Welcome
I am a professor in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering and the Director of the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington.
My research uses Social Informatics perspectives to investigate public engagement with science, knowledge sharing, and communities of practice in mediated environments. Currently, 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. My research team is called mediated Public Engagement with Technology & Science (mPETS).
I was honored to be named among the top 2% of researchers worldwide in the 2024 Stanford–Elsevier rankings, which utilize standardized citation metrics across all disciplines.
In my leadership roles, as Director of the Rob Kling Center, I enjoy supporting interdisciplinary teams and sustaining Rob Kling’s legacy for Social Informatics. I am passionate about fostering collaborative spaces where both students and faculty can thrive. I also had the privilege of serving as Chair of the Information & Library Science Department from 2022 to 2025.
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).
I 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.
