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Maryland's iSchool Takes Part in Eighth Annual iConference Faculty and students from the University of Maryland's College of Information Studies, Maryland's iSchool, are well-represented at the eighth annual iConference, Scholarship in Action: Data, Innovation, Wisdom, being held February 12-15 in Ft. Worth, Texas. Participants include the following: Workshops Digital Youth Workshop: Calling all Designers, Researchers and Policy Makers, chaired by Allison Druin Alternative Events Experiencing Science in Informal Learning Environments - Tales from the Field, chaired by Mega Subramaniam Mega Subramaniam and June Ahn, presenters Values Interventions: Ethics Scholarship in Action Katie Shilton, presenter Theory and the Social Nature of Information Jes A. Koepfler, Jessica Vitak, presenters Calling All Computer Scientists and Social Scientists: Establishing a Research Agenda for Computational Social Science Douglas W. Oard, presenter Papers Session: On-line Communities Session Chair: Mega Subramaniam Hand in Glove, or Square Peg, Round Hole: An Exploration of Social Network Analysis Applied to Online Community Trace Data Kimberly Ann Glasgow Understanding Large Scale Online Environments with Qualitative Methods Dana Rotman, Yurong He, Jennifer Preece, Allison Druin Session: Social Media From Push Brooms to Prayer Books: Social Media and Social Networks During the London Riots Kimberly Glasgow Session: Information Access and Literacy Connecting Government, Libraries, and Communities: Information Behavior Theory and Information Intermediaries in the Design of the LibEGov Tool Paul T. Jaeger, Ursula Gorham, John Carlo Bertot, Natalie Greene Taylor, Elizabeth Larson, Ruth Lincoln Notes Ethnographic Studies of Online Communities Session Chair: Jes Koepfler Posters Real Talk: A Toolkit for Community Engagement, Transparency, and Mobile Governance Jes A. Koepfler Research Paper Roundtable Social Values in a Future Internet: Analyzing the Named Data Networking Protocols Katie Shilton Social Media Expo Scientific INQuiry (SINQ): Social Media for Everyday Science Learning Michael Gubbels, Jason Yip, Jinyoung Kim, June Ahn The program for iConference 2013 is available online at: http://iconference.ischools.org/iConference13/2013index/ Mary Carroll-Mason Communications Coordinator College of Information Studies, Maryland's iSchool University of Maryland 4105J Hornbake Building College Park, MD 20742 [log in to unmask] (301) 405-1260 ischool.umd.edu<http://ischool.umd.edu/> Twitter: @I_UMD