Posts by SIG-SI Webmaster

CFP EPIC 2016 EPIC, a multidisciplinary community of practitioners and academics, including many in information science and related fields, promoting ethnographic & sociocultural approaches in industry. EPIC2016 Minneapolis, MN, 29 Aug-1 Sept EPIC invites submissions to our 12th annual meeting – the premier international gathering on ethnography in industry. Read the full call and more conference…

CFP ACM Group 2016 ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work  November 13-16, 2016 Sanibel Island, Florida An international conference showcasing the work of researchers and industry across disciplinary interests related to technology, society, and human interaction. Go to link for more details

AMCIS 2016: Call for Proposals Call for Papers: 22nd Americas Conference on Information Systems August 11 – 13, 2016, San Diego, CA, USA We welcome papers for the mini track titled “Social Theory in Information Systems (STIR ’16)”, for AMCIS 2016. Details are as follows: Track: Social Technical Issues and Social Inclusion Track Mini Track…

Indiana University Ph.D. Program in Information Science Accepting Applications by January 15th, 2016 Apply Today! Funding packages with $46,000 per year stipends are available for top candidates. We welcome applications to our doctoral program at Indiana University Bloomington. Our Ph.D. in Information Science celebrates over 50 years and over 185 graduates. Our doctoral program is one of…

Schedule for 11th Social Informatics Research Symposium: The Impacts of Social Informatics Research Please join us as part of ASIS&T 2015 in St. Louis, Missouri for the 11th SIG SI Research Symposium, to be held on Saturday, November 7th, 2015, from 8:30am – 12:30pm at the Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch. We will be in Grand C, on the fourth floor right near the elevators and…

Call for nominations: 2015 Social Informatics Best Paper and Best Student Paper Awards ASIS&T SIG SI and the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics (RKCSI) are seeking nominations for two awards. One, the 2015 Social Informatics Best Paper Award, is for the best paper published in a peer reviewed journal on a topic informed by social informatics during the 2014…

Call for Participation: SIG SI’s 11th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium ASIS&T SIG SI, along with our co-sponsor the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics at Indiana University, is happy to be able to announce the Call for Papers and Participation for our 11th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium: The Impacts of Social Informatics Research. Our symposium will take place the…

Call for papers: Critical Data Studies – special section of Big Data and Society A call for papers has been issued for a special theme section of Big Data and Society on Critical Data Studies. 1,000-word proposals are due by July  24th (deadline extended), with accepted full submissions due October 4th. Critical Data Studies (CDS) is a growing field of research that focuses on the unique…

Call for papers: “A Decade of Web 2.0” First Monday special issue A call for papers has been issued for a special issue of First Monday, to be published in June 2016, on “A Decade of Web 2.0: Reflections, Critical Perspectives, and Beyond.” The editors of the special issue are Michael Zimmer and Anna L. Hoffman. Extended abstracts are due by September…

Call for papers: “Social Media and Political Action” special issue of Online Information Review A call for papers has been posted for a special issue of Online Information Review on “Social Media and Political Action.” Initial versions of papers are due by November 1st. This special issue of Online Information Review seeks to contribute to the debate on the growing importance of…