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University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Application Deadline: Sep 15, 2026 The Department of Information Science in the Graduate School of Education, University at Buffalo, the State University of New York (SUNY) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position to start in August 2027. We are a collaborative and collegial department that values research excellence, innovative teaching, inclusivity, and belonging. We currently offer an ALA-accredited MS in Information and Library Science, an MS in School Librarianship, an Advanced Studies Certificate, and a PhD in Information Science. We have collaborative agreements with the School of Law and the Department of Music for joint master’s degrees and with the Department of English and the Department of History for combined BA/MS-SL degrees, as well as an anticipated undergraduate major in information science. We welcome candidates from any area of expertise, with particular interest in those working in socio-technical policy and ethics, HCI/human-AI interaction, information practices, cultural heritage informatics, or theory development in information science. Responsibilities include: Maintaining an active and productive research agenda commensurate with a Research 1 tenure-track faculty appointment Seeking external grant funding Teaching a total of four courses each year Advising Information Science doctoral, master’s, and undergraduate students Participating in professional activities and serving on department, school, and university committees Minimum Qualifications A doctorate degree at the time of appointment in Information Science, or a related field. Preferred Qualifications Research agenda with potential for acquiring external funding Published research or scholarship Online teaching experience at the graduate or undergraduate level or interest Experience or interest in multidisciplinary collaboration Experience working effectively with minoritized students

Issue#14 Laura Sbaffi European/African Region United Kingdom University of Sheffield School of Information, Journalism and Communication iSchool is member since 2009 Hello Laura! Please tell us a bit about you! I am a Senior Lecturer in Health Informatics at the University of Sheffield, which I joined in 2016 and where I am currently serving, among other roles, as Postgraduate Research Lead for the School of Information Journalism and Communication. My research sits where health informatics meets information behaviour. I study how people find, judge and act on health information, with a particular focus on unpaid caregiving and on communities that tend to be left at the margins of digital services. I arrived here by a rather unusual route. I am originally from Italy, from the Marche region on the Adriatic coast, and my first degrees and my PhD were in Earth and Marine Sciences, split between the University of Trieste (Italy) and the University of Cambridge (UK). For the best part of fifteen years I was a palaeoceanographer, reconstructing past Mediterranean climates from deep-sea sediment cores to aid the modelling of future climate changes, and later worked as a research scientist at Geoscience Australia. Then, in 2012 I decided to go back to academia (my first and strongest love!), so I completed an MA in Library and Information Management at Manchester Metropolitan University and changed discipline altogether. Your research focuses on the digitisation of health services globally - What led you to choose this research focus? It began as a methodological curiosity and became something rather more pressing. What I loved about palaeoceanography was reading a signal out of noisy, incomplete evidence. When I retrained, I found the same problem waiting for me in health information, except that the noise is human, and the consequences are immediate. My early work in the field, with Professor Jenny Rowley, was on trust and credibility, specifically how people decide whether to believe what they read about health information online. At the time much of that literature treated quality as a property of the information itself. It became clear to me that the more interesting question was a distributional one, so not “Is good information available?” but “Who can actually reach it and in what form?”. That question travels well, which is how the work became global almost by accident. It took me to rural Malawi, working with informal carers of people living with HIV/AIDS on an intervention we co-created with them rather than designed for them; to Uganda, on shared health records; and to South Africa, where I contributed to deriver and validate COVID-19 triage tools for emergency departments in a middle-income setting, because the scores developed in well-resourced systems simply did not transfer. It also brought me to my adoptive home, to older and LGBTQ+ unpaid carers in England navigating a social care system that has digitised around them. The thread running through all of it is this that digitisation is sold as efficiency, but efficiency for a system very often means new, invisible labour for the person at the edge of it. Somebody has to do the work of translation, and it is usually a family member, a friend, a neighbour. I think that work deserves to be counted, valued and facilitated. At your iSchool in Sheffield, several researchers are conducting research on health informatics. Could you tell