Hi Tom the Captcha on that site is really difficult. It took me 4 goes to get through. I am not a robot. best wishes -Ella Ella Taylor-Smith Institute for Informatics and Digital Innovation Edinburgh Napier University 10 Colinton Road Edinburgh, EH10 5DT Email: e.taylor-smith@napier.ac.uk http://www.iidi.napier.ac.uk/e.taylor-smith http://about.me/EllaTaylorSmith @EllaTasm ________________________________________ From: members-bounces@sigcis.org [members-bounces@sigcis.org] on behalf of members-request@sigcis.org [members-request@sigcis.org] Sent: 27 November 2013 17:00 To: members@sigcis.org Subject: Members Digest, Vol 41, Issue 17 Send Members mailing list submissions to members@sigcis.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to members-request@sigcis.org You can reach the person managing the list at members-owner@sigcis.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Members digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Social Sudies of Inormation and the iConfernce (Thomas Haigh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 00:03:24 -0600 From: "Thomas Haigh" <thaigh@computer.org> To: <members@sigcis.org> Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Social Sudies of Inormation and the iConfernce Message-ID: <012101ceeb36$62766250$276326f0$@computer.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello SIGCIS people, This message will be of interest to a subset of you, but I think it's worth sending anyway. It's about a chance to participate in a new community and an upcoming conference workshop. Some background. These is such a thing as an "iSchool." The "I" is for "information." Most of them used to be library schools, but now they do things to do with computers as well/instead of things to do with libraries. The schools vary widely, but they have an organization and a conference. It's called the "iConfernce." Quite a few SIGCIS people, including Bill Aspray, Nathan Ensmenger, Eden Medina, Paul Edwards, Greg Downey, Dave Stearns, and me find ourselves employed in iSchools. History itself is marginal, at best, in most of these schools but STS is somewhat better established and easier to position on the curriculum. Given the job market, people with STS training have also been going to work in iSchools. However, STS-like perspectives are spread over many different sub communities with names like "social informatics," "values in design," "information policy," "internet studies" whose currency varies from school to school. My experience with SIGCIS has made me realize the value that simple tools, such as a listserv and syllabus repository, can have for a scattered community. I'd also seen people looking to send messages to the iSchool STS community making their own long lists of email names, because there is no established list that reaches this group. Thus was born www.socialstudiesof.info, which (as I can admit here among friends) is basically trying to repeat some of the things that more or less worked with SIGCIS over the past eight years to bring together the metacommunity of people with STS interest in iSchools. If you find this project interesting I encourage you to sign up, submit your syllabi, spread the word, etc. More specifically, and as explained in the message below, the iConference is in Berlin next March. Early registration runs out on Dec 15. I'm the lead organizer of a full day workshop there on "Exploring the Social Studies of Information." It's going to be informal and participatory, but if you're interested or need this for travel money I can probably find a spot for you on a roundtable or discussion group somewhere on the program. I'd love to see a strong showing at the workshop from this community, and a renewed attempt (in this niche at least) of finding ways to integrate history of computing with STS and with the broader iSchool concept of "information history." Best wishes, Tom Edinburgh Napier University offers industry informed courses which combine the optimum balance of theory and practice to equip graduates for success in today's competitive global job market. 92.3% of our graduates are in work or further study within six months of leaving. With over 17,000 students from over 110 countries, we are an international University and are also proud to be the largest UK provider of higher education in Hong Kong. This message is intended for the addressee(s) only and should not be read, copied or disclosed to anyone else outwith the University without the permission of the sender. It is your responsibility to ensure that this message and any attachments are scanned for viruses or other defects. 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