Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics (RKCSI) Newsletter
November 5, 2012

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TOC
1. Talk Series @ Bloomington
2. Doctoral Student Group @ IUB
3. Social Informatics Symposium @ Baltimore

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1. Talk Series @ Bloomington RKCSI 2012 Fall Talk Series resumed with two very successful and well attended events.

October Talk Nathan (October 16, 2012): From Cosmo Girls to Computer Boys: A Gendered History of the Computer Revolution

November Talk Virginia Eubanks (November 2, 2012): Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age

Stay tuned for information about our upcoming spring schedule!



2. Doctoral Student Group RKCSI doctoral student group @IUB kick off event is planned for November 15, 2012 (6-7pm, SLIS room 001). Many thanks to Madelyn Sanfilippo (SLIS) and Jennifer Terrell (SOIC)! In 2011 doctoral students from various schools and departments at IUB with an interest in Social informatics formed the Social Informatics Blog in 2011.

Social Informatics Blog http://socialinformaticsblog.com/



3. Social Informatics Symposium @ Baltimore RKCSI co-sponsored with ASIST SIG SI a Research Symposium:

"The 8th Annual SIG-SI Research Symposium, held on October 27, 2012 at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology in Baltimore, MD was a great success. The theme of the Symposium was the past, present and future of social informatics. There were ten thought provoking presentations that addressed this theme, several posters and two best papers awards. The Symposium was organized by Pnina Fichman and Howard Rosenbaum, both of the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University, and was co-sponsored by the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics. Papers from the Symposium will be published in an edited volume "Social Informatics: Past, Present and Future" edited by the organizers.

The best papers awards were given for the following papers:

" 2011 Social Informatics Best Paper Award: Eschenfelder, K., Desai, A.C. and Downey, G. (2011). The pre-internet downloading controversy: The evolution of use rights for digital intellectual and cultural works. The Information Society, 7, 69-91. " 2011 Social Informatics Best Student Paper Award: Lingel, J. (2011). Information tactics of immigrants in urban environments. Information Research, 16 (4).

Full Symposium schedule: http://www.asist.org/asist2012/SIG_SI_Workshop.html SIG-SI (Facebook) http://www.facebook.com/groups/134354579994052/?fref=ts Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics http://rkcsi.indiana.edu

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*RKCSI Newsletter is compiled by Prof. Pnina Fichman and Prof. Eden Medina, RKCSI co-directors; if you would like to add news to our next newsletter please contact one of the centers directors.

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