RKCSI Student Fellow: Kathryn Clodfelter
Kathryn Clodfelter comes to Indiana University’s Ph.D. program in Information Science with over a decade of work experience as a business analyst and technical writer in pharmaceuticals, direct marketing, government, and nonprofits. She has also served as founder, board member, and webmaster for two geographically-based community networks in Indiana and as a board member of the Indiana Community Network Association. Throughout these experiences, she has recognized that the technology is the easy part - it’s the social, cultural, and political aspects that most affect the success or failure of ICT-based interventions. Kathryn’s academic interest in community networks and the Digital Divide involves investigating concepts such as social capital, social networks, and informational capitalism - particularly for rural impoverished areas in the United States.
Kathryn currently serves as the Webmaster for the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics and as the Book Review Editor for The Information Society journal.
For more detailed information, visit Kathryn’s home page at http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~kaclodfe/.
