PAPER & WILDCARD SESSION: PRESENTATIONS
THURSDAY (2/28)
2:00pm - 3:30pm (early afternoon)
PAPER SESSION #1 • Session Chair: John Unsworth • Location: De Neve Plaza B
Discipline Formation and the Field of Information
Fran Miksa
University of Texas at Austin; miksa@ischool.utexas.edu
Topics: information organization, Nature and scope of iSchools and iResearch
Keywords: Discipline formation, Tradition, Information organization, Field of information
One iSchool's Ideas and Identity: Doctoral Training and Research at Rutgers-SCILS 1959-2007
Hartmut B. Mokros
Rutgers University; mokros@scils.rutgers.edu
Topics: Nature and scope of iSchools and iResearch
Keywords: Education, Doctoral Training, Research, iSchools
iSchools: Mice Roaring or the Future is Now Arriving?
Steve Sawyer and Howard Rosenbaum
Pennsylvania State University; Indiana University; sawyer@ist.psu.edu
Topics: Nature and scope of iSchools and iResearch, Other
Keywords: iSchools, institutions, faculty, graduate students
iSchool Curricula: How Wide? How Deep?
Richard A. Thompson
University of Pittsburgh; thompson@sis.pitt.edu
Topics: Nature and scope of iSchools and iResearch
Keywords: curriculum, telecommunications
PAPER SESSION #2 • Session Chair: Jenny Preece, University of Maryland
Location: Bradley Room 217
Indigenous Peoples’ Rights to Culture and Individual Rights to Access
Kristy Kay Mathiesen
University of Arizona; kmathies@email.arizona.edu
Topics: Information policy, ethics and law
Keywords: human rights, cultural property, indigenous, philosophy, intellectual freedom
Tracing Transnational Flows of IT Knowledge through Open Exchange of Software Development Know-How
Susan Elliott Sim and Kavita Philip
University of California, Irvine; ses@ics.uci.edu
Topics: Information policy, ethics and law, Information technology and services for under-addressed communities
Keywords: software engineering, India, ethnography, history
Prim Drift, CopyBots, and Folk Preservation: Three Copyright Parables about Art in the Digital Age
Kari M. Kraus
University of Maryland; karimkraus@gmail.com
Topics: Cultural information systems, Information policy, ethics and law, Other
Keywords: second life, virtual worlds, intellectual property, arts and humanities
Culture At the Interface: Collaborative Design and Information Management with Indigenous Communities
Kimberly Christen, Craig Dietrich, and Ramesh Srinivasan
Washington State University; University of Iowa; University of California,
Los Angeles; kim.christen@gmail.com
Topics: Cultural information systems, Information technology and services for
under-addressed communities
Keywords: indigenous, digital archives, information management, collaboration
WILDCARD SESSION #1 • Session Chair: Jimmy Lin
Location: Covel Commons, West Coast Room
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
WILDCARD SESSION #2 • Session Chair: Jean-François Blanchette
Location: Covel Commons, South Bay Room
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
WILDCARD SESSION #3 • Session Chair: Alpha Selene DeLap
Location: De Neve Plaza, Sycamore Room
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
WILDCARD SESSION #4 • Session Chair: David Ribes
Location: Covel Commons, Northridge Room
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
