Speaker Series

March 22, 2024 | Susan Herring, Professor of Information Science, ILS, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering | Digital Face Manipulation: Toward Post-Authenticity | Luddy Auditorium 1106 | 1:30 PM

Abstract: With advancements in artificial intelligence, various forms of digital face manipulation (DFM, e.g., face swap, feature modification, beauty filters) are becoming more sophisticated and harder to detect, and simultaneously more accessible to ordinary users, including through mobile apps. In this talk, I consider the implications of DFM for online self-presentation and authenticity. Most discourses about DFM emphasize its harmful potential, for example, to facilitate cybercrimes and the spread of disinformation. In contrast, I introduce the concept of ‘self-DFM,’ or use of DFM technologies to modify one’s own appearance, as a practice that is not inherently malicious and that is already starting to be employed strategically online by ordinary people in video-mediated communication. To illustrate the strategic uses of DFM for self-presentation, I describe a recent survey experiment involving filtered manipulation of facial attractiveness in a donation request video. These results, along with the results of interviews with video filter users from different cultures, provide clues as to how ordinary internet users will use and respond to DFM in the future. In concluding, I consider the implications of DFM for authenticity in online interactions, arguing that authenticity as a core value will lessen in importance, but that internet users will develop compensatory strategies and internal filters to determine who to trust and what to believe.

Bio: Susan C. Herring is Professor of Information Science and Linguistics and Director of the Center for Computer-Mediated Communication at Indiana University, Bloomington. For the past 33 years she has been researching structural, pragmatic, interactional, and social phenomena in communication mediated by digital technologies, including in multimodal CMC. Her current research focuses on self-presentation in video-mediated communication via masks, filters, and deepfake technology. 

April 12, 2024 | Javed Mostafa, Professor and Dean, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto | Enriching Digital Humanities and Social Engagements through Advanced Human-Compter Interaction (HCI) | Luddy Hall, Room 1104 | 1:30 PM

Abstract: Memory institutions and social-support organizations must depend on resilient and scalable information systems. We refer to the latter public-facing information systems as Citizen Information Systems (CIS) and they serve a wide variety of functions such as self-enrichment (museums), education (libraries), mobility (passport, parking, licensing), legal and regulatory (government), health and well-being (hospitals), and citizenship (voting). This talk will explore the key components of advanced human-computer interaction (HCI) functions by drawing upon current applications and research in digital humanities and computational social sciences to develop a generalizable and extensible HCI framework. The goal of the talk is to present a set of critical user interaction functions and the potential challenges in developing and deploying user interaction functions for CIS.

Bio: Javed completed his PhD in information science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1994, with a focus on developing information query models and search interfaces for video information. Currently, Javed is the Dean and Professor of information science at the University of Toronto iSchool. As an academic, Javed has been a university teacher and administrator for about 30 years. Along the way, he served as the Dean, an Associate Dean of Research, an Associate Dean of Academics, the founding leader of an interdisciplinary PhD and Postdoc informatics training program (chip.unc.edu), and an Editor-in-Chief of a major journal in his field (www.asist.org/publications/jasist/). Javed received numerous grants from for-profit and non-profit organizations, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the National Science Foundation (NSF) – achieving continuous grant funding for the last two decades based on support from the latter two major organizations. At UNC, Javed directed a research laboratory and a training program with about 25 staff and students. He currently has active projects that focus on developing novel applications of machine learning, data visualization, and equitable information services.

November 10, 2023 | Jeffrey Hart, Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington | The Internet: Past, Present, and Future | Luddy Hall, Room 1106 | 1:30 PM

Abstract: This is a talk summarizing the main findings of a book-length study of the history and politics of the Internet. After reviewing the history of its creation and maturation, the book addresses the key problems for the future: namely, bridging the digital divide, reforming antitrust, enhancing privacy and security, reducing cybercrime, curating content on social media, and reforming intellectual property laws.

Bio: Jeffrey Hart is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he taught international politics and international political economy from 1981 to 2013. His first teaching position was at Princeton University from 1973 to 1980. He was a professional staff member of the President’s Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties from 1980 to 1981. His major publications include The New International Economic Order (1983), Interdependence in the Post Multilateral Era (1985), Rival Capitalists (1992), (edited with Aseem Prakash) Globalization and Governance (1999), Coping with Globalization (2000), and Responding to Globalization (2000), Technology, Television and Competition (2004), (with Joan Edelman Spero) The Politics of International Economic Relations, 7th edition (2010), and scholarly articles in World Politics, International Organization, British Journal of Political Science, New Political Economy, The World Economy, and the Journal of Conflict Resolution.

November 3, 2023 | Jeremy Birnholtz, Professor, School of Communication, Northwestern University | Self-Presentation in Socio-Technical Life: How We Present Ourselves to Each Other in a World of Digital Platforms | Luddy Hall, Room 1106 | 3:30 PM
Abstract: Self-presentation, rooted in Goffman’s classic work, is the fundamental social process by which people shape their public personas and play the social roles (e.g., teacher, student, lesbian, doctor, etc.) that structure our everyday interactions. Today’s social platforms and communication technologies, however, complicate this process in ways that Goffman could never have anticipated. Specifically, the “physics” of how information moves in the environment have changed and can vary widely from platform to platform. And we lack a systematic framework for discussing these differences and how people cope with them (and their consequences). In this talk, I will discuss a book manuscript Michael Ann DeVito and I are working on to address this gap. I will give an overview of the framework, our focus in particular on LGBTQ+ populations, and how we can use this work to better understand and describe important social behavior in a range of online contexts.

Bio: Jeremy Birnholtz is a Professor in the Communication Studies and, by courtesy, Computer Science Departments at Northwestern University. He is a recent past Van Zelst Research Professor and Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence at Northwestern, and has also worked as a visiting professor at Facebook. Jeremy has been studying the social dynamics of online attention and self-presentation for nearly 20 years in work supported by the National Science Foundation, Facebook and Google. His work has been published in top journals and conferences in HCI, organization behavior and communication.

