<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p class="Body1" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">Final Call for Papers and Participation:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="Body1" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p> </o:p><u style="text-align: left; ">The 9th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium:</u><span style="text-align: left; "> </span><u style="text-align: left; ">The Social Informatics of Information Boundaries</u></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: center; "><o:p></o:p></p><p class="Body1" align="center" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">Sponsored by: ASIS&T SIG Social Informatics and Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics, Indiana University</p><p class="Body1" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">Saturday, November 2, 2013, 8:30-12:30 PM<o:p></o:p></p><p class="Body1" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">Centre Sheraton, Montreal, Quebec, Canada</p><p class="Body1" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">Organizers:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="Body1" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">Howard Rosenbaum and Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University<o:p></o:p></p><p class="Body1" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><br></p><p class="Body1" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">The purpose of this ASIST pre-conference research symposium is to disseminate current research and research in progress that investigates<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; "> </span>the social aspects of information and communication technologies (ICT)<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; "> </span>across all areas of ASIS&T.<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; "> </span>Building on the success of past years, the symposium includes members of many<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; "> </span>SIGs and defines <span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; ">“</span>social<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; ">”</span> broadly to include critical and historical approaches<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; "> </span>as well as contemporary social analysis. It also defines <span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; ">“</span>technology<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; ">”</span> broadly to include traditional technologies (i.e.,<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; "> </span>paper), state-of-the-art computer<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; "> </span>systems, and mobile and pervasive devices. Submissions may include empirical, critical and theoretical work, as well as richly described practice cases and demonstrations.</p><p class="Body1" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p></o:p></p><p class="Body1" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">This year, as we observe the 10<sup>th</sup> year since the passing of Rob Kling, we are particularly interested in papers that advance social informatics further in theoretical conceptualization or empirical grounding. We are interested in work that assumes a critical stance towards the Symposium<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; ">’</span>s theme but are also soliciting research on other related social informatics topics. We encourage all scholars interested in social aspects<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; "> </span>of ICT (broadly defined) to share their research and research in progress by submitting<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; "> </span>an extended abstract of their work and attending the symposium.</p><p class="Body1" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">This year<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; ">’</span>s conference theme is <span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; ">“</span>Beyond the Cloud: Rethinking Information Boundaries.<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; ">”</span> In keeping with this theme, the symposium theme is <span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; ">“</span>the social informatics of information boundaries.<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; ">”</span> We are soliciting work that focuses on the critical analysis of the concept of information boundaries and boundary work from a Social Informatics perspective. Questions motivating the research could include (but are not limited to):</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; ">- What can a social informatics approach tell us about the nature of information boundaries, boundary crossing, and boundary work?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; ">- What are the social and technological forces that enable and constrain information boundaries and boundary work?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; ">- How do the social, technological, and informational boundaries evolve and shape each other?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; ">- How and to what extent can we enhance our understanding of information boundaries by drawing on sociological, organizational, and other social science theories?</p><p class="Body1" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p></o:p></p><p class="Body1" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">The schedule for the workshop will involve the presentations of papers and the best social informatics paper awards for 2012 (call to follow). We expect an engaging discussion with lively interactions with the audience.</p><p class="Body1" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">Deadlines: </p><p class="Body1" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">August 9, 2013: Submit a short paper (2000 words), a poster (500 words), or a panel (1000 words) by email to Howard Rosenbaum (<a href="mailto:hrosenba@indiana.edu">hrosenba@indiana.edu</a>) and Pnina Fichman (<a href="mailto:fichman@indiana.edu">fichman@indiana.edu</a>).<o:p></o:p></p><p class="Body1" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">September 2, 2013: Author notifications (in time for conference early registration (NOTE: this timeline may be adjusted when the registration dates are announced).</p><p class="Body1" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p></o:p></p><p class="Body1" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p> </o:p>Fees:</p><p class="Body1" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p></o:p></p><p class="Body1" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">Members $90 - early registration ($110 after early registration ends)</p><p class="Body1" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p></o:p></p><p class="Body1" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">Non-members $110 - early registration ($130 after early registration ends)</p><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">------------------------<br>Pnina Fichman, Ph.D.</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Associate Professor, School of Informatics and Computing<br>Affiliated Associate Professor, School of Global and International Studies<br>901 E. 10th St. Informatics West #301<br>Indiana University, Bloomington IN 47408<br>Office: (812) 856-1587 Cell: (812) 322-0219<br>Web: <a href="http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/">http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></body></html>