BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:UC Berkeley School of Information / Drupal VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:UC Berkeley School of Information X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:US-Pacific X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20120531T190000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20120601T180000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:21252@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Join thought leaders at the DataEDGE conference for a stimulating conversation about a new vision for data science that addresses real-world challenges and opportunities. Our host, Quentin Hardy of the New York Times, will guide us through a conversation about how we can prepare for an exciting new world of big data.\n\n This conference restores the human element to the big data discussion. The key challenge is asking the right questions and telling stories that facilitate data-driven decision-making. We’ll address this by bringing together computer scientists, sociologists, designers, economists, political scientists, linguists, ethnographers, artists, and humanitarian relief experts to chart a new course for the future of data science.\n\n Learn from data science visionaries about new ways of thinking about big data that will impact fields from health care and agriculture to finance, manufacturing, and government.\n\n Participate in intimate break-out sessions focused on data science issues relevant to you.\n\n Be inspired with a new vision for big data from provocative thinkers like danah boyd and pioneers of data science like DJ Patil.\n\n For more information about the DataEDGE conference, see dataedge.ischool.berkeley.edu.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20120419T173734 LOCATION:UC Berkeley STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:DataEDGE Conference TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/dataedge2012 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20120512T140000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20120512T140000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:21924@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:The commencement ceremony honors the class of 2012 with student speakers, keynote speaker Caterina Fake, and presentation of the James R. Chen Awards.\n\n Reception on the South Hall lawn immediately following the ceremony.\n\n Keynote Speaker: Caterina Fake Caterina Fake is the founder and CEO of Pinwheel, co-founder of Flickr and Hunch. \n\n Before founding Flickr, Fake was the art director of Salon.com; after Yahoo's acquisition of Flickr, she ran Yahoo's technology development group. She is also on the board of directors of Creative Commons and the chairman of the board of Etsy. She has been named one of BusinessWeek's Best Leaders of 2005, Forbes 2005 eGang, Fast Company's Fast 50, Red Herring's 20 Entrepreneurs under 35, and Time Magazine's 100 most influential people. \n\n Fake blogs at Caterina.net and tweets at @Caterina.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20120510T195101 LOCATION:Campanile Esplanade STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:School of Information Commencement 2012 TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/commencement2012 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20120510T160000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20120510T201000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:21923@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Final projects are the culmination of the students' two years of work in the School of Information master's program. The Class of 2012 will present their final projects in three tracks: Changing Behaviors, Changing Business Processes, and Enhancing Information Systems. Some projects are prototype information systems, some are written theses, and all are innovative.\n\n Schedule 4:00 pm\n\n Showcase of all presentations \n 210 South Hall\n\n   Reception, with hors d'oeuvres, drinks, and an opportunity to talk further with the members of the project teams\n\n 5:05 - 8:10 pm\n\n Full, twenty minute project presentations, in three tracks \n 202, 205, and 210 South Hall\n\n Each project track will be judged by an invited panel of professionals from outside of the School of Information who will select one outstanding project within each track for a James R. Chen Award, as well as up to two honorable mentions. Awards will be announced during commencement on May 12.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20120510T195114 LOCATION:South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Master’s 2012 Final Project Showcase TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/finalprojects2012 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20120508T170000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20120508T200000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:22039@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Fourteen student teams present their visualization projects, each on a very distinct topic. The teams show off their innovative work and knowledge at the intersection of data analysis, design, perception, and communication. LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20120501T091923 LOCATION:210 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Information Visualization Final Project Showcase TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20120508i247showcase END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20120504T090000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20120505T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:21931@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, & Society (CSTMS); the Science, Technology, and Society Center; the department of anthropology; and the School of Information.\n\n The social sciences and humanities have long been engaged in the study of matter, materiality and materialisms. So what to make of recent announcements of the arrival of a variety of “new materialisms”? This conference brings together scholars from across the university to discuss a multiplicity of orientations and critical approaches to the use—and in some cases misuse—of the term and conceptual apparatus of “new materialisms” in their own work. Intentionally named as a question, What’s New About New Materialisms? is intended as an exploration of the benefits and limitations to “new” modes of thinking about and through the material. The four questions that guide contributors’ presentation are: What is new about matter? What is a method adequate to a new matter? Do ‘new materialisms’ mark the limit of discourse? How might we attend to materiality as a property of the digital? The first day of the conference will feature faculty presentations, including two keynote addresses, and the second day will feature papers by graduate students.\n\n Graduate Student Organizers: Eric Plemons, Daniela Rosner, & Michael D’Arcy\n\n Questions? Email newmaterialisms [at] gmail [dot] com \n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20120416T101614 LOCATION:470 Stephens Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:What’s New About New Materialisms? TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/2012newmaterialisms END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20120502T161000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20120502T173000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:21727@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jenna Burrell \n\nHow is the Internet experienced in the margins of the global economy? \n\n In her new book, Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana, I School professor Jenna Burrell presents a user study set initially in the Internet cafés of Accra, Ghana but gradually expanded to include roadside youth clubs, churches, secondhand computer shops, and electronic waste dumps. This talk offers two threads of analysis from the book. First, an examination of the youth who used the Internet in these spaces to cultivate foreign contacts through Yahoo! chatrooms and dating sites and how they made sense of the frequent and often sudden breakdowns in their online relationships. Second, an argument for the supply of secondhand computers imported from abroad by Ghanaian transnational family businesses as a process innovation that made the Internet cafés materially feasible despite Ghana’s economic and infrastructural limitations. \n\n The book bridges between science and technology studies and African studies to demonstrate how studying spaces of cultural discontinuity and where the more erratic processes of globalization operate can contribute new insights to the way we theorize about users.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20120502T175439 LOCATION:210 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20120502burrell END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20120427T151000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20120427T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:21816@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Victoria Stodden \n\nThe movement toward reproducible computational science  — where the code used to generate the results are made conveniently available along with the published paper — has accelerated dramatically in the last few years. Fields as diverse as statistics, bioinformatics, geosciences, and applied math are making efforts to publish reproducible findings, and journal publication and funding agency requirements are changing. I will discuss the changing landscape of openness in computational science, motivate the reproducible research movement, and discuss my recent work in enabling code and data release through legal and policy standards, as well as new software tools for sharing and deposit. In particular I will discuss very recent work on changes in scholarly journal publication requirements.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20120404T120321 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Building the Reproducible Computational Science Movement: Catalyzing Action Through Policy, Software Tools, and Ideas TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias/20120427 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20120425T161000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20120425T173000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:21812@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Todd Carter \n\nWhat role will museums and libraries play in the information technology landscape of the future? Todd Carter presents his vision of museums and libraries empowered by Web 2.0 and crowd-sourcing technologies. \n\n He will focus on improving media annotation with open-sourced anthologies, linked open data, tagging with linked data URIs, semantics, machines, and crowd-sourced human computation.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20120424T111810 LOCATION:210 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Empowering Libraries, Archives, and Museums with Crowd-sourced Human Computation and Linked Open Data TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/deanslectures/20120425 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20120420T151000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20120420T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:21810@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: MacKenzie Smith \n\nData governance is the system of rights and accountabilities for who can take what actions with what data and when, under what circumstances, using what methods. It includes laws and policies associated with data, as well as strategies for data quality control and management in the context of organizations, be they physical or virtual (such as large, international research collaborations). Data governance ensures that data can be trusted and that people made accountable for actions affecting it. There are also related technological issues, such as how to implement mandatory attribution on the Web or insure persistence of cited data. The seminar will provide an overview of the issues and current activities in this emerging aspect of data curation. LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20120404T095836 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Data Governance: Another Side of Data Curation TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias/20120420 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20120418T161000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20120418T173000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:21275@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Howard Rheingold \n\nJoin us for a discussion with author Howard Rheingold. In his new book, Net Smart: How to Thrive Online, Rheingold asks, how can we use digital media so that they help us become empowered participants rather than passive consumers; grounded, well-rounded people rather than multitasking neurotics? In Net Smart, he demonstrates how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and, above all, mindfully.