I have broad-ranging interests and I am involved in a variety of projects. My main focus at the moment is research on how people use communication technologies for relational maintenance in Russia and Kazakhstan and in the Russian-speaking Diaspora. I also work on several other projects in various stages of completion, such as how emergency management professionals comceptualize and contemporary social media technolgies, uses of information and communication technologies in disaster and effects of surveillance on paroled sex offenders in Southern California. Below you will find brief descriptions of both my current and past projects.
You can download a full .pdf version of my Curriculum Vitae, last updated in November 2011.
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Current Projects:
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Cultural Meanings of Personal Networks
This study is focused on how access to the Internet and existing traditional expectations of the role of friendship in daily life shape the use and the understanding of Russian-language social network sites. Although the primary focus of this research is on relationship maintenance and the meaning relationships hold for individuals involved in them, investigating relationships in non-western contexts necessarily leads to a range of questions related to issues of the politics of access, transnationality, cultural differences, locality and mediation.
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- Shklovski, I. & Kotamraju, N. (2011) Online Contribution Practices in Countries That Engage in Internet Blocking and Censorship. In proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI 2011), Vancouver, Canada: ACM Press [local pdf]
- Vertesi, J., Lindtner, S. & Shklovski, I. (2011) Transnational HCI: Humans, computers and interactions in a transnational context. Workshop presented at Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2011) Extended Abstracts. Vancouver, Canada: ACM
- Shklovski, I., Vertesi, J., Lindtner, S. & Dourish, P. (2010) Transnational times: Locality, globality and mobility in technology design and use. Workshop presented at Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2010) Extended Abstracts. Copenhagen, Denmark: ACM
- Shklovski, I. & Struthers, D. (2010) Of States and Borders on the Internet: The Role of Domain Name Extensions in Expressions of Nationalism Online in Kazakhstan. Policy & Internet v2(4), article 5 [Online publication]
- Shklovski, I. (2010) Social Ties for the Soul: How Russians Reconnect with the Past on Social Network Sites Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association in Singapore
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Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Disasters
This work considers issues of both emergency response professionals such as firefighters and the way affected public response to disaster events and deals with recovery. The goal of this work, conducted with colleagues from Cal State Fullergon, CU Boulder and Carnegie Mellon University, is to analyze whether the use of information and communication technologies changes both emergency management and public-side disaster response and subsequent recovery. Emergency management professionals are starting to extensively use social media to provide timely notificatons to the public and to collect informaiton from the publc as disasters unfold. At-risk publics use information technologies to reconstruct a sense of belonging to a community and to restructure information exchange during and after a disaster event by blending official announcements and peer-to-peer interaction. Mobile technologies and networked social media became important sites for reconnecting with personal contacts and with communities.
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- Latonero, M. & Shklovski, I. (2011) Emergency management, Twitter and social media evangelism. International Journal of Information Systems in Crisis Response and Management V3(4) p. 1-16 [local pdf]
- Latonero, M., & Shklovski, I. (2010). 'Respectfully Yours in Safety and Service': Emergency Management and Social Media Evangelism. In proceedings of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Conference (ISCRAM 2010) [local pdf]
- Shklovski, I., Burke, M., Kraut, R. & Kiesler, S. (2010) Technology adoption and use in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. American Behavioral Scientist, 53(8), 1228-1246 [local pdf]
- Shklovski, I., Palen, L. & Sutton, J. (2008) Finding community through information and communication technology during disaster events, In proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2008), New York: ACM Press. [local pdf]
- Sutton, J., Palen, L. & Shklovski, I. (2008) Backchannels on the front lines: Emergent use of social media in the 2007 Southern California fires. In proceedings of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Conference (ISCRAM 2008) [local pdf]
- Shklovski, I., Burke, M., Kiesler, S. & Kraut, R. (2008) Use of communication technologies in Hurricane Katrina aftermath. Position paper for the HCI for Emergencies workshop. Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI 2008), Florence, Italy. [local pdf]
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Effects of Surveillance on Paroled Sex-Offenders in Southern California
This interdisciplinary project, led by Drs. Paul Dourish and Simon Cole from UCI, considers the effects of surveillance on paroled sex offenders in Southern California, who are tracked via satellite positioning as part of their parole conditions. Results from this work suggest that location-based systems must be conceptualized as embedded in forms of social and cultural participation. The presence of the GPS system not only directly affects parolee's behavior in terms of patterns of movement, but also redefines the meaning of urban mobility, location and presence as points on a map for their parole officers.
