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Title: The Research Landscape of User-generated Digital Information: Challenges and Possibilities

 Abstract
With the advent of social media, users have been transformed from being passive recipients to active producers of digital information. The resultant body of user-generated content which ranges from text and images to video, has spawn multiple lines of research inquiry. In this talk, three dominant themes, namely, sense-making, diffusion and user-information interaction will be highlighted. Along with tracing the research trajectory of each theme, I will identify the theoretical, methodological and practical challenges and shed light on the possibilities that lie ahead.

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Dr. Alton Chua is currently Associate Professor, and Associate Chair (Research) at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. His responsibilities of overseeing the research office in the School range from charting strategic directions and forging collaborative networks to administering competitive grants and analyzing research performance of faculty members. He serves as an editorial board member for the Journal of Information Science among other peer-reviewed journals and has been a regular reviewer for a number of highimpact journals such as the Journal of the Association of Information Science and Technology, Information and Management, Internet Research and the Journal of Knowledge Management.

As an active scholar, Dr. Chua maintains a strong research portfolio. Besides having successfully attracted more than S$1.6 million worth of research grants either as Principal Investigator or as CoPrincipal Investigator, he has published in excess of 160 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers. The themes of his papers fall largely in the areas of information science and knowledge management.

An award-winning scholar-teacher, his recent research awards include the Highly Commendable Award (2017) from Journal of Intellectual Capital, the Highly Commendable Award (2015) from Online Information Review, the Best Paper Award (2015) from the International Conference on Internet Computing and Web Services and the Outstanding Paper Award (2014) from the Journal of Knowledge Management. Additionally, Dr. Chua has won the 2016 Nanyang Education Award (School) in recognition of his excellence in teaching. He was also conferred the Public Administration Medal (Bronze) in 2015 by the President of the Republic of Singapore for his administrative leadership.

Dr. Chua holds a doctorate in business administration specializing in Knowledge Management from Southern Cross University, a Master’s degree in Education (Training and Development) (with Distinction) from the University of Sheffield and Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (with Merit) from the National University of Singapore.

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Michael is currently the President of the IEEE TEMS Society and a member of the International Advisory board for Tsinghua University in Beijing. Formally, Michael was the Chief Technical Officer for Intel Corporation, Client Division. His career has a mixture of academic and industry positions, mostly in industry. Holding teaching and research positions at Princeton and University of Illinois, at Illinois. Michael came to Intel from Sun to head up Networking Applications research in Intel Labs. Michael’s CTO role drove on customer innovation, design cost reduction, and other technologies and leading technical staff development. He led efforts to help the customer with system design and security. This plus efforts in technical staff development at Intel awarded him and his team the prestigious Intel Quality Award in 2015. His background includes projects in computer architecture, software, firmware, operating systems, networking, IoT, internet applications, standards, and computer security. Michael retired from Intel in June 2015.

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Michael is the President of the IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society (TEMS). Michael is a senior board member for the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES), he created and chairs the IEEE Industry Forum series that has successfully engaged industry in over 22 conferences. Michael is also a member of the IEEE Computer Society for over 29 years.