[NORSLIS] CfP: A Combined SIG-SI and SIG-USE Full-Day Workshop, ASIS&T AM 2016

Sat Jul 30 10:04:05 GMT 2016

Call for Papers and Participation

Enhancing lives through Information and Technology
A Combined SIG-SI and SIG-USE Full-Day Workshop:
The Social Informatics of Work and Play (SIG-SI): Morning 
Information Behavior in Workplaces (SIG-USE): Afternoon
ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark
October 15, 2016

Organizers
Katriina Byström, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied
Sciences,  Katriina.Bystrom at hioa.no
( mailto:Katriina.Bystrom at hioa.no)  
Pnina Fichman, Indiana University, Bloomington,  fichman at indiana.edu
( mailto:fichman at indiana.edu) 
Luanne Freund, University of British Columbia,  Luanne.Freund at ubc.ca
( mailto:Luanne.Freund at ubc.ca)  
Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University, Bloomington, 
hrosenba at indiana.edu
( mailto:hrosenba at indiana.edu)  

Join us at ASIS&T in Copenhagen for a full-day pre-conference workshop
to explore the ways in which our uses of information and technologies
improve our work and social lives. Two vital and dynamic SIGs are
joining forces for a workshop that will provide two interesting and
complementary perspectives in the conference theme. 

In the morning session, SIG-SI will bring a perspective that focuses on
the social aspects of information and communication technologies (ICT)
in work and play across all areas of ASIS&T. In the afternoon session,
SIG-USE will focus on information related activities from different
research perspectives and explores the significance of information
seeking and use on our lives. 

Submissions may include empirical, critical, conceptual and theoretical
papers and posters, as well as richly described practice cases and
demonstrations. The combined workshop will allow networking between
members of both SIGs during the day.

MORNING: THE SOCIAL INFORMATICS OF WORK AND PLAY (SIG SI)
This year’s conference theme is “creating knowledge, enhancing lives
through information & technology.” This is a particularly apposite theme
for SIG-SI, because the social impacts of ICT and the complex relations
among people, technologies, and the contexts of ICT design,
implementation, and use have long been core concerns of social
informatics. The SIG-SI morning session, our 12th annual gathering at
ASIS&T annual meetings, will bring a critical perspective that focuses
on the social aspects of ICT that cuts across all areas of ASIS&T This
year, we are particularly interested in papers that investigate the
social informatics of work and play.
We define “social” broadly to include critical and historical
approaches as well as contemporary social analysis. We also define
“technology” broadly to include traditional technologies (e.g.,
paper, books, etc.), state-of-the-art computer systems, and mobile and
pervasive devices. Submissions may include papers and posters that
explore the ways in which people’s uses of ICT affect their practices
and behaviors while at work, play, and engaged in their social lives.
We are particularly interested in work that assumes a critical stance
towards the Symposium’s theme, but are also soliciting research on other
related social informatics topics. We encourage all scholars interested
in social aspects of ICT (broadly defined) to share their research and
research in progress by submitting an extended abstract of their work
and attending the symposium. Some of the questions we ask include: 
• What are the impacts of ICT on people’s practices and behaviors while
at work, play, and engaged in their social lives?
• What are some of the ways our work and play practices shape the
design and development of ICT?
• What are the ways ICT positively and negatively impact organizations,
work, play, and social life? 
• What kinds of theoretical and methodological frameworks are best
suited for studying the mutual shaping of ICT and practices and
behaviors while at work and play?
The schedule for the morning session of the symposium will involve the
presentations of papers, a panel of distinguished scholars, and the best
social informatics paper awards for 2015. We expect an engaging
discussion with lively interactions with the audience. 
SIG-SI symposium chairs
Pnina Fichman, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
Eric Meyer, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford, UK
Adam Worrall, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada 

