SLIS Student News
2009 SLIS Doctoral Research Forum
 |
On Saturday, October 17, 2009, eleven SLIS doctoral students gave presentations at the SLIS Doctoral Research Forum. This annual event provides an opportunity to showcase research, to develop professional skills, and to receive feedback from faculty and other students.
This year's recipients for best presentations were (1st) Shannon Oltmann, (2nd) Peter Hook, and (3rd) Erjia Yan.
The event was held in the Herman B Wells Library, Room E-174, Indiana University, Bloomington from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Event Schedule (with links to talk abstracts)
• Speaker List and Topic (in order of presentation)
| Lai Ma | Information entanglement |
| Inna Kouper | Information and discourse |
| Shannon M. Oltmann | The seven veils of censorship: Motives for restricting information |
| HyunSeung Koh | Active Reading and Annotations. |
| Tim Bowman | Goffman's Presentation of self in everyday life in HCI. |
| Peter H. Hook | An expert seeding approach to mapping a knowledge domain: Processing over a million citations on a desktop computer to arrive at a co-citation map aggregated to the author level. |
| M Yasser Chuttur | Exploring the characteristics of web- based tagging systems and their implications for tagging behavior. |
| Erjia Yan | An integrated model for scientific evaluation. |
| Hui Zhang | Ambiguity and context-aware query reformulation. |
| Muhammad Abdul-Mageed | Sociotechnical mining of Israeli and Lebanese media war blogs. |
| Lois Scheidt | Drilling down: A look at the digital ways bloggers tell their stories. |
| Muhammad Abdul-Mageed | [Poster] Now on YouTube: Reception of al Jazeera English on the video sharing social network site. |
• Past SLIS Doctoral Research Forums
Posted Oct. 21, 2009
