SIG-SI News

Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society has posted an open call for fellowship applications for 2014-2015. Applications are due by December 8, 2013. We invite applications from individuals from around the globe working on a broad range of opportunities and challenges related to Internet and society, which may overlap with ongoing work at Berkman or will expose us…

Microsoft Research New England’s Social Media Collective is hiring for a postdoctoral researcher who studies socio-technical issues, starting July 1st, 2014. The application deadline is November 4th, 2013. This position is an ideal opportunity for a scholar whose work draws on anthropology, communication, media studies, sociology, and/or science and technology studies to bring empirical and critical perspectives to complex socio-technical issues. Microsoft…

The Medical Library Association is offering a $5,000 Eugene Garfield Research Fellowship for research-related purposes regarding the history of information science to increase the underlying knowledge base in this area and enhance the current and future practice of the information professions, particularly health sciences librarianship. Master’s and doctoral students in information science and master’s and doctoral degree holders…

We are pleased to present the following schedule of events (updated October 17th) for the 9th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium, to be held November 2nd at the 2013 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. Many excellent papers and posters will be presented, along with a keynote by William Jones of the University of Washington and the presentation of our best paper awardees. To register for the workshop…

We are pleased to present the following schedule of events (updated October 17th) for the 9th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium, to be held November 2nd at the 2013 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. Many excellent papers and posters will be presented, along with a keynote by William Jones of the University of Washington and the presentation of our best paper awardees. The 9th Annual Social Informatics…

SIG SI and the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics (RKCSI) are pleased to announce the winning papers of the 2012 Social Informatics Best Paper Awards: 2012 Best Social Informatics Paper ($1,000) “Toward an Integrated Model of Group Development: Disruption of Routines by Technology-Induced Change” by Monica Garfield, Bentley University, and Alan Dennis, Indiana University. Published in the Journal of Management Information Systems, 29(3),…

A call for submissions has been posted for the CSCW 2014 Doctoral Colloquium, to be held February 15-16, 2014, in Baltimore, MD. Submissions are due October 7th. The CSCW Doctoral Colloquium is a forum in which Ph.D. students meet and discuss their work with each other and a panel of experienced researchers and practitioners. The colloquium itself…

Editors Aziz Douai and Mohamed Ben Moussa have issued a Call for Chapters for an edited book, Mapping the “Arab Spring”: Social and Political Influence of New Media in the Arab World. Abstracts of 600 words or less are due to the editors by October 15th, with manuscripts of accepted chapters due at the end of…

A Call for Applications has been posted for a Workshop on Robust Socio-technical Architectures in Support of Displaced Persons (DPEW ‘13), to be held in Cape Town, South Africa, Dec 4-5. Population displacement is a growing problem, with 41.3 million persons displaced globally in 2011. Whether driven from their homes by armed conflict, natural disasters, or climate change, the displaced…

A Call for Papers for a special issue of The Information Society on “Connecting Fields: Information, Learning Sciences and Education” has been posted. The deadline for extended abstracts (300-400 words) is December 15th; selected abstracts must have full papers submitted by May 1st, 2014. The call is looking for papers that …consider the connections between information and education, or the…