The Special Interest Group for Social Informatics (SIG-SI) of the Association for Information Science and Technology and the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics (RKCSI) are seeking nominations for an award for the best paper written by a doctoral student on a topic informed by social informatics. Nominations may include a published paper in a peer reviewed journal during 2013 or a conference paper presented in 2013.

The author or authors will present their paper at the 10th Annual SIG-SI Symposium on Saturday, November 1, 2014 and receive a $500 cash award at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Seattle in November, 2014.

Nomination letters should be sent to Howard Rosenbaum (hrosenba@indiana.edu) or Pnina Fichman (fichman@indiana.edu) by August 15, 2014 and must include a full citation, a brief explanation for the nomination, and a copy of the article. Self nominations are acceptable.

Winners will be notified by August 30, 2014.

For more information about the Special Interest Group for Social Informatics

(SIG-SI): http://asistsigsi.wordpress.com

For more information about the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics (RKCSI):

http://rkcsi.indiana.edu