\n\n Mindful use of digital media means thinking about what we are doing, cultivating an ongoing inner inquiry into how we want to spend our time. Rheingold outlines five fundamental digital literacies, online skills that will help us do this: attention, participation, collaboration, critical consumption of information (or "crap detection"), and network smarts. He explains how attention works, and how we can use our attention to focus on the tiny relevant portion of the incoming tsunami of information. He describes the quality of participation that empowers the best of the bloggers, netizens, tweeters, and other online community participants; he examines how successful online collaborative enterprises contribute new knowledge to the world in new ways; and he presents a lesson on networks and network building.\n\n There is a bigger social issue at work in digital literacy, one that goes beyond personal empowerment. If we combine our individual efforts wisely, it could produce a more thoughtful society: countless small acts like publishing a Web page or sharing a link could add up to a public good that enriches everybody.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20120419T162840 LOCATION:210 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Net Smart: How to Thrive Online TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20120418netsmart END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20120413T151000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20120413T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:21811@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Clifford Lynch \n\nMemory organizations have two functions with regard to scholarship: they organize and preserve the scholarly record itself, and they try to select, prioritize, and preserve the much larger body of evidence that can be used to support future scholarly work. There has been a great deal of discussion about the changing scholarly record, and the changes in scholarly practice driven by information technology and data intensive scholarship. In the last few years, there has been a great deal of focus on stewardship of certain types of observational and experimental data, most commonly in the sciences, particularly as new technologies (gene sequencing, synoptic sky surveys, the Large Hadron Collider, earth observatories, etc.) allow the construction of new scientific instruments that greatly expand the base of evidence. Less well considered are new evidentiary resources that can drive the human sciences; these are often encumbered by privacy and human subjects issues, secrecy, and proprietary considerations. We see new instruments have been constructed and deployed mainly outside of the academy, and the evidence being collected here presents enormous challenges — indeed, rising to the level of public policy issues — to memory organizations and to future scholarly work.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20120404T095919 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Memory Organizations and Evidence to Support Scholarship in the 21st Century TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias/20120413 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20120411T161000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20120411T173000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:21323@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Marti Hearst \n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20120216T103409 LOCATION:210 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Building Government IT 2.0: A Personal Account of My Experiences as Chief IT Strategist for a U.S. Federal Agency TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20120411hearst END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20120406T151000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20120406T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:21161@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Juliane Stiller \n\nCultural heritage information systems aggregate, search, and display cultural heritage objects or their surrogates in an online environment. These objects come from memory institutions such as libraries, museums, and archives and cover text, image, speech, and video. The goal of these systems is to make this content universally available for a broad audience through search, browse, and discovery. How to find and implement user interaction and collaboration patterns for experiencing cultural heritage online is the core of this talk. A set of cultural heritage information systems was analyzed with regards to the prevailing interaction and user collaboration patterns. Additionally, it was found that problems of existing cultural heritage information systems are rooted in the different purposes cultural objects serve in their original context and the failure of the information system to translate these into the online world. This presentation will focus on the challenges information systems need to overcome to offer useful services for enabling purposeful interaction with cultural heritage online.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20120327T102533 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Interaction and Collaboration in Cultural Heritage Information Systems TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias/20120406stiller END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20120404T161000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20120404T173000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:21754@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Alessandro Acquisti \n\nSelf-report surveys and anecdotal evidence indicate that US firms use social networking sites to seek information about prospective hires. However, little is known about how the information they find online actually influences firms’ hiring decisions. We present the design and preliminary results of a series of controlled experiments of the impact that information posted online by job applicants can have on employers’ hiring behavior. In two studies (a hypothetical experiment and a field experiment) we measure the ratio of callbacks that different job applicants receive as function of their personal traits. The experiments focus on traits that US employers are not allowed to ask about during interviews, but which can be inferred from perusing applicants’ online profiles.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20120403T152945 LOCATION:210 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:An Experiment in Hiring Discrimination via Online Social Networks TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20120404acquisti END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20120323T151000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20120323T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:21716@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Marcia Bates, UCLA \n\nThe talk will provide a precis of what we know about:\n\n the nature of humanities scholarship and how it differs in its essence from scientific research, what is distinctive about how humanities scholars do research and seek for information, and implications of (1) and (2) for the design of information retrieval systems and interfaces. LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20120319T183605 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Can You Spell Idiographic? — Designing Information Systems for Humanities Scholarship TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias/20120323marciabates END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20120320T163000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20120320T180000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:21528@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Special Guest: Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO \n\nPanelists: Deirdre K. Mulligan, Assistant Professor, School of Information \n Chair of the Board, Center for Democracy & Technology; Faculty Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology\n\n Nicole Wong, Lecturer, School of Information \n Former Vice-President and Deputy General Counsel at Google, responsible for arbitrating issues of censorship; Board member, First Amendment Coalition\n\n Qiang Xiao, Adjunct Professor, School of Information \n Human rights activist; Editor-in-Chief of China Digital Times; former MacArthur Fellow\n\n Moderator: Geoffrey Nunberg, Adjunct full professor, School of Information\n\n Introduced by AnnaLee Saxenian, Dean, School of Information\n\n Decentralized, open, interconnected, layered — the unique characteristics of the Internet challenge the traditional tools of state governance and raise major policy questions. The Internet bridges political boundaries to increase information access and interaction among globally distributed individuals. That can increase freedom of expression and enable global association, but it simultaneously poses challenges to governments trying to enforce domestic policies and laws. The challenges are compounded by the complex interactions required for Internet governance itself — among private-sector firms like Google and Twitter, organizations like the World Wide Web Consortium, international bodies, and national governments. How can this communication ecosystem be streamlined and made transparent and responsive to public needs? How do we ensure that new technologies become media for the protection of human rights and the encouragement of free public expression? And what role must each of the stakeholders play?\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20120320T181606 LOCATION:210 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Panel on Information Access & Freedom in the Digital Age TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20120320unescopanel END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20120317T090000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20120317T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:21374@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:InfoCamp Berkeley is an unconference-style event for the information community.\n\n It features an egalitarian, community-driven format in which most presentations are designed and delivered by participants. And it’s a lot of fun! InfoCamp Berkeley is for anyone interested in user experience, information architecture, interaction design, service design, information management, information design, librarianship, online search, informatics, and related fields.\n\n There are no pre-determined session topics or presenters, other than a keynote session. You, the participants, create and lead most of the sessions! You determine the topic and format of your session, and pitch your session idea to the group, and sign up for a time slot. The exact schedule will be created as we go.\n\n The purpose of this format is to encourage collaboration, interaction, discussion, and real-time innovation. The benefits of this format include the immediacy of the topics – the sessions didn’t have to be submitted months ahead of time – and the fun, exciting (and a bit chaotic) feeling of being part of an event that’s being led by everyone.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20120229T201054 LOCATION:South Hall, UC Berkeley STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:InfoCamp 2012 TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/infocamp2012 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20120316T151000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20120316T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:21291@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Catherine Marshall, Microsoft Research \n\nUser-contributed content forms the cornerstone of many popular web services and resources including Flickr, Facebook, YouTube, iTunes, Twitter, Yelp, and even some MMRPGs. Although specific rights about the ownership and control of this content are spelled out in licensing agreements and by copyright law, most contributors and re-users ignore formal contracts, laws, and policies. In this talk, I propose to report on the results of six surveys that use a series of realistic scenarios and specific questions about recent practice to probe respondents' thoughts and behaviors about the value of user-contributed content and how user-contributed content may be reused, archived, re-purposed, and removed. The surveys solicited 988 valid responses (out of 1060 total) from a broad range of Internet-savvy (but mostly non-technical) people, and covered significant types and genres of Web content including photos, tweets, reviews, videos, podcasts, and educational recordings. This talk describes work done in collaboration with Frank Shipman at Texas A&M University.