About Pnina
Pnina Fichman is a Professor of Information Science at the Luddy School of Informatics Computing and Engineering, and the director of the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the director of the Doctoral Program in Information Science and the Doctoral Minor in Social Informatics. Her Ph.D. is from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research in social informatics focuses on social aspects of technology and social media in particular. Her studies of online trolling, examine political, satirical, and ideological trolling. She publishes also on topics such as collective intelligence, gender and technology, and ICT and diversity.
Prof. Fichman has published six books (co-authored or co-edited): 1)The Usage and Impact of ICTs during the Covid-19 Pandemic (edited); 2) Online Trolling and Its Perpetrators: Under the Cyberbridge; 3) Social Informatics Evolving; 4) Social Informatics: Past, Present and Future (edited); 5) Global Wikipedia: International and CrossâCultural Issues in Online Collaboration (edited); 6) Multiculturalism and Information and Communications Technology (ICT). She has published over a hundred peer reviewed journal articles, conference papers, and book chapters. She is currently working on a co-edited book about Social Informatics (Routledge) that is expected to be publisihed in 2025.
Recent Publications
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JASIST
Fichman, P., & Rathi, M. (2023). Trolling CNN and Fox News on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 74 (5), 493-505.
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Routledge
Yang, S., Zhu, X., & Fichman, P. (Eds.). (2023). The Usage and Impact of ICTs during the
Covid-19 Pandemic (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003231769
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Telematics and Informatics
Fichman, P., & Akter, S. (2023). Trolling asymmetry towards Republicans and Democrats and the shift from foreign to domestic trolling. Telematics & Informatics, 82