About Pnina
Pnina Fichman is a Professor of Information Science at the Luddy School of Informatics Computing and Engineering, the director of the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics, the Director of Gradute Studies in Information and Library Science Department, the director of the Doctoral Program in Information Science, and the director of the Doctoral Minor in Social Informatics, at Indiana University, Bloomington. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research in social informatics focuses on social aspects of technology, particularly on social media platforms. She publishes on topics such as gender and digital technologies, technology mediated international and cross-cultural research, and information access. Her studies of online trolling, examine political, ideological, and satirical trolling.
Prof. Fichman has published seven books (co-authored or co-edited): 1) Scoial Informatics (edited); 2)The Usage and Impact of ICTs during the Covid-19 Pandemic (edited); 3) Online Trolling and Its Perpetrators: Under the Cyberbridge; 4) Social Informatics Evolving; 5) Social Informatics: Past, Present and Future (edited); 6) Global Wikipedia: International and Cross‐Cultural Issues in Online Collaboration (edited); 7) Multiculturalism and Information and Communications Technology (ICT). She has published hundreds of peer reviewed journal articles, conference papers, and book chapters. Prof. Fichman’s eight book, Online Political Trolling is in press with Bloomsburry Libraries Unlimited.
Recent Publications
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SSCR
Fichman, P., & Amidu, G. (2025). Political gendertrolling
Social Science Computer Review
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Routledge
Hara, N., & Fichman, P. (Eds.) (2025). Social Informatics. Routledge
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Telematics and Informatics
Fichman, P., & Akter, S. (2025). Political trolling on TikTok. Telematics & Informatics, 96.