The 2016 Social Informatics Best Paper Award

Call for nominations for the 2016 Social Informatics Best Paper Award

The Special Interest Group for Social Informatics (SIG-SI) and the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics are seeking nominations for an award for the best paper published in a peer reviewed journal on a topic informed by social informatics during the 2015 calendar year. The author or authors will present their paper at the 12th Annual SIG-SI Symposium on Saturday, October 15, 2016 and receive a $1,000 cash award at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Copenhagen, Denmark in October, 2016.

Nomination letters should be sent to Howard Rosenbaum (hrosenba@indiana.edu<mailto:hrosenba@indiana.edu>) or Pnina Fichman (fichman@indiana.edu<mailto:fichman@indiana.edu>) by August 19, 2016 and must include a full citation, a brief explanation for the nomination, and a copy of the article. Self nominations are acceptable.

Winners will be notified by September 9, 2016.

For more information about the Special Interest Group for Social Informatics

Pnina Fichman and Howard Rosenbaum
Department of Information and Library Science
School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University