Noriko Hara

Noriko Hara is a Professor of Information Science and the Director of the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics. Her research in Social Informatics emphasizes online knowledge sharing, communities of practice, and collective behaviors in mediated environments. Specifically, Noriko examines the means by which public engagement with science are enabled and/or impeded by information Technology. Her research also examines co-production of scientific knowledge on social media. She is the author of Communities of Practice: Fostering Peer-to-Peer Learning and Informal Knowledge Sharing in the Work Place from Springer, and a co-editor of Social Informatics from Routledge and Global Wikipedia: International and Cross-Cultural Issues in Online Collaboration from Rowman & Littlefied. Noriko received a Ph.D. in Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University. She was a postdoctoral research fellow in the NSF Science and Technology Center at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

• Doctor of Philosophy at Indiana University, 2000

• Communities of Practice
• Ethics and Values in Digital Society
• Health@Luddy
• Information and Library Science
• Intellectual Freedom and information/data ethics
• International Information Issues
• Media Studies
• Online communities
• Organizational Informatics
• Social Informatics

• Z513 - Organizational Informatics
• Z514 - Social Aspects of Information Technology
• Z556 - Systems Analysis & Design