September 8, 2023 | Eric T. Meyer, Dean and the Mary R. Boyvey Chair and Louis T. Yule Regents Professor at the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin | Blockchain as a Computerization Movement and Blockchain Technologies as Socio-Technical Interaction Networks | Luddy Auditorium, 1106 | 1:30 PM

Abstract: Blockchain, and particularly its incarnation as bitcoin, as a concept had its inception in 2008 when the pseudonymous ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’ published the original bitcoin white paper (Nakamoto, 2008), although the underlying technologies had been under development for decades. However, outside of specialist circles, widespread public attention only increased a few years later, particularly since 2016. While there are various uses for and applications of blockchain in finance, health, art, and other sectors, the two that have seen the most public attention are bitcoin (and other blockchain-based coins) and (since 2021) NFTs (non-fungible tokens).

One of the strengths of the social informatics approach is that it can help understand emerging technologies while they are still emergent. This talk will discuss a chapter in progress that will explore the emergence of selected blockchain technologies as socio-technical constructs and specifically as part of a broader blockchain computerization movement (Elliott & Kraemer, 2008; Hara & Rosenbaum, 2008; Kling & Iacono, 1994). Like other computerization movements, the rhetoric around blockchain has involved extensive public discourse to build a technological action frame supporting collective action and encouraging widespread uptake (Iacono & Kling, 2001). Using the typology of Hara and Rosenbaum (2008), blockchain could be considered an external, market-driven, narrow (with aspirations to wide), bundled, positive (although this is contested) computerization movement. This talk and subsequent chapter will unpack the details of how this computerization movement has developed and evolved at a macro level, and will also explain in a more detailed micro-level how selected specific blockchain technologies can be understood within the broader computerization movement as specific socio-technical interaction networks (STINs). A specific example will be drawn from our team’s creation of a blockchain-based medical identity tool, Medilinker. The STIN framework helps to understand how core interactors and groups used communication forums to respond to incentives and mobilize resource flows in support of blockchain technology (Kling et al., 2003; Meyer, 2006, 2014).

Bio: Eric T. Meyer is Dean and the Mary R. Boyvey Chair and Louis T. Yule Regents Professor at the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin, which he joined in 2018. His research looks at the changing nature of knowledge creation in science, medicine, social science, arts, and humanities as technology is embedded in everyday practices, as described in his 2015 book with co-author Ralph Schroeder “Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities.” His research has included both qualitative and quantitative work with blockchain developers, marine biologists, genetics researchers, physicists, digital humanities scholars, social scientists using big data, medical doctors, theatre artists, librarians, and organizations involved in computational approaches to research. Dr. Meyer was previously the Professor of Social Informatics at the University of Oxford and Director of Graduate Studies at the Oxford Internet Institute from 2007-2018.

April 28, 2023 | Victoria Rubin, Professor, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario, London, CA. | Disrupting Mis- and Disinformation: Educational, AI-Based, and Regulatory Coutermeaures | Luddy Auditorium | 1:00 PM

Abstract: Deceptive, inaccurate, or misleading content is pervasive in digital media, yet the solution remains elusive. Many of us run the risk of being woefully misinformed online in some aspects of our lives including health, finances, and politics. Why does the problem persist? What are the underlying causes? How can we move towards solutions? Taking the lead from epidemiological modeling, Rubin posits that three interacting factors causes the spread of mis- and disinformation. She proposes that simultaneous and sustained disruption of the interactions between these factors should dampen the epidemic. Three kinds of interventions include the education of susceptible minds, regulation of toxic digital environments, and automated detection of virulent “fakes.” Human minds, susceptible to being deceived and manipulated, can be more purposefully and vigorously trained in the practical skills of digital literacy. Toxic digital environments require further efforts in the legislative oversight. Given the scale of the problem, artificial intelligence (AI) can, at least in part, enhance our human intelligence, and should be employed as assistive technologies. Certain systematic analyses can reliably and accurately sift through large volumes of textual data and should be made available, and more routinely used by the general public. Such AI-based applications use natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML). This talk exemplifies existing works, in which such NLP or ML systems, with varying degrees of success, automatically discriminate various types of text-based “fakes” – including clickbait, satire, other falsehoods, and rumors – from verified legitimate content and truthful language.

Bio: Victoria L. Rubin is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Information and Media Studies and the Director of the Language and Information Technologies Research Lab (LiT.RL) at the University of Western Ontario. She specializes in information retrieval and natural language processing techniques that enable analyses of texts to identify, extract, and organize structured knowledge. She studies complex human information behaviors that are, at least partly, expressed through language such as deception, uncertainty, credibility, and emotions. Her research on Deception Detection and Automated News Verification has been published in several core workshops on these topics, in prominent information science and computational linguistics conferences, as well as the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. Her project entitled Digital Deception Detection: Identifying Deliberate Misinformation in Online News was funded by the Government of Canada Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Grant. In her recent textbook Misinformation and Disinformation: Detecting Fakes with the Eye and AI, Rubin (2022) puts forward a package of countermeasures to disrupt the mis- and disinformation spread (Springer Nature, Switzerland): https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95656-1

February 10, 2023 | Jeff Hemsley, Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University | Curating Virality: Exploring Curated Logics Within #BlackLivesMatter on Twitter | Luddy Hall Auditorium | 1:00 PM

Abstract: Social media actors have different degrees of influence over …

October 28, 2022 | Mikihito Tanaka, Professor, Waseda University, Japan | "Meanwhile in Japan": A case study of different reactions toward the global pandemic" | Luddy Auditorium | 1:30 PM

Abstract: Pandemic Covid-19 swept the whole world, but nowadays, society is slowly entering the post-covid age beside continuing death of people, with insufficient reflection. Needless to say, both the virus SARS-CoV2 derived this disaster and scientific countermeasures —public health procedures and vaccines—— are common worldwide. Nevertheless, the reactions and consequences of each country vary in infection rate or death toll. Throughout studying the Covid-19 reaction in each country, we can learn the lesson that the risk could not only be estimated scientifically but socially constructed by its societal, historical, and cultural context.

The lecturer has been involved in Covid-19 countermeasures as a member of the expert advisory group of the Japanese government as a science/risk communication expert. Also, he has been a member of the international comparative research about Covid-19. In this talk, he will reflect on the Japanese reaction toward Covid-19 from the viewpoints of science and technology studies (STS), mass/social media studies, and computational social science.

From the above examination, we will see that the US and Japan had similar problems (e.g., conspiracy theories circulating beyond the border), or the problem in the US was not a problem in Japan (e.g., wearing masks), or vice versa (e.g., self-surveillance tendencies of Japanese society). Throughout these reflections, we would have a chance to reevaluate how the expertise and lay expertise should tame risk or rethink the meaning of a resilient society, beyond mere exoticism.