us a little more about your iSchool? Sheffield has had health informatics in its bloodstream for far longer than it has been an iSchool. What I would most want people to know is that we are not a single-method group. Within the School you will find qualitative information-behaviour researchers sitting alongside colleagues building machine learning models on emergency department data, social media analysts, and people working on digital inclusion and data ethics. Those conversations are occasionally uncomfortable and consistently productive. The second thing is that we are no longer an Information School in the narrow sense. We have merged with Journalism Studies to become the School of Information, Journalism and Communication, which puts information scientists in the same corridor as journalists and communication scholars. For anyone working on trust, misinformation and how health knowledge actually circulates, that is an extremely good neighbourhood to live in! We also benefit from sitting inside a large research-intensive university, so we collaborate widely with the School of Medicine and Population Health, the Healthy Lifespan Institute and the Centre for Care, among others. Also, we have a large, international doctoral community, which as PGR Lead, I would argue is the real engine of the place. Your iSchool was one of the first in Europe to join iSchools in 2009. Since then, the number of European and African schools has grown significantly, and today they form their own iSchools region. You took on the role of Regional Chair for the European/African Region in early 2026. Can you tell us a little more about the region and your impressions of it? The first thing to say is that the region is enormous. It runs from the Nordic countries to South Africa, and from Portugal to Turkey, and it contains institutions with very different histories, funding environments, languages of instruction and relationships to their national systems. A long-established European school with a century of library science behind it and a young African school building an information programme from the ground up are both iSchools, and both belong here, but their needs on any given Tuesday are not the same. Holding that range together without flattening it is the interesting part of the job. My strongest impression since taking on the role at the start of 2026 is how much appetite there is for connection, and how little of it is currently structured. Colleagues are remarkably generous with their time; what they lack is a low-cost, reliable way of finding each other. Most of what constrains us is logistical rather than intellectual - time zones, travel funding, visas. So my priorities are deliberately practical. Make membership tangibly useful for smaller and newer schools rather than only for those already well connected. Build doctoral and early-career links, because those outlast anyone’s term of office. And ensure that the Africa–Europe relationship runs in both directions, rather than being framed, as it too often is, as one region assisting another. What benefits do you see in belonging to the global iSchools Organization? How has it impacted you personally? Practically, it gives you a peer group you would otherwise have to invent. When you are redesigning a curriculum, making an internal case for a new programme, or trying to judge honestly whether your doctoral provision is any good, it is enormously valuable to compare notes with schools facing the same question inside a completely different national system. The iConference is the other obvious benefit; I have reviewed for it for years and chaired the posters track in 2025, and it is still where I meet the people I later end up collaborating and writing with. Personally, the effect has been more specific than that. I changed discipline in mid-career, after many years in the natural sciences. In many academic communities that is quietly treated as a liability, something to be explained away. The iSchools community treats interdisciplinarity as the normal condition rather than a suspicious one; nobody has ever asked me to justify why a former marine geologist is studying carers’ information needs. That gave me permission to bring my whole background with me instead of hiding half of it, and I do not think I would have built the research programme I have without it. If you could give just one advice to future information scientists, what would it be? Go and meet the people your data is about! It is very easy in our field to become an expert in the record and never once encounter the person the record describes. I have never learned anything important about carers’ information needs from a dataset that I had not first learned, in a cruder and far more useful form, by sitting in a room with carers in Malawi or in South Yorkshire. Ask early who is missing from your sample and why, and be wary of any finding you would be embarrassed to explain to the people it is about. And if I am allowed a second piece of advice: do not assume your background is a detour. Mine looked like one for the best part of a decade. It turned out to be the most useful thing I brought with me. Thank you very much, Laura! Featured Members is an iSchools Feature series spotlighting members of iSchools who are part of the development and organization of thought provoking projects or conferences. Please contact admin@ischools-inc.org in case you would like to be featured as well.

