I study how attitudes about technology shape adoption and am deeply interested in the ways that technologies facilitate behaviors, paradigms and engagement, both as an academic and a practitioner. I’d like to help create a better internet.
Currently, I research how web users consume and engage with information–what they choose to read, how they remember, and why they share. Page views, click-throughs, and ad impressions tell us that users are present, but not that they have engaged and why. Through qualitative interviews with users, and social network analysis I hope to develop insights about how users interact with content online, to create better metrics for getting information to and measuring outcomes of interested users. I seek to advise online business models and also initiatives that foster civic engagement in communities.
I’m an advocate for women in technology, the open web, user-awareness of privacy concerns, sustainable online business models, fashionable geeks, news and information relevant to participants in democracies, new travels, old friends, good tea, open-source software with good UX and meditating before checking email in the morning.
