:00am-12:00 MDT.

Our speakers will discuss research related to policy, training, AI and diversity and inequality. In this half-day workshop, a range of scholarly sociotechnical inquiries alongside ethical, practical, and policy perspectives across a range of disciplines and sectors will be presented and discussed. The workshop will provide a virtual space to share and exchange experiences and ideas or suggest theories and directions for future work among international SI researchers and practitioners. This workshop will facilitate collaboratively producing short- and long-term research agendas, addressing pressing critical and diversity concerns around technology, sharing research that supports empirically driven policy making, ethical decision-making, and practice for social justice and well-being with pervasive and emerging sociotechnical systems.

The speakers and topics are as follows:

      Tien-I Tsai and Hui-Yun Sung. Towards an Inclusive and Sustainable Knowledge Society for Everyone: Development of a National Policy for Public Libraries in Taiwan. (virtual)
      Nga Than, Abhishek Gupta, and Ameen Jauhar. Critical Analysis of "Responsible AI #AIforAll: Approach Document for India" (virtual)
      Sundaraparipurnan Narayanan. Game based training as a model for skill enhancement in bias mitigation efforts. (virtual)
      Dania Bilal and Jessica Barfield. Increasing Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Design and Use of Voice Digital Assistants. (virtual)
      Lindsay Poirier. Grappling with the Representational Inequities in NYC 311 Data. (virtual)
      Lala Hajibayova. In Search for Cuteness: Interactive Discovery and Play in Times of Pandemic. (virtual)
      Hengyi Fu and Yao Lyu. How People Experience Facial Recognition in an Organizational Setting: An Organizational Justice Perspective. (virtual)
      Elliott Hauser. Action in light of information: What robots can teach us about algorithms. (in-person)

Additional registration fee applies. All of the workshop descriptions can be found on the ASIS&T Annual Meeting website. To register for this workshop, whether attending online or in-person, you can visit Registration and Workshop Rates. If you have not already done so, please register for the Annual Meeting here: https://www.asist.org/am21/registration/ <https://www.asist.org/am21/registration/>  

We look forward to seeing you there!

Best,
Colin

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Colin Rhinesmith (pronouns: he/him)
Associate Professor and Director
Community Informatics Lab
School of Library and Information Science
Provost’s Faculty Fellow for Scholarship and Research
Simmons University
http://crhinesmith.com

Senior Faculty Research Fellow
Benton Institute for Broadband & Society
https://benton.org