iSchool Director Recipient of ASIS&T SIG SI Best Social Informatics Paper Award



Congratulations to Director Caroline Haythornthwaite, who has received the 2013 Best Social Informatics Paper Award from the Association for Information Science and Technology Special Interest Group for Social Informatics (ASIS&T SIG SI). The award is shared with the paper’s lead author, Dr. Nama Raj Budhathoki.

The paper, “Motivation for open collaboration: Crowd and community models and the case of OpenStreetMap,” can be found in American Behavioral Scientist, Volume 57, No. 5.

The authors will present their papers and receive their awards at the 10th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium: “Connecting (Epistemic) Cultures and (Intellectual) Communities” on Saturday, November 1, 2014 at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology in Seattle, WA.



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