A nearby con. Wanna go? Rick L Hunter PhD Student: Composition & Rhetoric Instructor: ENG 201 & Writing Center Department of English University of Wisconsin-Madison rlhunter@wisc.edu Howard Rosenbaum wrote:
[Apologies for cross-posting]
Call for papers and participation: 3rd Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium: The social web, social computing and the social analysis of computing (SIG SI)
Friday October 19th, 1-6pm; Hyatt Regency Milwaukee Wisconsin
The purpose of this ASIST preconference research symposium is to disseminate current research and research in progress that investigates the social aspects of information and communications technologies (ICT) across all areas of ASIST. The symposium includes members of many SIGs.
The symposium defines "social" broadly to include critical and historical approaches and well as contemporary social analysis; and, it defines "technology" broadly to include traditional technologies (i.e., paper) as well as state of the art computer systems This year's theme is "The social web: Web 2.0, social computing and the social analysis of computing"
We are pleased to announce that the keynote will be given by Dr. Alice Robbin, Director of the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics and Associate Professor in the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University. Her topic will be "Planning the Future of Social Informatics in ASIST." Dr Robbin will lead a lively discussion focusing on
~Funding opportunities for research on the social impacts of technology ~How social informatics reseachers in library and information science and related disciplines might collaborate in the development of innovative research proposals
Call for papers and posters:
Submit a short paper (3000 words) or poster (1000 words) by August 31,2007
Submissions may include empirical, critical and theoretical work, as well as richly described practice cases and demonstrations.
Acceptance announcements made by September 10, in time for conference early registration (ends Sept 14th).
Tentative Schedule
Paper presentations: 1-2:30 pm Break: 2:30-2:45 (with poster viewing) Paper presentations: 2:45-4:15 Poster 15 minute madness: 4:15 to 4:30 Break: 4:30-4:45 (with poster viewing) Closing Keynote Discussion: 4:45-6:00 pm
For further information and instructions for submitting papers and posters see: https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/eschenfelder/web/si2007.
Kristin Eschenfelder Associate Professor School of Library and Information Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison eschenfelder@wisc.edu 1-608-263-2105 http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~kreschen
Howard Rosenbaum Associate Professor School of Library and Information Science Indiana University hrosenba@indiana.edu 812 855 3250 _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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