POST CONFERENCE MATERIALS
WILDCARD SESSION: PRESENTATIONS
WILDCARD SESSION #1 • Session Chair: Jimmy Lin
Is There a Cloud in your Future? Applications of “Cloud Computing” to
Web-scale Problems
Jimmy Lin
University of Maryland; jimmylin@umd.edu
Topics: Information infrastructure development, Information technology and services for under-addressed communities, Nature and scope of iSchools and iResearch
Keywords: cloud computing
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WILDCARD SESSION #2 • Session Chair: Jean-François Blanchette
Author Meets Critics: Sandra Braman
Jean-François Blanchette, Sandra Braman, Steve Jackson, Leah Lievrouw, and Milton Mueller
University of California, Los Angeles; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; University of Michigan; Syracuse University; blanchette@ucla.edu
Topics: Information policy, ethics and law
Keywords: information policy, law, author meets critics, inter-disciplinarity, sandra braman
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WILDCARD SESSION #3 • Session Chair: Alpha Selene DeLap
How Public Is the Internet? A Conversation on the Nature of Human Interactions On-line and the Implications for Research Methods
Alpha Selene DeLap and Phillip M. Edwards
University of Washington; adelap@u.washington.edu
Topics: Information policy, ethics and law, Other
Keywords: ethics, public and private uses of the Internet, Web 2.0 technologies, IRB,
online research
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WILDCARD SESSION #4 • Session Chair: David Ribes
Narratives of Engagement: Working at the Intersections of Information, Social, and Domain Science
David Ribes, Chris Borgman, Thomas Finholt, Karen Baker, Geoffrey Bowker
University of Michigan; dribes@umich.edu
Topics: Nature and scope of iSchools and iResearch, Other
Keywords: collaboration, engagement, social / information science
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WILDCARD SESSION #5 • Session Chair: Ramesh Srinivasan
Bridging Discourses: Exploring the Relationship between Information Technologies and International Development
Ramesh Srinivasan, Steven Jackson, Tapan Parikh, and Jessica Wallack
University of California, Los Angeles; University of Michigan; University of California, Berkeley; University of California, San Diego; Center for Development Finance, India; srinivasan@ucla.edu
Topics: Community techologies and networking, Cultural information systems, Information technology and services for under-addressed communities
Keywords: development, international, information society, microfinance, community
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WILDCARD SESSION #6 • Session Chair: Derek Hansen
iSchools and Undergraduate Education
Derek L. Hansen, Susan M. Bonzi, Lori Kendall, and David W. McDonald
University of Maryland; Syracuse University; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; University of Washington; shakmatt@gmail.com
Topics: Nature and scope of iSchools and iResearch
Keywords: undergraduate education
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WILDCARD SESSION #7 • Session Chair: Tatjana Aparac-Jelusic
iSchools in Central and South Europe: Developments and Challenges
of Cooperation
Tatjana Aparac-Jelusic, Christian Schloegl, Maja Zumer and Anna Maria Tammaro
University of Zadar, Croatia (Hrvatska); taparac@unizd.hr
Topics: Nature and scope of iSchools and iResearch
Keywords: I-schools, Central and South Europe, education policy, curricula development, distance education, cooperation in I-education
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WILDCARD SESSION #8 • Session Chair: Richard James Cox
Can iSchools Fulfill Their Mission Without Archival Studies?
Richard James Cox, Ronald Larsen, Michèle V. Cloonan, and Anne J. Gilliland
University of Pittsburgh School; Simmons College; University of California,
Los Angeles; rjcox111@comcast.net
Topics: Cultural information systems, Preserving digital information, Other
Keywords: Archives, preservation, heritage, memory, curation
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WILDCARD SESSION #9 • Session Chair: Alla Zollers
Research Perspectives on Social Tagging
Alla Zollers, Tony Moore, Lilly Nguyen, Terrell Russell, and Fred Stutzman
University of California, Los Angeles; University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Michigan State University; alla.zollers@ucla.edu
Topics: Community techologies and networking, information organization
Keywords: tags, social tagging, social classification, social software
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WILDCARD SESSION #10 • Session Chair: Susan Leigh Star
iSchool Proposal for Themed Wildcard Session on New Information Systems Methods
Susan Leigh Star, Marina Jirotka, Jack Whalen, and Scout Calvert
Santa Clara University; Oxford University; Xerox PARC; University of California,
Santa Cruz; slstar@scu.edu
Topics: Nature and scope of iSchools and iResearch
Keywords: methods, assessment, STS
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WILDCARD SESSION #11 • Session Chair: Jim Jansen
CHI, ICIS, SIGIR and Numerous Other Outlets That Won’t Accept My Work: The Perils of Publishing Multidisciplinary Research?
Jim Jansen, Howard Rosenbaum, Mark Ackerman, and Elizabeth D. Liddy
Pennsylvania State Universityy; Indiana University; University of Michigan; Syracuse University; jjansen@acm.org
Topics: Nature and scope of iSchools and iResearch, Other
Keywords: Publishing, Multidisciplinary Research
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WILDCARD SESSION #12 • Session Chair: M. Cameron Jones
Mapping the Design Space of Design Education in iSchools
M. Cameron Jones, Ingbert R. Floyd, Michael B. Twidale, and Piotr D. Adamczyk
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Pennsylvania State University; mjones2@uiuc.edu
Topics: Nature and scope of iSchools and iResearch
Keywords: Design, Design Thinking, Education, Pedagogy
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WILDCARD SESSION #13 • Session Chair: Michael D. Crandall
Let’s get Wild: Building a National Research and Service Agenda for Community Technologies and Networking
Michael D. Crandall, Karen Fisher, Karine Barzilai-Nahon, and Robert Mason
University of Washington; mikecran@u.washington.edu
Topics: Community techologies and networking, Information technology and services for under-addressed communities
Keywords: community technologies, research, impact, society
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WILDCARD SESSION #14 • Session Chair: Daniela Karin Rosner
Info-scavengers
Daniela Karin Rosner, Kevin Mateo Lim, and Hannes Hesse
University of California, Berkeley; daniela@ischool.berkeley.edu
Topics: information organization, Other
Keywords: Immersive games, information retrieval, performance, alternative reality games
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WILDCARD SESSION #15 • Session Chair: Frederic D. Stutzman
Okay, Facebook Me: Exploring Behavior, Motivations and Uses in Social Network Sites
Frederic D. Stutzman, Danah Boyd, Alice Marwick, Cliff Lampe, and Nicole Ellison
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; University of California, Berkeley; New York University; Michigan State University; fred@metalab.unc.edu
Topics: Community techologies and networking, Other
Keywords: social networks, facebook, myspace, social computing, identity
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WILDCARD SESSION #16 • Session Chair: Indira Rita Guzman
What to Do with Geeks and Nerds? A Collaborative Website Analysis Workshop
Kathryn Stam, Indira Rita Guzman, and Michael Scialdone
SUNY Institute of Technology; TUI University; Syracuse University; stmkath@gmail.com
Topics: Cultural information systems, Other
Keywords: web research
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WILDCARD SESSION #17 • Session Chair: Michael B. Eisenberg
Information Credibility: Let's Get Serious (and Have Some Fun Too!)
Michael B. Eisenberg, Peyina Lin, Yuan Lin, R. David Lankes, Miriam Metzger, and
Soo Young Rieh
University of Washington; Syracuse University; University of California, Santa Barbara; University of Michigan; mbe@u.washington.edu
Topics: Community techologies and networking, Information infrastructure development, Information technology and services for under-addressed communities
Keywords: information credibility, social networks, systems development, credibility
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