Social Informatics Best Student Paper Award

Call for nomination for the 2016 Social Informatics Best Student Paper Award

The Special Interest Group for Social Informatics (SIG-SI) and the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics are seeking nominations for an award for the best paper written by a doctoral student on a topic informed by social informatics. Nominations may include a published paper in a peer reviewed journal during 2015 or a conference paper presented in 2015. The author or authors will present their paper at the 12th Annual SIG-SI Symposium on Saturday, October 15, 2016 and receive a $500 cash award at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Copenhagen, Denmark in October, 2016.

Nomination letters should be sent to Howard Rosenbaum ([log in to unmask]) or Pnina Fichman ([log in to unmask]) by August 19, 2016 and must include a full citation, a brief explanation for the nomination, and a copy of the article. Self nominations are acceptable. 

Winners will be notified by September 9, 2016.

For more information about the Special Interest Group for Social Informatics

(SIG-SI): http://asistsigsi.wordpress.com<http://asistsigsi.wordpress.com/>

For more information about the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics:

http://rkcsi.indiana.edu<http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/>

Pnina Fichman and Howard Rosenbaum
Department of Information and Library Science
School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University