University of Michigan Application Deadline: Sep 20, 2026 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time The University of Michigan School of Information (UMSI) invites applicants for the University of Michigan Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP) (http://presidentspostdoc.umich.edu/index.php). Faculty at UMSI have a successful record of providing a nurturing and productive postdoctoral experience for Presidential Postdoctoral Fellows. In keeping with the PPFP program, UMSI seeks applicants whose research, teaching, and service will, as determined by the University of Michigan and in accordance with law, contribute to the core values of the University of Michigan, and to equal opportunity in higher education. Candidates will be evaluated on fit with current needs and strengths of the institution and future funding possibilities. UMSI is particularly interested in candidates whose work focuses on aspects of privacy and technology, with a particular interest in how privacy intersects with AI. We define privacy broadly, and welcome applications from researchers approaching privacy through technical, policy, design, ethical, and/or social lenses. UMSI views these postdoctoral fellowships as providing an exceptional opportunity to recruit new faculty to the University and we expect PPFP positions to lead to a tenure-track faculty appointment. Candidates are required to name a UMSI faculty mentor in their application. We highly encourage candidates to reach out and confirm potential faculty mentors at UMSI in advance of submitting their applications. A description of the requirements and expectations for mentors can be found on the UM PPFP website. Minimum Qualifications: Ph.D. in any information-related field and demonstrated record of research excellence. A strong interest in teaching at the undergraduate and/or graduate levels. A strong commitment to contribute to an interdisciplinary research culture. How to Apply: Applicants must submit TWO separate applications: UMSI application through Interfolio must be submitted no later than 11:59 PM EDT, September 20, 2026 U-M President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP) application (http://presidentspostdoc.umich.edu/ppfp-application.php) no later than 11:59 PM EST, November 1, 2026 Please direct inquiries about this position to SISearchSupport@umich.edu

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The iSchools represent an international organisation of over 120 universities. A common interest in all aspects of research and teaching about information unites them. Up Sort by publication year Search/Filter Reset Navigating end-of-life decision making: a thematic analysis of Uchinanchu American older adult’s information behaviour Kristina Shiroma DOI 2025 health information seeking; end-of-life decision making; cultural context of information; minority health Drivers of metaverse adoption among children and youths: a UTATU2 perspective Liuyu Huang Dion Hoe-Lian Goh Stella Xin Yin DOI 2025 Metaverse; Technology adoption; Drivers; Children; Youth; UTATU3 Taking disagreements into consideration: human annotation variability in privacy policy analysis Tian Wang Yuanye Ma Catherine Blake Masooda Bashir Ryan Wang DOI 2025 privacy policy; annotator disagreement; natural language processing; machine learning; human label variation Finding Pareto trade-offs in fair and accurate detection of toxic speech Soumyajit Gupta Venelin Kovatchev Anubrata Das Maria De-Arteaga Matthew Lease DOI 2025 Group Balanced Accuracy; Accuracy Difference; Fairness; Pareto Trade-off AI lifecycle from a data-driven perspective: a systematic review Di Wang Ruiyang Chen Chuanni Li Shanshan Gu DOI 2025 AI lifecycle; data-driven; data role; systematic review Transforming bridges into smart infrastructure: a data-driven approach to monitoring bats and promoting sustainable coexistence Jacob Koch Jess Kropczynski Janette Perez-Jimenez Joseph S. Johnson DOI 2025 Internet of Things (IoT); data visualization; smart infrastructure; wildlife conservation; ecological monitoring A benchmark for evaluating crisis information generation capabilities in LLMs Ruilian Han Lu An Wei Zhou Gang Li DOI 2025 LLMs; Crisis informatics; LLMs evaluation; Information generation; Evaluation benchmark Engaging with information beyond vision: hands-on approaches to computational thinking for blind and visually impaired learners Kyungwon Koh JooYoung Seo Si Chen Eugene Malcolm Cox DOI 2025 accessibility; computational thinking; makerspaces; learning; blind