School of Information Sciences

iSchool well represented at ASIS&T 2024

iSchool faculty, staff, and students will participate in the 87th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), which will be held on October 25-29 in Calgary, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is "Putting People First: Responsibility, Reciprocity, and Care in Information Research and Practice." The meeting is the premier international conference dedicated to the study of information, people, and technology in contemporary society.

iSchool highlights include:

Sunday, October 27

Assistant Professor Travis L. Wagner will present their coauthored paper, "The Role of the Practitioner in Curating LGBTQIA+ Safe Spaces in Libraries," at 2:00 p.m. during Paper Session 05: Libraries and Identity.

Assistant Professor Melissa Ocepek will present her research as part of the panel, "Conceptions of Everyday Life in Information Science," at 4:00 p.m.

Assistant Professor Travis L. Wagner will present their research as part of the panel, "Emphasizing the Social in Sociotechnical Approaches to the Digital Curation of Visual Information," at 4:00 p.m.

Professor J. Stephen Downie will present his coauthored paper, "Coconut Libtool: Bridging Textual Analysis Gaps for Non-Programmers," at 4:00 p.m. during Paper Session 06: Text Analysis and Scholarly Communication.

PhD student Andrew Zalot will present his poster, "'All Eyes on McMinn:' Book Banning Discourse in the Age of Social Media," at 5:45 p.m. during Poster Session 01.

Monday, October 28

Assistant Professor Travis L. Wagner will present their research as part of the panel, "The People Behind the Research: How Three Researchers Utilized Their Diverse Positionality to Study LGBTQ+ Archives," at 9:00 a.m.

Doctoral candidate Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou will present the paper "Accessible Adventures: Teaching Accessibility to High School Students Through Games," which he coauthored with Associate Professor Rachel Adler and PhD students Chunyu Liu and Jingwen Shan, at 11:45 a.m. during Paper Session 10: Young People and Learning. 
*Honorable Mention Best Long Paper Award

Doctoral candidate Morgan Lundy will present her research as part of the panel, "Health Misinformation Research," at 4:00 p.m.

Assistant Professor Travis L. Wagner will present their paper, "'Social Media Has Been Helpful in Learning About Myself and Finding My Community': The Affordances and Constraints of ICT-Based Queer History Content Creation," at 4:45 p.m. during Paper Session 16: Health and Wellbeing.

Professor J. Stephen Downie, codirector of the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC); Digital Humanities Specialist Ryan Dubnicek; Visiting Research Programmer Deren Kudeki; and HTRC Associate Director for Research Support Services Glen Layne-Worthey will present their poster, "TORCHLITE: New, Open Analytical Tools and Infrastructure for a Mega-Scale Digital Library," at 5:45 p.m. during Poster Session 02.

PhD student Jack Brighton will present his poster, "Parasitic Platforms and the Crisis in News" at 5:45 p.m. during Poster Session 02.

Assistant Professor Karen Wickett and PhD student Jarrett Newman will present their poster, "Putting People First in Data Quality: Feminist Data Ethics for Open Government Datasets," at 5:45 p.m. during Poster Session 02.

Doctoral candidate Morgan Lundy will present her poster, "Welcome to #SpoonieTok: Understanding and Supporting Disability Expertise, Storytelling Abilities, and Collective Information Practices on TikTok and Beyond," at 5:45 p.m. during Poster Session 02.

PhD student Yingying Han, Assistant Professor Karen Wickett, and recent graduate Ruohua Han (PhD ‘23), assistant professor at the University of Denver, will present their poster, "Tracing the Contours of Archival Silences: A Case Study of Critical Collection Building on the Rock Springs Massacre," at 5:45 p.m. during Poster Session 02.

Tuesday, October 29

Assistant Professor Travis L. Wagner will serve as the session chair for Paper Session 19: Concerns of the Academy at 9:00 a.m.

Professor Allen Renear will present his research as part of the panel, "Provocations on iSchools and Librarianship: New Priorities for LIS Forward," at 9:00 a.m.

Interim Executive Associate Dean and Visiting Professor Jiangping Chen will present her research as part of the panel, "Emerging Topics, Challenges, and Strategies for Information Science Research," at 11:00 a.m. 

Assistant Professor Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo and doctoral candidate Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou will present their research as part of the panel, "Exploring Some Impacts of Advances in Artificial Intelligence: A Social Informatics Approach," at 11:00 a.m.
 

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