1. The 9th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium.
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Fichman, Pnina and Rosenbaum, Howard
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CONFERENCES & conventions , *COMPUTER science , *DATABASE management , *INFORMATION science , *MUSEUMS , *SOCIAL problems , *WIRELESS communications , *ACCESS to information - Abstract
At its 9th annual symposium, ASIS&T Special Interest Group/Social Informatics (SIG/SI) explored information boundaries from a social informatics perspective. William Jones' keynote address focused on dissolving boundaries around personal information and practical approaches to managing appropriate access. Contributed papers examined boundaries of big data, the diverse forces shaping information boundaries and technology use in human service and barriers preventing equal information access for native Spanish speakers. Presenters discussed location-based services' ability to overcome boundaries as convenient or creepy and museums' use of indigenous groups' artifacts as an insensitive boundary violation. Since social informatics spans many interest groups, SIG/SI looks forward to further stimulating cross-topical research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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