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| In my research, I employ a humanistic social science perspective in
order to study the role of technology on the practices of individuals,
groups and communities engaged in creative, expressive and artistic
activities. I am particularly interested in informal, personal and
noncommercial contexts, such as everyday media production, cultural
participation and vernacular creativity. My training is
interdisciplinary; I draw on methods and theory from areas such as human
computer interaction (HCI), computer supported cooperative work (CSCW),
social psychology, microsociology and ethnomethodology. The overall
goals of my research are two-fold:
a) provide rich description of existing and emergent socio-technical
contexts and practices; b) contribute to theory about everyday media
production and use, as mediated by technology, culture, cognition and
sociality. By addressing these goals, my research contributes a deeper
understanding of behavior and our socio-technical environment, as well
as directing the design of new tools, new practices and new types of
training. I am currently a Lecturer in UCD's School of Information & Library Studies. I received my PhD from the University of Michigan, School of Information in 2011; my dissertation was entitled Biography, Well-being and Personal Media: A Qualitative Study of Everyday Digital Photography Practices. Prior to completing my PhD, I earned an MSI with a focus on human-computer interaction from Michigan in 2004 and a BA in Interdisciplinary Humanities from Michigan State in 1997. |
| I study the role of technology on the practices of individuals, groups and communities engaged in creative, expressive and artistic activities. I am particularly interested in informal, personal and noncommercial contexts, such as everyday media production, cultural participation and vernacular creativity. My training is interdisciplinary; I draw on methods and theory from areas such as human computer interaction (HCI), computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), social psychology, microsociology and ethnomethodology. |
| Cook, E. C. and Garduño Freeman, C. (2010) 'Snap, Post, Share: Understanding the Online Social Life of Personal Photography' In: Araya, D., Breindl, Y., and Houghton, T. J (eds). Nexus: New Intersections in Internet Research. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. [Details] |
| Teasley, S.D., Schleyer, T., Hemphill, L., & Cook, E. (2008) 'Science in the Center: 3 case studies of distributed research centers' In: Olson, G. M., Zimmerman, A., and Bos, N (eds). Scientific Collaboration on the Internet. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press. [Details] |
| Cook, E. C., Teasley, S. D. (2011) Beyond Promotion and Protection: Creators, Audiences and Common Ground in User-Generated Media Proceedings of the 2011 iConference Seattle, WA, USA, , 08-FEB-11 - 11-FEB-11 [Details] |
| Cook, E., Teasley, S. D., and Ackerman, M. S. (2009) Contribution, commercialization & audience: understanding participation in an online creative community Proceedings of the ACM 2009 international Conference on Supporting Group Work: GROUP '09 [Details] |
Cook, E. C. (2011) Biography, Well-being and Personal Media: A Qualitative Study of Everyday Digital Photography Practices. Dissertations/Theses  [Details] |
| Cook, E. (2012) Personal Digital Photography and the Implications of Selective Positive Representation. [Refereed Abstracts], Personal Digital Archiving 2012, San Francisco, CA , 22-FEB-12 - 24-FEB-12. |
| Cook, E. C., Luther, K. Perkel, D., Bardzell, J. (2011) Roundtable Session: The Creativity Agenda in the iSchool Context. [Chaired Session], iConference 2011, Seattle, WA, USA , 08-FEB-11 - 11-FEB-11. |
| Cook, E. C., Teasley, S. D., Wong, P., Kolasinski, M., Waterman, B. M. (2011) Who's There? Supporting Audience Awareness in Creative Content Systems. [Poster Presentation (Refereed)], ASIS&T 2011, New Orleans, LA, USA , 09-OCT-11 - 13-OCT-11. |
| Cook, E. C. (2011) Invited participant; presentation of research agenda. [Refereed Abstracts], Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems 2011 Summer Research Institute, Captiva Island, Florida, USA , 05-JUN-11 - 09-JUN-11. |
| Cook, E. C. (2011) The Work of Well-being in the Virtual Home Mode. [Poster Presentation], ALISE 2011 Annual Conference, San Diego, California , 04-JAN-11 - 07-JAN-11. |
| Cook, E. C. (2010) Doctoral Consortium presentation & poster: The Virtual Home Mode: Photography and Biography Work. [Oral Presentation], GROUP 2010: ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA , 07-NOV-10 - 10-NOV-10. | |||||||||
| Thom-Santelli, J., Cook, E. C., Luther, K., Bruckman, A., Bardzell, J., McDonald, D. (2009) Workshop co-organizer: Approaching ¿Amateur¿. [Chaired Session], ACM 2009 international Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP 2009), Sanibel Island, Florida, USA , 10-MAY-09 - 13-MAY-09. | |||||||||
| Cook, E., Erickson, I., and Thom-Santelli, J. (2009) STOLEN!: categories of in-context response to unauthorized reuse of user-generated media. [Poster Presentation (Refereed)], Proceedings of the Seventh ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition (2009), Berkeley, California, USA , 26-OCT-09 - 30-OCT-09. | |||||||||
| Cook, E. C. (2009) Everyday Media Creators and Projected Audiences. Position paper, presented at the 'Creative Conversations' workshop. [Non Refereed Paper/Abstract Presented at Conference], Seventh ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition, 2009, Berkeley, California, USA , 26-OCT-09 - 30-OCT-09. | |||||||||
| Cook, E. C. (2009) Biography & Wellbeing in the Networked Home Mode. [Oral Presentation], Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Program 2009, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia , 06-JUL-09 - 17-JUL-09. | |||||||||
| Cook, E. C. (2008) Biography Work in the Networked Home Mode. Workshop position paper presented at Designing for Families workshop. [Non Refereed Paper/Abstract Presented at Conference], 2008 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2008), San Diego, CA, USA , 08-NOV-08 - 12-NOV-08. | |||||||||
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| Committee : FIRST: Featured Information Research Student Talks; School of Information, University of Michigan. |
| Committee : Univ. of Michigan School of Information Doctoral Development Seminar |
| Committee : School of Information Doctoral Student Organization |
| Committee : Univ. of Michigan School of Information Doctoral Admissions Committee |
| Committee : Univ. of Michigan, School of Information North Quad Building Planning Committee |
| Committee : 1st Annual University of Michigan ICOS (Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies) Retreat | |||||||||
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Paper reviewer: ACM CSCW 2006 - 2011, 2013; ACM CHI 2006 - 2010; ACM Creativity and Cognition 2009; ACM Group 2009; ICSWM08; CSCL 2007. |
| Stephanie D. Teasley, University of Michigan Mark Ackerman, University of Michigan Libby Hemphill, Illinois Institute of Technology Jennifer Thom, IBM Research Ingrid Erikson, Cornell University Kurt Luther, Carnegie Mellon University Jeffery Bardzell, Indiana University Dan Perkel, IDEO Amy Bruckman, Georgia Institute of Technology David McDonald, University of Washington |
| Scaffolding, the construction of open-ended situations & learning materials to support students in obtaining mastery of material, is the central organizing concept for my teaching. This concept illuminates guiding themes in my teaching: 1) contextualizing learning objectives, 2) leveraging diversity of student backgrounds/interests, 3) encouraging ownership of the educational experience. |
| 201200 IS10010 Information Studies: Intro to Info&Social Computing |
| 201200 IS30290 Information Studies: Current Trends in Social Comp. |
| 201200 IS20030 Information Studies: Information & Collaboration |