Bio: Mikihito Tanaka is Professor of Science and Media Studies in the Journalism Course at the Graduate School of Political Science, Waseda University, Japan. He earned his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Tokyo, and has more than 20 years of experience as a journalist. Currently, he carries out research related to issues between science and society, mass/social media, and science journalism with using both qualitative (e.g. critical discourse analysis) and quantitative (e.g. content analysis, social network analysis, natural language processing) methods. He is a founding member and research manager of the Science Media Centre of Japan (SMCJ).

September 27, 2022 | Shannon Oltmann, Associate Professor of Information Science, School of Information Science, College of Communication & Information, University of Kentucky | Defending Intellectual Freedom | Luddy Hall, Room 1104 | 10:00 AM

Abstract: Book challenges and bans are on the rise across the US, especially in school and public libraries. Across many different communities, people use similar tactics (down to the same wording) to protest against certain books, often those who have authors or protagonists of color or in the LGBTQ+ community. Legislation has been introduced in many states that threatens libraries’ missions of access to information. Although “intellectual freedom” is a core value of librarianship, it is gravely under threat in the US. This presentation examines the current threats against intellectual freedom, reinforces the centrality of intellectual freedom for libraries, and offers some suggestions for defending this principle.

Bio: Shannon M. Oltmann is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Science at the University of Kentucky. She obtained her M.I.S. and Ph.D. from Indiana University. Her research interests include information ethics, censorship, intellectual freedom, public libraries, privacy, and qualitative research methods. Oltmann is the past editor of the Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy and Associate Editor of Library Quarterly. She recently published a book, Practicing Intellectual Freedom in Libraries, and her most recent book, The Fight Against Book Bans: Perspectives from the Field,
will be released in 2023. Oltmann’s work has been funded by the American Library Association and the Institute of Museum & Library Studies. She has presented her research at numerous academic conferences. Her work has been published in Library Quarterly, Journal of the Society for Information
Science and Technology, Public Libraries Quarterly, Collection Management, Libri, and Library and Information Science Research.

February 25, 2022 | Nicole Ellison, Karl E. Weick Collegiate Professor of Information and Professor of Information, School of Information, University of Michigan | Clicks as Relational Work: Social Attention in Social ... | Luddy Auditorium | 1:15 PM

October 22, 2021 | Catherine D'Ignazio, Assistant Professor, MIT | Data Feminism | Zoom | 1:00 PM

Abstract: As data are increasingly mobilized in the service of governments and corporations, their unequal conditions of production, their asymmetrical methods of application, and their unequal effects on both individuals and groups have become increasingly difficult for data scientists–and others who rely on data in their work–to ignore. But it is precisely this power that makes it worth asking: ‘Data science by whom? Data science for whom? Data science with whose interests in mind? These are some of the questions that emerge from what we call data feminism, a way of thinking about data science and its communication that is informed by the past several decades of intersectional feminist activism and critical thought. Illustrating data feminism in action, this talk will show how challenges to the male/female binary can help to challenge other hierarchical (and empirically wrong) classification systems; it will explain how an understanding of emotion can expand our ideas about effective data visualization; how the concept of invisible labor can expose the significant human efforts required by our automated systems; and why the data never, ever “speak for themselves.” The goal of this talk, as with the project of data feminism, is to model how scholarship can be transformed into action: how feminist thinking can be operationalized in order to imagine more ethical and equitable data practices.

Bio: Catherine D’Ignazio is a scholar, artist/designer and hacker mama who focuses on feminist technology, data literacy and civic engagement. She has run reproductive justice hackathons, designed global news recommendation systems, created talking and tweeting water quality sculptures, and led walking data visualizations to envision the future of sea level rise. With Rahul Bhargava, she built the platform Databasic.io, a suite of tools and activities to introduce newcomers to data science. Her 2020 book from MIT Press, Data Feminism, co-authored with Lauren Klein, charts a course for more ethical and empowering data science practices. Her research at the intersection of technology, design & social justice has been published in the Journal of Peer Production, the Journal of Community Informatics, and the proceedings of Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM SIGCHI). Her art and design projects have won awards from the Tanne Foundation, Turbulence.org and the Knight Foundation and exhibited at the Venice Biennial and the ICA Boston. D’Ignazio is an Assistant Professor of Urban Science and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. She is also Director of the Data + Feminism Lab which uses data and computational methods to work towards gender and racial equity, particularly in relation to space and place.

April 24, 2020 | Eric Mayer | Luddy Auditorium | 1:00 PM

January 24, 2020 | Susan Herring, Professor of Information Science, SICE | Animoji | Luddy Auditorium | 1:00 PM

September 13, 2019 | William Dutton, Senior Fellow, Oxford Internet & Emeritus Professor, University of Southern California | Luddy Auditorium | 1:15 PM

April 17, 2019 | Ramesh Srinivasan, UCLA | Beyond the Valley: The Challenges and Promises of a People-Centered Internet | Luddy Hall, Room 0006 | 1:00 PM

Abstract: The past 20 years have profound the impact is of digital technologies to connect our world. What we may not have expected is how these technologies did not shape ‘connectivity’ but became so central in everyday life. From our economic systems to how we receive news, to how we automate the future, technological intermediaries have interwoven themselves into everyday life, not just in the West but across the world. But in whose image are these forms of connectivity created, and how can we ensure that there is appropriate balance between the values we aspire toward as human-beings with the ways we build and design such systems? This talk will be a sneak preview of some material from Srinivasan’s third book, which is built upon research conducted with leading figures in politics, economics, and culture/across the world. Srinivasan will share insights around how our future is being shaped by the decisions we make with technology right here and now.

Bio: Ramesh Srinivasan studies the relationship between technology, politics and societies across the world. He has been a faculty member at UCLA since 2005 in the Information Studies and Design|Media Arts departments. He is the founder of the UC-wide Digital Cultures Lab, exploring the meaning of technology worldwide as it spreads to the far reaches of our world. He is also the author of the books: “Whose Global Village? Rethinking How Technology Impacts Our World” with NYU Press, and “After the Internet” (with Adam Fish). He is currently working on his third trade/academic hybrid book discussing the relationships between data, and the Internet with political life, automation and the future of labor, and questions of cultural and global sovereignty. He also writes extensively about issues associated with AI and ethics.

Srinivasan earned his doctorate in design studies at Harvard; his master’s degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and his bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering at Stanford. He has served fellowships in MIT’s Media Laboratory in Cambridge and the MIT Media Lab Asia. He has also been a teaching fellow at the Graduate School of Design and Department of Visual and Environmental Design at Harvard.

Srinivasan is a regular speaker for TEDx Talks, and makes media appearances on MSNBC, NPR, Al Jazeera, “The Young Turks,” National Geographic, Radio Pacifica, the Atlantic, and Public Radio International. His writings have been widely published by Al Jazeera English, CNN, Wired, The Washington Post, Forbes, and The Huffington Post.

April 12, 2019 | Erik Johnston, Arizona State University | How smart governance infrastructure integrate expertise to cultivate the curiosity of cities | Luddy Hall, Room 1106 | 1:15 PM

Abstract: Cities become more curious when their underlying governance infrastructures are designed to detect, deliberate, and discover. The first half of this talk defines and describes the capacities developed as a city experiments with novel information approaches and asks questions in new ways. The second half of the talk highlights the benefits of cultivating curiosity in three contexts: 1) using an information intervention so distributed community resources can self-organize to reduce heat vulnerability, 2) designing an information-rich deliberation environment to explore transportation futures in Arizona, and 3) inventing a patient-designed artificial pancreas within the type-one diabetes community. Each example demonstrates the impact of inclusive problem solving that connects best practices, local expertise, and diverse perspectives/values enabled through a smart governance infrastructure.

Bio: Dr. Erik Johnston is an Associate Professor with the School for the Future of Innovation in Society where he is also the Chair the of the Ph.D. program in Human and Social Dimensions in Science and Technology. He is the Co-Director of the Center for Smart Cities and Regions and the Director of Policy Informatics at the Decision Theater. His research in smart cities and regions integrates open governance and policy informatics applications of public interest technology to serve all communities, including participation from traditionally underserved populations. His research in opening governance explores how our governance systems can evolve to address increasingly complex challenges and to meet the rising expectations of the public to have many pathways to share their talents, data, expertise, and energy to improve their communities. His research in policy informatics is the study of how computational and communication technology is leveraged to specifically understand and address complex public policy and administration problems and realize innovations in governance insights, processes, and institutional design.

Dr. Johnston earned a PhD in Information and a Certificate in Complex Systems from the University of Michigan. He is a two-time NSF IGERT fellow, in the STIET (Socio-Technical Infrastructure for Electronic Transactions) and IDEAS (Institutions, Diversity, Emergence, Adaptation, and Structures) programs. He currently has funding from the MacArthur, Robert Wood Johnson, Sloan, Schmidt, Piper, and National Science Foundations.

March 22, 2019 | Danielle Kilgo, Indiana University | Luddy Hall, Room 1106 | 1:15 PM

February 17, 2019 | Mary L. Gray, Microsoft Research | Luddy Auditorium | 1:15 PM

November 16, 2018 | Helen Nissenbaum, Professor of Information Science, Cornell Tech | 1:15 PM

October 26, 2018 | Mohammad Hossein Jurrahi, Assistant Professor, UNC Chapel Hill | Information practices and sociotechnical dynamics of mobile knowledge work | Luddy Auditorium | 1:15 PM

Abstract: The knowledge workforce is changing: global economic factors, increasing professional specialization and rapid technological advancements mean that more individuals than ever can be found working in independent, modular, and mobile arrangements. Little is known about professional information practices or actions outside of traditional, centralized offices; however, the dynamic, unconventional, and less stable mobile work context diverges substantially from this model, and presents significant challenges and opportunities for the accomplishing of work tasks. In this talk, I will focus on five main information practices geared toward mobilizing work, based on in-depth interviews with 37 mobile knowledge workers (MKWs), digital diaries and application-based data collection. I use these five practices as starting points for beginning to delineate the context of mobile knowledge work.

I also discuss how these workers exert agency by fashioning multiple information technologies (IT) into a functioning digital assemblage. In doing so, I focus on paradoxical outcomes of IT adoption: Although IT provide consequential affordances that enable mobilization of work across spaces and times, they simultaneously present various technological or contextual constraints (e.g., technological exclusion and infrastructural disconnection) that require mobile knowledge workers to engage in “configuration work” to make information technologies function effectively. Building on a sociomaterial perspective, I further discuss the interplay of IT and work practices enacted by mobile knowledge workers, in which both human and technological agency are materialized.

Bio: Mohammad is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on the intersection between the use of information and communication technologies and new forms of organizing work. His recent projects have investigated the sociotechnical dynamics of extra-organizational, flexible work settings such as mobile work, independent work, and gig work arrangements. He is specifically interested in how these knowledge workers outside of the traditional “organizational container” creatively use various digital technologies, and digital platforms to accomplish work, and share knowledge.

October 12, 2018 | Jeff Nickerson, Professor and Associate Dean for Research, Stevens Institute of Technology | Luddy Hall 1106 | 1:15 PM

Abstract: Online communities and crowds can successfully engage in creative activity, including the design of products. When they do so, they explore a space of possible designs. They are affected by when others participate, and what artifacts they are creating. And they can be affected by the design of a site, by the recommendations shown to them. By analyzing online communities, it is possible to gain insight into how and why novelty appears. Moreover, it is possible to steer the exploration of design space. Results will be presented from three ongoing NSF-funded projects that involve both observations of online communities (including Thingiverse, Scratch, Wikipedia) and experiments with crowds. The end goal of this research program is to catalyze collective creativity.

Bio: Jeffrey V. Nickerson is professor and associate dean of research in the School of Business at Stevens Institute of Technology. His research focuses on different aspects of collective creativity, in particular the way crowds and communities design digital artifacts: 3D printing designs, systems designs, source code, and articles. Before joining Stevens, he worked in industry as a systems designer and software developer: he held positions at Time Inc, AT&T, Bear Stearns, Salomon Inc., and was a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and an M.F.A in Graphic Design. His most recent NSF-funded project looks at the effects of artificial intelligence on work design: more information can be found at waim.network.

