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iConference 2014 Summary2014 ContentsQuick Links Program Commitee 2014 Quick LinksLocation: Berlin, Germany (Humboldt University Campus) 2014 By the NumbersTotal participants: 450 Countries represented: 30 countries total, the top ten follow: United States (242 participants); United Kingdom (26); Denmark (26); Canada (22); Germany (22); Japan (12); China (10); Sweden (8)
Papers presented: 39
Notes presented: 36
Posters presented: 66
Workshops presented: 11
Sessions for Interaction and Engagement presented: 17
Social Media Expo presentations: 6 Doctoral Colloquium Participants: 24 Rates (listed in GBP):
2014 OrganizersConference Chairs: Michael Seadle, Director of the School and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Berlin; Per Hasle, Rector, Royal School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen. Program Chairs: Elke Greifeneder, Adjunkt, Royal School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen with Program Co-Chairs Jack Anderson, Lektor, Royal School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen; Beth Juncker, Professor, Royal School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen Paper and Notes Chairs: Diane H. Sonnenwald, Professor, Chair in Information and Library Studies, UCD School of Information & Library Studies, Dublin; Dietmar Wolfram, Professor, School of Information Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Poster Chairs: Toine Bogers, Assistant Professor, Royal School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen; Paul D. Clough, Senior Lecturer, Information School of Social Science, University of Sheffield. Early Career Colloquium Chairs: Jeffrey Pomerantz, Associate Professor, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Vivien Petras, Professor, Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Berlin. Doctoral Colloquium Chairs: Karen E. Fisher, Professor, The Information School, University of Washington; Jens-Erik Mai, Professor, Royal School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen; Gloria Mark, Professor, Department of Informatics, University of California, Irvine. Workshops and Sessions for Interaction and Engagement: Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Senior Research Scientist, OCLC Research User Behavior Studies & Synthesis; Soo Young Rieh, Associate Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan. Proceedings Chair: Maxi Kindling, Lecturer, Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Berlin Social Media Expo Organizing Committee: Shelly D. Farnham, Researcher, FUSELabs, Microsoft Research; Andres Monroy-Hernandez, Researcher, FUSELabs, Microsoft Research; Robert Mason, Professor, Doctoral Dissertation Award Organizing Committee: Howard Rosenbaum, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University; Yunan Chen, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine Creativity Chair: Theresa Anderson, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Creative Practice and Cultural Economy, University of Technology Sydney . Social Media Chair: Juliane Stiller, Research Assistent, Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Berlin Conference Coordinator: Clark Heideger, iCaucus Local Arrangements Committee Chair: Maria Gäde, Lecturer, Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Berlin Design: Violeta Sekulovic, Student, Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Berlin Editorial Assistants: Stephanie van de Sandt, Student, Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Berlin; Heinz-Alexander Fütterer, Student, Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Berlin 2014 Program CommitteeAlessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon UniversityPaavo Arvola, University of Tampere Fernando Bação, Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação PT Nicholas Belkin, Rutgers University John Bertot, University of Maryland College Park Wade Bishop, University of Tennessee Catherine Blake, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Pia Borlund, Copenhagen University Geoffrey C. Bowker, University of California, Irvine Nadia Caidi, University of Toronto Donald Case, University of Kentucky Miguel de Castro Neto, ISEGI-NOVA PT Chuanfu Chen, Wuhan University Andrew Clement, University of Toronto Sheila Corrall, University of Pittsburgh Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University / National Science Foundation Mats Dahlström, University of Borås Ernesto William De Luca, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam Kristin Eschenfelder, University of Wisconsin-Madison Qing Fang, Wuhan University Melanie Feinberg, The University of Texas at Austin Robert Glushko, University of California, Berkeley Jette Seiden Hyldegaard, University of Copenhagen Hideo Joho, University of Tsukuba Anita Komlodi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Christopher Lee, University of North Carolina Ulf Leser, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Dirk Lewandowksi, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences Bonnie Mak, University of Illinois Julie McLeod, Northumbria University Eric Meyers, University of British Columbia William E. Moen, University of North Texas Atsuyuki Morishima, University of Tsukuba Karine Nahon, University of Washington Bonnie Nardi, UC Irvine Harri Oinas-Kukkonen, University of Oulu Gary M. Olson, University of California, Irvine Nils Pharo, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University Steve Sawyer, Syracuse University Linda Schamber, University of North Texas Kalpana Shankar, University College Dublin Jaime Snyder, Syracuse University Juliane Stiller, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Joseph T. Tennis, University of Washington Michael Twidale, University of Illinois Robert Villa, University of Sheffield David Wainwright, Northumbria University 2014 AwardsThe following awards were presented at iConference 2014. Doctoral Dissertation AwardThis award recognizes the most outstanding dissertation of the preceding year. Each member iSchool was invited to submit one dissertation for blind review by a jury of Ph.D. program directors and faculty. The winner received $2,500 U.S., the runner up $1,000 U.S. Both honorees were recognized during the opening plenary session on Wednesday, 5 March. 