Susan Gasson
Associate Professor
Department of Information Science
Drexel University
United States of America
Biography
"Susan Gasson studies the design, use, and impacts of digital technologies for boundary-spanning collaboration. Her studies employ grounded theory, ethnography, and qualitative/mixed methods to investigate domains including Enterprise System design, distributed virtual organizations, peer- and vicarious learning in online education, and research networks of practice. She explores three “big questionsâ€: "
Research Interest
Co-design of business and IT-systems, distributed cognition & knowledge management in boundary-spanning groups, human-centered design, social informatics, online learning communities, Grounded Theory
Publications
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Gasson, S. (2006) A Genealogical Study of Boundary-Spanning IS Design. European Journal of Information Systems, 15 (1), pp. 1-16.
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Gasson, S. & Waters, J. (2013) Using A Grounded Theory Approach To Study Online Collaboration Behaviors, European Journal of Information Systems (2013) 22, 95–118.
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Khazraee, E.K. & Gasson, S. (2014) Epistemic Objects and Embeddedness: Knowledge Construction and Narratives in Research Networks of Practice. The Information Society, forthcoming (Dec. 2014).