September 14, 2018 | Melissa Adler, Assistant Professor, Library and Information Science, University of Kentucky | Luddy Hall, Room 1106 | 1:15 PM

Abstract: What does it mean to have mastery over a subject? Based on an examination of Thomas Jefferson’s book classification, alongside his writings and the grids, ledgers, and devices that he used to record the activities of the people he enslaved at his plantation and factory, this talk will discuss the materiality of classification. Knowledge organization was at the heart of Jefferson’s interconnected projects and vision. His book classification provides an important entry into examining the particularity of claims to universality, as it reveals the ways that he ordered subjects according to a universalized white, male, propertied point of view. In 1815 Jefferson sold his book collection and catalogue to the Library of Congress to replace the collection that had been burned in the War of 1812. In correspondence with the third Librarian of Congress regarding the transfer, Jefferson discussed his method for organizing the books, explaining his preference for arranging them into subject categories. He also noted the challenges of interdisciplinarity presented by some books-especially ones about travel, which may “blend together the geography, natural history, civil history, agriculture, manufactures, commerce, arts, occupations, manners Etc. of a country.” Despite impediments to building a tidy system of subject categories, Jefferson said that there was a “peculiar satisfaction” to arranging books according to subject, which derived from “seeing at a glance the books which have been written on [a subject] and selecting those from which we expect most readily the information we seek.” This talk will focus on Jefferson’s sections on History, Moral Philosophy, and Geography to demonstrate the significance of his classification in the history of knowledge organization, as well as the role of classification in modern statecraft. It will also draw a lineage from Jefferson’s books to present knowledge organization systems.

Bio: Melissa Adler, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information & Media Studies at Western University in London, Ontario. Her research concerns the history of knowledge organization systems as they intersect with state and cultural discourses. Adler’s book, Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge (Fordham University Press, April 2017), is a study of the history of sexuality through the lens of Library of Congress classifications and categories.

April 6, 2018 | Alex Csiszar | Metrics, Citation Analysis, and the History of Quantifying Scientific Output | Luddy Auditorium | 1:15 PM

Abstract: This talk surveys the history of the relationship between search technologies and evaluation technologies in the sciences from the nineteenth century to the 1980s, with a focus on the introduction of citation analysis as a measure of scholarly merit in the 1960s and 1970s. It will explore especially the relationship between the tools for evaluating scientific impact developed by Eugene Garfield’s Institute for Scientific Information and the development of post-war sociology of science in the United States. During the 1960s, the sociologist Robert K. Merton applied the concept of goal displacement, originally developed in the context of the sociology of organizations, to describe dysfunctional consequences of the reward system in science. As Garfield developed the Journal Impact Factor and other potential evaluative tools, Merton became a close advisor who insisted on the fundamental importance of the role that evaluative metrics might play in shaping scientists’ behavior. But the influence of the Merton group on the field of scientometrics has also produced blind spots in quantitative approaches to the social study of science.

Bio: Alex Csiszar is Associate Professor of the History of Science at the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. He studies the history of science in nineteenth-century Western Europe and publishes primarily on the history of communications media and information technology in the sciences. He is the author of The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century (2018), and he is currently writing a history of search practices and technologies in the sciences.

January 26, 2018 | Geoffrey Bowker | How the West was Won by Data | Luddy Auditorium | 1:15 PM

Abstract: While we often think of data science and big data as being contemporary developments, there is a strong argument that we should go back to the late eighteenth century at least in order to see how we have become such a data intensive society. I explore four overlapping epochs in data history which cumulatively have led to our current frenzy of data collection: the era of censuses and field surveys; the rise of statistics; the development of the control society to it’s culmination in the cybernetic revolution and the current era of data science. I argue that these longer historical lenses help us avoid the hype on the one hand the pessimism on the other of data discourse today.

Bio: Geoffrey Bowker is Donald Bren Chair in the Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California Irvine. He is also Director of the Values in Design Laboratory. He formerly held professorships in the information schools at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and the University of Pittsburgh, and was Executive Director and the Regis and Dianne McKenna Professor at the Center for Science, Technology and Society at Santa Clara University. He has served as president of the Society for the Social Studies of Science. Publications include Science on the Run; Memory Practices in the Sciences; and Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences (with Susan Leigh Star). He holds a PhD in history and philosophy of science from the University of Melbourne and a postdoc at Ecole des Minesin Paris.

October 13, 2017 | Neal Thomas, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, University of North Carolina | Wells, Room 030 | 1:00 PM

September 22, 2017 | Cliff Lampe, Associate Professor of Information, School of Information, University of Michigan | Well, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

September 1, 2017 | Oded Nov, Associate Professor, Tandon School of Engineering, NYU | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

March 31, 2017 | Tarleton Gillespie, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research Now England | At Scale and Under Pressure: How Social Media Moderate, Choreograph, and Censor Public Discourse | Well, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

December 9, 2016 | Mary Gray, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research | What goes on Behind API? Political economics and worker collaboration in on-demand digital labor markets | Wells, Room 030 | 1:00 PM

November 11, 2016 | John Paolillo, Associate Professor of Informatics, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington | How (not) to Model the Flat Earth on YouTube? | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

November 4, 2016 | Kevin Crowston, Distinguished Professor of Information Science, Syracuse University | Humans, Machines, and the Future of Citizen Science | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

October 21, 2016 | Alex Leavitt, UX Researcher at Facebook | Playing with Logs: What we (Can) Know from Multiplayer Online Games | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

April 8, 2016 | Kentaro Toyama, W.K. Kellogg Associate Professor of Community Information, School of Information, University of Michigan | Informatics East, Room 130 | 1:30 PM

February 26, 2016 | Lilly Irani, Assistant Professor in Communication, Science Studies, UC San Diego | Hackathons and the Making of Entrepreneurial Citizenship | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

February 18, 2016 | Steve Epstein, Professor of Sociology & John C. Shaffer Professor in the Humanities, Northwestern University | A Cultural Cartography of Sexual Health | Persimmon Room, IMU | 12:00 PM

February 5, 2016 | Steve Jackson, Associate Professor, Department of Information Science, Cornell University | Speed, Time, Infrastructure: Temporalities of Breakdown, Maintenance and Repair | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

January 22, 2016 | Rebecca Wexler, Yale Visual Law | A Rule of Equivalents: Video as Big Data Collection for Purposes of Investigation and Trial | Faculty Conference Room on the third floor at the Maurer School of Law | 12:00 PM

November 13, 2015 | William Dutton, Quello Professor of Media and Information Policy, COAS, Michigan State University | The Fifth Estate: A New Form of Social Accountability | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

