Doctoral student theses

Students’ dissertations are stored in the University of Michigan document depository “Deep Blue.”

  • When do Researchers Collaborate? Toward a Model of Collaboration Propensity in Science and Engineering Research

    Author:  Birnholtz, Jeremy P. (2005)

    Assistant Professor, Cornell University

    Keywords:
    collaboration
    sociology of science
    high energy physics

     

  • Exposure to Controversy in an Information Society

    Author:  Garrett, R. Kelly  (2005)

    Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University

    Keywords: 
    selective exposure
    democratic deliberation
    information and communication technology
    online news

     

  • Social networks, social capital, and the use of information and communications technology in socially excluded communities: a st

    Author:  Williams, Kate  (2005)

    Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

    Keywords:
    digital divide
    digital inequality
    community informatics
    social informatics
    information technology
    social exclusion
    poverty
    information society

     

  • Defining Digital Preservation Work: A Case Study of the Development of the reference Model for an open Archival Information Sys

    Author: Lee, Christopher A.  (2005)

    Associate Professor, University of North Carolina  

    Keywords:
    open archival systems
    digital archive
    digital preservation

     

  • Ratings Use in an Online Discussion System: The Slashdot Case

    Author: Lampe, Clifford A.  (2006)

    Assistant Professor, University of Michigan

    Keywords: 
    Slashdot
    distributed moderation
    online discussion system
    recommender systems

     

  • Short-term Event Tracking in Dynamic Online News

    Author: Otterbacher, Jahna C.  (2006)

    Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology

    Keywords:
    dynamic information
    information retrieval
    information and communication technology
    online news
    breaking news events
    Internet

     

  • Growth Matters: Identifying Best Practices in Growing Civic Collaborations

    Author: Johnston, Erik W.  (2007)

    Assistant Professor, Arizona State University            

    Keywords:
    growth process
    civic collaboration
    agent-based modeling
    minimum-effort game
    Nurse-Family Partnership

     

  • Knowledge Sharing, Maintenance, and Use in Online Support Communities

    Author: Hansen, Derek L. (2007)

    Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University

    Keywords:
    wiki
    online community
    repository
    FAQ
    mass collaboration
    online support group

     

  • Understanding and Augmenting Expertise Networks

    Author: Zhang, Jun (2008)

    Pitney-Bowes

    Keywords:
    expertise network
    online community
    social network
    expertise sharing

     

  • Imperfect Partnership: Effects of Collaboratories on Scientists from Developing Countries

    Author: Luo, Airong (2008)

    Researcher, University of Michigan - Medical School Administration Enabling Technologies

    Keywords:
    distributed scientific collaboration
    communities of practice
    networks of practice
    collaboratories
    scientists from developing countries
    information technology

     

  • Provision, Interpretation and Effects of Feedback in Reputation Systems

    Author: Khopkar, Tapan A. (2008)

    Keywords:
    reputation systems
    experimental economics

     

  • Interactivity and Electronic Communication: An Experimental Study of Mediated Feedback

    Author: Bietz, Matthew J. (2008)

    Keywords:
    computer-mediated communication
    electronic communication
    interpersonal critical feedback

     

  • Faculty Self-Archiving Behavior: Factors Affecting the Decision to Self-Archive

    Author: Kim, Ji-Hyun (2008)

    Assistant Professor, Ewha Womans University, Korea

    Keywords:
    Self-archiving
    Open Access
    Scholarly communication
    Institutional Repositories

     

  • Three Papers on Strategic Decision Making in Digitally Mediated Markets

    Author: Osepayshvili, Anna V. (2009)

    Keywords:
    Simultaneous Ascending Auctions
    bundling of information goods
    supermodular Bayesian games
    potential Bayesian games
    empirical game-theoretic methodology
    experimental economics

     

  • Perceived Documentation Quality of Social Science Data

    Author: Niu, Jinfang (2009)

    Assistant Professor, University of South Florida

    Keywords:
    secondary data analysis
    Documentation
    Perceived Quality

     

  • Building Bridges: A Study of Coordination in Projects

    Author: Hemphill, Libby Marie (2009)

    Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology

    Keywords:
    adaptive capacity
    collaborative work
    projects

     

  • Social Influences on User Behavior in Group Information Repositories

    Author: Rader, Emilee Jeanne (2009)

    Assistant Professor, Michigan State University

    Keywords:
    group information management

     

  • Motivating Contributions for Home Computer Security

    Author: Wash, Richard L. (2009)

    Assistant Professor, Michigan State University

    Keywords:
    incentives
    social computing
    security

     

  • Ontic Occlusion and Exposure in Sociotechnical Systems

    Author: Knobel, Cory Philip (2010)

    Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh

    Keywords:
    cyberinfrastructure
    digital libraries
    ontology
    discourse
    sociotechnical

     

  • Undergraduate Research and Academic Archives: Instruction, Learning and Assessment

    Author: Krause, Magia G. (2010)

    US Department of State

    Keywords:
    Archival User Education
    Archival Instruction

     

  • Three Essays on the Economics of Information Systems

    Author: Jian, Lian (2010)

    Assistant Professor, University of Southern California

    Keywords:
    social computing
    e-commerce
    management

     

  • Sensemaking Handoffs: Why? How? and When?

    Author: Sharma, Nikhil (2010)

    Keywords:
    sensemaking
    handoff
    handover
    collaboration
    sense-making

     

  • Essays in Information Economics

    Author: Chiao, Hak Fung (2010)

    Associate Professor Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

    Keywords:
    open contents
    spam
    open source
    modularity
    anti-spam economic mechanisms
    censorship

     

  • Information in Healthcare: An Ethnographic Analysis of a Hospital Ward

    Author: Zhou, Xiaomu (2010)

    Assistant Professor, Rutgers University

    Keywords:
    documentation
    computerization of medical information
    Electronic Health Records (EHR)
    Computerized Prescriber Order Entry (CPOE)
    boundary object
    information assemblage

     

  • Arkose: A Prototype Mechanism and Tool for Collaborative Information Generation and Distillation

    Author: Nam, Kevin Kyung (2010)

    MIT Lincoln Lab

    Keywords:
    user interfaces
    collaborative
    discussion space

     

  • Narrowing the Gap: Chronic Illness Information as Experienced in Everyday Life and Healthcare Contexts.

    Author:  Maria L. Souden  (2011)

    University College Dublin

    Keywords: 

    chronic illness information use
    chronic illness self-management
    information needs, seeking, and use
    provider-patient communication
    consumer health informatics
    use of electronic health record in primary care