Emilee Rader
Assistant Professor and AT&T Scholar
Telecommunication, Information Studies & Media
College of Communication Arts and Sciences
Michigan State University
Contact:
emilee[at]msu[dot]edu
Campus phone: 517-432-1334
Office: 430 Comm Arts | Lab: 251 Comm Arts
I am an Assistant Professor in the department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media, of the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University. I am also affiliated with the Behavior, Information and Technology Lab (BITLab) at MSU.
My research program is focused on understanding individual, group, and system level influences on information sharing in “cloud” applications such as user-contributed content systems, social media, and file repositories.
My projects focus on real-world online information sharing behaviors and outcomes — like how stories and examples from one’s peers and friends influences the mental models people form of how to protect themselves and their home computers from security threats, and how the salience of one’s “audience” in social media or different system dynamics might affect what we post, and how algorithmic curation might affect both the experience of individual users in an information system and also the nature future contributions and the characteristics of the corpus itself. In my work I aim to produce scientific results pertaining to properties of socio-technical systems, that I will use to develop both theory and guidelines for design.
