People Worldwide
The RKCSI website hopes to provide a comprehensive listing of everyone around the world who is involved in the teaching (T), research (R), or study (S) of Social Informatics. Please contact the RKCSI webmaster to be added to the list. Please provide appropriate links and indicate your primary interest areas.
| Name | Institutional Affiliation | Interest Areas | T | R | S* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Abdul-Mageed | Linguistics Department Indiana University Bloomington (USA) |
Social networks, online communities, citizen journalism, convergent media, and e-learning | x* | ||
| Colin Allen | Cognitive Science Program Indiana University Bloomington (USA) |
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| William Aspray | School of Informatics (SoI) Indiana University Bloomington (USA) |
x | |||
| Carol Brown | Kelley School of Business (KSB) Indiana University Bloomington (USA) |
x | |||
| Bertram (Chip) Bruce | Library & Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) |
x | |||
| Erik Bucy | Telecommunications Department Indiana University Bloomington (USA) |
x | |||
| Jean Camp | School of Informatics (SoI) Indiana University Bloomington (USA) |
x | |||
| Lynne C. Chase | School of Library and Information Studies University of Wisconsin — Madison (USA) |
Social influences on information systems development projects in government agencies. | x | ||
| School of Library and Information Management Emporia State University (USA) |
x | ||||
| Kathryn Clodfelter | School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) Indiana University Bloomington (USA) |
Community networks; Digital Divide; rural information issues; social capital; social networks | x | x* | |
| Kay Connelly | Department of Computer Science Indiana University Bloomington (USA) |
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| Don Cunningham | School of Education Indiana University Bloomington (USA) |
x | |||
| Mike Cushman | Information Systems Group Department of Management LSE (UK) |
Non-users of ICTs; digital and social exclusion; life in the e-society | x | x | |
| Leonard D’Avolio | Department of Information Studies Department of Medical Informatics UCLA (USA) |
Effects of contextual influences on clinical data mining and natural language processing | x | ||
| Ron Day | School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) Indiana University Bloomington (USA) |
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| Alan Dennis | Kelley School of Business (KSB) Indiana University Bloomington (USA) |
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| Mark Deuze | Telecommunications Department Indiana University Bloomington (USA) |
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| Paul DiPerna, Project Director |
Blau Exchange | x | |||
| Hamid Ekbia | School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) Indiana University Bloomington (USA) |
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| Thomas Gieryn | Department of Sociology Indiana University Bloomington (USA) |
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| Per A. Godejord | Nesna University College (Norway) | I am currently trying to finish my PhD work on “Knowledge building and awareness raising as an approach to teach social informatics”. | x | x | x |
| Mary Gray | Communication & Culture Department Indiana University Bloomington (USA) |
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| Thomas Haigh | School of Library and Information Studies University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (USA) |
History of information systems and management; History of software; Virtual communities. I also teach Social Informatics and Organizational Informatics. | x | ||
| David Hakken | School of Informatics (SoI) Indiana University Bloomington (USA) |
x | |||
| Noriko Hara | School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) Indiana University Bloomington (USA) |
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| Jeffrey Hart | Political Science Department Indiana University Bloomington (USA) |
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| Caroline Haythornthwaite | Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) |
Social informatics of elearning, social networks, distributed knowledge, online community, online learning | x | x | |
| Richard Heeks | Development Informatics Group University of Manchester (UK) |
eGovernment; IT and International Development; IT and Remote Regions |
x | ||
| Susan Herring | School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) Indiana University Bloomington (USA) |
x | |||
| Kristo Ivanov | Dept. of Informatics Umeå University (Sweden) |
Interplay among technical, economic, political, psychological, aesthetical and ethical considerations in the design and use of information technology, including philosophical and theological issues that lately have also been labeled as existential or phenomenological issues of culture and spirituality. What does direct and should direct the development and application of information technology. | x | ||
| Vijay Khatri | Kelley School of Business (KSB) Indiana University Bloomington (USA) |
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| Ela Klecun | London School of Economics (UK) | Health IS and telehealth, digital exclusion, evaluation of IS, sociotechnical approaches and application of critical theory in the field of IS. | x | x | |
| Thomas Ley | Faculty of Educational Science, Center of Social Service Studies, Research Training Group “Youth Welfare in Transition” Bielefeld University (Germany) |
My research project is called “The informatization in social work - A qualitative analysis of the influence of software systems in youth welfare departments on professional social work”. Abstract can be found here | x | x | |
| Chi-Shiou Lin | Dept of Library & Information Science National Taiwan University (Taiwan) |
My research interests include electronic government information management and the social aspects of digital library use. My recently completed dissertation examines the influences of social cognition (the conception of “government publications”) on the selection and preservation of Web-based government information for long-term preservation in state digital depositories. My current research projects include a study examining the sociopolitical influences on the Web content production and management in selected Taiwan government agencies. | x | x | |
| Katarina Lindblad-Gidlund | CITIZYS Research Group Department of Information technology and Media MidSweden University (Sweden) |
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| Brian Loader, Co-Director |
Social Informatics Research Unit (SIRU), Deparment of Sociology Wentworth College University of York (UK) |
x | x | ||
| Tom Mackey | Information Studies College of Computing and Information University at Albany, SUNY (USA) |
Collaborative Web development, information literacy, Web-based multimedia, Social software (blogging, Wikis and RSS) | x | ||
