
Pnina Fichman
Director, Rob Kling Center for Social InformaticsPh.D. Program Director for Information Science
Professor of Information Science
Email: fichman@indiana.edu
Phone: (812) 856-1587
Office: Luddy Hall (700 N. Woodlawn Ave) | Room: 2114
Website: https://www.pninafichman.org/
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. She has published six books (co-authored or co-edited), and 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: Books by Prof. Fichman, Google Scholar, CV
Luddy Research Areas
- Data Science @Luddy
- Ethics and Values in Digital Society
- Information and Library Science
- Social Informatics
Other Research Areas
- Social and Ethical Aspects of Data Science
- Communities of Practice
- Computer Mediated Communication and Social Media
- Gender and Information Technologies
- Information Behavior
- International Information Issues
- Media Studies
- Online communities
- Social Media
- Trolling