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2008 Annual Meeting Call for Papers

2008-03-28

People Transforming Information - Information Transforming People

October 24-29, 2008, Columbus, Ohio

Call for Participation

A great deal of attention has been paid to the rapid growth of the internet, proliferation of information - especially born-digital content, and the development of technologies in response to these trends. Viewing this changing landscape through a lens of the human and social condition would lead to better understanding how human needs drive, are served by and change information and technology. We anticipate an exploration of the human condition from the individual to society as a whole.

ASIS&T 2008 will focus on how people transform information as well as how information transforms people. Submissions by researchers and practitioners are solicited on a wide range of human-centered approaches to topics including but not limited to the following:

Individual identities and how they are transformed by the impact of information technologies
The societal archive – is it disappearing and/or being marginalized?
Societal attentions and how emphasis on information technology either allows or hinders these
Openness, access and privacy issues
Generational, economic, and socio-cultural dimensions of impact of information on people’s lives
Cognitive and emotional aspects of interactions with information
Reshaping the boundary between personal and public information space
The effect of collective information creation on authority and trust
Information by the people for the people
The role of information in connecting people and community building
How well is current technology meeting human needs, and what should future technology research and development involve to better meet our needs?

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Information, Communication & Society on Inform

2008-02-21

ICTs and Sustainable Development

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Information, Communication & Society on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and Sustainable Development (SD)

Guest Editors: Gunilla Bradley, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm

Wolfgang Hofkirchner, Paris-Lodron-University of Salzburg

Assistant Editor: Robert Bichler, Paris-Lodron-University of Salzburg

Deadline for Submission: March 1, 2008

Tentative Publication Date: November, 2008

The objective of this special issue is to discuss current developments in the field of ICTs and Sustainable Development (SD) by providing a forum for both academic researchers and practitioners interested in broadening and deepening the understanding of the sustainability concept.

Davenport to discuss "Social Informatics: A View of the UK Tradition" on Feb. 22nd

2008-02-18

On Friday, Feb. 22nd, Dr. Elisabeth Davenport of Napier University in Edinburgh, Scotland will speak about Social Informatics: A View of the UK Tradition as part of the Spring 2008 RKCSI Speaker Series. The talk will be held in Room LI 001 at the Wells Library from 2:00-3:30 pm, followed by an informal discussion with the speaker.

Spring RKCSI Schedule Now Available

2007-12-29

The spring semester schedule of speakers for the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics is available at http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/index.php/2008-. Be sure and mark your calendars!

SOIC 2007: Second Call

2007-02-04

As a response to the many requests we have received, the Organizing Committee of The 3rd International Conference on Social and Organizational Informatics and Cybernetics: SOIC 2007 (Orlando, Florida, USA. July 12-15, 2007), has decided to extend the deadline for papers/abstracts submissions, as well as for Invited Sessions proposals.

New deadlines:

Abstract/paper draft submissions and Invited Session Proposals: February 22nd, 2007

Authors Notification: March 29th, 2007

Camera ready, full papers: April 19th, 2007

The registration fee of effective invited session’s organizers will be waived and they will receive at the registration desk, for free, a package of 4 DVDs and one CD containing the 6-hour tutorial "Fundamentals and History of Cybernetics: Development of the Theory of Complex Adaptive Systems". The market price of this package is US $ 295. Twelve more benefits for invited session organizers are listed at SOIC 2007 web page. For submissions or Invited Sessions Proposals, please go to the web site: http://www.cyber-inf

Authors of the best 10%-20% of the papers presented at the conference will be invited to adapt their papers for their publication in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics.

9th IFIP-WG9.2 NAMUR AWARD Nominations Deadline for submission: December 1st, 2006

2006-11-13

Working Group 9.2 of IFIP-TC9 concerned with Computers and Society has created the IFIP-WG9.2 NAMUR AWARD. This award, biennial, is to be accorded for an outstanding contribution to the awareness of social implications of information and communication technology. The purpose of the award is to draw attention to the need for an holistic approach in the use of information technology in which the social implications have been taken into account. The contribution can be in the form of a publication, design, lecture, project or achievement of any kind within the spirit of the NAMUR AWARD.

Official reports, as well as all the necessary information, including the Nomination Form, may be found at http://www.info.fund

Nominations for the 9^th IFIP-WG9.2 Namur Award (to be awarded in 2008) must be sent before December 1st, 2006.

Faculty of Social Sciences at the HCC7 Confrence

2006-09-23

At the HCCt Conference "Social Informatics", Maribor, Slovenia Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, had a poster and a desk with materials in the hall during the conference.

Vasja Vehovar also presented a talk Social Informatics - An Emerging Dsicipline.

PPT can be found here

New design of the Social Informatics web site

2006-09-20

Finally, this web site has a new design.

We hope you like it!

A new book of HCC7 on special theme Social Informatics

2006-09-04

A new book on Social Informatics:

Social Informatics: An Information Society for All? In Remembrance of Rob Kling: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference 'Human Choice and Computers’

Details >>

20th anniversary of program Social Informatics in Slovenia

2006-09-04

Chair of Informatics and Methodology will celebrate 20th anniversary of Social Informatics program at the University of Ljubljana , Faculty of Social Sciences on 28. August 2006.

Daily program schedule:

10.30 - 11.00 Press conference: 20 years of Social Informatics and Project RIS and Centre for Methodology and Informatics
11.00 - 12.30 Round table: Information society in Slovenia: Situation and perspectives
14.00 - 15.30 Motivation seminar for students: How to write a diploma work? (Manfreda, K.L. and Oblak, T.)
16.00 - 21.30 Main part of event:

16.00 - 16.45 Opening ceremony and greetings

17.00 - 17.15 Break

17.15 - 18.30 Application of methods of network analysis in social sciences (Ferligoj, A.)

16.45 - 17.00 Introduction of study program and achievements (Manfreda, K., L.)

18.30 - 18.45 Break

18.45 - 19.30 Round table: Careers and employments of Social Informatics graduated students (Petri�, G. and Vehovar, V.)

19.30 - 21.30 Concert (Vlado Kreslin) and entertainment