Today's Topics: 1. Gaming Metrics: Innovation & Surveillance in Academic Misconduct (Elise Y Wong) 2. FW: ANMIG Seeking New Officers for 2016-2017 (Elaine Franco)
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 GAMING METRICS: INNOVATION & SURVEILLANCE IN ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT UC Davis, February 4-5, 2016 Organized by the Innovating Communication in Scholarship Project (ICIS) with support from the Center for Science and Innovation Studies (CSIS). Co-organizers: Mario Biagioli and Alexandra Lippman GAMING METRICS: INNOVATING & SURVEILLING ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT. UC Davis, February 4-5, 2016. This conference explores a recent evolution of scholarly misconduct ... REGISTRATION: The conference is open to the public. Please register here: http://goo.gl/forms/QdMyTg1xZt Although attendance will be on first-come first-serve basis, we will reserve seats for out-of-town participants. DESCRIPTION: Misconduct has traditionally been tied to the pressures of "publish or perish" and, more recently, to the new opportunities offered by electronic publishing. The conference takes the next step to asks whether the modalities of misconduct are now evolving to adapt themselves to modern metrics-based regimes of academic evaluation. Have we moved from "publish or perish" to "impact or perish"? If so, are metrics of evaluation now creating new incentives for misconduct? And can we still reliably draw a clear separation between gaming the metrics game and engaging in misconduct? Traditional discourses and policies of misconduct were rooted in oppositions between truth and falsehood, right and wrong, honest mistake and fabrication, but new metrics-based misconduct seems to be defined by the extent of the gaming involved. In sum, are new metrics-based forms of misconduct asking us to rethink and redefine misconduct? Topics include: How different communities and professions construe the line between acceptable and unacceptable gaming. When do university rankings cross over into institutional misconduct? Collaborative? misconduct, such as citation rings among journals to maximize their impact factors. Gaming that involves the construction or adoption of metrics Does Goodhart's law, that the introduction of any metric creates a market for gaming it, apply in academic contexts? Does the rise of "watchdog" organizations indicate something about the specific nature of modern academic misconduct? The appearance of "fake" journals whose titles (and the look and feel of their websites) resemble those of well-known and respectable journals Have humor and absurdity become a mode of critique and unmasking? Speakers include: Sally Engle Merry (NYU, Anthropology) Alex Csiszar (Harvard University, History of Science) Paul Wouters (Leiden University, Science and Technology Studies) Karen Levy (NYU, Media, Culture, and Communication) Barbara Kehm (University of Glasgow, School of Education) Lior Pachter (UC Berkeley, Mathematics) Daniele Fanelli (Stanford, METRICS) Finn Brunton (NYU, Media, Culture, and Communication) Sarah de Rijcke (Leiden University, Science and Technology Studies) Jeffrey Beall (University of Colorado, Denver, Information Science) Dan Morgan (University of California Press, Collabra Project) Johan Bollen (Indiana University, Informatics and Computing) Carl T. Bergstrom (University of Washington, Biology) Jennifer Lin (Crossref) Michael Power (London School of Economics, Accounting) James Griesemer (UC Davis, Philosophy) Ivan Oransky (Retraction Watch & NYU) John Bohannon (Science Magazine) Elizabeth Wager (Sideview) Darren Taichman (Editor, Annals of Internal Medicine) Debora Weber-Wulff (University of Applied Sciences Berlin, HTW, Media and Computing) Brandon Stell (The PubPeer Foundation & CNRS) Emmanuel Didier and Catherine Guaspare (EPiDaPo, UCLA) Marie-Andree Jacob (Keele University, Law) Alessandro Delfanti (University of Toronto, Communication, Culture, Information and Technology) Sergio Sismondo (Queen?s University, Philosophy) Cyril Labb (Joseph Fourier University - Grenoble I) Burkhard Morgenstern (Universitet Gottingen, Bioinformatics) Paul Brookes (University of Rochester, Medicine) ------------------------------ Message: 2 Forwarded to CLA TSIG email list by Elaine Franco, member, CLA TSIG Steering Committee. The ALCTS New Members Interest Group (ANMIG) is seeking two volunteers to serve as Vice Co-chair and Student liaison for 2016-2017. Since 2009 ANMIG has been an energetic group that is focused on the interest of new ALCTS members and information professionals. The group is charged with developing interest group meetings at ALA conferences, helping new members of ALCTS assimilate to the division, plan virtual events and share pertinent information to the larger library community. Highlighted below are the responsibilities of the Vice Co-chair and Student Liaison positions. If this sounds like an exciting opportunity please send a short bio and a few sentences about why you are interested in the position to the incoming co-chairs Katy Holder ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) and Carolina Delgado ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>). Vice Chairs: This position serves a one-year term, from June 29, 2016 to June 28, 2017 (at the close of the ALA 2017 Annual Conference). The positions can be virtual, conference attendance is not required, but encouraged. The ALCTS New Member Interest Group (ANMIG) Vice Chair is responsible for shadowing the Chair in preparation to take on that responsibility in the coming year. Other responsibilities include, but are not limited to: * Fills in for the chair in his/her absence * Makes recommendations for new ANMIG chats and activities * Helps plan chats and/or programs * Assist online or in person with programming during ALA Midwinter and Annual Conferences Student Liaison: This position serves a one-year term, from June 29, 2016 to June 28, 2017 (at the close of the ALA 2017 Annual Conference).This position can be virtual, and conference attendance is not required, but welcomed. The primary responsibility for the Student Liaison is to help develop ANMIG activities that would be relevant to current MLIS students. Other responsibilities include, but are not limited to: * Promote ANMIG content to student ALA Chapters through ALA representative * Make recommendations for new ANMIG chats and activities that would be relevant to current MLIS students * Assist online or in person with programming for ANMIG events during ALA Midwinter and Annual Conferences We look forward to hearing from you! Incoming ANMIG Co-chairs 2016-2017 Katy Holder [[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Carolina Delgado [[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] ------------------------------ End of Tsig Digest, Vol 45, Issue 8 ***********************************