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20120202T123715 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Whose Content is it Anyway? A User Perspective on the Ownership and Control of Social Media TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias/20120316marshall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20120309T151000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20120309T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:21601@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Clifford Lynch \n\nIn recent years, there has been growing interest in the implications of the records of personal life moving to digital formats. These developments will change the practice of history and biography, and other scholarly disciplines; the ways in which personal, family, and other group and community memories are created, documented and transmitted; the assumptions about what is private and what is public. Two weeks ago the Internet Archive in San Francisco hosted the third annual conference on personal digital archiving; several regular seminar participants were able to attend. Today's seminar will be a review of this meeting and of developments in personal archiving more broadly. Participants in the Personal Digital Archiving Conference are particularly invited to join us and share their views and reflections. LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20120308T133008 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Personal Digital Archiving: Discussion Based on the Personal Digital Archiving 2012 Conference TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias/20120309 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20120302T151000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20120302T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:21393@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Adam Jatowt \n\nGiven the huge amount of data about the past, computer science will play an increasingly important role in historical studies, with computational history becoming an emerging interdisciplinary field of research. In this presentation, I will show the results of our recent study on how the past is remembered through large scale text mining. I will demonstrate that analysis of references to the past in news articles allows us to gain a lot of insight into the collective memories and societal views of different countries. At the end of the talk, I will also briefly describe my recent work on the readability of web content and historical documents. LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20120223T151335 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Studies in Collective Memory: Towards Computational History through Large Scale Text Mining TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias/20120302 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20120229T161000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20120229T173000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:21085@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: David Ayman Shamma, Yahoo! Research \n\nEverything we do online leaves traces: our tweets, Facebook likes, and YouTube views. Currently, Big Data is all about sifting through cloud stores of these traces with little question as to why those traces exist. Big Data analyses are based on data that are already collected; they are not about asking what should be collected to answer important social and motivational questions. I ask: What motivates people to do what they do? And how can we build predictive models of what people do based on their contextualized and emerging interests, and not just their numerical data. Finding the reasons why people do what they do, and why they create the data trails in the first place, invites a new set of questions and demands a new set of methods.\n\n I present investigations into uncovering and understanding these motivations through three areas of inquiry: genre classification, topic prediction, and event detection. I propose changes for how we measure engagement, how we design system instrumentation, and how we design for data collection, aggregation and summarization. These changes have immediate implications on how we understand human behavior online and build new experiences, and they bring ramifications for the next generation of large data solutions.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20120228T204622 LOCATION:210 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Social Substrates: People and the data they make TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/deanslectures/20120229 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20120217T151000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20120217T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:21160@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Irene Eleta \n\nBrief overview of the "T3 project: Test, Tags, and Trust" at the University of Maryland, which combines text mining and social tags for improving access to digital image collections in museums and libraries. The principal investigators of this project are Drs. Judith Klavans (Computational Linguistics and Information Processing Lab) and Jennifer Golbeck (iSchool Human-Computer Interaction Lab). Within this broader context, the talk will focus on a study of multilingual social tagging, carried out by Irene Eleta with the guidance of Dr. Jennifer Golbeck. This study compares social tagging patterns in two languages (Spanish and English) in image collections of art. Also, it proposes ways to leverage multilingual tags for enriching the images metadata, adding diversity, and improving access in different languages. Recently, this work was accepted in the International ACM Conference CSCW (Computer-Supported Cooperative Work), to be held in February, 2012.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20120117T111601 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Multilingual Social Tagging of Art Images: Cultural Bridges and Diversity TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias/20120217eleta END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20120215T161000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20120215T173000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:21086@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Chris Riley \n\nThere is a great realignment happening that is changing the way the world sees itself. This realignment is the product of economic globalization, amazing advances in technology and the end of a monistic media age.\n\n The world has, for a generation, been dominated by massive Western media companies who control the most influential media: television. In the coming years, television will realign alongside social media to a pluralistic world media culture within which many new narratives will vie for our attention.\n\n Whenever media evolves so does society. There are major challenges ahead for the simplistic binary narratives spun by television, good vs. evil, black vs. white, red vs. blue, right vs. wrong. Humanity is more complex that that, and we will be confronting that complexity head-on from now on.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20120209T103531 LOCATION:210 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Beyond Global: Learning from Many Voices TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/dls/20120215chrisriley END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20120214T124000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20120214T140000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:21089@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Rebecca MacKinnon \n\nA global struggle for control of the Internet is now underway. At stake are no less than civil liberties, privacy, and even the character of democracy in the 21st century.\n\n Many commentators have debated whether the Internet is ultimately a force for freedom of expression and political liberation, or for alienation, and repression. Rebecca MacKinnon, author of the new book Consent of the Networked, moves the debate about the Internet’s political impact to a new level. It is time, she says, to stop arguing over whether the Internet empowers individuals and societies, and address the more fundamental and urgent question of how technology should be structured and governed to support the rights and liberties of all the world’s Internet users.\n\n Drawing upon two decades of experience as an international journalist, co-founder of the citizen media network Global Voices, Chinese Internet censorship expert, and Internet freedom activist, MacKinnon offers a framework for concerned citizens to understand the complex and often hidden power dynamics amongst governments, corporations, and citizens in cyberspace. She warns that a convergence of unchecked government actions and unaccountable company practices threatens the future of democracy and human rights around the world.\n\n Our freedom in the Internet age depends on whether we defend our rights on digital platforms and networks in the same way that people fight for their rights and accountable governance in physical communities and nations, claims MacKinnon. It is time to stop thinking of ourselves as passive “users” of technology and instead act like citizens of the Internet — as netizens — and take ownership and responsibility for our digital future.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20120103T170314 LOCATION:210 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20120214mackinnon END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20120210T151000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20120210T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:21159@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Ray Larson and Brian Tingle \n\nArchivists have a long history of describing the people who — acting individually, in families, or in formally organized groups — create and collect primary sources. They research and describe the artists, political leaders, scientists, government agencies, soldiers, universities, businesses, families, and others who create and are represented in the items that are now part of our shared cultural legacy. However, because archivists have traditionally described records and their creators together, this information is tied to specific resources and institutions.\n\n The SNAC Project is using digital technology to "unlock" descriptions of people from descriptions of their records and link them together in interesting new ways. We are aggregating and interrelating those descriptions using EAC-CPF (the Encoded Archival Context — Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families). Work on the SNAC project is being conducted by a consortium consisting of The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (University of Virginia), the UC Berkeley I School, and the California Digital Library. \n\n To represent the network of relationships between corporate bodies, persons and families, the merged EAC-CPF XML records have been processed into a graph database, which is used to power an interactive network visualization and generate linked data for publication as a SPARQL endpoint. The talk will review the Tinkerpop graph database stack and Apache Jena linked data technologies used for this processing. The graph and RDF data sets and APIs published by the project will also be described, including an overview of key sections of source code for the graph processing.\n\n In this presentation we will describe and present an update on the SNAC project and demonstrate the public access interface for the SNAC database, including social network visualizations of SNAC persons, corporate bodies and families. The SNAC project is currently funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and by a grant from the Mellon Foundation. We will also discuss future plans for the project.