and visually impaired people Gendered recordkeeping practices in marginalised communities in Bangladesh Viviane Frings-Hessami DOI 2025 Gender; records; women empowerment; marginalised communities Innovative practice of archival data development workflow in the AGI era: a case study of scientist archives project Yaming Fu Jie Song Xinran Zhang Jingyun Bi DOI 2025 Archival Workflow Innovation; Archival Data Development; Archival Data Mining; Large Language Model Application in Archival Work A cultural heritage data curation framework for knowledge discovery Ruijie He Xiaoguang Wang DOI 2025 cultural heritage; data resource construction; data curation; digital humanities; knowledge discovery Stewardship of digital language archives: training development and testing through collaboration of information scientists, linguists, and communities Oksana L. Zavalina Alexandra O'Neil Shobhana L. Chelliah DOI 2025 Language data; digital curation; community archives stewardship; archival arrangement and description; professional development ‘Just because we can, does it mean we should?’ The integrated data infrastructure in Aotearoa, and its implications for Māori Daphne Boey Jennifer Campbell-Meier Spencer Lilley Janet Toland DOI 2025 Māori Data Sovereignty; Indigenous data sovereignty; case study Cultivating university data culture in the age of artificial intelligence: a conceptual framework and critical reflections Yunjie Tang DOI 2025 data culture; university data culture; data culture conceptual framework Using the information inequity framework to study GenAI equity: analysis of educational perspectives Sarah Zipf Chuhao Wu Tiffany Petricini DOI 2025 Artificial Intelligence; Equity; Information Equity; Higher Education Open access: Māori perspectives on publishing Spencer Lilley DOI 2025 Open Access Publishing; Open Data; Academic Libraries; Māori; Data Sovereignty Conceptual approaches to information-as-potentiality Alexandra Chassanoff Annie T. Chen DOI 2025 digital collections; digital scholarship; digital humanities; information use; holistic information Innovation hesitancy: exploring reluctance to digital innovation in the Swedish cultural sector Hanna Carlsson Ahmad Kamal Charlie Järpvall DOI 2025 digital innovation; information sharing; innovation resistance Systematically modeling and extracting bibliographic metadata of power grid standard documents with LLMs Guowei Chen Wei Xie Yanan Liu Xiaoqun Yuan Liang Zhao DOI 2025 Power Grid Standards; Bibliographic Metadata Extraction; Large Language Models; Trustworthiness Estimation Review articles as windows into Knowledge accumulation: the case of AI research Siyuan Peng Lei Hu Jingrui Hou Youqing Xia Ping Wang DOI 2025 Review articles; knowledge accumulation; scientometrics; artificial intelligence Are we there yet? Evaluation of AI-generated metadata for online information resources Vyacheslav Zavalin Oksana L. Zavalina DOI 2025 Metadata assessment; automatic metadata creation; artificial intelligence tools; Dublin Core; Metadata Object Description Schema; MARC; BIBFRAME Decoding how the older adults identify misinformation: an analysis of internal mechanisms Zhaotong Wu Yepei Wang Hui Yan DOI 2025 Information identification; Misinformation; Older adults Graphicon evolution on Bilibili: a historically informed socio-technical approach Yiqiong Zhang Susan C. Herring Yanmin Wu Rongle Tan DOI 2025 Graphicon; Evolution; Emoji; Sticker; Socio-technical Approach; Bilibili; Digital Archaeology Mapping GLAMs: creating a national dataset of GLAMs to develop a categorical climate-change risk assessment scale Edward Benoit, III Jill Trepanier Jennifer Vanos Emily Fisher Kaitlyn Bailey Annie Waddell (et al.) DOI 2025 climate change; cultural heritage; GIS Exploring the psychological mechanisms of library anxiety considering achievement motivation and goal orientation Masaki Takeda Satoru Suto DOI 2025 Library Anxiety; Achievement Motive; Goal Orientation Aprendizaje-Servicio como instrumento para la accesibilidad y la inclusión: resultado de una propuesta colaborativa entre universidades y bibliotecas (Service-learning as a tool for accessibility and inclusion: results of a collaborative approach between Elena Loreto Olmedo-Pagés Rosario Arquero-Avilés DOI 2025 Aprendizaje-Servicio; Lectura Fácil; personas con discapacidad auditiva Enhancing vaccine communication in social Q&A: identifying readily applicable factors for answer acceptance on medical sciences stack exchange Hengyi Fu DOI 2025 Vaccine hesitancy; social Q&A; health informatics; health