Keynotes, Panels and Workshops

Carlos Caicedo, associate professor, was invited to speak at a panel at the Columbia University Business School in April. His presentation was titled, “Dynamic Spectrum Resource Sharing Technology Alternatives.”

Rachel Ivy Clarke, assistant professor, participated in a panel on library leadership, “I’m a Librarian: Ask Me Anything!,” at the New York Library Association conference. She also presented a talk at the American Association of Law Librarians Upstate New York Chapter annual meeting, “You Are a Designer: Rethinking Librarianship as a Design Profession.”

Caroline Haythornthwaite, professor, co-moderated a featured panel at the 8th International Social Media and Society Conference in Toronto. Entitled, “Women in Social Media: Safe and Unsafe Spaces,” its co-moderator was Stephanie Teasley and panelists were iSchool faculty members Jennifer Stromer-Galley and Ingrid Erickson, along with Libby Hempfill and Alyssa Wise.

Jeffery Hemsley, assistant professor, took part in the AoIR Early Career Scholars Workshop at Internet Research 18: The 18th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers in Estonia. Hemsleyalso took part in that conference’s Social Media Data Bootcamp and Research Hackathon.

Megan Oakleaf, associate professor, hosted a roundtable exploring the advantages, opportunities and challenges of using learning analytics as a tool to augment the value proposition of libraries. The roundtable was held at the at the Association of College and Research Libraries conference in Baltimore. Co-speakers were Scott Walter of DePaul University and Debbie Malone of DeSales University.

Oakleaf also took part in two panel sessions at that event. The first was “Closing the ‘Data Gap’ Between Libraries and Learning: The Future of Academic Library Value Creation, Demonstration and Communication.” The second panel was titled, “Data in the Library is Safe, But That’s Not What Data is Meant For.”

Carolyn Haythornthwaite

Marcene Sonneborn

Lu Xiao

Steven B. Sawyer, professor, presented on the panel, “Organizationaland Institutional Work in Data Infrastructures,” at the American Society ofInformation Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting 2017. The topic paper, written by Kalpana Shankar and Kristin Eschenfelder, focused on findings from their project on governance of scholarly data sources.

Sawyer also participated in the DeVries Colloquiumon Academic Information Systems at Iowa State University, speaking about iSchools.

Marcene S. Sonneborn, professor of practice, participated on a panel forInnovation Discovery Event (IDE) Day at the Griffiss Institute in Rome, New York. Panelists were charged withbrainstorming withGriffiss Institute researchers to help them to reactivelydevelop/advance their innovations/research ideas/disclosures by asking questions, making suggestions, and expanding the list of potential applications for the researchers’ ideas in the areas of cybersecurity, telecommunications and data science.

Sonneborn also spoke about entrepreneurial and technology commercializationissues and coaching at two conferences: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s New York Automation & Robotics Conference; and SUNY Stony Brook’s 13th International Conference and Expo at the Center of Excellencefor Wireless and Information Technology.

Jennifer Stromer-Galley, professor, was a plenary panelist on the topic, “Civic Technology and Public Deliberation,” at the 2017 International Conference on Deliberation and Decision Making: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Civic Tech, in Singapore.

Stromer-Galley provided a keynote address, “Taking a Long View of Social Media and Presidential Campaigning,” at the Symposium on Social Media and Presidential Politics at Hofstra University. The event took place at the Peter Kalikow School of Government, Public Policy and International Affairs.

Stomer-Galley also presented several invited talks in 2017. She discussed “Social Media and the 2016 Presidential Campaign: Mobilization and Engagement with the Public” at the Annette Strauss Civic Media Institute at the University of Texas, Austin; and “Contextual Constraints and the Performance of Self in Online Multi-Player

Games: The Circumscribed Ludic Self,” at the UT Austin Communication Studies Department. She presented on “Social Media and the 2016 Presidential Campaign” at Brigham Young University, and also in a talk for the Communication and New Media Department at the National University of Singapore. At the Theorizing Communication Symposium at Pennsylvania State University, she addressed, “Theorizing Communication in a Digitally Networked Age.” She also took part in a panel on the proliferation of fake news in the digital era at a forum hosted by the Tully Center for Free Speech at the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.

Yang Wang

Lu Xiao, associate professor, participated on a panel at the ASIS&T annual meeting, presenting on the topic, “Incorporating Values Sensitive Design into Crowdsourcing Methodologies for Knowledge Collaboration.”

Yang Wang, assistant professor, presented at the 2nd Workshop on Inclusive Privacy and Security in Santa Clara, Calif., at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS2017).

Wang also took part in several other workshops in 2017. For his workshop at CSCW2017, called “In Whose Best Interest? Exploring the Real, Potential and Ethical Concerns in Privacy-Focused Agendas,” Wang spoke on, “Whose Privacy? The Case of Drone Controllers and Bystanders.” He presented on “Inclusive Security and Privacy” at the New Security Paradigm Workshop (NSPW2017), with doctoral student Yaxing Yao, plus addressed “Designing Task-Oriented Text Commands for Screen Readers and Screen Magnifiers” at the CHI 2017 Workshop on Ubiquitous Text Interaction (with doctoral student Natã Barbosa).