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20120203T130845 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Update on the Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) Project TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias/20120210larson END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20120208T120000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20120208T130000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:21181@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Marti Hearst \n\nSponsored by the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS).\n\n Free and open to the public, the CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar Series is a weekly roundtable of presentations and discussions that highlight ways to frame and tackle societal-scale research issues.\n\n Live broadcast at mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/webcast. Questions can be sent via Yahoo IM to username: citrisevents.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20120118T151718 LOCATION:Banatao Auditorium, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:The Untold Story of How Billions in Government Savings is Likely to Result from Current Administration IT Reforms TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20120208hearst END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20120206T130000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20120206T160000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:21179@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries, Berkeley School of Law, California Digital Library, and the School of Information.\n\n What is fair use, and how can libraries use their fair use rights to better accomplish their missions, from preservation to support for scholarship and teaching to digitizing collections for public access? A ground-breaking new document, the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries, provides powerful new insights into the ways librarians can apply fair use principles to resolve central and recurring copyright challenges.\n\n Brandon Butler of the Association of Research Libraries and Peter Jaszi of American University Law School, co-facilitators of the code, will introduce this new document at this event. They will provide an overview of its contents and discuss policies and scenarios to help librarians and library staff determine how its principles can help them solve local challenges and improve local policies dealing with copyright and fair use.\n\n Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and based on two years of research into the core challenges that libraries face and the considered opinions of librarians from across the country on how best to solve them using fair use, this new code gives librarians tools to help reason through challenging copyright issues. The code, along with supporting materials, can be downloaded free of charge at http://www.arl.org/fairuse beginning January 26th, and hard copies will be available for free at the event as well.\n\n The session is open to all librarians, library staff, and champions of fair use. Admission is free; registration is not required.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20120131T174308 LOCATION:295 Simon Hall, Berkeley Law School STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:New ARL Best Practices in Fair Use TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20120206fairuse END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20120203T151000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20120203T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:21158@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Michael Buckland and Patrick Golden \n\nOur presentation will have two components: A progress report on the "Editorial Practices and the Web" project (and some closely related work) and a discussion the implications of this work for the nature and infrastructure of digital humanities. The preparation of scholarly editions of historically important texts is important in the humanities, but expensive. A minor change in editorial procedures to allow editors' working notes available in a collaborative environment increases the return on investment by reducing duplicative work, increasing editorial productivity, making additional resources available to the public, and preserving resources ordinarily lost when funding ends. Scholarly notes are created throughout the humanities. So a focus on scholarly notes provides a basis for convergence and collaboration among quite diverse constituencies across the humanities.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20120117T111547 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Scholarly Notes and Digital Humanities TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias/20120203bucklandgolden END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20120201T161000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20120201T173000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:21084@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Victoria Stodden \n\nScientific computation is emerging as absolutely central to the scientific method, but the prevalence of very relaxed practices is leading to a credibility crisis affecting many scientific fields. It is impossible to verify most of the results that computational scientists present at conferences and in papers today. Reproducible computational research, in which all details of computations — code and data — are made conveniently available to others, is necessary for a resolution of this crisis. This requires a multifaceted approach including policy solutions, computational tools for data and code dissemination, curation and archiving, and open licensing frameworks such as the Reproducible Research Standard.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20120202T120121 LOCATION:210 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:The Credibility Crisis in Computational Science: An Information Issue TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/deanslectures/20120201 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20120127T151000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20120127T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:21157@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Pinar Öztürk \n\nPinar Öztürk is an associate professor in at the department of computer and information science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Her research focus is in the areas of case-based reasoning, learning by imitation, and multiagent systems. She has been involved in projects using CBR in medical diagnosis and oil drilling in the past. She is currently responsible for applying CBR in a smart power grid project funded by Norwegian utility companies. In another project, again in the power domain, she is employing multiagent systems for e-cars.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20120117T111542 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Classical and Textual Case-based Reasoning TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias/20120127ozturk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20120127T131000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20120127T143000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:21127@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Karl Kathuria, BBC World Service \n\nAn international research team based at the Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs (University of Toronto) has conducted a detailed study that tracks and analyses the difficulties of broadcasting news into jurisdictions that censor the Internet. The results of this study are documented in Casting a Wider Net: Lessons Learned in Delivering BBC Content on the Censored Internet, which reports on a series of real-world tests to deliver BBC websites into Iran and China, where they are regularly blocked by authorities. \n\n This talk will consider the challenges facing news broadcasters as they shift their focus from traditional media delivery methods to online delivery. It will cover the BBC’s case studies as detailed in the published report, and will look at how the different propagation strategies helped to reach an audience that was otherwise unable to access the broadcaster’s content.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20120117T145718 LOCATION:202 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Casting a Wider Net: Delivering News on the Censored Internet TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20120127castingawidernet END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20120123T170000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20120123T190000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:21083@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Regents' Lecturer: Howard Rheingold \n\nHoward Rheingold offers a glimpse of the future of high-end online learning in which motivated self-learners collaborate via a variety of social media to create, deliver, and learn an agreed curriculum: a mutant variety of pedagogy that more closely resembles a peer-agogy. Rheingold proposes that our intention should be to teach ourselves how to teach ourselves online, and to share what we learn. He will show how the use of social media in courses he has taught about social media issues led him to co-redesign his curriculum, which led to more active participation by students in co-teaching the course.\n\n This lecture is presented by the Berkeley Center for New Media and the School of Information, with support from the Regents’ Professorships and Lectureships Program.\n\n Due to limited seating, we will be distributing free tickets for this event on a first-come, first-served basis, beginning at 4:00 pm at South Hall.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20120119T123708 LOCATION:210 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Social Media and Peer Learning: From Mediated Pedagogy to Peeragogy TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20120123regenstlecture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20120120T151000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20120120T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:21164@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Clifford Lynch \n\nWe have become accustomed to talking rather casually about ideas like "archiving the cultural record", yet we have a very poor understanding of what constitutes this record and how it is changing with the continual evolution of information technology. As a result it's difficult to tell how effective our range of cultural memory institutions are, how to set priorities, and where there are needs to develop new public policies. In this discussion, I'll do some initial very high level surveying of what might be considered to constitute the cultural record and briefly discuss some of the stewardship issues.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20120117T121803 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Surveying the Changing Cultural Record TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias/20120120lynch END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20120106T235900 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20120106T235900 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:19119@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Applications for admission to the School of Information's master's degree program for the class of 2014 are due on January 6, 2012.\n\n Complete application instructions are available online.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20111123T125847 LOCATION: STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:MIMS Application Deadline TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20120106mimsdeadline END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20111215T080000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20111216T180000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:20827@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by CONNECT, the Nationwide Health Information Network, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.\n\n You’re invited to the upcoming CONNECT Code-A-Thon, to work with other health IT leaders, contribute to the CONNECT solution, and advance the nation's health IT agenda.