Center for CMC

People

Research on CMC and social media is carried out by people in various roles and academic disciplines across Indiana University, as well as by scholars affiliated with IU.

Fellows are presently working and/or studying at IU; they include faculty, students, Center staff, and other scholars working at or visiting IU at the present time. Center Fellows represent 11 different units: Anthropology, Business, Communication and Culture, Education, Informatics, Information Science, Instructional Systems Technology, Journalism, Linguistics, Second Language Studies, Spanish and Portuguese, and Telecommunications.1

Affiliates are CMC scholars who have a connection to IU but are located at other institutions. They include former IU students, former faculty, former visiting scholars, and non-IU scholars who collaborate with Center Fellows. Affiliates are located in 19 countries (Canada, China, Denmark, Egypt, England, Finland, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Norway, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Wales, and the US) and include a number of internationally-known researchers.

Learn more about our Fellows and Affiliates by following the links below.

Fellows

Center Affiliates

Center Staff

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Shohana Akter
Ph.D student in Information and Library Science

Research interests: online political communication; toxic and trolling behavior; social media affordances
Contact information: sakter at iu dot edu

Anas Althuwaini
Ph.D. student in Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures, minoring in Linguistics

Research interests: computer-mediated communication; computer-mediated discourse analysis; pragmatics; conversation analysis; discourse analysis
Contact information: analth at iu dot edu

Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig
Professor and Chair, Department of Second Language Studies

Research interests: pragmatics; student email discourse; second language acquisition
Contact information: bardovi at indiana dot edu

Curtis Bonk
Professor of Education

Research interests: collaborative and emerging educational technologies
Contact information: cjbonk at indiana dot edu
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Jason Yi-An Chen
Ph.D. student in Linguistics

Research interests: CMC; code-switching in CMC; metalinguistic discourse; online discourse; multimodality
Contact information: yc65 at indiana dot edu

Wei-Chu Chen
Ph.D. student in Information Science

Research interests: social networks; CMC; scholarly communication; social informatics
Contact information: chen273 at umail dot iu dot edu

Meredith Dedema
Ph.D student in Information and Library Science

Research interests: computer-mediated discourse analysis; online self-presentation; online community of practice; public understanding of science
Contact information: fndedema at iu dot edu

Alan Dennis
Professor of Information Systems and John T. Chambers Chair of Internet Systems

Research interests: collaboration technologies; knowledge management; data communications; the Internet
Contact information: ardennis at indiana dot edu
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Pnina Fichman
Professor, Department of Information and Library Science

Research interests: ICTs and cultural diversity; group process and outcomes; online trolling and other deviant behaviors; virtual teams; online communities and crowds
Contact information: fichman at indiana dot edu
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J. César Félix-Brasdefer
Professor of Spanish and Linguistics; Adjunct Associate Professor of Linguistics; Adjunct Associate Professor of Second Language Studies

Research interests: CMC; pragmatics; student email discourse; second language acquisition
Contact information: cfelixbr at indiana dot edu
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Mike Gallant
Luddy IT Staff from Indiana University Bloomington

Research interests: linux
Contact information: gallantm at iu dot edu

Ilana Gershon
Professor of Anthropology

Research interests: disconnecting over new media; the role of new media in hiring; the newness of new media; standardization; science and technology studies; ethnography of media
Contact information: igershon at indiana dot edu
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Mary Gray
Associate Professor in Informatics, with affiliations in Anthropology, Gender Studies, and the Media School; Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research, New England

Research interests: everyday uses of technologies; media and LGBTQ youth; crowd work; digital labor; ethnography; AI and ethics
Contact information: mlg at indiana dot edu
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Noriko Hara
Professor of Information Science; Chair, Department of Information and Library Science

Research interests: online knowledge collaboration and collective behaviors in computer-mediated environments; scientific knowledge and social media
Contact information: nhara at indiana dot edu
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Rob Henderson
Luddy ITG Staff

Research interests: linux
Contact information: robh at iu dot edu

Susan C. Herring
Director; Professor of Information Science, Adjunct Professor of Linguistics

Research interests: CMC; CMDA; language; discourse; pragmatics; sociolinguistics; gender; culture; multimodality; multilingualism; content analysis; CMC methodologies; robot-mediated communication
Contact information: herring at indiana dot edu
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Heather Jerrell
Luddy IT

Research interests: IT
Contact information: hkidd at iu dot edu

Inna Kouper
Associate Scientist, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University; Ph.D. (2011) from IU in Information Science

Research interests: cyberinfrastructure; digital discourses; critical theory; science history and communication; knowledge production and dissemination
Contact information: inkouper at indiana dot edu
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Soyeon Lee
Dual Ph.D. student in Information Science and the Media School

Research interests: entertainment; social media; data science; eWOM; live streaming
Contact information: sl151 at iu dot edu
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Jessica Lester
Professor of Inquiry Methodology, School of Education

Research interests: asynchronous discussions; conversation analysis; discourse analysis; discursive psychology
Contact information: jnlester at indiana dot edu
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Holly Lopez
Assistant to the Director; Ph.D. student in Information Science

Research interests: CMC; discourse analysis; multimodality; channel mixing and switching; artificial intelligence
Contact information: hdlopezl

Filippo Menczer
Professor of Informatics

Research interests: web science; network science; computational social science; social media; data science; online diffusion of information and misinformation
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Enrique (Kike) Rodríguez
Ph.D. student in Hispanic Linguistics

Research interests: pragmatics; online discourse analysis; video-mediated interaction; multimodality; conversation analysis; second language acquisition and online learning and interaction
Contact information: enrodri at iu dot edu

Patrick Shih
Associate Professor of Informatics

Research interests: human-computer interaction; computer-supported cooperative work; social computing; ubiquitous computing; human computation; community informatics; creativity and design
Contact information: patshih at indiana dot edu
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Younei Soe
Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Information and Library Science; Ph.D. in Mass Communication (2012) from Indiana University

Research interests: communication and technology; media and politics; qualitative internet research; human-computer interaction; design and engagement with technology in everyday life
Contact information: ysoe at indiana dot edu
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Yueru Yan
Ph.D. student in Information Science

Research interests: self-presentation in live-streaming; computer-mediated discourse analysis; artificial intelligence in online communication

Sung-Un Yang
Ralph Winslow Professor of Journalism, The Media School, Indiana University Bloomington

Research interests: Social media strategies for strategic communication management; authenticity; online reputation of organizations; stakeholder engagement in social media; stakeholder-organization relationship cultivation on social media
Contact information: yang223 at indiana dot edu
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Leo Yang
Ph.D. student in Criminal Justice

Research interests: cyber bullying; deception; trolling; anti-social communication; cultural differences in CMC
Contact information: leoyang at iu dot edu
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