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- Shklovski, I., Vertesi, J., Troshynski, E. & Dourish, P. (2009) The commodification of location: Dynamics of power in location-based systems. In proceedings of the International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2009), Orlando, Florida: ACM Press. [local pdf]
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Past Projects:
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Residential Mobility, Technology & Social Ties
Proximity generally increases the likelihood of personal and work relationships, and geographic mobility disrupts them. Is this true in the Internet age? My dissertation research examines how information and communication technologies, such as cellular phones and the Internet, change the initiation, maintenance, and dissolution of friendships for recent movers. This research also attempts to understand what factors influence psychological and social adjustment to the new location after a residential move.
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- Shklovski, I., Kraut, R. & Cummings, J. (2008) Sense of well-being in new location: The importance of social ties. Proceedings of the 2008 Conference of the International Communication Association, Montreal, Canada.
- Shklovski, I., Kraut, R. & Cummings, J., (2008). Keeping in touch by technology: Maintaining friendships after a residential move. In proceedings of Human Factors in Computer Systems (CHI 2008), New York: ACM Press.[local pdf]
- Shklovski, I. (2006). Residential mobility, technology and social ties. Doctoral Consortium Extended abstracts. Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems (CHI 2006), Montreal, Canada
*Best Doctoral Consortium Contribution Award [local pdf]
- Shklovski, I., Kraut, R., and Cummings, J. (2006). Routine patterns of Internet use and psychological well-being: Coping with a residential move. In proceedings of CHI 2006, New York: ACM Press.
*nominated for Best Paper Award [local pdf]
- Shklovski, I., Mainwaring, S. (2005). Exploring technology adoption and use through the lens of residential mobility. In proceedings of CHI 2005, New York: ACM Press. [local pdf]
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The Internet and Social Relationships
The Internet opens new options for communication and may change the extent to which people use older communication media. Changes in the way people communicate are important, because communication is the mechanism people use to develop and maintain social relationships, so valuable for their physical and mental health. I was involved several studies on this topic, analyzing data from two national longitudinal surveys and conducting a meta-analysis of existing large-scale national surveys that examined how people's Internet use affects their social interaction. This work was conducted with Sara Kiesler, Robert Kraut, Bonka Boneva, Lee Rainie and a number of other collaborators.
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- Shklovski, I., Kiesler, S. & Kraut, R. E. (2006). The Internet and Social Interaction: A Meta-analysis and Critique of Studies, 1995-2003. In R. Kraut, M. Brynin, and S. Kiesler (Eds). Computers, Phones, and the Internet: The Social Impact of Information Technology (p. 251-264), Oxford University Press. [pdf]
- Kraut, R. E., Kiesler, S., Boneva, B. & Shklovski, I. (2006). Examining the impact of Internet use on TV viewing: Details make a difference. In R. Kraut, M. Brynin, and S. Kiesler (Eds.), Computers, Phones & the Internet: Domesticating Information Technology (p. 70-83), Oxford University Press pdf
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Boneva, B., Quinn, A., Kraut, R., Kiesler, S., Cummings, J., Shklovski, I. (2006). Teenage communication in the instant messaging era. In R. Kraut, M. Brynin, and S. Kiesler (Eds.), Computers, Phones & the Internet: Domesticating Information Technology (p. 201-218), Oxford University Press pdf
- Shklovski, I., Kraut, R. E. & Rainie, L., (2004). The Internet and Social Participation: Contrasting Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analyses. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, v10(1) [html pub.]
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Engaging the city
Socio-technical research on the urban environment often treats a city's citizens as simply a dense population of users. This research, conducted with Michele Chang (Red Design), Chet Orloff (Oregon State) & Katrina Junginckel (Surrey University), attempted to advance discussion on the role of public interfaces in engaging citizens within the urban context. The aim was to determine how technology can help to develop cities that address the needs and reflect the desires of its inhabitants. The challenge was to work toward designing more effective public interfaces that provide citizens with more active access, authorship, and agency. This work resulted in a CHI 2005 workshop, featured in the Oregonian (a Portland, OR newspaper) and a special issue of IEEE Computer on Urban Computing, published September 2006
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- Shklovski, I. & Chang, M. (2006). Urban computing: Navigating space and context. IEEE Computer Sept 2006, V. 39(9) p. 36-37 [local pdf]
- Chang, M., Jungnickel, K., Orloff, C., Shklovski, I. (2005). Engaging the City: Public Interfaces as Civic Intermediary. In proceedings of CHI 2005 Extended Abstracts, Workshop organizer's proposal, Portland, OR, April 3-7, 2005 [local pdf]
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