\n\n In addition to holding technical/coding sessions, this CONNECT Code-A-Thon will include a couple of new items:\n\n A business track for people new to CONNECT that need to learn more about what the open source software project is and how it can benefit them Working with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, the CONNECT team will construct innovation challenges for the event, providing attendees with the opportunity to address and tackle issues directly relevant to nationwide health IT interoperability. Participants will have the opportunity to contribute to the CONNECT project through bug fixes, code contributions, improved documentation, and other innovations. We will be listing topics on the forums and we encourage discussions prior to the Code-A-Thon so we can get straight to the business of development during the event.\n\n More information\n\n Register now\n\n What is CONNECT? CONNECT is an open source software solution that supports health information exchange — both locally and at the national level. CONNECT uses Nationwide Health Information Network standards and governance to make sure that health information exchanges are compatible with other exchanges being set up throughout the country.\n\n This software solution was initially developed by federal agencies to support their health-related missions, but it is now available to all organizations and can be used to help set up health information exchanges and share data using nationally-recognized interoperability standards.\n\n CONNECT can be used to:\n\n Set up a health information exchange within an organization Tie a health information exchange into a regional network of health information exchanges By advancing the adoption of interoperable health IT systems and health information exchanges, the country will better be able to achieve the goal of making sure all citizens have electronic health records by 2014. Health data will be able to follow a patient across the street or across the country.\n\n What is a CONNECT Code-A-Thon? At CONNECT Code-A-Thons, programmers convene to work together on projects related to CONNECT. A Code-A-Thon is a form of hackathon, held quarterly at different locations throughout the country.\n\n Code-A-Thons typically last two days and include short plenary sessions where experts provide detail about their experiences in the open source community, and program personnel provide insight into the current and future architecture of the solutions. This is followed by hands-on programming where attendees break up into groups and work on projects they are interested in. People work on what they want to with little to no restrictions on direction or goal of the programming.\n\n CONNECT Code-A-Thons are attended by professionals and students, representing federal and state agencies, healthcare providers, insurance companies, health information exchanges, cities, universities, and health IT vendors, among other health stakeholders.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20111109T122309 LOCATION:South Hall, UC Berkeley STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:CONNECT Code-A-Thon TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/2011connectcodeathon END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20111207T110000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20111207T123000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:20956@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:An open house student project exhibition of the "Theory and Practice of Tangible User Interfaces" class.\n\n The Tangible User Interfaces course at the School of Information focuses on physical interaction with computational media. Students design and develop experimental applications, underlying technologies, and theories using concept sketches, posters, physical mock-ups, working prototypes, and a final project report.\n\n The exhibition will take place on both Monday, December 5, and Wednesday, December 7. All projects will be on exhibit both days.\n\n Stop by and try out the interfaces for yourself!\n\n The exhibition includes works by Hilfi Alkaff, Stephen Backer, Tim Charoenying, Kiera Chase, Laura Devendorf, Max Fan, Sebastian Feunzalida, Alex Gayinski, Ankita Goyal, Andrea Hsieh, Ram Joshi, Martin Kiechle, Nick Kong, Ian Leighton, Kari McGlynn, John Parayno Pedersen, Margaret Rhee, Carlos Sandoval, John Servaes, Kevin Swelsen, Chelsey Tanaka, Pierre Tchetgen, Victor Tjhia, Albert Tjoeng, Joe Wadcan, Jennifer Wang, Justin Wang, and Travis Yoo.\n\n More information: Info 262: Theory and Practice of Tangible Interfaces\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20111130T190317 LOCATION:210 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Tangible User Interfaces: Student Project Exhibition TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/2011dec7tui END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20111206T170000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20111206T193000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:20974@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the final project presentations for the School of Information’s “Information Systems and Service Design” course. Nine remarkable interdisciplinary projects demonstrate great scope and creativity in the design of “Service Systems”.\n\n Presenters are mostly School of Information MIMS students, along with students from business, industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, cognitive science, and computer science.\n\n The projects’ domains include health care, energy management, recycling, business productivity, access to government services and data, university information services, audio archiving, and entertainment. Stakeholders include hotel managers, students, wine country tourists, consultants, volunteer programmers, radio talk show hosts, and sick people.\n\n The information resources they organize and “serviceify” include interview recordings and transcripts, recycling contracts, campus events, academic transcripts, records of energy usage, government data, and information visualizations and charts.\n\n  \n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20111202T142338 LOCATION:210 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Information Systems & Service Design: Project Presentations TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/2011issdexhibition END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20111205T110000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20111205T123000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:20955@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:An open house student project exhibition of the "Theory and Practice of Tangible User Interfaces" class.\n\n The Tangible User Interfaces course at the School of Information focuses on physical interaction with computational media. Students design and develop experimental applications, underlying technologies, and theories using concept sketches, posters, physical mock-ups, working prototypes, and a final project report.\n\n The exhibition will take place on both Monday, December 5, and Wednesday, December 7. All projects will be on exhibit both days.\n\n Stop by and try out the interfaces for yourself!\n\n The exhibition includes works by Hilfi Alkaff, Stephen Backer, Tim Charoenying, Kiera Chase, Laura Devendorf, Max Fan, Sebastian Feunzalida, Alex Gayinski, Ankita Goyal, Andrea Hsieh, Ram Joshi, Martin Kiechle, Nick Kong, Ian Leighton, Kari McGlynn, John Parayno Pedersen, Margaret Rhee, Carlos Sandoval, John Servaes, Kevin Swelsen, Chelsey Tanaka, Pierre Tchetgen, Victor Tjhia, Albert Tjoeng, Joe Wadcan, Jennifer Wang, Justin Wang, and Travis Yoo.\n\n More information: Info 262: Theory and Practice of Tangible Interfaces\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20111201T132837 LOCATION:210 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Tangible User Interfaces: Student Project Exhibition TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/2011dec5tui END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20111202T235900 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20111202T235900 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:19120@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Applications for admission to the School of Information's Ph.D. program are due by December 2, 2011.\n\n Complete application instructions are available online.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20111123T125824 LOCATION: STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Ph.D. Application Deadline TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20111202phddeadline END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20111202T151000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20111202T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:20934@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Clifford Lynch \n\nThis talk will look at some of the forces that are reshaping both biomedical informatics and biomedical libraries, and the complex convergence occurring between the two on intellectual and institutional levels; it will also examine radical changes building up the scholarly publishing system that serves this discipline. Finally, I'll briefly discuss the unstable consensus about privacy, database development, and scientific inquiry in the context of broader social developments in health care and citizen science and the opportunities for perhaps profound shifts that could enhance discovery.\n\n In addition, Elisa Oreglia will be presenting on “Social Relationships, Information Flows, and Agriculture in Rural China”:\n\n Can a mobile phone make farmers in developing regions rich? Some economists believe so: information technologies can improve access to price information and to markets, reducing price dispersion and improving efficiency. However, access to markets and information are also socially negotiated processes that can result in counter-intuitive behaviors. In this presentation, I will discuss how Chinese farmers find and make sense of agricultural and market-related information, how the social relationships within the village shape their reactions to it, and how mobile phones and computers still have not found a place in this process. \n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20111129T121547 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Biomedical Libraries in the Next Decades: Open, Diffuse, and Very Personal TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias/20111202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20111130T161000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20111130T173000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:20815@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: David Weinberger \n\nWe used to know how to know things. That’s how we guided our businesses, our government, our daily lives. But now there is so much to know and so much conflicting advice to listen to. It seems like everyone’s an expert, and no one agrees with anyone else.\n\n This looks like a problem, but it actually can be a source of tremendous strength. It turns out that our old system of knowledge was based around the limitations of paper, a disconnected, expensive medium that managed a world that was too big to know by cutting down on what we had to deal with. There were of course advantages to that, but they came at the cost of throwing out most of what the world was trying to tell us.\n\n In the new knowledge ecology, knowledge takes on the properties of its new medium, the Net. That means knowledge has become huge, it's connected, and it embraces disagreement and differences. The key is to think about knowledge not as a set of content but as a network: the smartest person in the room is now the room itself. Then the question is, how can you build, maintain, and nurture a smart network? \n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20111130T162108 LOCATION:210 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Too Big to Know: How the new dimensions of information are transforming business — and life TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/distinguishedlectures/davidweinberger END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20111121T123000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20111121T133000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:20784@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Mike Ananny \n\nWhat does a public right to hear mean in networked environments, and why does such a right matter? In this talk I’ll describe how this right to hear has, in part, historically and implicitly underpinned the U.S. press’s claims to autonomy and, more fundamentally, models of democratic freedom. I’ll trace how this right appears in contemporary networked news production, and show how three networked news organizations have used Application Programming Interfaces to simultaneously listen to and distance themselves from their readers. A modern public right to hear — and thus the press’s claims to autonomy — depends, in part, upon networked technologies and practices that mediate among different groups and professions struggling for identity and legitimacy through what Bowker and Star (1999) call “boundary infrastructures.” It is through these technosocial systems — powerful yet often invisible infrastructures that I call “newsware” — that the contemporary, institutional press signals how it is willing to listen to, with, and for publics.