We are pleased to announce the schedule for "4th Annual SIG SI Social Informatics Research Symposium "People, information and technology: The social analysis of computing" Saturday, October 25, 2008, 8:30 AM-12:30 PM Hyatt Regency Columbus, Ohio This symposium precedes the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Early registration ends on 9/12. We hope you will join us for a morning of outstanding papers and posters, join us for the networking lunch and and stay for the SIG-USE session to follow. The keynote address will be given by Dr. Mark Ackerman, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and School of Information University of Michigan [Note: because of the busy schedule we encourage you to arrive at the Symposium by 8:15!] 8:20: Welcome: Howard Rosenbaum and Kalpana Shankar, Indiana University - co-organizers 8:30 Eric Meyer, Oxford Internet Institute, UK The Role of e-Infrastructures in the Transformation of Research Practices and Outcomes 8:50 Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson, Creative Practices Group, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney, AUS Research in action: taking an articulation approach to examine the roles of information technologies and human interaction in academic practice 9:10 Frank Lambert School of Library and Information Science, Kent State University The social shaping of an online community information provider 9:30 Emilee Rader School of Information, University of Michigan Group Information Repositories as Social Systems 9:50 Ying Ding, SLIS, Indiana University Modeling Social Tagging: Upper Tag Ontology (UTO) 10:10 Break 10:20 Mike Tyworth, Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology and Steve Sawyer, IST, Syracuse University Social Informatics and the Social Analysis of Computing 10:40 Kristene Unsworth Information School, University of Washington Information use, sharing and surveillance: the role of the citizen- informer in the war on terror 11:00 Ken Fleischmann College of Information Studies, University of Maryland Social Analysis of Transparency in Virtual Worlds: Ethical Imperatives for Simulation Design 11:20 Inna Kouper, SLIS, Indiana University The composite model of critical discourse analysis: Examining mutual shaping of people, information, and technology through discourse 11:40 Steven Paling, SLIS, University of Wisconsin-Madison Toward a Theory of Technological Transformation in Artistic Genres 12:00 Keynote address: Mark Ackerman, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and School of Information University of Michigan 12:30 Networking lunch with SIG-USE Posters Kathryn Clodfelter SLIS, Indiana University Innovation, ICTs, and Inequality: The U. S. National Information Infrastructure (NII) and Community Networks Guillermo A. Oyarce, University of North Texas, Eduardo Aguado-López, Nelson Arteaga-Botello, Rosario Rogel-Salazar, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Méjico Using REDALYC and its human networks in Latin America, Spain and Portugal to understand the role of information in ICT adoption Jay Paraki, International Institute For Knowledge Management International Institute for Knowledge Management Maria Souden University of Michigan School of Information Information Work in the Chronic Illness Experience Mike Tyworth, Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology Social Shaping of Police Technology