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