| Anne Massey | Kelley School of Business (KSB) Indiana University Bloomington (USA) |
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| Paul-Brian McInerney | Indiana University South Bend (USA) | x | |||
| Eden Medina | School of Informatics (SoI) Indiana University Bloomington (USA) |
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| Eric Meyer | Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford (UK) |
Digital photography, IT and social change, scientific organizations, internet research, scholarly communication |
x | ||
| Katina Michael | School of Information Technology and Computer Science University of Wollongong (Australia) |
Social Implications of Automatic Identification and Location-Based Technologies on Mass Market Applications | x | x | |
| Jennifer Miller | Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Indiana University Bloomington (USA) |
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| Zoran Mitrovic | e-Innovation Academy Cape Peninsula University of Technology Cape Town, South Africa |
Adequacy of services offered/delivered by community informatics and electronic government | x | x* | |
| Tony Alex Moore | College of Information Science & Technology Drexel University (USA) |
Digital Libraries Human-Computer Interaction Knowledge Management Information Ethics & Policy Healthcare Informatics Information Theory |
x | x | |
| Olof Nilsson | CITIZYS Research Group Department of Information technology and Media MidSweden University (Sweden) |
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| Christine Ogan | Journalism Department School of Informatics (SoI) Indiana University Bloomington (USA) |
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| Anne-Marie Oostveen | Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford (UK) |
Social, economical and political implications of e-government and e-democracy tools; E- voting; User participation as a practical form for (computer) system design. | x | ||
| Serge Proulx |
Laboratoire de communication mediatisee par ordinateur (LabCMO) Ecole des medias UQAM (Canada) |
Uses of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Critique of social discourse on the Information Society Sociology of mediated communication practices Qualitative methodologies Communication & media theory |
x | x | |
| Julie Rennecker, Ph.D. Organization Science |
Distributed collaboration, unintended social consequences of emerging technologies, interplay of “material” and “virtual” contexts | x | |||
| Alice Robbin | School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) Indiana University Bloomington (USA) |
Information policy, resource management, and technology; social and organizational informatics, including communication and information behavior in complex organizations; and qualitative and quantitative research methods. | x | x | |
| Scott S. Robinson | Departmento de Antropologia Universidad Autonoma Metropolitano (Mexico) |
Social informatics issues in Mexico and Latin America | x | x | |
| Howard Rosenbaum | School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) Indiana University Bloomington (USA) |
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| Nicholas J Rowland | Department of Sociology Indiana University (USA) |
Diffusion, organizational theory, institutional theory [organizational analysis and economic theory], STS, Actor-Network Theory, reinvention/reengineering, design process | x | x | |
| Bruce Rowlands | School of ICT Griffith University (Australia) |
The social context and process of systems development | x | x | |
| Harmeet Sawhney | Telecommunications Department Indiana University Bloomington (USA) |
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| Steve Sawyer | College of Information Sciences & Technology The Pennsylvania State University (USA) |
Computerization of work, new forms of formal social organization, informatization, social informatics as a means to engage social analyses of computing. | x | x | |
| Lois Ann Scheidt | School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) Indiana University Bloomington (USA) |
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| School of Informatics Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis Indiana University/Purdue University at Columbus |
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| Pnina Shachaf | School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) Indiana University Bloomington (USA) |
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| Kalpana Shankar | School of Informatics (SoI) Indiana University Bloomington (USA) |
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| Edouard J. Simon | Department of Informatics University of Hamburg (Germany) |
Transdisciplinarity, policy-related issues in science, technology, and innovation studies, e-health, the politics of free and open source software | x | ||
| Mikropolis-Network | x | ||||
| Erik Stolterman | School of Informatics (SoI) Indiana University Bloomington (USA) |
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| Andrea H. Tapia | College of Information Sciences and Technology The Pennylvania State University (USA) |
Sociology of ICTs, ICT-enabled work, Public Policy and ICTs, Public Safety and ICTs, Social Inclusion and ICTs | x | ||
| Holly Tootell | School of IT & Computer Science University of Wollongong (Australia) |
Social impact of location-based services when used for national security and citizens rights in the information age. | x | x | x |
| Michael Tyworth | College of Information Sciences & Technology The Pennsylvania State University (USA) |
The design, use and impacts of ICT in organizations. The role of identity in the design and use of ICTs. Design of ICTs for interorganizational collaboration. | x | ||
| Nelson Vieira | Superior Institute for Social and Political Sciences Technical University of Lisbon (ISCSP/UTL) (Portugal) |
Children and Internet; Social impacts of ICTs; Digital divide; Media literacy; Media regulation | x | x | |
| Santosh Vijaykumar | Health Communication Research Laboratory Saint Louis University School of Public Health |
Social Technologies, e-consultations, ICTs applications in international health, sociology of the internet, chaos theory | x* | ||
| Luc Wilkin | Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) | Students’ use of IT, IT in government, IT and social change | x | x | |
| Sue Williams | Information Policy & Practice Research Group University of Sydney (Australia) |
* Information design & organisational usability * Information policy & practice * Intellectual organization of business information * Qualitative & participatory research & design methods |
x | x | |
| Eleanor Wynn, Social Technology Architect |
Information Technology Intel Corporation |
Social frameworks for technology development, technologies for self-organizing social systems and networks, virtual organizations, socially aware compute models | x |
*Indicates Student Fellow