October 16, 2015 | Katie Shilton, Assistant Professor, iSchool, University of Maryland, College Park | Navigating the Invisible Fence: Privacy as a Professional Practice in Mobile Application Development | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

September 8, 2015 | John P. Walsh, Professor, School of Public Policy, Georgia Tech | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

April 10, 2015 | Robert Mason, Professor, iSchool, University of Washington | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

March 27, 2015 | Jonathan Manes, Abrams Clinical Fellow of the Information Society Project and the supervising attorney for the Media Freedom | How National Security Information Flows to the Public: The Case of Targeted Killings | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

March 6, 2015 | John King, W.W. Bishop Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan | Cost As A Social Impact of Information Technology | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

February 6, 2015 | Noriko Hara, Associate Professor, Department of Information and Library Science, Indiana University Bloomington | Co-Constructing Controversy: Collaborative Knowledge Negotiation in Online Communities | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

January 23, 2015 | Brian Butler, Professor, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland | Neo-Sociotechnical Systems Theory, Infrastructure Entrepreneurship, and Social Technical Hackers | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

December 5, 2014 | Erran Carmel, Professor and Interim Dean, Kogod School of Business, American University, Washington DC | Time-Zone Challenges at Work: What we know and what we don't know | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

October 3, 2014 | Donna Drucker, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany | Quantifying Sex Research and Beyond: Alfred Kinsey and Technologies of Classification | Persimmon Room, IMU | 2:00 PM

September 26, 2014 | Steve Sawyer, Professor and Associate Dean for Research, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University | Nomadic Work, Infrastructural Competence and Digital Assemblages | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

September 19, 2014 | Ronald E. Day, Department of Information & Library Science, Indiana University Bloomington | Indexing it all: the subject in the age of documentation, information, and data | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

April 18, 2014 | Harmeet Sawhney, Professor & Director of Graduate Studies, Dept. of Telecommunications, Indiana University, Bloomington | The Blind Spots of Digital Divide Research | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

April 4, 2014 | Karine Nahon, The Information School, University of Washington | Going Viral | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

March 28, 2014 | Michael Buckland, Professor Emeritus, School of Information, University of California Berkley | Scholarly Editing and the Web | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

February 28, 2014 | Ann Majchrzak, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Emergent Lifecycle: The Tenstion Between Knowledge Change and Knowledge Retention In Open Online Co-production Communities Management Science | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

February 14, 2014 | Sean Goggins, Missouri's iSchool and the University of Missouri Informatics Institute | Finding the Heartbeat in Virtual Organizations: the Example of Forking Repositories on GitHub | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

February 10, 2014 | Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Google | The Economic Future of Women | Whittenberger Auditorium, IMU | 2:00 PM

January 31, 2014 | Staša Milojevic, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Bloomington | Harnessing the power of words to understand science | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

November 15, 2013 | Linda Herrera, College of Education, University of Illinois | Revolution in the Age of Social Media: People vs. Power in Egypt | IMU Maple Room | 5:30 PM

November 8, 2013 | Sheizaf Rafaeli, Graduate School of Management, Haifa University | Q&A about Q&A | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

October 25, 2013 | Tawanna Dillihunt | Leveraging ICTs to address Environmental and Socioeconomic Issues among Disadvantaged Populations | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

October 11, 2013 | Caroline Haythornwaite, Chair, The iSchool at University of British Columbia | Participatory Culture: Drawing on the Power of Crowds and the Support of Communities | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

September 20, 2013 | Howard Rosenbaum, Department of Information & Library Science, Indiana University Bloomington | Social Informatics as a Scientific and Intellectual Movement | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

September 6, 2013 | Susan Herring, Department of Information & Library Science, Indiana University Bloomington | Telepresence Robots and Robot-Mediated Communication | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

April 19, 2013 | Lori Kendall, School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Sociotextual Identities: Class and Ethnicity in a Family History Document | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

April 12, 2013 | Allen Lee | The Next Step After the Review Process for the Rejected Paper, "A Relevance-Based Goodness-of-Fit Index for Fitting Theories to Data Using PLS" | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

April 5, 2013 | Ilana Gershon, Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University Bloomington | From the Fordist Phone to Neoliberal Facebook: Changes in Standardizing New Media Practices | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

March 29, 2013 | Anne Balsamo, Dean of School of Media Studies, New School for Public Engagement | The Cultural Work of Interactive Memorials: Lessons from the AIDS Memorial Quilt Digital Experience Project | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

March 1, 2013 | Adrian Johns, University of Chicago | The History and Politics of the Information Defense Industry | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

Abstract: The early twenty-first century has seen the emergence of a large, sophisticated, and influential industry devoted to upholding information in all its forms. Its prime concern tends to be intellectual property – its major targets are media pirates, pharmaceutical counterfeiters, and the like – but its tools, personnel, and institutions extend into cognate areas including cryptography and network security. Our everyday lives as participants in the information economy are shaped, I believe, by the practices of this industry. Yet in stark contrast to the public attention directed to legislative initiatives such as SOPA and PIPA, this industry and its implications remain almost unknown to the
general public. I mean here to sketch an account of the policing of information that explains both the importance and the invisibility of this enterprise in terms of a long-term history of policing practices extending back to the early modern period. My contention is that we need to understand this history if we are to reconcile the good society and the information age.

Bio: Adrian Johns is Allan Grant Maclear Professor of History and Chair of the
Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science at the University of
Chicago. Educated at Cambridge in the United Kingdom, he taught at the University of California, San Diego, and Caltech before arriving at Chicago in 2001. He has published three books to date: The Nature of the Book (1998), Piracy (2009), and Death of a Pirate (2010). A current Guggenheim Fellow, he is researching the rise and implications of the industry dedicated to protecting information against pirates and counterfeiters in digital media, pharmaceuticals, and manufacturing. 

February 21, 2013 | Jean Lave, School of Information, University of California, Berkley | Situated Learning: A Critical Review | Swain West, Room 007 | 4:00 PM

Abstract: The book, Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation, sought to broaden the field of analytic questions in which learning was surely a central issue: questions about continuity and change in everyday practices, intergenerational relations, the re-production of complex heterogeneous (work) practices, and the production and displacement of participants — apprentices, veterans, others – together. How does the central argument hold up (in my view) after twenty years? What was it supposed to do? And what happened to it as it was taken up in a variety of contexts, over the two decades since its publication?

