Autore: Pnina Fichman

Pnina Fichman is the Director of the Rob Kling Center of Social Informatics, associate professor and the chairperson of the Department of Information and Library Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her research in social informatics focuses the relationships between information technologies and cultural diversity, online communities and global virtual groups, as well as online deviant behaviors, such as trolling and discrimination. In addition to her five co-edited/authored books, her publications appeared in journals, such as Information and Management, Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, and Journal of Information Science. She earned her Ph.D. from School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2003.Madelyn R. Sanfilippo is a doctoral candidate in Information Science at Indiana University, Bloomington”s School of Informatics and Computing. Madelyn is interested in the relationships politics and information. Her work specifically addresses social and political issues surrounding information and information technology access; she considers the interaction between information policy and information technology as impacts information access, from a social informatics perspective, in her dissertation.