Save the Date: April 4th 10am-4pm, Rutgers LIS Research Symposium!
The LIS Department at Rutgers University is organizing a full-day research symposium, bringing together scholars and practitioners who examine complex sociotechnical challenges in information science. The symposium will be held on Friday, April 4th, 2025 from 10am – 4:15 PM EST. Please mark your calendar and click here to register! This is a hybrid symposium; you are welcome to join us from online or attend the symposium in-person at Rutgers. Those who registered will receive the online Zoom link prior to the event. Registration is free. This year's symposium, "Examining Critical Sociotechnical Challenges in Information Science", will feature three panels, each addressing critical issues at the intersection of technology, society, and information systems. The first panel, Provenance and Reproducibility, will explore how questions of data provenance, transparency, and reproducibility impact knowledge production across disciplines. The second panel, Content Moderation in the Age of AI, will discuss evolving governance structures, platform accountability, and the role of artificial intelligence in shaping online discourses. The final panel, Community Sustainability and Engagement, will examine how community-centered research can foster sustainable, equitable, and participatory approaches to information science. Through these discussions, we aim to engage with the pressing ethical, methodological, and epistemological challenges that define contemporary information research. This symposium seeks to foster cross-institution and interdisciplinary collaborations that can inform future research, teaching, and practice within LIS, SC&I, and beyond.
Event Schedule
Date and time: Friday, Apr 4, 2025, 10am-4:15pm
Location: Rutgers University SC&I, Room 222 and online
Address: School of Communication and Information, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 4 Huntington Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1071 [
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| Time | Description |
| 10:00-10:15 | Opening, Welcome remarks |
| 10:15-11:15 | Panel 1: Provenance and Reproducibility Moderator: Jessica Yi-Yun Cheng Panelists: -
Inkyung Choi, Associate Research Scientist, OCLC Research -
Danel Hruschka, Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University -
Deborah Paul, Biodiversity Informatics Liaison, Species File Group, Illinois Natural History Survey, UIUC |
| 11:15-13:30 | Lunch - on your own |
| 13:30-14:30 | Panel 2: Content moderation in the age of AI Moderator: Shagun Jhaver Panelists: -
Oliver Haimson, Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan -
Mor Naaman, Don and Mibs Follett Professor of Information Science, Cornell Tech -
Casey Randazzo, PhD candidate, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University -
Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University |
| 14:30-15:00 | Coffee Break |
| 15:00-16:00 | Panel 3: Community sustainability and engagement Moderators: Tawfiq Ammari, Alex Lu Panelists: -
Aakash Gautam, Assistant Professor, School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh -
Bryan Semaan, Information Science Department Chair, Associate Professor, University of Colorado Boulder -
Brett Halperin, PhD candidate, Human-centered Design and Engineering, University of Washington |
| 16:00-16:15 | Closing |
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out.
Jessica Cheng, Shagun Jhaver, Alex Lu, Tawfiq Ammari
Rutgers LIS Research Development Committee
Yi-Yun Cheng, Ph.D. (she/they)
Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information Science,
School of Communication and Information
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey