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Karine Nahon

Suite 330W Mary Gates Hall, Box 352840, Seattle, WA 98195-2840
Email: karineb@uw.edu
Phone: 206-685-6668

An updated CV

I am an associate professor at the Information School, Director of the Virality of Information (retroV) research group, faculty adjunct at the department of Communication, affiliated faculty at the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement and  former director of the Center for Information & Society in University of Washington.

My research focuses on information politics and policy. More specifically, I deal with three areas of study that are intertwined: (1) information flows and network gatekeeping; (2) digital divide/s and inequalities; and (3) cultured technology. This area mainly derives from my academic training in multiple disciplines and fields: political science, computer science, management of information systems, sociology and information science.

Currently, I co-chairs the social networking and communities minitrack and the digital divide/s and Inclusion/s minitrack at HICSS. Next year I am serving as the organizing chair for IR-12.

I serve as an expert in decision-making forums that relate to Internet and information technology policy and advises the science and technology committee of the Israeli parliament. Formerly I held senior positions in Research and Development in the hi-tech industry.