The 10th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium (SIG SI) @ the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology Connecting (Epistemic) Cultures and (Intellectual) Communities Please join us in Seattle and celebrate with us as we mark the 10th year of the SIG-SI Research Symposium! Saturday, November 1, 2014, 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle Washington, USA Organizers: Pnina Fichman, Indiana University (fichman@indiana.edu) Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University (hrosenba@indiana.edu) Sponsored by SIG-SI and the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Note: Early registration deadline for the conference is Friday, 9/18/2014 Schedule 8:30-8:40 Introduction – Social Informatics and Epistemic Cultures 8:40-9:40 Papers 8:40-9:00 EunJeong Cheon and Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The interplay between different forms of knowledge and use of ICTs in knowledge practices of consultants 9:00-9:20 Wayne Buente, Luz Quiroga, Tamara Heck and Joe Greene, University of Hawaii at Manoa Between Two Publics: Examining the Social Context of ICT use among Homeless Individuals in Hawaii 9:20-9:40 Asen O. Ivanov, University of Toronto Genres of Workplace Practices: Towards a New Socio-Technical Idiom for Organizational Informatics 9:40-10:00 Mohhamad Jarrahi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Social informatics and directions for future research on implications of ICTs in organizations 10:00-10:20 Break and Poster Session 10:20-11:20: Panel discussion: Social Informatics and Epistemic Cultures Invited scholars will be asked to reflect and consider the following questions: • How do you see your work as bridging epistemic cultures and intellectual communities? • What are the social and technological forces that enable and constrain connections between SI and cognate intellectual communities? • What are some of the ways in which we can begin to establish and maintain connections among SI and cognate epistemic cultures and intellectual communities? • What can a social informatics approach tell us about the nature of the boundaries among SI and cognate epistemic communities? • What are the challenges and opportunities of engaging in this type of SI work? 11:20-11:40 Networking break 11:40-12:30 Best paper awards and presentations 2013 Social Informatics Paper ($1,000) Budhathoki, N.R, and Haythornthwaite, C. (2013). Motivation for open collaboration: Crowd and community models and the case of OpenStreeMap. American Behavioral Scientist 57: 548-575. 2012 Best Social Informatics Student Paper ($500): Gal Oestreicher-SInger and Lior Zalmanson Oestricher-Singer, G. and Zalmanson, L. (2013). Content or Community? A digital business strategy for content providers in the social age. MISQ, 37 No. 2, pp. 591-616. Poster Min Sook Park and Hyejin Park, Florida State University Health Information Referencing in Online Communities: Case Study of Breast Cancer Information for Korean Immigrants Fees: Early-bird: SIG/SI Members $90, Members $100, Non-members $120 Regular: SIG/SI Members $105, Members $115, Non-members $135 For more about the workshop: http://www.asist.org/asist2014/seminars_workshops_SIG_SI.html To register for the workshop (and the conference): http://www.asist.org/asist2014/register.html For more about Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics: http://rkcsi.indiana.edu