February 1, 2013 | John Durham Peters, University of Iowa | Do Clouds have Meaning? | Wells, Room 030 | 1:00 PM

Abstract: Clouds are often considered the example par excellence of an entity incapable of signification. Hamlet toys with Polonius, showing that you make anything you want out of clouds and also thus implying that there is nothing inherently meaningful about them at all. Recently the pervasive metaphor of ‘the cloud’ in computing and global climate change have made clouds suddenly relevant again to questions about communication and human-nature relations. What would it mean to take clouds as meaningful or as media of communication? This talk-a wide-ranging meditation on clouds-tries to think about how clouds might mean, and more generally, what the relation between media and nature is, and even more, where the ultimate sources of meaning lie.

November 2, 2012 | Virginia Eubanks, Department of Women's Studies, University at Albany, SUNY | Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

October 19, 2012 | Nathan Ensmenger, School of Informatics & Computing, Indiana University Bloomington | From Cosmo Girls to Computer Boys: A Gendered History of the Computer Revolution | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

April 27, 2012 | Jannis Kalinikos, London School of Economics | The Distinct Ontology of Digital Objects: A New Frontier for IS Research | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

April 6, 2012 | Kip Schlegel, Department of Criminal Justics, Indiana University Bloomington | White-Collar Crime and the Social Construction of Information | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

March 23, 2012 | Jeffrey Hart, Department of Political Science, Indiana University Bloomington | The Politics of File Sharing in the United States: The Rise and Fall of SOPA and PIPA | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

February 24, 2012 | Hans Ibold, School of Journalism, Indiana University Bloomington | New Media in Authoritarian Central Asia: Fuel for What? | Wells, Room 030 | 2:00 PM

December 2, 2011 | Joshua Danish, School of Education, Indiana University Bloomington | Putting the Activity Back Into Our Tools | Wells, Room 001 | 1:45 PM

November 11, 2011 | Jonathan Grudin, Microsoft Research | Enterprise Uses of Social Media | Informatics East, Room 130 | 1:30 PM

October 7, 2011 | Merrill Warkentin, Management & Information Systems Department, Mississippi State University | Why Do Employees Commit Computer Abuse? Deterrence and Rationalizing Violations of Information Security Policies in Organizations | Wells, Room 030 | 1:30 PM

September 30, 2011 | Henry Jenkins, School for Communication and Journalism, USC | Spreadable Media: Creating Meaning and Value in a Networked Culture | Optometry, Room 105 | 1:30 PM

April 15, 2011 | Angelika Dimoka, Fox School of Business, Temple University | Learning from the Neural Underpinnings of Online Consumer Decision Making: Two Neuroimaging studies on Trust/Distrust & Similarity/Dissimilarity | Wells, Room 030 | 1:45 PM

March 25, 2011 | Lars Willnat, School of Journalism, Indiana University Bloomington | How Americans Think about China: Do the Media Matter? | Wells, Room 030 | 1:45 PM

January 14, 2011 | Detmar Straub, Department of Computer Information Sciences, Georgia State University | Contemporary Black Hat, White Hat Research in Information Security: Where are the Gaps? | Wells, Room 030 | 1:45 PM

December 3, 2010 | Geoffrey Bowker, School of Information Science, University of Pittsburgh | Cyberscholarship | Informatics East, Room 130 | 3:00 PM

November 12, 2010 | Rob Potter, Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University Bloomington | Sound Research in Media Processing: One Scholar's Audio Adventure | Wells, Room 001 | 1:45 PM

October 29, 2010 | Jeff Hart, Department of Political Science, Indiana Univeristy Bloomington | The Net Neutrality Debate in the United States | Radio/TV Building, Room 226 | 12:30 PM

October 8, 2010 | Joseph Valacich, Department of Information Systems College of Business, Washington State | Enhancing the Motivational Affordance of Information Systems: The Effects of Real-Time Performance Feedback and Goal Setting in Group Collaboration Environments | Wells, Room 001 | 1:45 PM

September 24, 2010 | Mary Gray, Department of Communication & Culture, Indiana University Bloomington | Beyond Online/offline: Information access, Public Spaces, and Queer Youth Visibility in the Rural U.S. | Wells, Room 001 | 1:45 PM

April 23, 2010 | Fred Turner, Department of Communication, Stanford University | What Do Art World Do for Computers? | Classroom Office Building, Room 100 | 1:30 PM

April 9, 2010 | Lance Bennett, Department of Political Science, University of Washington | In Search of Networked Public Spheres | Wells, Room 001 | 1:30 PM

March 26, 2010 | Christopher Kelty, Center for Society and Genetics & Department of Information Studies, University of California at Los Angeles | There is no Free Software: Agendas for Researching the Imponderabilia of Actual Life | Wells, Room 001 | 1:30 PM

March 5, 2010 | Hamid Ekbia, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University Bloomington | Computerization of Health: Personalizing the Impersonal | Wells, Room 001 | 1:30 PM

February 24, 2010 | Guy Paré, HEC Montreal Business School | Home Telemonitoring for Chronic Patients: A Systematic Review of Evaluation Studies | Wells, Room 001 | 1:30 PM

November 20, 2009 | Selma Sabanovic, School of Informatics, Indiana University Bloomington | Robots in Society: Social Impacts, Mutual Shaping, and Collaborative Design | Wells, Room 001 | 1:30 PM

November 13, 2009 | Andrew Odlyzko, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota | Technology Manias and the Inefficient Dissemination of Information | Radio/TV Building, Room 226 | 1:30 PM

October 2, 2009 | Sabine Matook, University of Queensland, Australia | Adopting Online Social Networks for Commercial Friendships | Wells, Room 001 | 1:30 PM

March 27, 2009 | Kristin Eschenfelder, University of Wisconsin-Madison | The 1980's Downloading Crisis: Why Can We Do What We Do With Bibliographic Citations? | Informatics East, Room 130 | 1:30 PM

February 20, 2009 | Viswanath Venkatesh, University of Arkansas | Digital Divide Initiative Success in India | Wells, Room 001 | 3:00 PM

November 14, 2008 | Jeffrey Hart, Department of Political Science, Indiana University Bloomington | Video on the Internet: The Content Question | Wells, Room 001 | 1:30 PM

