iConference 2012 | Papers

The following papers are slated for presentation at iConference 2012.


Social Network Analysis of Public Access Computing: relationships as a critical benefit of libraries, telecenters and cybercafés in developing countries

Authors: L. Fernando Baron (University of Washington, United States of America), Ricardo Gomez (University of Washington, United States of America)

Analytic and Deictic Approaches to the Design of Sustainability Decision-Support Tools

Author: Roy Bendor (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

Adapting Cyberinfrastructure to New Science: Tensions and Strategies

Authors: Matthew J. Bietz (University of California, Irvine, United States of America), Charlotte P. Lee (University of Washington, United States of America)

One University, Two Campuses: Initiating and Sustaining Research Collaborations Between Two Campuses of a Single Institution

Authors: Jeremy Birnholtz (Cornell University, United States of America), Laura Forlano (Cornell University, United States of America), Y. Connie Yuan (Cornell University, United States of America), Julia Rizzo (Cornell University, United States of America), Kerwell Liao (Cornell University, United States of America), Geri Gay (Cornell University, United States of America), Caren Heller (Weill Cornell Medical College, United States of America)

Digital sound processing preservation: impact on digital archives

Authors: Guillaume Boutard (McGill University, Canada), Catherine Guastavino (McGill University, Canada), James M. Turner (Université de Montréal, Canada)

Design Techniques for Revealing Adolescent Memory Processes Related to Information Seeking: A Preliminary Study

Authors: Leanne Bowler (University of Pittsburgh, United States of America), Eleanor Mattern (University of Pittsburgh, United States of America)

Steps toward a Socio-Technical Categorization Scheme for Communication and Information Standards

Authors: JoAnn M. Brooks (Syracuse University, United States of America), Anne W. Rawls (Bentley University, United States of America)

Concentration, Incumbency, and Interconnection: Broadband Development and the Lessons of History

Authors: Alissa Lorraine Centivany (University of Michigan, United States of America), Steven J. Jackson (Cornell University, United States of America)

Dissecting the Rhythms of Scientific Data Use

Author: Tiffany C. Chao (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States of America)

Community matters most: Factors that affect participant satisfaction with free/libre and open source software projects

Author: Brenda Chawner (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

Computerization and Control: ICTs and Managerial Reform in the Thai Public Sector

Authors: Radaphat Chongthammakun (University of Michigan, United States of America), Steve J. Jackson (Cornell University, United States of America)

Private Sector Video Surveillance in Toronto: Not Privacy Compliant!

Authors: Andrew Clement (University of Toronto, Canada), Joseph Ferenbok (University of Toronto, Canada), Roxanna Dehghan (University of Toronto, Canada), Laura Kaminker (University of Toronto, Canada), Simeon Kanev (University of Toronto, Canada)

Sounding for Meaning: Analyzing Aural Patterns Across Large Digital Collections

Author: Tanya E. Clement (University of Texas at Austin, United States of America)

Managing fixity and fluidity in data repositories

Authors: Morgan Gabrielle Daniels (University of Michigan, United States of America), Ixchel Faniel (OCLC, United States of America), Kathleen Fear (University of Michigan, United States of America), Elizabeth Yakel (University of Michigan, United States of America)

Social Design's Implications for the IS Field

Authors: Dane Andre Dell (Syracuse University, United States of America), Murali Venkatesh (Syracuse University, United States of America)

Time to Play: The rationalization of leisure time

Authors: Lina Eklund (Stockholm University, Sweden), Fatima Jonsson (Stockholm University, Sweden)

The Impact of TPM on Research and Teaching: the Story of the Society for Automotive Engineers Digital Library

Kristin Eschenfelder (University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States of America)

Information Studies, the Humanities, and Design Research: Interdisciplinary Opportunities

Author: Melanie Feinberg (University of Texas at Austin, United States of America)

A History of Everyday Communication by Community Members of Fort Severn First Nation: From Hand Deliveries to Virtual Pokes

Authors: Kerri Gibson (University of New Brunswick, Canada), Matthew Kakekaspan (Fort Severn First Nation, Canada), George Kakekaspan (Fort Severn First Nation, Canada), Susan O'Donnell (University of New Brunswick, Canada), Brian Walmark (Keewaytinook Okimakanak, Canada), Brian Beaton (Keewaytinook Okimakanak,Canada), People of Fort Severn (Fort Severn First Nation, Canada)

Design Anthropology & Evaluation in Citizen-Centered E-Government Research

Author: Marc Hébert (University of South Florida, United States of America)

Design and Evaluation of the Goal-oriented Design Knowledge Library Framework

Authors: Andrew Hilts (University of Toronto, Canada), Eric Yu (University of Toronto, Canada)

Struggling for Open Information Environments: Civil Society Initiatives for Media Policy Change

Author: Arne Hintz (McGill University, Canada), Stefania Milan (University of Toronto, Canada)

Older Adults' Online Health Information Seeking Behavior

Authors: Man Huang (University of Maryland College Park, United States of America), Derek Hansen (Brigham Young University, United States of America), Bo Xie (University of Maryland College Park, United States of America)

Exploring the Character of Participation in Social Media: The Case of Google Image Labeler

Author: Nassim Jafarinaimi (Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America)

The Nature of Desire in Browsing Online Pornography

Author: Patrick Keilty (University of California, Los Angeles, United States of America)

Studying the Values of Hard-to-Reach Populations: Content Analysis of Tweets by the 21st Century Homeless

Authors: Jes A. Koepfler (University of Maryland, College Park, United States of America), Kenneth R. Fleischmann (University of Maryland, College Park, United States of America)

Revolutionaries Will Not be Friended: ‘Owning’ Activism through Social Networking

Authors: Danielle LaFrance (University of British Columbia, Canada), Lisa P. Nathan (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Implementing Social Media in Public Sector Organizations

Authors: Cliff Lampe (University of Michigan, United States of America), Becky Roth (Michigan State University, United States of America)

What Does Music Mood Mean for Real Users?

