The 12th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium (SIG-SI): “The Social Informatics of Work and Play” Please join us in Copenhagen and celebrate with us as we mark the 12th year of the SIG-SI Research Symposium! Saturday, October 15, 2015, 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers Copenhagen, Denmark Organizers: Pnina Fichman, Indiana University (fichman@indiana.edu) Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University (hrosenba@indiana.edu) Eric Meyer, Oxford Internet Institute, United Kingdom Adam Worrall, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Sponsored by SIG-SI and the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Note: Early registration deadline for the conference and the workshop is Friday, 9/25/2015 Schedule 8:30-8:40 Welcome 8:40-9:10 Opening Keynote Kalpana Shankar University of Dublin 9:10-10:10 Papers 9:10-9:30 An Analysis of Canadian Media Regarding The Potential Impact of Social Media and Cyberspaces on young bisexual and gay men Blake Hawkins; Elizabeth Saewyc 9:30-9:50 Coping with Private and Academic Information Needs Abroad: An exploratory Study of International Students Jette Hyldegård and Morten Hertzum, Royal School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen 9:50-10:10 Impact of IT on Library Patrons: A Perspective from Pakistani Universities Muhammad Sajid MirzaIslamic Research Institute, International Islamic University, Islamabad 10:10-10:30 Break 10:30-11:10 Papers 10:30-10:50 Rethinking STIN Chase McCoy, Indiana University 10:50-11:10 Algorithms and the natural attitude Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University 11:10-12:00 Awards 11:10-11:25 Best Student paper Tweet to learn: Expertise and centrality in conference Twitter networks 11:25-11:40 Best Social Informatics Paper Runner up Online Favela: The Use of Social Media by the Marginalized in Brazil David Nemer, University of Kentucky 11:40-11:55 Best Social Informatics Paper Social Networks and the Success of Market Intermediaries: Evidence From the U.S. Residential Real Estate Industry Kevin Crowston and Steve Sawyer, Syracuse University 12:00-12:30 Closing Keynote Eric Meyer Oxford Internet Institute Registration Fees: Early-bird: $90 Late: $120 To register for the workshop (and the conference): https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2015/register/ For more about the workshop: https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2015/seminars-and... For more about Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics: http://rkcsi.indiana.edu