information seeking Collaborative human-AI risk annotation: co-annotating online incivility with CHAIRA Jinkyung Katie Park Rahul Dev Ellezhuthil Pamela Wisniewski Vivek Singh DOI 2025 Human-AI Collaboration; Online Incivility Annotation; Conversational Agents; Large Language Model; Prompt Engineering The effects of anthropomorphic framing on senior news consumers’ attitudes towards health AI systems: a mediation of psychological distance Yanrun Xu Tingting Jiang DOI 2025 anthropomorphic framing; health AI; attitude; psychological distance; older adults Will potential threats persist? Attitudes and behavioral responses of creative professionals toward GenAI Mingxia Jia Yuxiang Chris Zhao Xiaoyu Zhang DOI 2025 generative AI; creative professionals; human-AI competition; perceived stress; adaptive use On the robustness of cover version identification models: a study using cover versions from YouTube Simon Hachmeier Robert Jäschke DOI 2025 cover song; music; retrieval longtail Detecting text-level intellectual influence with Knowledge graph embeddings Lucian Li Eryclis Silva DOI 2025 knowledge graphs; large language models; bibliometrics; citation prediction; document similarity From pixels to perspectives: exploring perceptions of representation in character design Nani Le Tang Erin Eungyo Moon Jose De Jesus Garrido Iniguez Daniel Raul Mena Ramirez Daniel L. Gardner DOI 2025 Character Design; Narratives; Women’s Representation Narratives for healing: an exploration of interactions within an online community on navigating bullying trauma Subhasree Sengupta Yin Yang DOI 2025 Narrative Identity; Trauma; Online communities; Conversational dynamics; Thematic Analysis “You can’t imagine how hard it is”: hardship streamers in live crowdfunding Yueru Yan Pnina Fichman DOI 2025 E-commerce live streaming; online crowdfunding; self-presentation; TikTok Ética, política e informação: uma reflexão conceitual sobre sociedade e comportamento (Ethics, politics, and information: a conceptual reflection on society and behaviour) Vitor Serejo Ferreira Batista DOI 2025 Sociedade; Ética; Informação; Sabedoria Popular A more advanced group polarization measurement approach based on LLM-based agents and graphs Zixin Liu Ji Zhang Yiran Ding DOI 2025 Multi-Agent System; Group Polarization; LLM-Based Agent; Social Media Safety anchors and deflected desires: generative AI and the production of sexualities Daniel Carter DOI 2025 sexuality; generative AI; Foucault; algorithms Gallery walk as research method in information science Rebecca Frank Stephanie Krueger DOI 2025 qualitative research methods; qualitative data collection; qualitative data; gallery walk; research methods Improving scholarship accessibility with reinforcement learning Haining Wang Jason Clark Hannah McKelvey Leila Sterman Gao Zheng Zuoyu Tian Xiaozhong Liu DOI 2025 Accessible language; Language model; Text simplification; Reinforcement learning; Proximal Policy Optimization; Open science Design of audio ads to prebunk misinformation and promote civil discourse Diana Daly Kainan Jarrette DOI 2025 misinformation; civil discourse; disinformation; inoculation theory; prebunking Does Google dream of electric memes? From human to computational culture Alexander O. Smith Una Joh Jeff Hemsley DOI 2025 Memetics; Know Your Meme; Google Cloud Vision; network science; cultural heritage informatics The affective dimension of archival work: understanding the thoughts and feelings of archivists who documented the HIV/AIDS epidemic Allan A. Martell Travis L. Wagner Shannon Oltmann DOI 2025 LGBTQIA+ archives; HIV/AIDS; meaning-making; affect Data feminism in museum collections: mapping principles to practices Alexandria Rayburn DOI 2025 museum computing; critical cataloging Ideological presentations in official promotion of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) on short-form video platforms: a multimodal content analysis Ruoxi Liu Haoran Qiu DOI 2025 Ideology; Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH); Multimodal Content Ananlysis; Short-form Video; Douyin The inevitability of AI: a study of undergraduate students’ perceptions of AI tools in their future careers Mónica Colón-Aguirre Kawanna Bright DOI 2025 generative AI; undergraduate students perceptions of AI; higher education; information behavior The impact of privacy authorization framing in mobile apps on privacy disclosure: a regulatory focus approach Zhuo Sun Dandan Zhang Xiaoning Gao Yan Jin DOI 2025 Privacy Authorization; Privacy Disclosure; Framing Effects; Regulatory Focus ‘Sora is incredible and scary’: public perceptions and governance challenges of text-to-video generative AI models Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou Abhinav Choudhry Ece Gumusel Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo DOI 2025 Sora; Generative AI; Social media perspective; Governance Governing knowledge commons in information science Ebubechukwu E. Uba Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo DOI 2025 knowledge commons; governance; information science BSLISE directory: innovating global mapping and organization of LIS schools Tiago Emmanuel Nunes Braga Josir Cardoso Gomes Nathaly Cristine Leite Rocha Fatih Oguz Chris Cunningham DOI 2025 global directory; bslise; citizen science An analysis of poet demographic and thematic diversity in a poetry collection for inclusive AI Kahyun Choi Gyuri Kang DOI 2025 Digital library; responsible AI; natural language processing; poetry; dataset evaluation How does digital humanities research talk about AI? A bibliometric analysis Wenyi Shang Rongqian Ma Heather Moulaison-Sandy DOI 2025 digital humanities; artificial intelligence; bibliometrics analysis Demystifying perception and decision-making in peer review: a semantic perspective Yujie Zhang Weikang Yuan Zhuoren Jiang DOI 2025 peer review; perception; decision-making; cognitive process Exploring the patterns and influencing factors of emerging technology impact: a case study of digital medical technology Man Jiang Siluo Yang Shuang Tao DOI 2025 Technological Impact; Emerging Technologies; Influencing Factors; Intrinsic Attributes; Digital Medical Technology Scientists, but deny science? Climate change sceptics networks on YouTube led by scientists Qiaoyi Liu Yuheun Kim Jeff Hemsley DOI 2025 Climate Change; Science Denial; Natural Language Processing; Social Network Analysis Examining privacy concerns and conversations before, during, and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic: an analysis of r/privacy Erica Shusas Shruti Sannon Katie Teitelbaum Patrick Skeba Eric P. S. Baumer Andrea Forte DOI 2025 privacy; crisis informatics; social media Analyzing the language of rejection: a study of user flagging responses to hate speech on Reddit Sharon Lisseth Perez Xiaoying Song Lingzi Hong DOI 2025 flagging messages; linguistic characteristics; natural language processing Promoting AI literacy through U.S. academic libraries: an analysis of LibGuides from ARL and Oberlin group libraries using the EDUCAUSE AI literacy framework Ko Chun Ru Rong Tang DOI 2025 Generative AI; AI literacy; EDUCAUSE AI Literacy Framework; Library guides; Academic library Towards a sustainable automated library operation; the imperatives of digital skills and related factors of digital skills development of university library professionals in Nigeria Gbenga Adetunla Gobinda Chowdhury DOI 2025 Digital skills development; Library automation; University Library; Sustainable digital library; digital library operations Leveraging social circles and algorithmic processes in digital mental health tools for college students' stress management Farhanuddin Fazaluddin Kazi Jomara Sandbulte DOI 2025 Health Informatics; Stress Management; Personalized Recommendations; Technology Probe; College Students Barriers and facilitators to documenting social needs in electronic health records: a pilot survey Kuo-Ting Huang Ravi Patel Sharon Connor Elaine Kong Xuan Nie Jocelyn Schmersal DOI 2025 Electronic Health Records (EHR); Social Determinants of Health (SDOH); Health literacy; Doctor-patient relationship Deskilling and upskilling with AI systems Kevin Crowston Francesco Bolici DOI 2025 Generative AI; Deskilling; Upskilling Understanding entangled human-technology-world relations: use of intelligent voice assistants by older adults Alisha Pradhan Shaan Chopra Pooja Upadhyay Robin Brewer Amanda Lazar DOI 2025 Intelligent voice assistants; older adults; aging; AI assistants Taming TikTok: how BIPOC individuals perceive and interact with algorithmically generated content Jiarun Dai Naila Hajiyeva Sehba Wani Kayla Booth DOI 2025 TikTok; social media algorithms; content recommendation; digital literacy Exploring the role of large language model in collaborative travel planning task Hikaru Kumamoto Hideo Joho DOI 2025 Collaborative Information Seeking; Human-AI Interaction; Travel Planning; User Study Information access via voice commands on YouTube: empirical evidence on the consequences for a marginalised community in Bangladesh Joy Bhowmik Viviane Frings-Hessami Gillian Oliver Md. Khalid