Authors: Jin Ha Lee (University of Washington, United States of America), Trent Hill (University of Washington, United States of America), Lauren Work (University of Washington, United States of America)

Networked Cultural Heritage and Socio-Digital Inequalites: A Case Study in an African-American Community

Authors: Noah Lenstra (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America), Abdul Alkalimat (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America)

Speculative Originality and Optimality in Knowledge Development Infrastructures

Author: Ben Li (University of Oulu, Finland)

Inductions Based on Bibliographical Taxonomies

Author: Aaron Loehrlein (UBC, Canada)

S-FIT: A Technique for Integrating Social Features in Existing Information System

Authors: Kelly Lyons (University of Toronto, Canada), Lysanne Lessard (University of Toronto, Canada)

Rural Anchor Institution Broadband Connectivity: Enablers and Barriers to Adoption

Authors: Lauren H. Mandel (The Florida State University, United States of America), Nicole D. Alemanne (The Florida State University, United States of America), Charles R. McClure (The Florida State University, United States of America)

Not Just a Wink and Smile: An Analysis of User-Defined Success in Online Dating

Authors: Christopher Michael Mascaro (Drexel University, United States of America), Rachel Magee (Drexel University, United States of America), Sean Goggins (Drexel University, United States of America)

Forming and norming social media adoption in the corporate sector

Authors: Ines Mergel (Syracuse University, United States of America), Gabriel Mugar (Syracuse University, United States of America), Mohammad Jarrahi (Syracuse University, United States of America)

Metadatapedia: A proposal for aggregating metadata on data archiving

Authors: David M. Nichols (University of Waikato, New Zealand), Michael B. Twidale (University of Illinois, United States of America), Sally Jo Cunningham (University of Waikato, New Zealand)

Walled gardens: the new shape of the public internet

Author: Nancy Evelyn Paterson (University of Toronto, Canada)

Citizen Science System Assemblages: Understanding the Technologies that Support Crowdsourced Science

Authors: Nathan R. Prestopnik (Syracuse University, United States of America), Kevin Crowston (Syracuse University, United States of America)

The Effect of Communication Channel and Visual Awareness Display on Coordination in Online Tasks

Authors: Lindsay Reynolds (Cornell University, United States of America), Jeremy Birnholtz (Cornell University, United States of America), Allen Lee (Cornell University, United States of America)

Historical ontology and infrastructure

Authors: David Ribes (Georgetown University, United States of America), Jessica Beth Polk (Georgetown University, United States of America)

Designing for Ownership, Access and Participation in Data-Centric Physical Anthropology Collaborations

Authors: Mary Beth Rosson (Pennsylvania State University, United States of America), Na Li (Pennsylvania State University, United States of America), Timothy Ryan (Pennsylvania State University, United States of America), Andrea H. Tapia (Pennsylvania State University, United States of America)

Extreme Ethnography: Challenges for Research in Large Scale Online Environments

Authors: Dana Rotman (College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, United States of America; Human Computer Interaction Lab), Jennifer Preece (College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, United States of America; Human Computer Interaction Lab), Yurong He (College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, United States of America), Allison Druin (College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, United States of America; Human Computer Interaction Lab)

Activities & Artifacts: The dual nature of image-making in communicative practice

Author: Jaime Snyder (Syracuse University, United States of America)

Some Temporal Aspects of Indexing and Classification: Toward a Metrics for Measuring Scheme Change

Author: Joseph Timothy Tennis (University of Washington, United States of America)

Understanding Underrepresentation in IT through Intersectionality

Authors: Eileen M. Trauth (The Pennsylvania State University, United States of America), Curtis Cain (The Pennsylvania State University, United States of America), K.D. Joshi (Washington State University, United States of America), Lynette Kvasny (The Pennsylvania State University, United States of America), Kayla Booth (The Pennsylvania State University, United States of America)

Online Social Networks in a Post-Soviet State: How Hungarians Protect and Share on Facebook

Authors: Blase Eric Ur (Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America), Yang Wang (Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America)

Social Interactions on the Web: A Study of Cooperative Research on Ancestry.com

Authors: Heather Willever-Farr (Drexel University, United States of America), Lisl Zach (Drexel University, United States of America), Andrea Forte (Drexel University, United States of America)

Using Sketching to Support Design Research in New Ways: A Case Study Investigating Design and Charismatic Pentecostalism in São Paulo, Brazil

Authors: Susan P. Wyche (Virginia Tech, United States of America), Rebecca E. Grinter (Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America)

Co-Designing an e-Health Tutorial for Older Adults

Authors: Bo Xie (University of Maryland, College of Information Studies, United States of America), Tom Yeh (University of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, United States of America), Greg Walsh (University of Maryland, College of Information Studies), Ivan Watkins (University of Maryland, College of Information Studies, United States of America), Man Huang (University of Maryland, College of Information Studies, United States of America)

Student Information Consumption Strategies: Implications of the Google Effect

Authors: Michael Yacci (Rochester Institute of Technology, United States of America), Evelyn Rozanski (Rochester Institute of Technology, United States of America)

No forests without trees: particulars and patterns in visualizing personal communication

Authors: Ou Jie Zhao (Cornell University, United States of America), Tiffany Ng (Cornell University, United States of America), Dan Cosley (Cornell University, United States of America)

The Ethical (Re)Design of the Google Books Project

Author: Michael Zimmer (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, United States of America)