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Faculty, Staff and Students to present at iConference 2012

01/30/2012

The School of Information Sciences will be well-represented at iConference 2012, to be held February 7-10 in Toronto. Themed around “Culture…Design…Society,” the conference will attract an international audience of scholars and researchers who work on critical information issues in contemporary society. A number of faculty, students and staff from the iSchool at Pitt will present at this year’s conference addressing topics ranging from information seeking in adolescents to the advantages of instant feedback systems in a museum environment to defining the iSchool concept for prospective students. A complete iConference program is available at http://www.ischools.org/iConference12/2012index/.

Papers

Design Techniques for Revealing Adolescent Memory Processes Related to Information Seeking: A Preliminary Study
Authors: Leanne Bowler (University of Pittsburgh, United States of America), Eleanor Mattern (University of Pittsburgh, United States of America)

The Nature of Desire in Browsing Online Pornography
Author: Patrick Keilty (University of Pittsburgh, United States of America)

Posters

Sculpting that 'WoW' Body: Constructing Gender Identity in World of Warcraft
Presenter: Courtney Loder (University of Pittsburgh, United States of America)

Constructing Narratives Using Fast Feedback
Presenters: Yi-Ling Lin (University of Pittsburgh, United States of America), William Real (Carnegie Museum of Art, United States of America), Xiaoning Bai (University of Pittsburgh, United States of America), Yuanyuan Ye (University of Pittsburgh, United States of America)

Panel Discussions

Material Relations: Information, Media, Technology
Organizers: Patrick Keilty (University of Pittsburgh); John M. Budd (University of Missouri); David Humphrey (University of California, Berkeley); Kiersten F. Latham (Kent State University); Erin Obodiac (SUNY Albany)

Cultivating Creative Information Practice: Supporting the Yin and Yang of the Research Process
Organizers: Theresa Anderson (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia), Leanne Bowler (University of Pittsburgh), Lisa Nathan (University of British Columbia), and Eileen Trauth (Pennsylvania State University)

Professional Development Series

Building the Future iSchools: Visioning, Diversity and i3
Organizers: James ‘Kip’ Currier, Assistant Professor & i3 Co-Principal Investigator, University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences; Michael Depew, Director, iSchool Inclusion Institute (i3), University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences; Courtney Loder MLIS Graduate Student & Research Assistant, University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences

School Services Roundtable Discussion

Helping iSchool prospects, applicant, students, and graduates speak cogently about the iSchool concept
Organizer: Wesley Lipschultz, Manager of Student Services, the iSchool at the University of Pittsburgh