ASIST
Doctoral Seminar
on Research and Career Development
November 10, 2015, Sterling 4, Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch
Organizers:
Barbara
Wildemuth, School of Information and LIbrary Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and
Howard Rosenbaum, School of Informatics and Computing,Indiana University Bloomington
Purpose
The purpose of this seminar is to
provide a forum in which doctoral candidates and recent doctoral graduates can
discuss their research and career plans with more senior scholars. During the
seminar, the junior scholars will become acquainted with more senior scholars
working in related areas and will have the opportunity to interact with their
peers.
Participants
The following junior researchers
have been invited to participate:
- Chris Cunningham, University of South Carolina, Dissertation: Governmental Structures, Social Inclusion, and the Digital Divide: A Discourse on the Affinity Between the Effects of Freedom and Access to Online Information Resources (Advisor: Kendra Albright)
- Peter Hook, Indiana University (now at Wayne State University), Dissertation: The Structure and Evolution of the Academic Discipline of Law in the United States: Generation and Validation of Course-Subject Co-Occurrence (CSCO) Maps (Advisor: Katy Borner)
- Grace YoungJoo Jeon, University of MIchigan, Dissertation: Social Search Using a Social Q&A Service: Seeking Information and Assessing Credibility (Advisor: Soo Young Rieh)
- HyunSeung Koh, Indiana University, Dissertation: From Reading Text to Re-Designing It: Ebook Design Insights from a Mixed Methods User Study of Active Reading (Advisor: Susan Herring)
- MinSook Park, Florida State University, Dissertation proposal: Exploring Social Semantic Relationships for Knowledge Representation in Health Through Mining Social Media (Advisor: Kathleen Burnett)
- Matthew Willis, Syracuse University, Dissertation proposal: Patient Sociotechnical Assemblages: The Distributed Cognition of Health Information Management (Advisor: Jennifer Stromer-Galley)
- Adam Worrall, Florida State University (now at the University of Alberta), Dissertation: The Roles of Digital Libraries as Boundary Objects Within and Across Social and Information Worlds (Advisor: Michelle Kazmer)
The following senior researchers, in addition to the organizers,
will be working with them:
- Cathy Blake, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois
- Pnina Fichman, Department of Information and Library Science, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University
- Kenneth Fleischmann, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin
- Lisa Given, School of Information Studies, Charles Sturt University
- Michael Twidale, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Agenda
3:30 |
Introductions |
3:45 |
Individual discussions
between junior and senior scholars
- Chris Cunningham, Lisa Given
- Peter Hook, Michael Twidale
- Grace YoungJoo Jeon, Pnina Fichman
- HyunSeung Koh, Barbara Wildemuth
- MInSook Park, Cathy Blake
- Matthew Willis, Howard Rosenbaum
- Adam Worrall, Ken Fleischmann
|
4:45 |
Group discussion of research
and career development issues |
5:30 |
Wrap-up and evaluation |
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