Expertise

His research focuses on social informatics, ebusiness, and online communities, and he has published in a variety of information science journals and presented at ASIS&T, iConferences, and elsewhere.

Research Areas:

  • Information and Library Science
  • Data Science
  • Social Informatics
  • Ethics and Values in Digital Society
  • Critical algorithm theory
  • Intellectual Freedom and information/data ethics
  • Media Studies
  • Social Theory of Information
  • Social Informatics

In general, I am interested in using a social informatics approach to study:

  • Electronic commerce, particularly the problem of trust
  • Community networking
  • The history and development of the internet and its implications for the information professions
  • Managers and their uses of information in organizations
Communities
Computer Science, Library Science
Degrees
PhD, Syracuse University, Information Transfer, 1996
MLS, Syracuse University, 1986
Master's, Syracuse University, 1976
BA, Hamilton College, Sociology; Economics, 1975
Keywords
electronic commerce information science or systems library science
Associations
American Society for Information Science and Technology
Association for Computing Machinery
Association for Information Systems