Brian S Butler
University of Maryland at College Park
Faculty Member, Library and Information Science
United States
My co-authors include
Michael Dunn
Elisabeth Joyce
Dr Daphne R Raban
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My Publications
Flexible Work and Personal Digital Infrastructures
Communications of the ACM
July 2021
Examining Assumptions: Provocations on the Nature, Impact, and Implications of IS Theory
MIS Quarterly
March 2021
Cultural Activity Diversity and Community Characteristics: An Exploratory Study
January 2020
Small worlds in a distant land: International newcomer students' local information beha...
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
January 2019
How are information deserts created? A theory of local information landscapes
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
November 2018
New international students' social information practices during transition to their hos...
Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
January 2018
Wandering as information behavior in new environments
Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
January 2018
Information from social networking sites: Context collapse and ambiguity in the hiring ...
Information Systems Journal
September 2017
Overcoming transience and flux: routines in community-governed mass collaborations
Information Technology and People
June 2017
Expanding the horizons of digital social networks: Mixing big trace datasets with quali...
Information and Organization
June 2016
Electronic Pedagogy and Future University Business Models
Communications of the Association for Information Systems
January 2016
Newcomers from the other side of the globe: International students' local information s...
Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
January 2016
Stories of impact: the role of narrative in understanding the value and impact of digit...
Archival Science
September 2015
The interacting effects of distributed work arrangements and individual dispositions on...
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
April 2015
What Makes a Place More Familiar?
April 2015
The assimilation of enterprise information system: An interpretation systems perspective
Information & Management
April 2015
Open Education in the Wild
February 2015
Understanding Data Providers in a Global Scientific Data Hub
February 2015
Different geospatial information behaviors of new domestic and international graduate s...
Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
January 2015
Quality Hackathon
November 2014
Does Anything Ever Happen Around Here? Assessing the Online Information Landscape for L...
Journal of Urban Technology
October 2014
Beyond the organizational ‘container’: Conceptualizing 21st century sociotechnical work
Information and Organization
October 2014
Open badges for education: what are the implications at the intersection of open system...
Research in Learning Technology
August 2014
An Attraction-Selection-Attrition Theory of Online Community Size and Resilience
MIS Quarterly
January 2014
Information behavior of international students settling in an unfamiliar geo-spatial en...
Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
January 2014
Local big data
January 2014
OCData Hackathon @ CSCW 2014
January 2014
Social informatics and social media: Theoretical reflections
Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
January 2014
Rhetoric and the Arts of Design
November 2013
Editorial
Information Systems Journal
October 2013
Dialectic Tensions of Information Quality: Social Networking Sites and Hiring
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
October 2013
The Impact of Membership Overlap on Growth: An Ecological Competition View of Online Gr...
Organization Science
April 2013
Consequences of content diversity for online public spaces for local communities
January 2013
Keeping eyes on the prize
January 2013
Learning to be a better q'er in social Q&A sites: Social norms and information artifacts
Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
January 2013
The Dynamics of Open, Peer-to-Peer Learning: What Factors Influence Participation in th...
January 2013
Rules and Roles vs. Consensus
American Behavioral Scientist
December 2012
Monitoring Academic Conferences: Real-Time Visualization and Retrospective Analysis of ...
December 2012
Holding the line or opening up: Managing cross-posting in online communities
Information Systems Research
September 2012
Corporate Adoption of Social Computing: A Process-Based Analysis
Journal of Information Technology Case and Application Research
April 2012
Conceptualizing and advancing research networking systems
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
March 2012
Community Commitment and Participation in Online Groups
Information Systems Research
December 2011
Research Note—Knowledge Exploration and Exploitation: The Impacts of Psychological Clim...
Information Systems Research
December 2011
Emphasizing social features in information portals: Effects on new member engagement
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
August 2011
Creating Bigger Problems: Grand Challenges as Boundary Objects and the Legitimacy of th...
Journal of Information Technology
June 2011
Ranked Levels of Influence model: Selecting influence techniques to minimize IT resistance
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
June 2011
To disclose or not: publicness in social networking sites
Information Technology and People
March 2011
Supercourse
February 2011
Handling flammable materials
February 2011
“You are not alone”: Effects of highlighting social aspects on responsiveness, joining,...
Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
November 2010
The Cross-Purposes of Cross-Posting: Boundary Tensions in Online Technical Discussion C...
SSRN Electronic Journal
January 2010
The Role of Membership Claim and Grant Signals in Individual-Community Relationships
SSRN Electronic Journal
January 2010
An Ecological Perspective on Online Communities
SSRN Electronic Journal
January 2009
The Assessment of Organizational Mindfulness Processes for the Effective Assimilation o...
Journal of Decision System
January 2009
Development of an instrument for measuring clinicians’ power perceptions in the workplace
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
December 2008
Good Partners are Hard to Find: The Search for and Selection of Collaborators in the He...
December 2008
Facebook for Scientists: Requirements and Services for Optimizing How Scientific Collab...
Journal of Medical Internet Research
August 2008
Supporting Emerging Disciplines with e-Communities: Needs and Benefits
Journal of Medical Internet Research
June 2008
Empirical evidence of information overload constraining chat channel community interact...
January 2008
Don't look now, but we've created a bureaucracy
January 2008
Determinants of the Use of Relational and Nonrelational Information Sources
Journal of Management Information Systems
December 2007
Team Cognition: Development and Evolution in Software Project Teams
Journal of Management Information Systems
October 2007
Encouraging participation in virtual communities
Communications of the ACM
February 2007
Predicting Disruption: Understanding Technology Impacts on Market Intermediaries
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
June 2006
Coordination and Virtualization: The Role of Electronic Networks and Personal Relations...
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
June 2006
Reliability, Mindfulness, and Information Systems
MIS Quarterly
January 2006
Talk to me
January 2006
The Power of Words
February 2004
Detecting Collaborations in Text Comparing the Authors' Rhetorical Language Choices in ...
Computers and the Humanities
February 2004
Review: Power and Information Technology Research: A Metatriangulation Review
MIS Quarterly
December 2002
The quality of online social relationships
Communications of the ACM
July 2002
Membership Size, Communication Activity, and Sustainability: A Resource-Based Model of ...
Information Systems Research
December 2001
Designing Interactive Worlds With Words
April 2000
Coordination and Virtualization: The Role of Electronic Networks and Personal Relations...
Organization Science
December 1999
Cybermediaries in Electronic Marketspace: Toward Theory Building
Journal of Business Research
March 1998
