Simmons University SLIS will be well-represented at the upcoming ASIS&T Meeting. Contributions from SLIS faculty and students will include workshops, symposia, papers, posters, and panels (say that three times fast! 😉). The conference will take place both in-person and virtually. Below is a schedule with a list of sessions with members of the Simmons SLIS Community (please note all times are in Mountain Time):
Friday, 10/29
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM MT
SYMPOSIUM / WORKSHOP:
The 17th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium and the 3rd Annual Information Ethics and Policy Workshop: Sociotechnical Perspectives on Equity, Inclusion, and Justice (SIG-SI and SIG-IEP)
Colin Rhinesmith1, Kolina Koltai2, Xiaohua Zhu3, Madelyn Sanfilippo4
1: Simmons University, USA; 2: University of Washington, USA; 3: University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA; 4: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM MT
WORKSHOP:
Social Media Research, Challenges, and Opportunities (SIG-SM)
Amir Karami1, Loni Hagen2, Catherine Dumas3, Aylin Ilhan4, Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi5, Tara Zimmerman6, Avery Holton7, Jana Diesner8, Javed Mostafa5, Chirag Shah10, Vivek Singh11
1: University of South Carolina, USA; 2: University of South Florida, USA; 3: Simmons University, USA; 4: Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany; 5: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA; 6: University of North Texas, USA; 7: University of Utah, USA; 8: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; 9: University of Washington, WA; 10: Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA
Friday, 10/29
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM MT
SYMPOSIUM:
SIG USE 21st Annual Research Symposium: Methods for Real-World Impact with Information Behavior Research
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM
POSTER:
An Eye-Tracking Experiment for Understanding the Seeking-Encountering Tension
Tingting Jiang, Shiting Fu, Sanda Erdelez1, & Qian Guo
1Simmons University, USA
Sunday, 10/31
2:00 PM – 2:30 PM MT
PAPER PRESENTATION:
Understanding Research Data Repositories as Infrastructures
Ceilyn Boyd1
1Simmons University, USA
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM MT (4:00- 5:30 PM EST)
PANEL:
Motivation, Building Relationships, and the Role of Belonging in Distance Learning (SIG-ED)
Rachel Williams1, Danielle Pollock1, Agnes Mainka2, Michael Brinkmeier2, Elisaweta Ossovski2
1: Simmons College, USA; 2: Institute for Computer Science Universität Osnabrück, Germany
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM MT
PANEL:
Antiracism in the LIS Profession: Not Just Lip Service
Rong Tang1, Xan Goodman2, Rebecca Davis1, Jia Tina Du3, David Leonard4
1: Simmons University, USA; 2: University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA; 3: University of South Australia, Australia; 4: Boston Public Library, USA
Monday, 11/1
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM MT
PANEL:
Collaborative Efforts and Success Story of an Open-Learning Program: Partnership Growth of the Research Data Management Librarian Academy (RDMLA)
Rong Tang1, Ceilyn Boyd2, Andrew Creamer4, Adam Kriesberg1, Elaine Martin3, Rebecca Morin5, Zhan Hu1, Ashley Thomas3
1: Simmons University, USA; 2: Harvard University, USA; 3: Harvard Medical School, USA; 4: Brown University, USA; 5: Tufts University, USA
Tuesday, 11/2
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM MT
PANEL:
Social Media, Vaccines, and Partisan Division of Health Information (SIG-SM)
Loni Hagen1, Devon Greyson2, Ashley Fox3, Kolina Koltai4, Catherine Dumas5
1: University of South Florida, USA; 2: University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA; 3: University at Albany, SUNY, USA; 4: University of Washington, USA; 5: Simmons University, USA
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM MT (Virtual Poster Session)
POSTER:
A Bibliometric Analysis of the Proceedings of the Annual Meetings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
Naresh Kumar Agarwal, Simmons University, USA; Md. Anwarul Islam, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
POSTER:
Collaborative Approach to Translating Online Learning Content: Research Data Management Librarian Academy (RDMLA) and National Taiwan University (NTU) Library Translation and Co-Creation Partnership
Ashley Thomas, Harvard Medical School, USA; Zhan Hu, Simmons University, USA