October 31, 2008 | Eric T. Meyer, Oxford Internet Institute | e-Research: A Social Informatics Perspective | Wells, Room 001 | 1:30 PM

October 24, 2008 | Leopoldina Fortunati, University of Udine, Italy | Which Future for Newspapers? | Telecom, Room 226 | 12:30 PM

April 25, 2008 | Howard White, Drexel University | Defining Information Science | Wells, Room 001 | 2:00 PM

April 18, 2008 | Jonathan Raper, City University of London | How Search is Going Mobile and the Implications for Information Seeking | Wells, Room 001 | 2:00 PM

April 11, 2008 | John L. King, University of Michigan | Enterprise Transformation and the Future of Higher Education | Lindley Hall, Room 102 | 1:30 PM

April 4, 2008 | Eden Medina, Indiana University Bloomington | Big Blue in the Bottomless Pit: A History of IBM Chile | Wells, Room 001 | 2:00 PM

March 28, 2008 | Jesper Juul, GAMBI Game Lab, Singapore-MIT | Games for Making Friends and Enemies: A Small Theory of Games in Social Contexts | Radio/TV Building, Room 226 | 12:30 PM

March 21, 2008 | Eli Dresner, Departments of Philosophy & Communication, Tel Aviv University | Computer Mediated Conversational Multitasking: Implications and Applications | Wells, Room 001 | 2:00 PM

February 22, 2008 | Elisabeth Davenport, Napier University, Scotland | Social Informatics: A View of the UK Tradition | Wells, Room 001 | 2:00 PM

February 8, 2008 | David Finkelstein, Research Professor Media & Print Culture, Queen Margaret University | I Played Frisbee with Jesus: Media Print and Cult of Personality | Wells, Room 001 | 2:00 PM

November 30, 2007 | Sandra Braman, University of Wisonsin-Milwaukee | Power in the Informational State: The Social Effects of Information Policy | Wells, Room 001 | 2:00 PM

November 27, 2007 | Howard Rheingold | Smart Mobs and Beyond | IMU Frangipani Room | 5:00 PM

November 16, 2007 | Jeffrey Hart, Department of Political Science, Indiana University Bloomington | Democracy in the Age of the Internet: An Analysis of the Net Neutrality Debate of 2006 | Wells, Room 001 | 2:00 PM

November 9, 2007 | Susan Herring, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University Bloomington | Computer-Mediated Communication in Convergent Media | Wells, Room 001 | 2:00 PM

November 2, 2007 | Noriko Hara, Indiana University Bloomington | Opportunities in Social Informatics: Student Call-Out and Round Table Discussion | Wells, Room 001 | 2:00 PM

April 13, 2007 | Harmeet Sawhney, Indiana University Bloomington | Strategies for Increasing the Conceptual Yield of New Technologies | RTV, Room 226 | 12:30 PM

April 6, 2007 | Paul-Brian McInerney, Indiana University South Bend | The Powers of Association Revisited: Moral Claims, Mobilization, and Worth in the Circuit Rider Technology Movement, 1995-2001 | Wells, Room 001 | 2:00 PM

March 30, 2007 | Jan J.A.G.M. van Dijk, Department of Communication, University of Twentw, The Netherlands | The Deepening Divide: Inequality in the Information Society | Wells, Room 001 | 2:00 PM

March 2, 2007 | Jean-Francois Blanchette, Department of Information Studies Graduate School of Education & Information Studies University of California, Los Angeles | Beyond Cryogenics: Getting Serious about Digital Curation | Wells, Room 001 | 4:00 PM

February 8, 2007 | Pablo J. Boczkowski, Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University | News at Work: Technology, Imitation and Isomorphism | Wells, Room 001 | 4:00 PM

October 27, 2006 | Pnina Shachaf, School of Library & Information Science, Indiana University Bloomington | Beyond Vandalism: Trolls in Wikipedia | Wells, Room 001 | 2:00 PM

October 13, 2006 | Jeffrey Hart, Department of Political Science | International Regims for Information and Communication Technologies: Towards a New Research Agenda | Wells, Room 001 | 2:00 PM

April 21, 2006 | William Dutton, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford | The Internet Generation: Digital Divides and Choices Shaping Diffusion and Use | Wells, Room 001 | 2:00 PM

April 7, 2006 | Blaise Cronin, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University Bloomington | Anatomy of the Adult Entertainment Industry | Wells, Room 001 | 2:00 PM

March 31, 2006 | Jan J.A.G.M. van Dijk, Department of Communication, University of Twente, The Netherlands | The Deepening Divide: Ineqaulty in the Information Society | Talk was canceled

March 24, 2006 | Milton L. Mueller, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University | Info-communism v. info-liberalism. Commons and Exclusivity in Information Property Rights | RTV, Room 226 | 12:30 PM

March 10, 2006 | Manju Ahuja, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University Bloomington | Control Mechanisms in Offshore Outsourced Projects | Wells, Room 001 | 2:00 PM

February 17, 2006 | Mary Gray, Department of Communications & Culture, Indiana University Bloomington | "You Can't Do That!" The Ethics and Pragmatics of Ethnographic Approaches To New Media Research | Wells, Room 001 | 2:00 PM

February 10, 2006 | Daniel Robey, Computer Information Systems | Consensus and Diversity in IS Research: Theoretical Foundations of Empirical Studies of IOS | CG 1034 Business Grad. & Exec. Edu. Center | 2:00 PM

December 2, 2005 | Kalpana Shankar, School of Informatics, Indiana University Bloomington | Constructing Autonomy: The Discourse of Pervasive Computing and Health Care | Wells, Room 001 | 2:00 PM

November 18, 2005 | Kay Connelly, Computer Science Department & School of Informatics, Indiana University Bloomington | From Warfare to Healthcare: One Technologist's Journey | Wells, Room 001 | 2:00 PM

November 11, 2005 | Alison Bryant, Telecommunications Department, Indiana University Bloomington | Integrating Social Networks into Research on Youth and Technology | Wells, Room 001 | 2:00 PM

October 14, 2005 | Paul Dourish, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine | The Culture of Information: Ubiquitous Computing and Representation of Reality | Wells, Room 001 | 2:00 PM

October 7, 2005 | Charles Oppenheim, Department of Information Science, Loughborough University | Copyright Law and Institutional Repositories: News and Views from Across the Water | Wells, Room 001 | 2:00 PM