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20111118T123124 LOCATION:202 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Networked Journalism and a Public Right to Hear in an Age of Newsware and APIs TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20111121ananny END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20111118T151000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20111118T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:20220@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Juliane Stiller \n\nAn overview of cultural heritage information systems and in particular Europeana (www.europeana.eu), Europe's single access point to cultural heritage aggregating material from archives, libraries and museums. Due to the multicultural and multilingual dimension of Europeana, a supporting project cluster tackles issues such as the heterogeneity and multilinguality of the presented objects and/or their metadata. I will focus on cross-lingual search solutions developed in these projects and their evaluation. \n\n In addition, a project will be presented which offers innovative ways for users to interact with cultural heritage, and the idea of a collaboratively formed cultural information space will be discussed. This project also demonstrates how users can add their perspectives, through story telling, to cultural heritage material they engage with.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20110915T101828 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Europeana and Beyond: User Interaction and Collaboration in Multilingual Cultural Heritage Information Systems TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias/20111118stiller END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20111116T161000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20111116T173000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:20753@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tarun Wadhwa \n\nDigital identity systems are quietly reshaping the world. They are transforming everything from how we move across borders to how we conduct commerce and interact with our governments. They are even changing the very definition of citizenship itself. National identity systems are now gaining electronic components — and they are quickly becoming the norm for most people around the world. Offering an incredible tool to implement reforms, this technology can help to transform the lives of billions of people by providing them recognition, resources, security, and access. Yet there are also enormous challenges involved as well. This powerful technology can be used to digitize discrimination and undermine civil liberties, while posing enormous cyber-security risks to individuals and the world at large.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20111116T160754 LOCATION:210 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:The Digital Transformation of National Identity TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/deanslectures/2011tarunwadhwa END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20111116T160000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20111116T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:20182@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Prospective I School students are invited to an online chat with current students and admissions staff, to get students' perspective and advice and learn more about life at the I School.\n\n This "Virtual Open House" will be held from 4:00–5:00 pm PST (Thursday 00.00–1.00 GMT)\n\n  \n\n Connect to the Admissions Chatroom\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20111031T143117 LOCATION: STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Online Admissions Chat TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20111116onlineadmissionschat END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20111109T181000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20111109T193000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:20295@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Garth Johnson \n\nOver the past seven years, Garth Johnson has maintained the weblog Extreme Craft, which examines the field of craft through the prism of his unique sense of humor. The work showcased on his site vacillates gleefully between playful, provocative, and downright rude. From day one, the blog's tagline has been “art masquerading as craft, craft masquerading as art, and craft extending its middle finger.” The Extreme Craft Roadshow is a fast-paced one hour of “greatest hits” of the website that proves the lines between art, craft, and design have become hopelessly blurred.\n\n The Design Futures Lecture Series is co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for New Media and the School of Information.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20111021T164411 LOCATION:BCNM Commons, 340 Moffitt Library, near the Free Speech Cafe STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:The Extreme Craft Roadshow TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/dfls/20111109johnson END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20111104T151000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20111104T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:20613@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Michael Buckland & Pinar Öztürk \n\nPinar Öztürk Pinar Öztürk, associate professor of artificial intelligence and computer and information sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, and visiting scholar at the School of Information, will briefly introduce herself and her work.\n\n Michael Buckland: Information Access Old and New Conventional information access (indexing, cataloging, classification) is mainly based on 19th century ideas implemented with spectacular success in the 20th century (online catalogs, Medline, OCLC, etc.). As of 1990 the achievement was impressive. But now, rather suddenly, it all seems outmoded, even rather irrelevant as new techniques with novel names have swept the scene: tagging, ontologies, name spaces, RDF, georeferencing, the Semantic Web. Also FRBR and RDA.\n\n Are these mainly old wine in new bottles? Or the logical development following evolving technology? Or really new and different? How do these new techniques relate to the old ones? How should we adopt them and/or adapt to them?\n\n What are the implications for curriculum development and faculty recruitment in I Schools? Join me for a discussion.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20111021T114750 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Information Access Old and New TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias/20111104 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20111028T151000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20111028T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:20588@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Megan Finn, Stuart Geiger, and Elisa Oreglia \n\nThree papers to be presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) in Cleveland, Ohio:\n\n The women's connection: circulation and use of ICT between urban and rural China Elisa Oreglia The floating population of Chinese migrant workers who move from the countryside to the city to find jobs and then go back home after a few years, creates a crucial link between more developed urban areas and the mostly poor countryside. Women are a large part of this population, and they rely heavily on woman-to-woman social networks to move to the city, find jobs, and secure emotional support. Young migrant women are also keen users of information and communication technologies, which they use to maintain contact with their families, but also to maintain their city-based social networks. This talk, based on fieldwork in Beijing and in 3 rural villages, focuses on the nature of these networks and on the role that women play in bringing ICT and knowledge about ICT back to the countryside\n\n Situation Reports and the Politics of Information Sharing in Emergencies (In The Politics of Uncertainty: Disasters and STS) Megan Finn and Elisa Oreglia A situation report, or sitrep, is a document commonly used by UN agencies, humanitarian NGOs, and other organizations involved in emergency response to disseminate information to/from relief workers in the field. The sitreps issued by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) face an impossible task - to circulate highly-politicized information about a disaster to the appropriate people in order to serve competing and conflicting goals under the banner of "coordinating" humanitarian response. By some people's judgment, this information system, which produces and distributes sitreps, has failed. To examine the complex information ecology OCHA sitrep belongs to, we conducted more than a 100 interviews with OCHA staff and sitrep stakeholders, as well as document analysis. On the basis of this data, we argue that traditional information management systems developed in business contexts to facilitate information sharing ignore the fact that no system can fulfill its implicit objective of representing a far away situation simply and accurately. We build upon the work of Lewis and Madon, who argue that information management in development-oriented NGOs must be understood from a different perspective than that of traditional economic organizations. We suggest that humanitarian organizations require a different framework for evaluating the utility of an information system, and we argue for (a) renewed focus on supporting rather than altering certain types of multi-channel information systems, and (b) implementing systems that represent multiple, imperfect perspectives on emergency situations.\n\n "The Internet Is Here": The Virtuality of Online Communities in Physical Spaces Stuart Geiger In this presentation, I critique the concept of "online communities" by calling into question both of these core terms. I present cases from 4chan and Wikipedia to illustrate how conceptual issues arise when such groups converge in physical spaces — specifically examining claims of presence made when 'IRL' meetups occur. While still problematic, I argue that the term 'virtual' is far more productive than "online" to describe distributed groups of individuals who utilize many different kinds of tools, techniques, technologies, and spaces to interact.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20111017T113157 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Three Social Studies TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias/20111017 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20111026T161000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20111026T173000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:20694@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Herkko Hietanen \n\nMedia production tools poorly address one of the most common use cases: The user needs media he doesn't have and lacks the money to pay for. Finding and using externally produced media is typically a cumbersome process. Often users resort to search engines to find the media. They then have to download the files and hope they don't infringe on copyrights in the process. While there are tens of millions of images that can be used with permissive licenses, the license terms are normally too complicated for users to understand. Even the users who intend to respect copyrights fail to do so in most cases. We introduce an application that solves this problem. Our software provides access to various legal sources of images built right into the creative workflow and automates the process of attribution. This application can be incorporated into any media creation software.