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Keynotes, Panels and Workshops Carlos Caicedo, associate professor, was invited to speak at a panel at the Columbia University Business School in April. His presentation was titled, “Dynamic Spectrum Resource Sharing Technology Alternatives.” Rachel Ivy Clarke, assistant professor, participated in a panel on library leadership, “I’m a Librarian: Ask Me Anything!,” at the New York Library Association conference. She also presented a talk at the American Association of Law Librarians Upstate New York Chapter annual meeting, “You Are a Designer: Rethinking Librarianship as a Design Profession.” Caroline Haythornthwaite, professor, co-moderated a featured panel at the 8th International Social Media and Society Conference in Toronto. Entitled, “Women in Social Media: Safe and Unsafe Spaces,” its co-moderator was Stephanie Teasley and panelists were iSchool faculty members Jennifer Stromer-Galley and Ingrid Erickson, along with Libby Hempfill and Alyssa Wise.
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Jeffery Hemsley, assistant professor, took part in the AoIR Early Career Scholars Workshop at Internet Research 18: The 18th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers in Estonia. Hemsley also took part in that conference’s Social Media Data Bootcamp and Research Hackathon. Megan Oakleaf, associate professor, hosted a roundtable exploring the advantages, opportunities and challenges of using learning analytics as a tool to augment the value proposition of libraries. The roundtable was held at the at the Association of College and Research Libraries conference in Baltimore. Co-speakers were Scott Walter of DePaul University and Debbie Malone of DeSales University. Oakleaf also took part in two panel sessions at that event. The first was “Closing the ‘Data Gap’ Between Libraries and Learning: The Future of Academic Library Value Creation, Demonstration and Communication.” The second panel was titled, “Data in the Library is Safe, But That’s Not What Data is Meant For.”
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Steven B. Sawyer, professor, presented on the panel, “Organizational and Institutional Work in Data Infrastructures,” at the American Society of Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting 2017. The topic paper, written by Kalpana Shankar and Kristin Eschenfelder, focused on findings from their project on governance of scholarly data sources. Sawyer also participated in the DeVries Colloquium on Academic Information Systems at Iowa State University, speaking about iSchools. Marcene S. Sonneborn, professor of practice, participated on a panel for Innovation Discovery Event (IDE) Day at the Griffiss Institute in Rome, New York. Panelists were charged with brainstorming with Griffiss Institute researchers to help them to reactively develop/advance their innovations/research ideas/disclosures by asking questions, making suggestions, and expanding the list of potential applications for the researchers’ ideas in the areas of cybersecurity, telecommunications and data science. Sonneborn also spoke about entrepreneurial and technology commercialization issues and coaching at two conferences: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s New York Automation & Robotics Conference; and SUNY Stony Brook’s 13th International Conference and Expo at the Center of Excellence for Wireless and Information Technology. Jennifer Stromer-Galley, professor, was a plenary panelist on the topic, “Civic Technology and Public Deliberation,” at the 2017 International Conference on Deliberation and Decision Making: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Civic Tech, in Singapore. Stromer-Galley provided a keynote address, “Taking a Long View of Social Media and Presidential Campaigning,” at the Symposium on Social Media and Presidential Politics at Hofstra University. The event took place at the Peter Kalikow School of Government, Public Policy and International Affairs. Stomer-Galley also presented several invited talks in 2017. She discussed “Social Media and the 2016 Presidential Campaign: Mobilization and Engagement with the Public” at the Annette Strauss Civic Media Institute at the University of Texas, Austin; and “Contextual Constraints and the Performance of Self in Online Multi-Player