Call for nominations for the 2017 annual Social Informatics Best Paper Awards

Nominations due July 13, 2018.

• Self-nominations are common and encouraged.
• The nomination process is quite short.

The ASIS&T Special Interest Group for Social Informatics (SIG-SI) is seeking nominations for the following annual awards:
Best paper published in a peer reviewed journal on a topic informed by social informatics during the 2017 calendar year: The author or authors will receive a $1,000 cash award, and they will be invited to present their paper at the Annual SIG-SI Symposium at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Vancouver Canada in late fall 2018.

Best paper written by a PhD student on a topic informed by social informatics: Nominations for the PhD student paper may include a published paper in a peer reviewed journal or a conference proceedings in the 2017 calendar year. The winners will receive a $500 cash award, and they will be invited to present their work at the Annual SIG-SI Symposium at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Vancouver Canada late fall 2018.

How to apply:

Nomination statements for both awards should be sent to Kristin Eschenfelder (eschenfelder@wisc.edu) by July 13, 2018 and must include:
1. a full citation,
2. a brief explanation for the nomination, and
3. an e-copy of the article.

Winners will be notified in late August.

For past award winners see: https://asistsigsi.wordpress.com/awards/