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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