SIG-SI News

The call for proposals for the 2014 ASIS&T Annual Meeting has been posted. ASIS&T 2014 will take place in Seattle, WA October 31 – November 4, 2014, at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel. This year’s theme is “Connecting Collections, Cultures, and Communities.” The conference welcomes contributions from all areas of information science and technology.  The conference celebrates plurality in methods, theories and…

A call for papers has been distributed for the Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR) mini-track at AMCIS 2014, the 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems, to take place in Savannah, GA August 7-10, 2014. Full papers are due March 1, 2014. The mini-track is …interested in high quality empirical and conceptual work that uses social theory to study…

A call for papers and posters has been posted for ISIC 2014: The Information Behavior Conference, to be held in Leeds, UK September 2-5, 2014. Papers and posters are due by February 15, 2014. The call requests papers that address “issues of common [disciplinary] interest”, focusing on the “relationship between the needs or requirements of the information user, the means for…

A call for paper proposals is now available for the 2014 edition of the Theorizing the Webconference, to be held in Brooklyn, NY April 25-26, 2014. Abstracts of proposals are due by January 19th, 2014. We invite you to propose a presentation for the fourth annual Theorizing the Web, which—by popular demand—is now a two-day event. Theorizing the Web is both…

A call for paper proposals has been issued for a special issue of New Media and Society on the topic of “The Democratization of Hacking and Making.” Abstract proposals are due by May 1, 2014. The issue will explore and question the growing diversity of uses stemming from this turn of hacking towards more popular uses and democratic contexts. Submissions…

A call for position papers has been posted for a workshop on Values and Design in HCI Education, to be held April 27th, 2014 at CHI in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Position papers are due January 17th; they should be 2-4 pages in length and describe prospective participants’ interests in and experiences with values and design in educational environments. The…

Microsoft Research New England is looking for PhD candidates to become interns in their Social Media Collective—focusing on sociotechnical research questions—for Summer 2014. Internships will last 12 weeks, on-site in Cambridge, MA. Fields of interest include communication, sociology, anthropology, media studies, information studies, science and technology studies, and other social science and humanities disciplines. Focus areas of interest include: The ethics and…

A call for papers has been posted for the ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci14), taking place June 23-26, 2014 in Bloomington, IN. A separate call for workshop and tutorial proposals has also been posted. The deadline for workshop and tutorial proposals is January 17th, 2014, while full and short paper submissions are due February 23rd, 2014. Posters can be submitted until March 23rd, 2014. The Web Science…

SIG SI is sponsoring or will be present at a number of events during the 76th ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Montreal. We hope to see you at many of these and around the conference! Saturday Nov 2, 8am-12:30pm: The 9th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium, featuring a keynote by William Jones of Indiana University, seven paper presentations by social…

SIG SI is sponsoring or will be present at a number of events during the 76th ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Montreal. We hope to see you at many of these and around the conference! Saturday Nov 2, 8am-12:30pm: The 9th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium, featuring a keynote by William Jones of Indiana University, seven paper presentations by social…