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20111026T084438 LOCATION:210 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Why PowerPoint Is the Biggest Software Pirate and How It Can Be Fixed TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20111026hietanen END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20111021T151000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20111021T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:20576@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Fred Gey & Ray Larson \n\nNuclear forensics discovery is the tracking of origins of nuclear materials. If a significant amount of smuggled nuclear material is seized, can its origin be traced to both track down the would-be terrorists and to prevent further illicit activities? Fred Gey and Ray Larson have just received a $300K grant from National Science Foundation for the project "Recasting Nuclear Forensics Discovery as a Digital Library Search Problem," as part of the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office Academic Research Initiative (in cooperation with Department of Homeland Security). \n\n This talk will begin by discussing the nature of scientific search. Is scientific search: (1) search of the scientific literature; (2) search for scientific/engineering discoveries (e.g. Patent Search); or (3) a process of 'needle in haystack' search in a technical domain (e.g. fingerprint or DNA matching)? Are there more categories than these three? This project falls into category 3. It approach nuclear forensics as a specialized search problem. The 'signatures' of seized smuggled nuclear samples are to be matched against large libraries of radio-chemically analyzed existing samples (up to 100,000 records) to discover the geolocation and origin of the seized sample. The project will develop new models of discovery: (1) graph matching on nuclear decay graphs, (2) machine-learning of classification to find geo-locations of sample origins, and (3) rule-based matching capturing the processes by which human forensics experts would identify matches. Educational materials will be developed to bridge between search professionals and nuclear chemists and make each research community aware of the challenges and benefits of interdisciplinary collaboration.\n\n See the award announcement\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20111019T095630 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Nuclear Forensics: A Scientific Search Problem TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias/20111021 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20111019T181000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20111019T193000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:20294@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Regina Connell, Handful of Salt \n\nDesign is sexy; craft is frumpy. It's time to kill that particular trope. And it's time to bring them together.\n\n Craft is actually the soul of design, while design adds focus, edge, and realism to what can be an overly introspective process.\n\n But can the two actually coexist? See the designers and artisans who are bringing together the two "disciplines" and merging them into a new, more relevant way of thinking about the world.\n\n The Design Futures Lecture Series is co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for New Media and the School of Information.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20111004T113800 LOCATION:BCNM Commons, 340 Moffitt Library, near the Free Speech Cafe STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Beyond Design Thinking TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/dfls/20111019connell END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20111019T161000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20111019T173000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:20248@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ramesh Srinivasan \n\nWhat does it mean to think about culture and community before one thinks about technology? And how could that paradigm shift allow scholars and professionals to re-imagine solutions that think past net delusions around grassroots political movements, and empower community decision-making in the developing world, indigenous knowledge around climate change or cultural heritage, and communication between states and citizens? This talk takes us to several places where I have focused my fieldwork on technology and culture, and community-driven design, including Egypt's Tahrir Square, the Zuni Nation of New Mexico, the Kyrgyz Steppe, and Rural India. Across these projects, I argue for the power of thinking of both culture and technology as dynamic, and mutually co-constructed, introducing design, fieldwork, and research approaches toward the study of global media and information. LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20111016T184255 LOCATION:210 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Digital Diversity: Exploring Global Media By Starting With Culture and Community TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/deanslectures/20111019srinivasan END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20111018T090000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20111018T183000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:19121@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:The I School will be hosting an Open House for prospective students. Classes during the day will be open for visitation starting as early as 9:00 am and ending at 5:30 pm. Feel free to attend any that look interesting to you, or just come for the information session at 5:30 pm.\n\n For the times and locations of the courses, refer to the Course Schedule. Please keep in mind that classes follow "Berkeley Time" and will begin 10 minutes after the scheduled time (e.g., 10 a.m. classes start at 10:10 am).\n\n To RSVP for the event or for more information, please email admissions [at] ischool .\n\n Prospective Student Information Session \n 5:30 - 6:30 pm \n Room 210, South Hall\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20111014T101856 LOCATION:South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Prospective Student Open House TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20111018openhouse END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20111014T151000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20111014T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:20513@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Patrick Golden & Michael Buckland \n\nThe preparation of scholarly editions of historically important texts requires extensive expert research in the context of each document but much of the contextual material cannot be included in the eventual published volume and remains effectively inaccessible. We will report on "Editorial Practices and the Web", a two-year project supported by the Mellon Foundation to move the editors' notes into digital form and make them openly accessible. This is a joint project with the Emma Goldman Papers Project (Berkeley), the Margaret Sanger Papers Project (New York Univ.), The Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Papers Project (Rutgers), and The Labadie Collection (University of Michigan). They all contribute to and use a shared environment using the Django web framework and Zotero which we will demonstrate. Our experience suggests a reconsideration of the relationship between scholarship and publication.\n\n More information\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20111014T101844 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Editors' Notes and Humanities Scholarship TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias/20111014goldenbuckland END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20111013T090000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20111013T100000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:20181@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Prospective I School students are invited to an online chat with current students and admissions staff, to get students' perspective and advice and learn more about life at the I School.\n\n This "Virtual Open House" will be held from 9:00–10:00 am PDT (16.00–17.00 GMT).\n\n  \n\n Connect to the Admissions Chatroom\n\n  \n\n The Online Admissions Chat will be repeated Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 4:00–5:00 pm PST (Thursday 00.00–1.00 GMT).\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20110926T180810 LOCATION: STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Online Admissions Chat TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20111013onlineadmissionschat END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20111011T183000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20111011T200000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:20499@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION: Alumni and friends of the School of Information (I School), the School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS), the School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS), and the School of Librarianship are cordially invited to the Alumni Reception, during the annual ASIS&T conference in New Orleans.\n\n Take this opportunity to reconnect with faculty, colleagues, classmates, staff and others.\n\n Alumni Reception \n ASIS&T Annual Meeting \n Tuesday, October 11, 2011 \n 6:30 – 8:00 pm\n\n New Orleans Marriott \n La Galerie 4–6 \n 555 Canal St \n New Orleans, LA 70130 \n (map)\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20111006T122725 LOCATION:Marriott Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Alumni & Friends Reception TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/2011asistreception END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20111007T151000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20111007T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:20475@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Clifford Lynch \n\nHistorically, cultural memory organizations — and particularly libraries — have taken some responsibility for managing names as part of their practices of bibliography and cataloging, and of managing the national cultural record. The explosive democratization of content creation and sharing, the generative nature of the internet environment, and new developments in scholarly communication all drive demands for new approaches to the management of names and name authority. Genealogists and historians have also been concerned with names and with the public records that accompany those names; we have seen debates about how much of an individual's life should be part of the public record and about how accessible this record should be, and we have also seen the emergence of enormous biographical databases, including Wikipedia. In the 20th century, we have seen the emergence of bibliometric techniques that offered new insight into the growth and evolution of knowledge, but this work has been hampered by very poor name management in the key corpora; as we enter the 21st century, both the potential contributions of these approaches and the problems of disambiguation have expanded. In my lecture, I'll survey these converging historical developments and propose a restructured set of roles and responsibilities for the management of names in the cultural context, as well as framing a few questions about public policy and social norms.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20111004T120031 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Names and Lives In the Cultural Record TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias/20111007lynch END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20111005T161000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20111005T173000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:20240@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lada Adamic \n\nIn this talk I will give a brief overview of projects past, present and future, in hopes of introducing you to my research and finding common interests that we can explore together during my visit this academic year. I study the way in which networks shape and are shaped by information. In the context of online question and answer forums and crowdsourcing sites, networks reveal who the experts are. In the context of online political discourse, networks reflect political ideologies. In general, simply observing the dynamic network of who communicates with whom can reveal properties, such as diversity and novelty, of the information that is flowing through and shaping the network. Networks not only transmit information, but modify it, sometimes generating viral memes. Finally, as useful as networks are in modeling information flow, they should not always be taken at face value, especially if they are generated by asking individuals to rate one another.