I put together a YouthStudio Action-Research-Design Model based upon Davydd Greenwood & Morten Levin’s (2007) work in their Introduction to Action Research: Social Research for Social Change. Because the teens may come and go, dropping in and out of the YouthStudio project at the Moore Public Library, throughout this semester, I realized that we needed…
Youth Community Informatics Studio
This semester, I am teaching a new community-engagement course called Leadership in Information Organizations. I am particularly excited about the course because it has been an opportunity to implement the Community Informatics Studio, which I have been developing with my co-author Martin Wolske at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign over the past three years….
A Critical Interpretive Approach to Sociotechnical Systems
My colleague, Martin Wolske and I recently completed our paper for the 2014 Prato Community Informatics Research Network conference proceedings. A preprint of the paper is now available via the ShareOK open-access research repository at the University of Oklahoma. In the paper, we introduce a Critical Interpretive Sociotechnical (CIS) framework, which describes our underlying approach…
Consent of the Networked: China and the Global Struggle for Information Freedom
Rebecca MacKinnon, project lead for Ranking Digital Rights, co-founder of Global Voices and senior research fellow for New American Foundation, is speaking this Wednesday, November 12th at 7:30pm in the David L. Boren Auditorum, here at the University of Oklahoma. I have the great honor of introducing Rebecca and moderating the Q & A during…
Social Informatics @ OU Spring 2015
I’m teaching a new course next semester at the University of Oklahoma School of Library and Information Studies (OU SLIS), titled “Social Informatics.” I had the great privilege of being able to support Professor Les Gasser as a Teaching Assistant for the past three years during my doctoral program at the University of Illinois at…
Beyond Library Walls
I’m excited to announce that Chris Ritzo and I have submitted a proposal to the Knight News Challenge, which is focused on the following question “How might we leverage libraries as platform to build more knowledgeable communities?” Please read our proposal, entitled Beyond Library Walls introduced below and, if you like it, consider applauding the…
The Social Shaping of Cloud Computing
My dissertation, entitled “The Social Shaping of Cloud Computing: An Ethnography of Infrastructure in East St. Louis, Illinois” is now available online via the Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS). My committee members included: Christian Sandvig (advisor), Linda C. Smith, Dan Schiller, and Rayvon Fouché. Here is the abstract: This study…
Welcome
My name is Colin Rhinesmith. I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Oklahoma. My research and teaching interests are focused within the areas of social and community informatics. My interests also include infrastructure studies, telecommunications and information policy, and ethnography of information and communication technology….