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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…

iConference 2016 Call for Participation The iConference 2016 Call for Participation has been posted. Deadlines this year are in September and October (more details below), with the conference in Philadelphia, PA March 20 – 23, 2016: iConference 2016 takes place Sunday, March 20 through Wednesday, March 23, 2016, in historic Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. This year’s theme of “Partnership with Society” examines the dynamic, evolving…

CFP: Workshop on Sociotechnical Perspective in IS Development @ CAISE 2015 A call for papers has been issued for a Workshop on Socio-Technical Perspective in IS Development to be held in Stockholm, Sweden on June 9 as part of CAISE 2015 (Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering). Abstracts are due by March 7th; full papers by March 15th. The main purpose of the workshop is to arrange…

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…

Call for papers: Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR) minitrack at AMCIS 2015 Join us in Puerto Rico for AMCIS 2015 August 13-15, 2015, El Conquistador Resort The theme of AMCIS 2015 is Blue Ocean Research Minitrack chairs: Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University <hrosenba@indiana.edu> Pnina Fichman, Indiana University <fichman@indiana.edu> STIR ’15 solicits papers that make use of social theory in information systems…

Call for submissions: 78th ASIS&T Annual Meeting The call for submissions for the 78th ASIS&T Annual Meeting has been posted. Papers, panels, workshops, and tutorials are due by April 30th; posters, demos, and videosare due by July 1st. ASIS&T 2015 will take place in St. Louis, Missouri from November 6-10, 2015. This year’s theme is “Information Science with Impact: Research in and for the Community.” Information science research…

Join us for SIG SI’s events at ASIS&T 2014! Please join SIG SI for the following events at ASIS&T 2014, the 77th Annual Meeting of the Association of Information Science and Technology in Seattle, WA: Saturday November 1 8:30am – 12:30pm: The 10th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium: Connecting (Epistemic) Cultures and (Intellectual) Communities (in Leschi, on the 3rd floor of the…

Call for fellowship applications, Berkman Center for Internet and Society Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society has posted an open call for fellowship applications for 2015-16. Applications are due by December 12, 2014. We invite applications from folks around the globe working on a broad range of opportunities and challenges related to Internet and society, which may overlap…

Social media postdoc at Microsoft Research New England Microsoft Research New England’s Social Media Collective is hiring for a postdoctoral researcher in social media and sociotechnical issues, starting July 1st, 2015. The application deadline is November 3rd. 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…

CFP: Special issue of Online Information Review on social media analytics A call for papers has been posted for a special issue of Online Information Review on social media analytics. Papers are due by February 1st, 2015. The issue seeks to “showcase cutting-edge research advances in social media analytics in order to provide a landscape of recent research progress and novel applications, techniques and…