Philip Agre, now an Associate Professor of Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, back in 1993 wrote an article for inspiring Ph. D. students about "Networking on the Network". "The principle of articulating commonalities is the secret to getting along with people," was Agre's advice. Agre offered another useful advice about building communities of people "on the basis of openly explored shared interests".
Recently, I've come across a fascinating new book written by a psychologist at Washington University in St. Louis, Keith Sawyer. In Group Genius, Dr. Sawyer shares the empowering results of his acclaimed research and reveals that creativity is always collaborative, even when we are alone.
Thus, driven by academic interests and the desire to tap into the creative power of collaboration, I would always seek out like-minded people around the globe, organized in a variety of social networks. Professional associations could be excellent platforms for building collaborative webs of people with shared research interests, because they all strive to provide an optimal environment for substantive intellectual exchange. I can name a few that fit my "mental model" of professional groups that I would want to be a part of one day. Every single one of them represent an important combination of features that I need to help me construct a bridge between my professional past as a government documents librarian with my future academic life as an information scientist interested in e-government research.
Since 1937, the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) has been the society for information professionals (including librarians) leading the search for new and better theories, techniques, and technologies to improve access to information. The Society provides the perfect forum for individuals who share a common interest in improving the ways society stores, retrieves, analyzes, manages, archives and disseminates information.
There is hardly a better place to find out what's going on in the world of digital government research than Information Technology and Politics, an Organized Section of the American Political Science Association. What I like the most about it is the fact that members receive a free subscription to the professional Journal of Information Technology and Politics (formerly Journal of E-Government), an exciting forum for policymakers, academics and researchers. This new periodical is focusing on the application and practice of e-government in its broadest sense, using information technology to enhance the delivery of public services and information.
I see my future as an academic, and I already have several years of experience in college teaching. I believe that should explain my third choice and curiosity about ALISE, or Association for Library and Information Science Education, a non-profit organization that serves as the intellectual home of university faculty in graduate programs in library and information science in North America since 1915. ALISE is known for ensuring a rigorous, highly competitive process for refereed papers for conference programs and the journal, and well as useful commentary to researchers from reviewers. At the moment, there is an additional attraction such as a special interest group for doctoral students.
Recently, I've come across a fascinating new book written by a psychologist at Washington University in St. Louis, Keith Sawyer. In Group Genius, Dr. Sawyer shares the empowering results of his acclaimed research and reveals that creativity is always collaborative, even when we are alone.
Thus, driven by academic interests and the desire to tap into the creative power of collaboration, I would always seek out like-minded people around the globe, organized in a variety of social networks. Professional associations could be excellent platforms for building collaborative webs of people with shared research interests, because they all strive to provide an optimal environment for substantive intellectual exchange. I can name a few that fit my "mental model" of professional groups that I would want to be a part of one day. Every single one of them represent an important combination of features that I need to help me construct a bridge between my professional past as a government documents librarian with my future academic life as an information scientist interested in e-government research.
Since 1937, the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) has been the society for information professionals (including librarians) leading the search for new and better theories, techniques, and technologies to improve access to information. The Society provides the perfect forum for individuals who share a common interest in improving the ways society stores, retrieves, analyzes, manages, archives and disseminates information.
There is hardly a better place to find out what's going on in the world of digital government research than Information Technology and Politics, an Organized Section of the American Political Science Association. What I like the most about it is the fact that members receive a free subscription to the professional Journal of Information Technology and Politics (formerly Journal of E-Government), an exciting forum for policymakers, academics and researchers. This new periodical is focusing on the application and practice of e-government in its broadest sense, using information technology to enhance the delivery of public services and information.
I see my future as an academic, and I already have several years of experience in college teaching. I believe that should explain my third choice and curiosity about ALISE, or Association for Library and Information Science Education, a non-profit organization that serves as the intellectual home of university faculty in graduate programs in library and information science in North America since 1915. ALISE is known for ensuring a rigorous, highly competitive process for refereed papers for conference programs and the journal, and well as useful commentary to researchers from reviewers. At the moment, there is an additional attraction such as a special interest group for doctoral students.
Wow Anna!!! more interesting communities that I would not have been exposed to so early in my PhD program had I not been part of this “melting pot” of IST.