AFTERNOON: INFORMATION BEHAVIOUR IN WORKPLACES (SIG-USE)
This year’s SIG USE symposium focuses on information issues at work. It
acknowledges social, individual and technological perspectives on the
roles and flows that information takes as part of physical and digital
work. The broad approach relates to the conference theme with a focus on
information behavior (IB) or on information practices (IP) in connection
to workplaces. 
Earlier generations were accustomed to stable and localized work; now
work activities and contexts have and are radically changing. During
their work life, people may experience several career changes, are
expected to learn new skills and adapt to new ideas as well as manage
the increasingly fluid boundaries between work and leisure. Moreover,
much of information and data are internetworked and accessible
simultaneously by multiple mobile devices supporting networked
communities anyplace, anywhere, anytime. This challenges both the
creation and consumption of information used for work – or at work; it
also affects how, when and where people work, as well as their
productivity, collegiality and innovativeness. 
Despite, or perhaps due to, the advances in technology, today’s
workplaces remain challenged by how to create, discover, share, value
and enhance information and knowledge at and for work; and, how to
design and manage the systems that support these functions, which are so
critical to organizationally effective and individually rewarding work.
The issues are many, from the consequences of new devices that are
stretching the ways that an organization works, to the efficacy dynamics
(stress, motivation, collaboration, productivity, age, etc.) and to the
new skills and expertise required to work in such changing and
changeable environments. Information is indispensable in many, if not
all, workplace activities; as a resource for getting work done as well
as for learning, managing change, developing and maintaining processes
and creating professional networks.
Specific issues to be addressed depend on the interest of the
participants and the issues they bring into the workshop. Welcome topics
include:
• Critical cultural information behavior – how do we infuse our
workplaces and practices with diversity and social justice
sensibilities?
• Collaborative IB; virtual team 
• Digital workplaces, peopleless offices & officeless people - what
happens when the physical workplace dissolves?
• Everyday Life Information (in the workplace)
• Frameworks for understanding IB/IP in work settings 
• IB/IP and workplace or information systems design 
• Organizational behaviour research - what can we learn from this field
of research that is relevant to IB/IP?
• Organizational information genres
• Personal Information Management (in the workplace)
• The blurring of lines between personal and professional in digital
information use in the workplace
• The impact of mobile devices on IB/IP in the workplace 
• Workplace culture, diversity and inclusion - how these shape and are
shaped by information behaviour (IB)/information practices (IP)?
• and any other work-related informational topics
We aim to an interactive workshop to enable the fullest exchange of
ideas amongst attendees. For this reason, we encourage participants to
submit; even if participation without a paper/poster is an eligible
option. The workshop features a keynote by Professor Hazel Hall
(preliminarily confirmed), presentation of selected papers, a joint
poster session between the SIGs, and roundtable discussions based on
short papers and posters by participants.
Documentation: short papers and posters are shared digitally among the
participants. Roundtable discussions are documented by a designated
person in each group and collated by symposium chairs to a short summary
that is made available for the participants afterwards. 
SIG-USE symposium chairs
David Allen, Leeds University, UK
Katriina Byström, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied
Sciences, Norway
Nicole A. Cooke, The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Luanne Freund, University of British Columbia, Canada

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
SI – opening keynote: 8.30-9.00
Paper presentations: 9.00-10.30
Break 10.30-10.45
Panel: 10.45-11.45 
SIG SI paper awards: 11.45-12.15
SI – closing discussion and remarks: 12.15-12.45
Joint lunch featuring a joint poster session: 12.45-13.45 (to be
determined)
USE – opening keynote: 13.45-14.45 
Short Paper Session: 14.45-15.45 
Break 15.45-16.00 
Roundtable discussions based on papers & posters: 16.00-17.30 
SIG USE Awards 17.30-17.45 
USE – closing remarks: 17.45-18.00 

CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS FOR BOTH SIGS
Submit a short paper (2000 words) or poster (500 words) by August 19,
2016.
SIG-SI: Please send your submission as a PDF file to:
hrosenba at indiana.edu 
SIG-USE: Please send your submission as a PDF-file to:
katriina.bystrom at hioa.no 
Acceptance announcements made by August 31, 2016 in time for conference
early registration (ends Sept. 2, 2016).

FEES
Members – SIG-SI session: $100 - $120 after Sept. 2, 2016
Members – SIG-USE session: $100 - $120 after Sept. 2, 2016
Members – attending both SIG-SI and SIG-USE sessions: $180 - $200 after
Sept. 2, 2016
Non-members – SIG-SI Session: $120 - $140, after Sept. 2, 2016
Non-members – SIG-USE Session: $120 - $140, after Sept. 2, 2016
Non-members – attending both SIG-SI and SIG-USE sessions: $230 - $250
after Sept. 2, 2016

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Katriina Byström, Ph.D
Professor

Department of Archivistics, Library and Information Science
Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway
&
Swedish School of Library and Information Science
University of Borås, Sweden
www.adm.hb.se/~kbm/index.htm

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