This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information in
Contemporary Society iConference 2019 held in Washington DC USA in March April 2019. The
44 full papers and 33 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and
selected from 133 submitted full papers and 88 submitted short papers. The papers are organized
in the following topical sections: Scientific work and data practices methodological concerns
in (big) data research concerns about smart interactions and privacy identity questions in
online communities measuring and tracking scientific literature limits and affordances of
automation collecting data about vulnerable populations supporting communities through public
libraries and infrastructure information behaviors in academic environments data-driven
storytelling and modeling online activism digital libraries curation and preservation
social-media text mining and sentiment analysis data and information in the public sphere
engaging with multi-media content understanding online behaviors and experiences algorithms
at work innovation and professionalization in technology communities information behaviors on
Twitter data mining and NLP informing technology design through offline experiences digital
tools for health management environmental and visual literacy and addressing social problems
in iSchool research.
