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Lee Dirks Award for Best PaperCreated in memory of Lee Dirks, long-time friend and supporter of the iConference, the Lee Dirks Award for Best Paper recognizes the most exceptional completed research paper presented at the iConference each year. Papers are judged by the papers chairs, in consultation with the conference and program chairs. 2020 Winning Paper Title: Identifying Historical Travelogues in Large Text Corpora Using Machine Learning Authors: Jan Rörden, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology (Austria); Doris Gruber, Austrian Academy of Sciences (Austria); Martin Krickl, Austrian National Library (Austria); Bernhard Haslhofer, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology (Austria) 2020 Runners Up, in alphabetical order: Title: AI Models and Their Worlds: Investigating Data-Driven, AI/ML Ecosystems Through a Work Practices Lens Author: Christine T. Wolf, IBM Research (USA) Title: Educating for democracy? The role of media and information literacy education for pupils in Swedish compulsory school Authors: Hanna Carlsson, Linneaus University (Sweden); Olof Sundin, Lund University (Sweden) Title:“In the beginning, it was little whispers…now, we’re almost a roar”: Conceptualizing a model for community and self in LGBTQ+ health information practices Authors: Vanessa L. Kitzie, University of South Carolina (USA); Travis L. Wagner, University of South Carolina (USA); A. Nick Vera, University of South Carolina (USA) Title: Trolling Trump Author: Pnina Fichman, Indiana University - Bloomington (USA) 2019 Winning Paper Title: Understanding the Role of Privacy and Trust in Intelligent Personal Assistant Adoption Authors: Yun Huang, Qunfang Wu, Syracuse University (USA) 2019 Runners Up, in alphabetical order Title: Algorithmic Management and Algorithmic Competencies: Understanding and Appropriating Algorithms in Gig work Authors: Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Will Sutherland, University of Washington Title: Documenting the Undocumented: Privacy and Security Guidelines for Humanitarian Work with Irregular Migrants Authors: Sara Vannini, University of Washington; Ricardo Gomez, University of Washington; Bryce Clayton Newell, University of Kentucky Title: The Innovation Ecology: Collaborative Information, Community Support, and Policy in A Creative Technology Community Authors: Guo Freeman, Clemson University; Jeffrey Bardzell, Indiana University; Shaowen Bardzell, Indiana University; Nathan J McNeese, Clemson University Title: Understanding Change in a Dynamic Complex Digital Object: Reading Categories of Change out of Patch Notes Documents Authors: Ayse Gursoy, University of Texas at Austin; Karen M. Wickett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Melanie Feinberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2018 Winning Paper Title: Understanding Interactions Between Municipal Police Departments and the Public on Twitter 2018 Runners Up, in alphabetical order Title: Giveme5W: Main Event Retrieval from News Articles by Extraction of the Five Journalistic W Questions Title: How to Assess Cloud Service Contracts? A Checklist for Trustworthy Records in the Cloud Title: Privacy Attitudes and Data Valuation Among Fitness Tracker Users Title: Reckoning With: Information Use and Engaging With Strategic Decisions in High Tech Work 2017 Winning Paper 2017 Runners Up, in alphabetical order Title: Location Matters: Geospatial Policy Analytics over Time For Household Hazardous Waste Collection in California Title: Re-intermediation in the Fashion Industry: A Qualitative Study on Brokers in the Dongdae-mun Fashion District Title: Writing to Persuade: Analysis and Detection of Persuasive Discourse 2016 Winning Paper 2016 Runners Up, in alphabetical order Title: iSchools, Legitimacy, and the Contribution of Archival Studies to the iSchool Movement Title: Noisy Candidates and Informative Politicians: Analyzing Changes in Tweet Behavior using Tweet Quality Assessment Framework Title: Synopsizing “Literature Review” for Scientific Publications 2015 Winning Paper 2015 Runners Up, in alphabetical order: Title: Motherhood and Social Networking Sites: How do sociocultural contexts and technological factors affect Korean mothers’ KakaoStory use? Title: Online Media Forums as Separate Social Lives: A Qualitative Study of Disclosure Within and Beyond Reddit Title: Use and Adoption Challenges of Wearable Activity Trackers 2014 Winning Paper: Developing Design Interventions for Cyberbullying: A Narrative-Based Participatory Approach? Authors: Leanne Bowler, University of Pittsburgh; Eleanor Mattern, University of Pittsburgh; Cory Knobel, University of California, Irvine 2013 Winning Paper: Cooperative Visualization: A Design Case? Author: Nathan Prestopnik, Syracuse University Funding The Lee Dirks Award was funded by a Microsoft Research grant from 2013 through 2018, and the iSchools organization is grateful to Microsoft for initiating this program. Emerald Publishing sponsored the award in 2019. Since 2020, the award has been funded by Springer Publishing. | NEWS
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