@article{5915d2ebc97149aabd35f7ed54739f23,
title = "Rules of the game: An interactive panel discussion about how institutions shape information",
abstract = "We focus on the roles that institutions play relative to information behavior. Our working definition of institution is the formal and informal constraints that form the basis for exchange, relationships, and decision-making. We know that institutions play significant roles in the creation, management, and uses of information. And, scholars have long recognized that institutions have both direct and indirect impacts on the sustainability and ethical value of information. What is less clear are the ways in which institutions and people's information behaviors are mutually-constituted. The goal of this panel is to highlight particular opportunities for expanding the current and modest level of attention to studying the roles of human institutions relative to information. To do so, this panel will involve the audience in a lively conversation about how information science views the role of institutions in information behavior. It includes a participatory design structured activity that will engage the audience in identifying how existing threads of research are making contributions and key areas of further inquiry. The panel will begin with dialogue sharing insights of scholars and practitioners who are interested in data governance, information behavior, organization of information, and knowledge management. Then the panel will engage the audience in an interactive activity that explores emerging research streams and questions.",
keywords = "Data Management, cyberinfrastructure, ethics, information behavior, instituions, sustainability",
author = "Allard, {Grant A.} and Sawyer, {Steven B.}",
note = "Funding Information: Christine L. Borgman, PhD is Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies at UCLA. Prof. Borgman is author of more than 200 publications in information studies, computer science, and communication. She conducts data practices research with funding from the National Science Foundation, Sloan Foundation, and Microsoft Research. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and previously served on the U.S. National Academies{\textquoteright} Board on Research Data and Information and the U.S. National CODATA. Funding Information: Steven B. Sawyer, PhD is a Professor and Director of Doctoral Programs at the iSchool of Syracuse University. Sawyer studies the design, development, deployment and uses of information technologies and new forms of information-sharing systems. He pursues this work in the social informatics tradition, focusing on social practices, collective action, the roles and functions of the technologies and systems of information sharing, and the institutional contexts in which these happen Sarika Sharma, MLIS is a fourth year PhD student at Syracuse University. Sharma is interested in large-scale, long-term technology investments in the form of information infrastructures within organizations. She is currently investigating the co-ordination and governance of infrastructure efforts that aim to preserve, store, and provide access to data within scientific communities. Her dissertation work is supported by the NSF-CHS. Sharma is also a research assistant on the NSF-VOSS grant with Co-PI's: Dr. Steve Sawyer and Dr. Carsten Osterlund. Using the sociomateriality lens, the research aims to understand how academic researchers use documents in their distributed, virtual collaborations. Publisher Copyright: Copyright {\textcopyright} 2018 by Association for Information Science and Technology",
year = "2018",
month = jan,
doi = "10.1002/pra2.2018.14505501070",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "55",
pages = "642--645",
journal = "Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology",
issn = "2373-9231",
publisher = "John Wiley and Sons Inc.",
number = "1",
}