Pnina Fichman

Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics

Ph.D. Program Director for Information Science
Professor of Information Science

Education

• Ph.D. at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 2003

Biography

Pnina Fichman is a Professor of Information Science in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering and the director of the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics. She earned her PhD from the University of North Carolina. Her research in social informatics focuses on social aspects of technology and social media in particular. Her studies of online trolling, examine political, satirical, and ideological trolling. She publishes also on topics such as collective intelligence, gender and technology, and ICT and diversity. In addition to the five books, she co-authored or co-edited, her publications appeared in journals such as: Information and Management, the Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, the Journal of Information Science, The Information Society, and Information, Communication, and Society.

For more information: CV, Books by Prof. Fichman, Google Scholar

Research Areas

• Communities of Practice
• Computer Mediated Communication and Social Media
• Gender and Information Technologies
• Information Behavior
• International Information Issues
• Media Studies
• Online communities
• Organizational Informatics
• Social Media
• Trolling
• Social Informatics

Centers

• Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics