Papers

Local-Global: Reconciling Mismatched Ontologies in Development Information Systems

Ramesh Srinivasan
UCLA

Topics: Topics: e-inclusion in the iSociety: addressing under represented groups, Cultural information systems, Information infrastructure development in the home, in organizations, in communities, in society, globally, Information policy, ethics and law

Keywords:Keywords: ontology, information loss, e-governance, community informatics

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Information sharing across multiple knowledge systems in a FLOSS community

Paula Bach
Penn State

Topics: Information infrastructure development in the home, in organizations, in communities, in society, globally

Keywords:User experience design, design, software development, software engineering, communities of practice, boundary objects, open source software, FLOSS, information sharing

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Software Informatics?

M. Cameron Jones, Michael Twidale
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Topics: Other

Keywords:Software engineering, Social informatics, Bibliometrics, End User Programming, Collaborative Software Development

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A Conceptual Analysis of Disinformation

Don Fallis
University of Arizona

Topics: Information policy, ethics and law, Preserving digital information and ensuring information quality, security and privacy

Keywords:accuracy, conceptual analysis, epistemology, information quality, philosophy

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Future of Information Seeking on the Internet and Web Advertising: How Can We Guide Web Advertising

Youngseek Kim
Syracuse University

Topics: Cultural information systems, Other

Keywords:Information Seeking, Internet, Web, Website, Advertising, Advertisement

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Overcoming Language Barriers on Library Websites: Challenges and Opportunities

Shaoyi He
California State University, San Marcos

Topics: Other

Keywords:language Barriers, Library Websites, Multilingual Access, State Libraries

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Using Dyslexia to Explore the Cognitive Characteristics of Illustrations and Text…

Peter Coppin
University of Toronto

Topics: e-inclusion in the iSociety: addressing under represented groups, Cultural information systems, Information infrastructure development in the home, in organizations, in communities, in society, globally, Information policy, ethics and law, Information organization

Keywords:Visual thinking, graphic illustration, text, dyslexia.

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Online Social Reference: A Research Agenda Through a STIN Framework

Howard Rosenbaum, Pnina Shachaf
Indiana University

Topics: Cultural information systems, Information infrastructure development in the home, in organizations, in communities, in society, globally, Information management (personal, life cycle managment of information, digital asset management

Keywords:Keywords: Online Social Reference, Q&A Sites, Web 2.0, STIN, Socio-technical Interaction Network, Social Informatics

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HIB and HCI: Common Interests in Different Communities

Sean Goggins, Sanda Erdelez
University of Missouri

Topics: Other

Keywords:human information behavior

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The FCC’s “White Spaces” decision and its implications for iSchools

Martin Weiss
University of Pittsburgh/School of Information Sciences

Topics: e-inclusion in the iSociety: addressing under represented groups, Information infrastructure development in the home, in organizations, in communities, in society, globally

Keywords:FCC, Telecommunications, Cognitive Radio, Spectrum

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Informating in a Demi-global World

David James Hakken
Indiana University Bloomington

Topics: The influence of globalization on the nature and scope of iSchools' reserach, education and engagement, Information infrastructure development in the home, in organizations, in communities, in society, globally

Keywords:Computing strategy; organizational informatics; informating; globalization; social informatics

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Theories of Evolution and Cultural Diffusion: The Dryad Repository Case Study

Jane Greenberg
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Topics: Information organization

Keywords:Organizing information, Evolution, Cultural diffusion, Digital repository.

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Why is Evaluating Usability of Privacy Designs So Hard? Lessons Learned from a User Study of PRISM

Sameer Patil
University of California, Irvine

Topics: Other

Keywords:Privacy, User studies, Instant messaging, IM, Methodology

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Balancing User Privacy Concerns in the Adoption of Location-Based Services: An Empirical Analysis

Pan, Shi (1); Xu, Heng (1); Gupta, Sumeet (2)
Organization(s): 1: Pennsylvania State University, United States of America; 2: Shri Shankaracharya College of Engineering and Technology, India

Topics: Preserving digital information and ensuring information quality, security and privacy, Information management (personal, life cycle managment of information, digital asset management

Keywords:Location-Based Services (LBS), Privacy Calculus, Technology Adoption

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A Socio-Technical Approach to Theorizing on Perceived Trustworthiness in Virtual Organizations

Shuyuan Mary Ho
Syracuse University

Topics: Other

Keywords:Perceived Trustworthiness, Virtual Organization, Socio-Technical Approach, Insider Threats

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Shifting Boundaries of Book Authorship, Publishing, Discovery, and Audience in an I-Society:

Bradley, Jana; Fulton, Bruce; Helm, Marly
SIRLS, University of Arizona

Topics: Information infrastructure development in the home, in organizations, in communities, in society, globally, Information management (personal, life cycle managment of information, digital asset management, Other

Keywords:Self publishing, fee-based publishing services

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Media Downloading, Uploading, and Sharing Among College Students

Jeffrey Stanton, Isabelle Fagnot
Syracuse University

Topics: Information policy, ethics and law, Preserving digital information and ensuring information quality, security and privacy, Information management (personal, life cycle managment of information, digital asset management

Keywords:Piracy, File sharing, Peer-to-peer, College students

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Normative Notions of Authorship and Participation in the iSociety

Laura Ruth Lenhart
University of Arizona

Topics: e-inclusion in the iSociety: addressing under represented groups, Information policy, ethics and law

Keywords:authorship, conceptual anaylsis, normativity, participation

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iSchools in developing countries: Developing a telecommunications program for the Republic of Kosovo

Weiss, Martin (1); Tipper, David (1); Hayden, Robert (2)
1: University of Pittsburgh/School of Information Sciences 2: University of Pittsburgh/Russian and East European Studies Center

Topics: e-inclusion in the iSociety: addressing under represented groups, The influence of globalization on the nature and scope of iSchools' reserach, education and engagement

Keywords:Kosovo, developing countries, education, telecommunications

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Opening to the World

Martha Garcia-Murillo
Syracuse

Topics: Information infrastructure development in the home, in organizations, in communities, in society, globally

Keywords:Internet, corruption

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eGovernment & ICTs: An Examination of Spain’s Information Infrastructure

Kynita Stringer-Stanback
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Topics: Information infrastructure development in the home, in organizations, in communities, in society, globally, Information policy, ethics and law

Keywords:Spain, eGovernance, ICTs, Digital Divide, Information Infrastructure

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Examining Together Social and Technological Research in Library and Information Science

Ronald E. Day, Lai Ma
Indiana University Bloomington

Topics: Cultural information systems

Keywords:Information Research, Critical Information Theory, Social Informatics, Technology, Affordances

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Effect of Early Requirements Analysis and Participative Design on Staff in an Urban Health Clinic:

Prudence W. Dalrymple, Michelle Rogers, Yuan An
iSchool at Drexel University

Topics: What is 'engagement' in a research institution?, Information infrastructure development in the home, in organizations, in communities, in society, globally

Keywords:Health informatics, Transdisciplinary model of care, Early requirements analysis, Behavioral models for IT implementation, Civic engagement

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Contextuality and Information Systems: how the interplay between paradigms can help?

Mohammad Hosein Jarrahi
Syracuse University

Topics: What is 'engagement' in a research institution?, Other

Keywords:Context-aware research, information systems, information science, positivist research, interpretive research, generailizability, internal validity

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Access to Information as a Human Right

Mathiesen, Kristy Kay
School of Information Resources and Library Science, United States of America

Topics: The influence of globalization on the nature and scope of iSchools' reserach, education and engagement, Information policy, ethics and law

Keywords:human rights, information access, information rights, international ethics, philosophy

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Ethos and the Construction of a Believable Character for Information Systems

Feinberg, Melanie
University of Washington, United States of America

Topics: Information organization

Keywords:information organization, rhetoric, information credibility, ethos, humanities

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Wireless Information Systems in Support of Green iSchools

Nitipaichit, Yuttasart (1); Aksu, Aylin (1); Calle, Maria (1,2); Kabara, Joseph (1)
1: University of Pittsburgh, United States of America; 2: Universidad del Norte, Columbia

Topics: Becoming a 'green' iSchool, Information infrastructure development in the home, in organizations, in communities, in society, globally

Keywords:Green iSchool, wireless infrastructure, wireless information system, energy conservation, sensor network

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Life-Cycle Thinking: What can IT do to be Green?

Ho, Shuyuan Mary (1); Metcalfe, Conrad F. (2)
1: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States of America; 2: Performance Systems Development, Ithaca, NY, United States of America

Topics: Becoming a 'green' iSchool

Keywords:Green, sustainability, IT, Life-Cycle Thinking,

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