Expertise

Her research in Social Informatics emphasizes online knowledge sharing, communities of practice, and collective behaviors in mediated environments. Specifically, Noriko examines the means by which public engagement with science are enabled and/or impeded by information Technology. Her research also examines co-production of scientific knowledge in online communities, such as Wikipedia.

Research Areas:

  • Health@Luddy - Crosscutting
  • Information and Library Science
  • Social Informatics
  • Ethics and Values in Digital Society
  • Communities of Practice
  • Intellectual Freedom and information/data ethics
  • International Information Issues
  • Media Studies
  • Online communities
  • Organizational Informatics

My research is in Social Informatics emphasizes public engagement with science, knowledge collaboration, communities of practice, and collective behaviors in mediated environments. Specifically, I examine the means by which collective behaviors are enabled and/or impeded by Information Technology.

My recent research concerns co-production of scientific knowledge in online communities, such as Wikipedia.

Past Affiliations

MIS Director, Department of Information and Library Science, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington

Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (past)

Associate Professor, Information Science, Department of Information and Library Science, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Bloomington

Associate Professor, Department of Information and Library Science, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington

Associate Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Assistant Professor, Department of Information and Library Science, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington

Assistant Professor, Information Science, Department of Information and Library Science, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Bloomington

Communities
Computer Science, Library Science, Library Science
Degrees
MS, Indiana University Bloomington, Educational Psychology, 2000
PhD, Indiana University Bloomington, Instructional Systems Technology, 2000
MS, Indiana University Bloomington, Instructional Systems Technology, 1996
BS, Yokohama National University, Japan, Mathematical Sciences, 1994
Keywords
multimedia or interactive communications technology sociology of science collective behavior social movements activists or activism computer science distributed system research methodology information technology
Languages
English, Japanese
Honors

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, NSF (School of Information and Library Science), 2000-2001

L.C. Larson Professional Development Award, Department of Instructional Systems Technology, Indiana University, 2000-2000

Doctoral Student Grant-in-Aid of Research Award, Research and the University Graduate School, Indiana University, 1999-1999

Associations
American Society for Information Science and Technology
Association for Computing Machinery
Society for Social Studies of Science