iConference 2015 schedule posted – potential interest for SIG SI members

The schedule and program for the 2015 iConference has been posted, to be held in Newport Beach, CA March 24th – 27th. Registration is open with early rates good through January 15th(this Thursday).

We include below (click “read more” if necessary) a summary of workshops, papers, and interactive sessions that we believe ASIS&T SIG SI members may find interesting at the iConference. Click on each of the links for more details. We further encourage attendees to look over the lists of posters that will be presented during the two poster sessions at the iConference: session 1 and session 2. Given the interdisciplinary interests of our members, it is possible that you see something on the program that you think belongs here but that we have missed. If so, please let us know on Facebook or Twitter or by contacting Communications Officer Adam Worrall.

Finally, SIG SI often holds a social gathering at the iConference for social informatics and sociotechnical researchers; we will post details close to the event. We look forward to seeing many of you in Newport Beach at the iConference, and congratulations to our members who had papers, workshops, or sessions accepted!

Workshops

All iConference 2015 workshops take place on Tuesday March 24th.

• Workshop 1: Trace Ethnography (Amelia Acker, Matt Burton, R. Stuart Geiger, & David Ribes) – 8:30am – 5:30pm
• Workshop 2: Exploring Gender, Race, and Sexuality with Social Media Data (Oliver L. Haimson, Amanda Menking, Jordan Eschler, Ingrid Erickson, Gillian R. Hayes) – 8:30am – 5:30pm
• Workshop 5: ICT for Sustainability (Birgit Penzenstadler, Christoph Becker, Eli Blevis, Kenneth R. Fleischmann, Beth Karlin, Lisa Nathan, Juliet Norton, Ankita Raturi, Debra Richardson, Six Silberman, Bill Tomlinson) – 8:30am – 5:30pm
• Workshop 6: Sociotechnical Approaches to Fieldwork and Trace Data Integration (Steve Sawyer, Warren Allen, R. Stuart Geiger, Carlos Monroy, Kalpana Shankar, Norman Makoto Su, Stephen Voida) – 8:30am – 5:30pm
• Workshop 8: Values as Generative Forces in Design (Kenneth R. Fleischmann, Katie Shilton, Lisa Nathan, Ingrid Erickson) – 8:30am – 12:30pm
• Workshop 10: On the Role of Engagement in Information Seeking Contexts: From Research to Implementation (Ioannis Arapahos, Irene Lopatovska, Heather O’Brien) – 2:00 – 5:30pm

Papers and Sessions

Wednesday March 25th

• On the Value of ‘Useless Data’: Infrastructure, Biodiversity, and Policy (Steve Siota, Geoffrey C. Bowker) – 10:30am
• E-petitioning as Collective Political Action in We the People (Catherine Dumas, Daniel LaManna, Teresa M. Harrison, S.S. Ravi, Loni Hagen, Christopher Kotfila, Feng Chen) – 11:30am
• Interactive session: iCollaboration: New initiatives in iEducation (Howard Rosenbaum, Pnina Fichman, Jeffrey Stanton, Philip Doty, DongHee Shin) – 1:45 – 3:15pm
• “Like a Real Friendship”: Translation, Coherence, and Convergence of Information Values in LibraryThing and Goodreads (Adam Worrall) – 1:45pm
• Social Epistemology and Cognitive Authority in Online Comments about Vaccine Safety (Colin Doty) – 2:15pm
• “That’s Not An Architecture Problem!”: Techniques and Challenges for Practicing Anticipatory Technology Ethics (Katie Shilton) – 2:45pm
• Interactive session: iConference 2015 Social Media Expo – 3:30 – 5:00pm
• Understanding Concepts and Values for the Future of Online Education Through the Practice of Design (Michael Marcinkowski, Frederico Fonseca) – 3:30pm
• On the Pitfalls of Crowdsourcing for Civic Information Management (Konstantinos Pelechrinis) – 3:30pm
• “Hurling Against a Haystack”: The Incentives and Challenges of Open Data in the Republic of Ireland (Brittney O’Neill, Kalpana Shankar) – 3:50pm
• Appropriating Digital Fabrication Technologies: A Comparative Study of Two 3D Printing Communities (Thomas Ludwig, Oliver Stickel, Alexander Boden, Volkmar Pipek) – 4:00pm

Thursday March 26th

• Online Media Forums as Separate Social Lives: A Qualitative Study of Disclosure Within and Beyond Reddit (Martin Shelton, Katherine Lo, Bonnie Nardi) – 10:30am
• Information and Learning Activities in Organisations: Participants’ Views on Where and How to Engage (Karin Dessne) – 10:30am
• Motherhood and Social Networking Sites: How do Sociocultural Contexts and Technological Factors Affect Korean Mothers’ KakaoStory Use? (Jinyoung Kim, Myeong Lee, Chiyoung Oh) – 11:30am
• Use and Adoption Challenges of Wearable Activity Trackers (Patrick C. Shih, Kyungsik Han, Erika Shehan Poole, Mary Beth Rosson, John M. Carroll) – 2:00pm
• Collections Of Trauma: Exploring Generative Frictions (Lisa P. Nathan, Elizabeth Shaffer, Sheena Campbell, Maggie Castor) – 3:00pm
• “Labels are for Clothing”: Negotiating LGBT Identities Within Social Question-Answering Sites(Vanessa Kitzie) – 4:00pm
• “Who has time for that?” Media Resistance Among Conservation Photographers (Elizabeth Anne Gervais Schwarz) – 4:20pm
• Not So Lonely Surfers: Loneliness, Social Support, Internet Use and Life Satisfaction in Older Adults (R. J. Shillair, R.V. Rikard, S.R. Cotten, H.Y. Tsai) – 4:30pm
• Conceptions of Work and the Materiality of the Classroom (Daniel Carter) – 4:30pm
• Informal Networks, Phones and Facebook: Information Seeking and Technology Use by Undocumented Migrants at the U.S.-Mexico Border (Bryce C. Newell, Ricardo Gomez) – 4:45pm