William Aspray
Location: (Austin, TX)
Personal Research Web Page: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/%7Ebill/
Keywords: informatics education, security, privacy, information seeking behavior in everyday life, health informatics, Internet studies, digital media studies, globalization, offshoring, privacy policy, IT workforce policy, Internet use policies, gender, diversity
Posted on: Monday, May 18th, 2009
Broad Research Area: Computer Science Education / Educational Technology, Information Assurance / Security / Privacy / Cryptography, Information Systems / Information Science, Scientific/Medical Informatics, Social Computing / Social Informatics, Technology Policy
Research Interests:
My work involves the social, historical, and policy aspects of IT as broadly conceived. Recent projects have included the social informatics of diabetes, the Internet and American business, information seeking behavior in everyday American life, the history of privacy in America, offshoring of IT services, interdisciplinary scholarship on digital media, the underrepresentation of women in the IT field (especially as related to entrepreneurship), the history of IT, uses of IT to automate or augment historical and archival practice, and social and economic analysis of the Internet (blogging, social network sites, online dating, political action, strategy and structure of the industry, etc.).
