Symposium Schedule and Abstracts
Schedule
8:00–8:30
Check-in
Room 2423
8:30–8:45
DR. GARY MARCHIONINI, DEAN
Opening remarks
Room 2423
9:00–11:00
CONCURRENT
Poster sessions
Atrium / Art gallery
- “So Real It’s Scary – Deep Fake and Voice Mimicry Technology”
- AI’s Impact on Ghost Work
- AI and the Future of Work: Navigating Ethical Dilemmas in the Use of Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning
- Breaking Barriers: Information Literacy for Underrepresented Communities
- Is AI Stealing from Artists?
- Do smartphones improve or reduce workplace productivity?
- Visual and Audio Deep Fakes: A Manipulation of Reality
- Exploring Informed Consent through the lens of Terms & Conditions
- NSA Surveillance: Is it Really Worth It?
9:00–9:45
Panel session 1
In-person & online
- Room 3205 – AI and decision making
- Room 3206A – “What You Don’t Know May In Fact Hurt You” – Increasing Access to Health Information
- Room 3206B – Digital Literacy: Privacy, Policies, and User Empowerment
- Room 3408 – Censorship in School Libraries
- Room 3409 – R Way Forward: Reparative Justice in Archives and Cultural Heritage Institutions
- Room 3411 – The Impact of Policies on Information Environments
- Zoom A – Working as students
- Zoom B – Ethical Considerations in Developing AI Chatbots
10:00–10:45
Panel session 2
In-person & online
- Room 3205 – AI Biases and Assistive Technologies
- Room 3206A – Shadow Librarians and Dungeon Masters: Exploring Ethical Questions Around the Democratization of Information
- Room 3206B – Health (Mis)Information: Ethics, Outcomes, and Consequences
- Room 3408 – Current controversies in collection development for youth services
- Room 3409 – Decolonizing Language
- Room 3411 – Examining Power Dynamics: Cataloging, Digital Archiving, Public Libraries, & Health Sciences
- Zoom A – Beyond Scholarly Publishing: Open Access is Not So Open-and-Shut
- Zoom B – Data Ethics and User Privacy
11:00–11:55
DR. Tonia Sutherland
Keynote: Resurrecting the Black Body
Auditorium
12:00–1:00
Lunch
Room 2423
1:15–2:00
Panel session 3
In-person & online
- Room 3205 – AI for Social Good
- Room 3206A – How Information Institutions Can More Equitably Serve Disabled Populations
- Room 3206B – It’s for Your Safety, or is It? The Ethical Dilemma of Using Biometric Data
- Room 3408 – Libraries and archives as “third place”
- Room 3409 – Nothing Lasts Forever: Ownership, Access, and Preservation of Ephemera in the Archives
- Room 3411 – Metadata on the Margins
- Zoom A – Library & Information Access: A Collaborative Examination of How UNC-CH Addresses Access Across the Field of Library and Information Science
- Zoom B – Misinformation in Social Media
2:15–3:00
Panel session 4
In-person only
- Room 3205 – Podcast on Racial Bias In AI
- Room 3206A – Data accessibility: issues and implications
- Room 3206B – Surveillance and the Making of the ‘Productive Citizen’
- Room 3408 – Policy and Punishment in the Public Library
- Room 3409 – What Lives on and Who Tells the Story
- Room 3411 – When the Community Leads It Succeeds: The Necessity of Community-Led Research (CLR) in Academia
- Room 2420 – Causes and Effects of Information Overload
Room Themes
Each room at the symposium has a theme which reflects the content of its panels throughout the day.
- Room 3205 – Artificial intelligence
- Room 3206A – Information access
- Room 3206B – Surveillance, privacy & misinformation
- Room 3408 – Public & school libraries
- Room 3409 – Archives
- Room 3411 – Policy & power
- Zoom A – Academics
- Zoom B – Digital ethics
Abstracts
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