Luddy School of
Informatics, Computing, and Engineering

Noriko Hara

MIS Director

Professor of Information Science

Education

• Ph.D. at Indiana University, 2000

Courses Taught at SICE

• Z513 Organizational Informatics
• Z514 Social Aspects of Information Technology
• Z556 Systems Analysis & Design

Biography

Noriko Hara is a professor in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering. Her research in Social Informatics emphasizes online knowledge sharing, communities of practice, and collective behaviors in mediated environments. Specifically, Noriko examines the means by which public engagement with science are enabled and/or impeded by information Technology. Her research also examines co-production of scientific knowledge in online communities, such as Wikipedia. She is the author of Communities of Practice: Fostering Peer-to-Peer Learning and Informal Knowledge Sharing in the Work Place from Springer, and a co-editor of Global Wikipedia: International and Cross-Cultural Issues in Online Collaboration from Rowman & Littlefied. Noriko received a Ph.D. in Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University and was a postdoctoral research fellow in the NSF Science and Technology Center at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Research Areas

• Health@Luddy - Crosscutting
• Information and Library Science
• Communities of Practice
• Intellectual Freedom and information/data ethics
• International Information Issues
• Media Studies
• Online communities
• Organizational Informatics
• Social Informatics
• Ethics and Values in Digital Society

Centers

• Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics