Hi all, Some of you may be aware of ASIS&T (the Association for Information Science and Technology). In any case, we are holding a preconference workshop that may interest some of you! Please feel free to contact me with any questions. Thanks! Kris It is with great pleasure that I put out this call for participation in our SIG-IFP / SIG-III joint sponsored pre-conference workshop: "Trust in the Age of Data (big or small)" Date: October 31, 2014 (Friday) Time: 8:30 to 4:00 pm Location: Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA, USA ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: We plan this workshop as an interactive event focused around the scholarship of trust. This is an opportunity for scholars to fine-tune position papers and works-in-progress as they are informed via the workshop discussions and activities, and brainstorm about methodological approaches to studying trust in the context of government and corporate use of big data, emerging technologies, and globalized infrastructures. Participants who do not present a work-in-progress or position paper, but are in attendance as a general workshop participant, will have the opportunity to further develop ideas and interests that are related to information policy, ethics, and trust. This workshop will enable participants to engage, challenge, support, and encourage each other on questions such as: the importance of trust; theorizing the concept of trust; conceptualizing trust around a set of relationships; understanding trust in the relationship between citizens and the state; reconciling trust with NSA (and other agency) surveillance; trust in international or intra-national state to state relationships; and trust in other communities, including between and among dominant and underrepresented groups in society. We will address questions such as: * How are researchers conceptualizing trust in the age of data? * How can scholars investigate infrastructures of trust? * Are understandings of trust shifting? If so, with what consequences, in which contexts? * When is trust justified? When is it not justified? Should decision-makers focus on and build trustworthiness rather than (mere) trust? * What are the economic, political and legal implications of trust in the age of data (big and small)? * How does policy design build/undermine trust? * What are the ethics of trust in the age of data? This workshop aims to bring together scholars from across the information science fields (LIS, Archives, Museums, HCI, Law, Policy) to lend their respective lens's to a critical exploration of trust. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION All interested researchers, graduate students, and information professionals are invited to submit a proposal for: 1) works-in-progress research papers, 2) short position statements and/or short information policy/trust scenarios (e.g., critical reflection on policies already in place or developing new policy), 3) abstracts describing possible existing or novel methodological approaches to researching the relationships between data and trust in a range of contexts. Please send your submission by email to Kris Unsworth and Bryce Newell at unsworth@drexel.edu<mailto:unsworth@drexel.edu> and bcnewell@uw.edu<mailto:bcnewell@uw.edu> IMPORTANT DATES: September 1, 2014: Submission due date for extended abstracts or position papers September 20, 2014: Notification of acceptance October 15, 2014: Submit presentations (drafts, outlines, slides, etc.) REGISTRATION FEES: tba - we will send an update. You will also be able to find this information on the main conference website! Scholarship opportunities will also be announced shortly. The registration fee will cover workshop costs, wireless Internet access, lunch and coffee breaks. WORKSHOP PLANNING COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Kristene Unsworth, Drexel University; Lisa P. Nathan, University of British Columbia; Alan Rubel, University of Wisconsin; Bryce Clayton Newell, University of Washington; Nadia Caidi, University of Toronto; Elizabeth Shaffer, University of British Columbia; Adam D. Moore, University of Washington; Heather MacNeil, University of Toronto Please forward any questions that you have to Kris Unsworth (unsworth@drexel.edu<mailto:unsworth@drexel.edu>) or Bryce Newell (bcnewell@uw.edu<mailto:bcnewell@uw.edu>). Kristene Unsworth 2014 SIG-IFP chair Kristene Unsworth, Ph.D. Assistant Professor ASIS&T SIG-IFP Chair The College of Computing and Informatics Drexel University 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tel: 215.895.6016 | Fax: 215.895.2494 Drexel.edu/cci<cci.drexel.edu> Kristene Unsworth, Ph.D. Assistant Professor ASIS&T SIG-IFP Chair The College of Computing and Informatics Drexel University 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tel: 215.895.6016 | Fax: 215.895.2494 Drexel.edu/cci<cci.drexel.edu>