10:35 - 11:30 am: Poster Session Copyright (c) 2013 University of Tennessee, Knoxville All rights reserved. http://trace.tennessee.edu/ccisymposium/2011/poster Recent Events in 10:35 - 11:30 am: Poster Session en-us Wed, 15 May 2013 22:59:49 PDT 3600 Environmental Information Science: A Course at the Intersection of Popper's Worlds http://trace.tennessee.edu/ccisymposium/2011/poster/12 http://trace.tennessee.edu/ccisymposium/2011/poster/12 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:35:00 PST Lisa Metzer et al. The Science of Team Science: An Emerging Context for http://trace.tennessee.edu/ccisymposium/2011/poster/11 http://trace.tennessee.edu/ccisymposium/2011/poster/11 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:35:00 PST Poster submission

]]> Patricia F. Katopol Journal-Ranking Lists, Ideology, and the Academic Librarian: A Critical Analysis http://trace.tennessee.edu/ccisymposium/2011/poster/10 http://trace.tennessee.edu/ccisymposium/2011/poster/10 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:35:00 PST Poster submission

]]> Stephen Bales et al. Perceptions and uses of Google Scholar among undergraduate students http://trace.tennessee.edu/ccisymposium/2011/poster/9 http://trace.tennessee.edu/ccisymposium/2011/poster/9 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:35:00 PST Monica Colon-Aguirre et al. A Method to the Madness: A survey of research methods employed in studying science communication http://trace.tennessee.edu/ccisymposium/2011/poster/8 http://trace.tennessee.edu/ccisymposium/2011/poster/8 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:35:00 PST Tiffany C. Chao The Political Context of Scientific Data: Understanding the Value Public Officials Place on Knowledge (SciValue) http://trace.tennessee.edu/ccisymposium/2011/poster/7 http://trace.tennessee.edu/ccisymposium/2011/poster/7 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:35:00 PST Poster Submission

“The Political Context of Scientific Data: Understanding the Value Public Officials Place on Knowledge (SciValue)” Kimberly Douglass, Suzie Allard, Carol Tenopir (SIS), and Michael Fitzgerald (Political Science/Howard Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy) Contact: Kimberly Douglass – kdougla2@utk.edu

Abstract This poster reports on the SciValue project, a tool in a broader research agenda that examines the interface between science and public policy.

SciValue speaks to the notion that science faces increasingly complex questions. These grand challenges require computational and collaborative tools through vast cyberinfrastructures. SciValue examines the information sources members of the U.S. Congress consult when making decisions about scientific infrastructures. While Congress regulates research practices and holds authority over federal funding for such projects, members lack the tools needed for forward thinking at this scale. SciValue is a roadmap for qualitative research that will address these issues.

SciValue is a work-in-progress. Investigators will conduct interviews of key policy actors, including Congressional staff and analyze transcripts of Congressional proceedings. While investigators want to understand Congressional members’ willingness to fund cyberinfrastructures, it is also important to understand the value members attach to scientific data itself. Understanding the political will behind such projects is a critical first step towards creating awareness of the needs of science.

This proposed work links several research domains – science, information science, and public policy. It is also helping forge a link between the College of Communication and Information and the Howard Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy.

While holding implications for cyberinfrastructures, this project also advances the science, technology, and society (STS) literature. STS authoritatively prescribes policies for legislative bodies. However, Congress’ actual use of these prescriptions is largely unsubstantiated. SciValue examines how support, or lack thereof, for cyberinfrastructures is socially constructed in legislative processes.

]]> Kimberly L. Douglass The Information Behavior of Hospice Volunteer Coordinators http://trace.tennessee.edu/ccisymposium/2011/poster/6 http://trace.tennessee.edu/ccisymposium/2011/poster/6 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:35:00 PST Sheri Edwards Biodiversity Information Needs in the Southern Appalachians: http://trace.tennessee.edu/ccisymposium/2011/poster/5 http://trace.tennessee.edu/ccisymposium/2011/poster/5 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:35:00 PST Miriam L.E. Steiner Davis et al. Collaboration - It's a Good Thing!: A multi-faceted role analysis in graduate student education as "faculty-in-training". http://trace.tennessee.edu/ccisymposium/2011/poster/4 http://trace.tennessee.edu/ccisymposium/2011/poster/4 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:35:00 PST “Collaboration appears to play a unique role in science and science education today,” and serves as a rite of passage for new graduate students that indicates acceptance and achievement in research (Hara et. al. 2003). Collaboration is a crucial skill for faculty and students, helping advance knowledge and exploit the results of research effectively. In this project a group of six new Ph.D. students worked together with one faculty member and one post-doctoral researcher to develop a new course in Environmental Information Science. This poster is a report on the successes and barriers to collaboration encountered during the course of the project.

]]> Priyanki Sinha et al. Three Tests of Affluenza: TV Viewing and Materialism http://trace.tennessee.edu/ccisymposium/2011/poster/3 http://trace.tennessee.edu/ccisymposium/2011/poster/3 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:35:00 PST The researcher conducts secondary analyses of three polls now available from the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. These polls add to the cross-cultural body of research connecting hours of television viewing and symptoms of “affluenza,” materialism and the accompanying financial dissatisfaction and distress. The three polls are: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive 8th and 10th grade surveys 2008, a 1994 Survey of Men Employed in Civilian Occupations, and a 1999 survey of Family Life in Urban China.

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