The 17th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium and the 3rd Annual Information Ethics and Policy Workshop (Half-Day Workshop) Conference website https://www.asist.org/sig/sigsi/sigsi-symposiums/ Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigsiiep2021 Early bird deadline July 21, 2021 Submission deadline August 16, 2021 Sociotechnical Perspectives on Equity, Inclusion, and Justice The Association for Information Science and Technology’s Special Interest Group for Social Informatics…
Social Informatics
Digital Equity Ecosystems
Recently, in our Community Informatics Lab at Simmons University we have started a new research project to investigate what we are calling Digital Equity Ecosystems. This project builds on the excellent work of researchers and practitioners in the Digital Equity Lab at The New School, National Digital Inclusion Alliance, Detroit Community Technology Project, and others. We…
Broadband Workarounds
In our new article, titled “The Ability of Pay for Broadband” in the journal Communication Research and Practice, my co-authors Dr. Bianca Reisdorf, Madison Bishop, and I introduce a term that we are calling broadband workarounds based on the findings from our research. The concept builds on research by the late Les Gasser who I…
Social Informatics Spring 2019
I’m looking forward to teaching Social Informatics again this semester at Simmons SLIS. I have added readings from Safiya Noble, Virginia Eubanks, and Sasha Constanza-Chock and other scholars to feature additional critical theoretical perspectives to the course. Here is the link to the syllabus for this semester. COURSE SUMMARY “Social Informatics” refers to the body of research…
LIS 421 Social Informatics
I’m excited to teach Social Informatics this semester at Simmons SLIS. I’ve built upon my colleague Dr. Lisa Hussey‘s excellent syllabus to include perspectives from the critical informatics and critical information studies literature. It was a real challenge to not include more readings. The course Moodle will include several additional suggested readings, as well. Overall, I’m quite pleased with the course, which…
Social Informatics @ OU Spring 2015
I’m teaching a new course next semester at the University of Oklahoma School of Library and Information Studies (OU SLIS), titled “Social Informatics.” I had the great privilege of being able to support Professor Les Gasser as a Teaching Assistant for the past three years during my doctoral program at the University of Illinois at…