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Please join us in Baltimore!

The 8th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium (SIG SI): Social Informatics: Past, Present and Future.

Saturday, October 27, 2011, 8:30-12:30 PM

 

Organizers:

Howard Rosenbaum & Pnina Fichman (Indiana University)

 

Schedule:

8:30-8:45   Introduction

Howard Rosenbaum - Comments on the History of Social Informatics

 

8:45-10:00 Papers

J. P. Allen (University of San Francisco)

A Business Reform Agenda for Social Informatics

Andrew Cox (University of Sheffield)

Turning to practice in social informatics

Kristin Eschenfelder and Andrew Johnson (University of Wisconsin – Madison and University of Colorado at Boulder)

Governing the Data Commons: Controlled Sharing of Scholarly Data

Sean Goggins and Christopher Mascaro (Drexel University)

Context Matters: The Experience of ICTs, Physical, Informational and Cultural Distance in a Rural IT Firm

Grant Leyton Simpson (Indiana University)

Projects and Objects: Points of Contact between Textual Studies and Sociotechnical Investigations

Lori Hoeffner (Adelphi University)

The Current State of Social Informatics: A Domain Analytic Perspective

 

10:00-10:20   Break (light refreshments) and Poster Session

 

10:20-11:35   Papers

Noriko Hara and Pnina Fichman (Indiana University)

Frameworks for understanding knowledge sharing in open online communities: Boundaries and boundary crossing

Beth St. Jean, Katie Shilton, and Brian Butler (University of Maryland - College Park)

Self-Tracking is Social: Toward a Model of the Technologically-Mediated Information Behavior of Self-Trackers

Ying Sun and Joseph A Meloche (University at Buffalo, the State University of New York and North Carolina Central University)

A Q Methodological Study on What is Important to Support Collaboration in Web 2.0

Lysanne Lessard (University of Toronto)

Reframing the socio-­‐technical problem: A way forward for Social Informatics (s)

 

11:40-12:30   Best Paper Awards and Presentations

 

 

Fees:

Members $95 - early registration ($110 after early registration ends)

Non-members $105 - early registration ($120 after early registration ends)