\n\n Due to emergency construction in South Hall, handicapped accessibility for this lecture is limited. Please call (510) 642-1464 for more information.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20111011T174225 LOCATION:210 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Information Dynamics in a Socially Networked World TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/deanslectures/20111005adamic END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20111003T173000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20111003T183000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:20286@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Judd Antin, Yahoo! Research \n\nWhy do people create, interact, and collaborate online? What are the deep motivations that drive so many to invest significant time and energy on Facebook, Flickr, StackExchange, Wikipedia, Yahoo! Groups, YouTube, and countless other sites? As social media has become the internet's driving force, questions about motivation and incentives have come to the forefront. Motivation, however, is hard to talk about and hard to measure. In this talk I discuss some of the problems with current models of motivation that are enshrined in trends like "gamification." I also discuss some key problems with measuring motivation through surveys, and present a recent study on social desirability effects in reports of motivation on Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Finally, I present thoughts on the future of measuring motivation and developing effective mechanisms for motivating online participation. LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20111003T183806 LOCATION:202 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:The Tragedy of Survey Methodology TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20111003antin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20110930T151000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20110930T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:20219@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ruth Mostern, UC Merced \n\nHistory classes explain how phenomena change over time, but they do a poor job demonstrating that human activity has a spatial dimension as well. In order to rectify this, I have begun to integrate Google Earth and other tools into my history classes. In this talk, I will introduce my classroom Google Earth assignments, as well as a virtual globe demo that I am developing for a textbook publisher. I will also introduce survey data about student response to the assignments, showcase student work, and reflect upon the challenges of using Google Earth in a history classroom. Finally, I will discuss the experience of evaluating digital and spatial student work: my Google Earth assignments include detailed and transparent evaluation standards with potentially broad applicability in both pedagogical and research domains. LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20110915T101831 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Spatially Aware History Teaching TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias/20110930mostern END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20110927T180000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20110927T193000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:20047@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Come to an admissions information session to learn more about the graduate programs at the UC Berkeley School of Information. Meet admissions staff and alumni who will be on hand to answer your questions.\n\n Autodesk Gallery at One Market \n 1 Market St., Second Floor \n San Francisco, CA 94105 \n Directions\n\n RSVP required. Please email admissions [at] ischool to reserve your space.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20110818T095707 LOCATION:The Autodesk Gallery at One Market STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:San Francisco Admissions Information Session TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/admissions/events/20110927autodeskgallery END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20110922T181000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20110922T193000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:20293@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Uday Dandavate \n\nBreakthrough solutions for lingering problems and saturated marketplaces can be found by engaging stakeholders in co-imagining the future. SonicRim, a multi-disciplinary co-creation agency, has pioneered new approaches to deepening insights and inspiring breakthrough ideas through story telling and play. The speaker, Uday Dandavate, believes that recession has provided the world a perfect opportunity for breakthrough innovation only because it has made policy makers and business leaders willing to co-imagine the future with everyday people and innovate disruptive solutions through a participatory process.\n\n The Design Futures Lecture Series is co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for New Media and the School of Information.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20110922T172845 LOCATION:135 Cheit Hall, Haas School of Business STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Co-Imagining Futures TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/dfls/20110922dandavate END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20110916T151000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20110916T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:20301@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Clifford Lynch & Michael Buckland \n\nThe rise of data intensive scholarship has focused new attention on the reuse of data; funding agencies are calling for data sharing plans; there is renewed discussion of the appropriate relationship between traditional scholarly publications and the data that underlies them, and recent meetings have focused on the very varied barriers to more extensive data-reuse. In this seminar, we'll review recent developments and lead a discussion of ways forward. LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20110915T101754 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Data Curation and Re-Use TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias/20110916 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20110914T160000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20110914T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:20180@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Prospective I School students are invited to an online chat with current students and admissions staff, to get students' perspective and advice and learn more about life at the I School.\n\n This "Virtual Open House" will be held from 4:00–5:00 pm PDT (Wednesday 23.00 – Thursday 00.00 GMT)\n\n  \n\n Connect to the Admissions Chatroom\n\n  \n\n The Online Admissions Chat will be repeated:\n\n Thursday, October 13, 2011 \n 9:00–10:00 am PDT (16.00–17.00 GMT) \n   Wednesday, November 16, 2011 \n 4:00–5:00 pm PST (Thursday 00.00–1.00 GMT) LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20110831T131921 LOCATION: STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Online Admissions Chat TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20110914onlineadmissionschat END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20110909T150000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20110909T170000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:20186@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dave Lester, MITH \n\nThe Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland has become recognized as a leading digital humanities center, and supports work "from Shakespeare to Second Life." As interest in digital humanities grows and its practice becomes increasingly institutionalized, the role of centers reoccurs in conversations; particularly at institutions that do not have one. \n\n This talk will provide a broad overview of active digital humanities projects at MITH, address the intentional growth and direction of the center, and develop distinctions made by Steve Ramsay about research and service at digital humanities centers. In the absence of centers, how do humanities faculty, students, and staff connect and coordinate funding and collaborations? What technical support is provided and necessary? The talk will conclude with a look at alternative models to centers, and other institutional efforts.\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20110831T160721 LOCATION:107 South Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Centers of Intention TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20110909ias END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20110805T090000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20110805T173000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:19044@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:An unconference for researchers, teachers, learners, and education technology developers, to improve the use of technology to increase student engagement and bring about deeper learning. \n \n\n Organized by the School of Information’s Center for Next Generation of Teaching and Learning (NGTL), Educational Technology Services (ETS), and the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) at the Haas School of Business.\n\n Goals of Cal Educamp: Develop connections among users of technology for learning. Share experiences, practice, and tools. Experiment, collaborate, try something new, and learn something from each other. Background: New media & technology for education is an emerging space that looks to capitalize on the social, participatory, and active nature of various Web 2.0 tools to facilitate social learning. A wide range of practices have developed around the use of these technologies because of the new capacities for construction of knowledge and student-centered learning environments. Novel and interesting methods & tools have arisen to take advantage of these capacities.\n\n Why an unconference? Cal Educamp is a barcamp-style unconference which will provide a space for folks to lead and participate in a range of hands-on and conceptual sessions in order to improve their understanding, methods and practices around new technology for teaching and learning. We have chosen to host an unconference because it is a facilitated, participant-driven conference centered around a theme or purpose. Participants will both learn from others as well as share their own skills and experience. We believe this is an ideal approach to the media that we are studying.\n\n The question is: How can we deepen our own understanding, explore new methods and tools, and improve how we teach and facilitate learning?\n\n Registration: Cost: $25 (covers food & materials)\n\n Register online\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20110627T143700 LOCATION:Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Cal Educamp TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/2011educamp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:20110725T101000 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:20110725T113000 DTSTAMP;TZID=US-Pacific:20120516T124008 UID:19102@ischool.berkeley.edu CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jonathan Spira \n\nInformation has become the great leveler of society and business. In 2010, information overload cost the U.S. economy almost one trillion dollars. From endless email, social media, and texting, to poor search tools and a dramatic increase in information generation, information overload is stretching the bandwidth of businesses and employees at unprecedented levels. \n\n Revealing how the very tools deployed to make knowledge workers more efficient have in turn bogged productivity down, Jonathan Spira explores the many ways today’s tidal wave of information has bombarded and dulled our senses as well as hampered our ability to innovate and produce.\n\n (This lecture is part of the course Info C103: History of Information. All are welcome.)\n\n LAST-MODIFIED;TZID=US-Pacific:20110715T151159 LOCATION:110 Barrows STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Society, the Knowledge Worker, and Information Overload TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20110725spira END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR