News of Interest to the Profession
Sid Bhattacharyya, Mary Beth Watson Manheim, Steve Jones and Eric Welch, all of the U of Illinois at Chicago, were awarded a grant of $497,000 by the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Business Administration for a two year research project that will examine how the use of social computing tools (SCT) affect work practices and outcomes in the USA.
Steve Jones is Co-PI and Zizi Papacharissi is a participant on a National Science Foundation IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship) grant of $3,200,000 awarded to an interdisciplinary team of scholars at the University of Illinois at Chicago for 5 years titled "Electronic Security and Privacy: Technology, Human, Enterprise and Legal Considerations."
The 2011 World Complexity Science Academy (www.wcsaglobal.org) Conference, held in Palermo, Italy, 26-27 September, offered two important highlights regarding ICA members. Klaus Krippendorf was the recipient of the 2011 WCSA Medal for Systemic Research and Andrea Pitasi was rewarded as WCSA Honorary Life President due to his great efforts as WCSA cofounder and WCSA Scientific Director.