2014 Winner 2014 Runner Up Lee Dirks Best Paper AwardSponsored by Microsoft Research, this award is presented to the author(s) of the conference’s most outstanding paper, as judged by the Papers and Program Chairs. The award comes with prize of $5,000 U.S. The award was announced during the opening plenary session on Wednesday, 5 March. This award honors the memory of Lee Dirks, long-time friend and supporter of the iConference. 2014 Winning Paper: Developing Design Interventions for Cyberbullying: A Narrative-Based Participatory Approach Best Note AwardSponsored by Emerald Publishing, this award is presented to the author(s) of the conference’s most outstanding note, as judged by the Notes and Program Chairs. The award was presented during the morning plenary session on Thursday, 6 March. 2014 Best Note: Rumors, False Flags, and Digital Vigilantes: Misinformation on Twitter after the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing Authors: Kate Starbird, Jim Maddock, Orand Mania, Peg Achterman, Robert M. Mason Best Poster AwardsTwo Best Poster awards were presented in 2014, in recognition of the most outstanding posters of the conference. The Best Poster Award was determined by the Poster Chairs; the Best Poster Presentation Award was determined by a vote of the participants. Sponsored by Emerald Publishing, both awards were presented at the conclusion of the second poster session on Thursday, 6 March. 2014 Best Poster: Twitter and the Virtual Branch: The Public Library in Social Space 2014 Best Poster Presentation: Organizing Anarchy: The Forgotten Zine Archive Best Social Media Expo ProjectThis award is presented to the authors of the conference’s most
outstanding Social Media Expo presentation, as judged by the Expo
Organizing Committee. The award was given at the conclusion of the
Social Media Expo session on Thursday, 6 March. Learn more. Exceptional Reviewer AwardsMuch of the success of the iConference lies in the selfless work of volunteers who review the hundreds of submission we receive each year. The 2014 organizers chose to honor this commitment with a special award recognizing outstanding reviewer dedication. The recipients were recognized during the morning plenary session on Thursday, 6 March. 2014 Winners
Tony Hey
Before joining Microsoft, Hey served as director of the U.K.’s e-Science Initiative, managing the government’s efforts to provide scientists and researchers with access to key computing technologies. Before leading this initiative, Hey worked as Head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science; and, Dean of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Southampton, where he helped build the department into one of the most respected computer science research institutions in England. His research interests focus on parallel programming for parallel systems built from mainstream commodity components. With Jack Dongarra, Rolf Hempel and David Walker, he wrote the first draft of a specification for a new message-passing standard called MPI. This initiated the process that led to the successful MPI standard of today. Hey is a fellow of the U.K.’s Royal Academy of Engineering. He also has served on several national committees in the U.K., including committees of the U.K. Department of Trade and Industry and the Office of Science and Technology. He was a member of the British Computer Society, the Institute of Engineering and Technology, and the Institute of Physics. Tony Hey also has a passionate interest in communicating the excitement of science to young people. He has written popular books on quantum mechanics and on relativity. Hey is a graduate of Oxford University, with both an undergraduate degree in physics and a doctorate in theoretical physics. Keynote Abstract: Click here to view Tony Hey’s presentation slides in the IDEALS open repository. Melissa Terras
Terras’s research interests involve applying computational technologies to Humanities problems, to allow research that would otherwise be impossible. She is interested and involved in a variety of research areas that span many areas of Digital Humanities. Current projects include QRator, Transcribe Bentham, Transcriptorium, The Great Parchment Book and Textal. Previous projects include Log Analysis of Internet Resources in the Arts and Humanities, Virtual Environments for Research in Archaeology, eScience and Ancient Documents, and Researching eScience Analysis of Census Holdings. Further information about Terras can be found on her research page. Terras is general editor of Digital Humanities Quarterly, is current Secretary of the European Association for Digital Humanities and also serves on the executive committee of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. Keynote Abstract: Hosts | NEWS
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