Hossain DOI 2025 Marginalised community; information access; voice commands; community informatics State literacy: lessons from social struggle in the Colombian Amazon Claudia Grisales Bohórquez DOI 2025 Digital literacy; administrative literacy; social struggle; marginalized communities; generous infrastructures Motivational duality and fake news reporting behavior: a polynomial regression with response surface analysis Xiao-Liang Shen Lin-Yao Liu Yang-Jun Li DOI 2025 Fake News; Reporting Behavior; Moral Motivation; Polynomial Regression with Response Surface Analysis; Reconciliation model of moral centrality Evaluating techniques of artificial intelligence for social robots Jessica K. Barfield DOI 2025 robot intelligence; artificial intelligence; usability; algorithm The role of ontologies in machine learning: a case study of gene ontology Qiaoyi Liu Jian Qin DOI 2025 Ontologies; Gene Ontology; Machine Learning; Knowledge organization systems; Knowledgebases Empowering customer service with generative AI: enhancing agent performance while navigating challenges Charles Costa Souvick Ghosh DOI 2025 Generative Artificial Intelligence; Customer Service; Knowledge Management; Enterprise Customer Service; AI Discourses of fear around AI and their implications for library and information science Sarah Appedu Yigang Qin DOI 2025 discourses of fear; artificial intelligence; library and information science; critical technology studies; sociotechnical systems How do data authors perform in data-intensive research activities? Evidence from author contribution statement in data papers Heng Yang Yonglin Yu Fenghong Liu DOI 2025 data paper; data author; data-intensive science; CRediT; scientific labor Beyond the hype: longitudinal trends in virtual reality perceptions beyond the COVID-19 pandemic Christopher Ball Kuo-Ting Huang Jess Francis-Levin DOI 2025 Virtual Reality; Metaverse; Technology Acceptance Model; Longitudinal Survey; COVID-19 Teaching computational archival science: context, pedagogy, and future directions Victoria L. Lemieux Richard Marciano DOI 2025 Computational Archival Science; Archival Training; Computational Thinking; Artificial Intelligence; Future of Archives An ensemble framework for sentiment-embedded event evolution in diaspora oral archives Jing Zhou DOI 2025 Diaspora Oral Archives; Event Evolutionary Graph; Natural Language Processing; Sentiment A semantic framework for digital archives of ancient Chinese villages aimed at humanistic discovery: a case study of four villages in Henan Tianjiao Qi Yiduo Wang Meiman Wong Tsamchu Basang Linglu Li DOI 2025 Ancient Villages; Digital Archiving; Ontology Construction; Semantic Framework; Humanistic Discovery Professional identity scale for information professionals: an instrument development Fatih Oguz DOI 2025 Professional Identity; Training The smart archive management practicing pipeline: a virtual online learning platform for AI literacy development in archival science Lanxi Dong Shuning Tang Yuan Cheng Ping Wang DOI 2025 AI literacy; smart archive management; virtual learning platform; archive science education Does artificial intelligence harm labour? Investigating the limitations of incident trackers as evidence for policymaking Theodore Dreyfus Ledford DOI 2025 AI; Labor; Knowledge Organization; Incident Trackers; Evidence; Policymaking Investigating privacy risks in open government data: an exploratory case study Daniel Carter Caroline Stratton DOI 2025 open government data; privacy; informatics Steering the AI world: an exploratory comparison of AI Acts in the EU and Canada Ruiyi Zhu Tien-I Tsai DOI 2025 AI Regulation; AI Act; AI Governance; AIDA; information policy Towards nuanced and critical data analysis: an exploratory investigation into complexities of Goodreads reviews for children's books Yuerong Hu Chen Ling DOI 2025 online book reviews; critical data studies; children’s literature; digital humanities; user-generated content Towards memetic legitimation of knowledge: memes and cultural heritage Alexander O. Smith Calvin Cousin Una Joh Christy Khoury Yiran Duan Jeff Hemsley DOI 2025 Know Your Meme; legitimation discourse; netnography; cultural heritage informatics The dual impact of digital humanities: evaluating the role of DH approaches in historical and cultural resource development Sijia Lu Jiaqing Long Yongjun Xu DOI 2025 Digital humanities; Historical and cultural resources; International Digital Humanities Award How is AIGC shaping the world: an analysis of bibliometrics Ying Guo Fengchang Yu Jianfei Lai Xiaoqun