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EDITOR'S SUMMARY At the 2015 ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Special Interest Group/Social Informatics (SIG/SI) celebrated its 11th research symposium and the more than 100 panels, papers and posters presented over the years. The theme, 'The Impacts of Social Informatics Research,' was evident in studies illustrating social informatics in a variety of contexts. Speakers explored the use of communications technology in marginalized communities and language use in informal chat about illegal behavior in online communities. Presenters also examined human rights in Indonesia, taking a value-oriented approach in social informatics research, efforts to create a safer internet and ways big data marginalize individuals through algorithms used in quantitative analyses. A panel considered where social informatics fits in the IT curriculum of iSchools. An examination of social connectedness through digital channels and devices won the Best Paper Award. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the politics behind Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe's opinion about the gays. Mugabe has denounced the gay community and said that they have no rights at all. Mugabe's opinions won him just the kind of broad-based popular appeal in Zimbabwe he needed to take his people's minds off his increasingly moribund rule. The controversy started at the beginning of August with a government directive to the high-profile Zimbabwe International Book Fair to exclude Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe from its 1995 event, even though the theme for the year was human rights.