The School of Communication and Information’s LIS Department and iSchool faculty and doctoral students will attend and present at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), the premier international conference in the field, from October 25-29, 2024, in Calgary, Canada. SC&I is honored to sponsor the welcome reception.

This year’s theme, “Putting People First: Responsibility, Reciprocity, and Care in Information Research and Practice,” highlights the critical human dimensions of information science, both in physical and virtual spaces. SC&I’s LIS department and iSchool faculty and doctoral students are deeply engaged in understanding how people interact with information systems across various environments—ranging from libraries and community spaces to digital platforms and social media.

SC&I Associate Professor of Library and Information Science Vivek Singh, who has played a key role in ASIS&T's Special Interest Group for Social Media (SIG-SM), won ASIS&T’s 1st Annual SIG SM Senior Social Media Researcher Award 2024.  During the conference, Singh will give a talk entitled, “Building a Better Social Media: Privacy, Civility, and Fairness.”

SC&I Professor of Library and Information Science Denise Agosto, Ph.D.’01, with co-authors June Abbas, Yuanyuan Feng, Gabrielle Salib, Evelyn Cox, and Moses Munyao, were awarded the 2024 ASIS&T SIG USE Research Symposium Best Information Behavior Conference Paper Award at the October 4 SIG USE symposium for their paper entitled, “We were beaten down: Parents’ concerns about children’s digital media use.”

SC&I Distinguished Teaching Professor of Communication and Information and Director of Undergraduate Disciplinary Studies Mary Chayko will provide a keynote address, "Becoming Superconnected: Investigating the Process and Experience of Digital Social Interaction," on 10/26 for ASIS&T SIG Social Media’s workshop on Social Media Research, Challenges, and Opportunities. Chayko directs the Digital Communication, Information, and Media minor and the Gender and Media minor.

The following SC&I faculty and doctoral students will present their latest research on October 27 and October 28:

Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science Jessica Yi-Yun Cheng:

• Panel: Knowledge Organization Systems and Provenance: Experiences and Challenges (SIG-CMR)
• Poster: “Tools for Integrating Data by Complex, Dynamic Categories”

Associate Professor of Library and Information Science Charles Senteio:

• Panel: Creative Research Engagement from Design Through Application to Dissemination (Research Engagement Committee)
• Presentation: “Centering Care and Kindness: Mentoring Ph.D. Students in Tumultuous Times”

Doctoral student Emma May and Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science Britt Paris: Short Paper: “Divide and Conquer: Critical Informatics Approaches to Disinformation”

Doctoral student Kaitlin Montague:

• Poster: “‘Mutual Sustenance’: Co-Constructing the Foundation for Vulnerability in the Participant/Researcher Relationship Through an Ethnographic Study of Vehicle Residents’ Information Practices”
• Panel: Ethnographic Stories in Information Science

View the complete ASIS&T conference agenda here.