Yuan DOI 2025 AIGC; Bibliometrics; Global profile Leveraging scientific knowledge for technological inventions: insights from knowledge recombination theory Guiyan Ou Haodong Chen Kaili Wang Jiang Wu DOI 2025 Knowledge Creation; Patent Data; Citation Analysis; Knowledge Recombination Uncovering strategies for identifying deepfakes Celene Neo Dion Hoe-Lian Goh Rachel Wan Ying Chun Chei Sian Lee DOI 2025 Deepfake videos; Identification strategies; Human detection; Misinformation; Media literacy ‘Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep’: a thematic analysis of data hoarding as digital curation practice Emily Maemura Travis L. Wagner DOI 2025 curation practices; reddit; digital curation; digital materiality; grassroots collecting Comunicação científica e mediação da informação em mídia social: relato de experiência dos eventos organizados pela Comissão Diálogos de Pesquisa do PPGCI/UFF Camilla Castro de Almeida Juliana Maia Mendes Vinicius Ribeiro Soares dos Santos Elizabete Gonçalves de Souza Lucia Maria Velloso de Oliveira DOI 2025 Science communication; Mediation of information; YouTube Readers’ advisory guide development for webtoon Hyerim Cho Denice Adkins Hillary Gould Katy Bond Ky Flood DOI 2025 Webtoon; webcomics; readers' advisory; reference services; library users Digital skills development of university library professionals in Nigeria: testing the UTAUT model Gbenga Adetunla Gobinda Chowdhury DOI 2025 Digital library services; Digital skills; Digital skills development; University Library The role of paralinguistic digital affordances (PDAs) in online mental health communities (OMHCs) in Saudi Arabia Sara Alrashed Peter A. Bath Kushwanth Koya DOI 2025 Paralinguistic digital affordances; Depression; OMHCs The challenges of cross-organizational patient data sharing in medical consortium: a study within the context of two-way referral systems Lihong Zhou Hanyu Miao Ruiyang Tu Jiangfeng Hu DOI 2025 Cross-organizational data sharing; Medical consortium; Mixed research; Patient data; Two-way referral Inconsistency-driven approach for human-in-the-loop entity matching Hiroyoshi Ito Takahiro Koizumi Ryuji Yoshimoto Yukihiro Fukushima Takashi Harada Atsuyuki Morishima DOI 2025 Active learning; Human-in-the-Loop; Data integration Research on the influencing mechanism of blind or visually impaired persons’ evaluation on generative AI in visual tasks Huitong Chen Yuting Pan Hui Yan DOI 2025 Generative AI; evaluation; visual task; Blind or visually impaired persons; Human-AI interaction Examining generation Z's use of generative AI from an affordance-based approach Chei Sian Lee Li En Tan Dion Hoe-Lian Goh DOI 2025 Generation Z; Information Practices; Generative AI; Affordances Information places: myth, affect, and gaps in information retrieval modelling Nathan R. Johnson DOI 2025 memory; hermeneutics; theory; information retrieval Beyond language archives: proposing the archival community informatics framework as an interdisciplinary link to revitalization lexicography Merrion Frederick Ana Roeschley Oksana L. Zavalina DOI 2025 Community Informatics; Archival Studies; Revitalization Lexicography; Cultural Heritage Analysis of the integration of e-commerce and rural lives in China Guangchun Zheng Sharifa Sultana Kate Williams DOI 2025 Rural e-commerce; Rural computing; Social media e-commerce

iCaucus Members Directory Drexel University School of Computer and Information Sciences in the Howley College of Engineering and Computing iCaucus United States of America North America Member Since 1988 Visit School About At Drexel University’s Howley College School of Computer and Information Sciences (SCIS), we recognize the world today demands more from the next generation. Building on an experiential academic model that meets this global demand, SCIS will equip you with the comprehensive knowledge, skills and deep connections across disciplines to drive innovation and improve lives within any industry or career field you choose. No matter where your passions lie, our extensive relationships with industry leaders; broad, cutting-edge curriculum; and groundbreaking research led by a world-class faculty create an unmatched environment for 21st-century computer and information sciences education and research. At SCIS, where academics meet the real world, ingenuity at work isn’t just a concept, it’s our way of life. iSchool Contacts Ali Shokoufandeh Vice Dean/Interim Head of School Theory of Algorithms, Graph Theory, Combinatorial Optimization, Computer Vision Contact Contact Contact