Welcome
I am a professor in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering at Indiana University, Bloomington and the Director of the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics.
My research uses Social Informatics perspectives to investigate public engagement with science, knowledge sharing, and communities of practice in mediated environments. Recently, I investigated how two-way science communication has been enabled and/or impeded by social media. I also organize an open panel called “Making Science in Public: Studying Relations Within Science Communication and Public Engagement” at 4S and EASST with colleagues, Sarah R Davies and Maja Horst. See also the special issue of Science Communication that I co-edited with Sarah.
I am interested in how social media can help or impede public engagement with science. More specifically, my research investigates the public engagement with scientific topics of COVID-19 (NSF #21-52423), Climate Change, and Artificial Intelligence on Twitter, YouTube, and Reddit.
I am the author of Communities of Practice: Fostering Peer-to-Peer Learning and Informal Knowledge Sharing in the Work Place from Springer and a co-editor of Global Wikipedia: International and Cross-Cultural Issues in Online Collaboration from Rowman & Littlefield and Social Informatics from Routledge both co-edited with Pnina Fichman. In the past, NSF funded my research project looking at tacit knowledge sharing in life science graduate programs (NSF #08-30137).
