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