iSchools Doctoral Dissertation Award
This award recognizes the most outstanding dissertation of the preceding year. Each member iSchool was invited to submit one dissertation for blind review by an international jury made up of iSchools leadership and faculty. The winner received $2,500 U.S., the runner up received $1,000 U.S..

2023 WINNER
Nitin Kohli, UC Berkeley School of Information
Leveraging Differential Privacy While Attending to Social and Political Commitments

2023 RUNNER UP
Elisa Tattersall Wallin, The Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås
Sound Reading: Exploring and conceptualising audiobook practices among young adults

Lee Dirks Award for Best Paper
Sponsored in 2023 by Springer Nature and the iSchools, the Lee Dirks Award is presented to the author(s) of the conference’s most outstanding full research paper. The 2023 award included a prize of $1,000 U.S. This award honors the memory of Lee Dirks of Microsoft Research, long-time friend and supporter of the iConference.

2023 WINNING PAPER
Title: Research with User-Generated Book Review Data: Legal and Ethical Pitfalls and Contextualized Mitigations (#269)
Authors: Yuerong Hu, Glen Layne-Worthey, Alaine Martaus, J. Stephen Downie, Jana Diesner
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States of America

2023 RUNNERS UP (alphabetical by title):
Title: Coding funds of knowledge in iVoices Media Lab student stories about technologies (#288)
Authors: Diana P. Daly, Anna R. Leach
University of Arizona, United States of America
Title: How we express ourselves freely: Censorship, self-censorship, and anti-censorship on a Chinese social media (#314)
Authors: Xiang Chen¹, Jiamu Xie², Zixin Wang³, Bohui Shen⁴, Zhixuan Zhou⁵
1: King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia; 2: Wuhan University, Wuhan, China; 3: Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China; 4: BNU-HKBU United International College, Zhuhai, China; 5: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
Title: Investigating Factors Influencing Open Government from a Country’s Perspective (#243)
Authors: Lateef Ayinde¹, Hanim Maria Astuti¹⁺², Shezin Hussain¹⁺², Anisah Herdiyanti¹
1: Florida State University, United States of America; 2: Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember
Title: “That’s not Damning with Faint Praise”: Understanding the Adoption of Artificial Intelligence for Digital Preservation Tasks (#368)
Authors: Giulia Osti, Amber Cushing
University College Dublin, Ireland

Best Short Research Paper
The 2023 award included a prize of $500 U.S.
2023 WINNER
Title: Diversity measures for scientific collaborations (#156)
Authors: Ly Dinh¹, William C. Barley², Lauren Johnson², Brian F. Allan³
1: School of Information, University of South Florida, USA; 2: Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; 3: School of Integrative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

2023 RUNNERS UP, alphabetical by title
Title: A Critique of Using Contextual Integrity to (Re)consider Privacy in HCI (#359)
Author: Huichuan Xia
Department of Information Management, Peking University, China, People's Republic of
Title: How much context do users provide in app reviews? Implications for requirements elicitation (#365)
Authors: Rob Grace¹, Kenyan Burnham¹, Hyeong Suk Na²
1: Texas Tech University; 2: South Dakota School of Mines and TechnologyZhasmina Tacheva, Syracuse University; Sepideh Namvarrad, Syracuse University; Najla Almissalati, Syracuse University
Title: Self-Tracking to Manage Chronic Illness: Exploring User Agency in Apps for Diabetes Self-Management (#218)
Author: Rachel Tunis
University of Texas at Austin, United States of America
Title: The potential of digital literacy to curb problematic information: an integrative literature review (#299)
Authors: Stacey Wedlake, Charles Bugre
University of Washington Information School, United States of America

Best Poster:
The 2023 award included a prize of $300 U.S.
2023 WINNER
Title: Toxic By Design: Exploring the Relationship of Game Affordances and Negative Behavior (#377)
Authors: Ria Antony¹⁺⁴, Victoria Chang¹⁺², My-Thuan Huy Ha-Hoang¹⁺³, Julio C. Penaloza Refugio¹⁺⁵, Joe Eduard Valdez Rucker¹⁺², Ayse Gursoy¹⁺²
1: The iSchool Inclusion Institute (i3), University of Texas at Austin; 2: University of Texas at Austin; 3: University of California, Los Angeles; 4: University of Washington; 5: University of California, Irvine

2023 RUNNERS UP
Title: How Do YouTubers Collaborate? A Preliminary Analysis of YouTubers’ Collaboration Networks (#342)
Authors: Hiba Siraj¹, Arnav Machavarapu², Jiwoo Hwang³, Kaavya Radhakrishnan⁴, Scarlett Adams², Jinyi Kim¹, Myeong Lee¹
1: George Mason University; 2: Westwood High School; 3: Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology; 4: Langley High School
Title: #NoMore: An Analysis of Topics and Sentiments Indicative of the War in Ethiopia (#347)
Authors: Meseret Zeleke, Lingzi Hong, Ijay Kaz-Onyeakazi, Daniella LaShaun Smith, Stacie Milburn, Yildiz Esener
University of North Texas, United States of America
Title: Online Self-presentation: Examining Gender Differences in Academic Scholars' Personal Web-pages (#241)
Authors: Hodayah Ruchama Zargari, Ariel Rosenfeld, Avshalom Elmalech
Bar Ilan University, Israel
Title: What is Data Quality to Research Data Repositories? (#119)
Authors: Besiki Stvilia¹, Leila Gibradze¹, Dong Joon Lee²
1: Florida State University, United States of America; 2: Texas A&M University, United States of America