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Short-term Event Tracking in Dynamic Online News
(2006)
When an important event happens, such as a terrorist attack or natural disaster, many people turn to the World Wide Web to keep track of the most current information. Because large numbers of online agencies report on such ...
Social Influences on User Behavior in Group Information Repositories.
(2009)
Group information repositories are systems for organizing and sharing files kept in a central location that all group members can access. These systems are often assumed to be tools for storage and control of files and ...
Biography, Well-being and Personal Media: A Qualitative Study of Everyday Digital Photography Practices.
(2011)
Debates persist in both popular discourse and the academic literature about the relationships between technology use and well-being. In my dissertation research, I investigate these relationships within a particular set ...
Three Papers on Strategic Decision Making in Digitally Mediated Markets.
(2009)
Technological developments have been reshaping existing markets and giving rise to new ones. In my dissertation, I address several questions that emerged as a result of these changes. In the first two chapters, I study ...
DEFINING DIGITAL PRESERVATION WORK: A CASE STUDY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE REFERENCE MODEL FOR AN OPEN ARCHIVAL INFORMATION SYSTEM
(2005)
I report on a multi-method case study of the development of a standard called the
Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS), which describes components and services required to develop and maintain ...
Interactivity and Electronic Communication: An Experimental Study of Mediated Feedback.
(2008)
Interpersonal critical feedback is a particularly important form of organizational communication. With the rise of distributed work practices, virtual teams, and other non-collocated forms of work, feedback must increasingly ...
Patient Handoffs between Emergency Department and Inpatient Physicians: A Qualitative Study to Inform Standardization of Practice and Organization Theory
(2011)
This dissertation is motivated by two problems. First, existing literature characterizes patient handoff as an information transfer activity in which safety and quality are compromised by practice variation. This has ...
Narrowing the Gap: Chronic Illness Information as Experienced in Everyday Life and Healthcare Contexts.
(2011)
This research examines the information experience of people with chronic health conditions in everyday life and as shaped by the healthcare context in order to understand informational aspects of patient-provider disconnects. ...
Information Diffusion and Social Influence in Online Networks.
(2011)
The explosive growth of online social systems has changed how individuals consume and disseminate information. In this thesis, we conduct large-scale observational and experimental studies that allow us to determine the ...
The Use of Social Tags in Text and Image Searching on the Web.
(2011)
In recent years, tags have become a standard feature on a diverse range of sites on the Web, accompanying blog posts, photos, videos, and online news stories. Tags are descriptive terms attached to Internet resources. ...