I used to be a Ph.D. Student at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). While I am not officially affiliated with UIUC anymore, I have continued some of the activities that would generally be considered academic work. Below are some of the work that I did and continue to do.
General academic work:
- Curriculum vitae - as with most academics, my complete academic history can be found in my CV. Some highlights include:
- I was a participant in The Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems (CSST): I attended the CSST 2008 Summer Camp; I co-organized the iConference 2009 workshop & the Association of Internet Researchers 2009 workshop; and I created and was the primary webmaster & maintainer of the CSST website & wiki at http://sociotech.net/ in 2008 and 2009.
GSLIS specific academic work:
- I have contributed a significant amount of content and administrative support (the social kind) to the unofficial GSLIS Wiki, though some of that content has been buried in the history pages due to massive attacks by spambots. Cameron Jones, who runs the wiki, has implemented some measures such as captcha and required logins to post, and we hope that it will stop the spambots, but I have yet to go back through the wiki and try to find and restore all the content that was lost. It's frustrating to lose several years of work to spammers.
- I have posted my Social Informatics Field Exam Answers (Spring 2008) so people can use it as a model for future exams.
- My Social Informatics Field Exam Reading List is also on the web, and you can see all the details of how I culled it from the candidate readings.
Academic Bio
written December 2009
Ingbert Floyd is a Ph.D. student at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC). He holds a B.S. in Brain & Cognitive Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research addresses sociotechnical systems from a design perspective. In particular, he studies research collaboration and how human activity happen within a context of technical, physical and social infrastructures. In particular, his work examines how scientific work is facilitated or hindered by the interplay of technology, geography, policy, culture, organizational structure, individual cognition, and interpersonal relationships. To study this rich complexity of interacting factors, he uses ethnographic techniques such as participant observation, interviews, document analysis, and the newer method of rapid ethnography.
