Recent Publications, Presentations, and Events

A weekly listing of research publications, presentations, and events as reported by SLIS faculty.

Week of November 9, 2009

Cronin - Attending ASIS&T in Vancouver

Shaw - Attending ASIS&T in Vancouver

Applegate - Higher Learning Commission, new Team Chair training, Lisle, IL (11/11-13)

Applegate, Rachel. "Resumes and Cover Letters." Indiana Libraries 28.2(2009):28-35.

Ekbia, Information in Action: A Situated View, ASIST, Vancouver

Week of November 2, 2009

Rosenbaum - 5th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium (co-organizer and moderator)

Chen - Nov. 8-11, ASIST: Panel: The Ethics of Studying Online Communities: Challenges to Research Design and Data Collection; Poster #1: An Analysis of Users' Image Queries of a Photojournalism Image Database: A Web Analytics Approach; Poster #2: The Use of Media Objects in E-learning: A Genre Analysis of Eight Online Boating Instruction Websites

Herring - Nov. 2: talk on "New Analytical Lenses for New Media: Web 2.0 and CMCMC" at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies

Week of October 26, 2009

Applegate - On site visit team for institutional accreditation of: University of Michigan, Flint, MI (10/25-28)

Ekbia - A Research Agenda for Privacy and Security of Healthcare Technologies. A Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research Workshop. October 26-27. Indianapolis

Hara - Attend Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Washington, DC (10/28-11/1)

Hara, N. (2009, October). Information and Communication Technology-facilitated Social Movements. Annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Washington, D.C.

Week of October 19, 2009

Applegate - Workshop on Shaping Outcomes (Borner - Invited talk at STEM Enterprise: Measures for Innovation and Competitiveness, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

Chen - 10:00-11:00a – Colloquium, School of Informatics, IU-Indianapolis

Rachel Applegate:
Indiana Library Federation Annual Conference (Fort Wayne, IN)
Monday 10/19: “Hearing from your users: thinking about surveys and other options”
Tuesday 10/20: “Designing and analyzing surveys: the details”
“Whose decline? Where are reference transactions decreasing in academic libraries?”

Hsin-liang (Oliver) Chen - Analyzing Users' Retrieval Behaviors and Image Queries of a Photojournalism Image Database and Beyond

Week of October 12, 2009

Blaise Cronin (Editor). Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. Volume 44. Medford, NJ: ASIS&T and Information Today Inc., 2010, pp. i-xxv, 601.

Hamid R. Ekbia; Nadine Schuurman (Guest Editors): Introduction to the Special Issue on Geographies of Information Society

Hamid R. Ekbia; Tom P. Evans. Regimes of Information: Land Use, Management, and Policy

Hamid R. Ekbia. An Interview With Eric Sheppard: Uneven Spatialities—The Material, Virtual, and Cognitive

Herring, S. C. (2009). Organizer and presenter, panel on Convergent Media Computer-Mediated Communication. Internet Research 10.0, Milwaukee, WI, October 9.

Callahan, E., & Herring, S. C. (2009). Cultural bias in Wikipedia content on famous persons. Paper presented at Internet Research 10.0, Milwaukee, WI, October 9.

Herring, S. C., & Zelenkauskaite, A. (2009). Nonstandard typography and the virtual marketplace: Gender expression in Italian iTV SMS. Paper presented at Internet Research 10.0, Milwaukee, WI, October 10.

Susan Herring was quoted in a New Scientist article on Google Wave, October 9, 2009. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17955-innovation-the-psychology-of-google-wave.html

Week of October 5, 2009

Blaise Cronin - October 9, 2009: Blaise Cronin. "Ostriches and Opportunists: The Implications of Post-professionalism". Presentation at SLIS-IUPUI.

Katy Börner - Modeling Science Workshop, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Organizers: Peter van den Besselaar, Katy Börner, Andrea Scharnhorst, Oct 6-9, 2009.

Ron Day - Association for Internet Research (Milwaukee), October 8th, presenter on Critical Internet Theory panel.

Week of September 28, 2009

Preer - Meeting of the Diversity Advisory Council for Indiana Librarians Leading in Diversity (IMLS grant)

Börner - NSF/JSMF Workshop on How to Measure, Map, and Dramatize Science. New York Hall of Science, Queens, NJ. Organizers: Katy Börner, Stephen Uzzo NY Hall of Science), Joy Moore (SEED), Oct 1-2, 2009.

Preer - Conducting teaching workshop for faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and Information Studies

Applegate, Rachel. “Who Benefits? Unionization and Academic Libraries and Librarians.” Library Quarterly 79.4(October 2009):443-464.

Ekbia, Hamid – Attended the 11th Biennial Regenstrief Institute “Open Health Methodologies” Conference, French Lick, IN

Week of September 14, 2009

Preer - ALISE Board Meeting (9/11&12) Invited panelist at the conference of the Association of Specialized & Professional Accreditors (9/14&15)

Week of September 7, 2009

Börner - National Science Foundation CISE and SBE AC Subcomittee on Discovery in a Research Portfolio Tools for Structuring, Analyzing, Visualizing and Interacting with Proposal and Award Portfolios Workshop, Stafford II, NSF, DC (9/8/09)

Walsh - Presenting a paper on the Text Image Linking Environment (TILE), co-authored with Dot Porter (Royal Irish Academy) and Doug Reside of (University of Maryland).

Week of August 31, 2009

Börner - Sept 2-3, Plenary Speaker, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO) Annual Conference, Northwestern University, IL.
Sept 3, Network Workbench Workshop at Northwestern University, IL.