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  1. Online Freelancing on Digital Labor Platforms: A Scoping Review

    Article • October 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Pyeonghwa Kim, Dr Steve Sawyer

  2. Social Informatics Perspectives on Emerging Technologies: The Way Forward

    Article • Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, October 2023, Wiley

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  3. The Role of Theory in Information Science Scholarship

    Article • Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, October 2023, Wiley

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  4. Many Futures of Work and Skill: Heterogeneity in Skill Building Experiences on Digital Labor Platforms

    Article • June 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Steve Sawyer, Pyeonghwa Kim

  5. Platform-mediated Markets, Online Freelance Workers and Deconstructed Identities

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, November 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Isabel Munoz, Michael Dunn, Dr Steve Sawyer

  6. Platform as Theoretical Framework Rather Than Just Empirical Context: How Information Science Scholars Examine Digital Platforms

    Article • Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, October 2022, Wiley

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  7. New futures of work or continued marginalization? The rise of online freelance work and digital platforms

    Article • June 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Isabel Munoz, Dr Steve Sawyer, Michael Dunn

  8. The multi-dimensional space of the futures of work

    Article • Information Technology and People, January 2022, Emerald

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  9. Flexibility, Occupation and Gender: Insights from a Panel Study of Online Freelancers

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  10. Digital assemblages, information infrastructures, and mobile knowledge work

    Article • Journal of Information Technology, October 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  11. Gender Differences and Lost Flexibility in Online Freelancing During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Article • Frontiers in Sociology, August 2021, Frontiers

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  12. Flexible Work and Personal Digital Infrastructures

    Article • Communications of the ACM, June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Brian S Butler, Dr Steve Sawyer, Michael Dunn

  13. Distancing Bonus Or Downscaling Loss? The Changing Livelihood of Us Online Workers in Times of COVID‐19

    Article • Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, June 2020, Wiley

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  14. The Five-Dimensional Space of the Futures of Work: A View to 2030

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  15. Networks of innovation: the sociotechnical assemblage of tabletop computing

    Article • Research Policy X, December 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  16. Platformic Management, Boundary Resources for Gig Work, and Worker Autonomy

    Article • Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), November 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  17. Infrastructuring as Bricolage: Thinking Like a Contemporary Knowledge Worker

    Article • August 2019, Emerald

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  18. The social informatics of knowledge

    Article • Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, March 2019, Wiley

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  19. Personalization of knowledge, personal knowledge ecology, and digital nomadism

    Article • Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, February 2019, Wiley

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  20. Governance Configurations for Inter-Organizational Coordination: A Study of Public Safety Networks

    Article • Journal of Information Technology, December 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  21. Rules of the game: An interactive panel discussion about how institutions shape information

    Article • Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, January 2018, Wiley

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  22. Municipal Police Departments on Facebook

    Article • June 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Yun Huang, Dr Steve Sawyer

  23. Exploring Enterprise Social Systems & Organisational Change: Implementation in a Digital Age

    Article • Journal of Information Technology, June 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor Vikas Kumar , Dr Steve Sawyer

  24. Comparing internal and external interoperability of digital infrastructures

    Article • Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, January 2016, Wiley

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  25. Social informatics of data norms

    Article • Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, January 2016, Wiley

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  26. Handbook of Qualitative Organizational Research

    Article • November 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Davide Ravasi, Dr Steve Sawyer

  27. Documenting Work: From Participant Observation to Participant Tracing

    Article • November 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  28. Social Networks and the Success of Market Intermediaries

    Article • The Information Society, September 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Kevin Crowston, Dr Steve Sawyer

  29. Computing Handbook

    Article • May 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  30. Theorizing on the take-up of social technologies, organizational policies and norms, and consultants' knowledge-sharing practices

    Article • Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, May 2014, Wiley

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  31. Sociotechnical Approaches to the Study of Information Systems

    Article • May 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  32. Information Technology

    Article • May 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  33. Design observations for interagency collaboration

    Article • Government Information Quarterly, April 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  34. Digital assemblages: evidence and theorising from the computerisation of the US residential real estate industry

    Article • New Technology Work and Employment, March 2014, Wiley

    Kevin Crowston, Dr Steve Sawyer

  35. Document Practice as Insight to Digital Infrastructures of Distributed, Collaborative Social Scientists

    Article • March 2014, iSchools

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  36. Documents and distributed scientific collaboration

    Article • January 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  37. Making cultures

    Article • January 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  38. U.S. public safety networks: Architectural patterns and performance

    Article • Information Polity, May 2013, IOS Press

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  39. Social Technologies, Informal Knowledge Practices, and the Enterprise

    Article • Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, January 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  40. Social informatics: Now and then

    Article • Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, January 2013, Wiley

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  41. Social networking technologies and organizational knowledge sharing as a sociotechnical ecology

    Article • February 2012, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Steve Sawyer, Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi

  42. Social scientists and cyberinfrastructure

    Article • February 2012, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  43. Architectural patterns of U.S. public safety networks

    Article • January 2012, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  44. Intellectual diversity and the faculty composition of iSchools

    Article • Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, October 2011, Wiley

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  45. Special issue on futures for research on information systems: prometheus unbound?

    Article • Journal of Information Technology, June 2011, Nature

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  46. Enacting engagement online: framing social media use for the museum

    Article • Information Technology and People, March 2011, Emerald

    Dr Steve Sawyer, Dr Jenny Kidd

  47. Playstations and workstations: identifying and negotiating digital games work

    Article • Information Technology and People, March 2011, Emerald

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  48. Constructing, deconstructing and negotiating the boundaries of digital cultures

    Article • Information Technology and People, March 2011, Emerald

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  49. Social scientists, documents and cyberinfrastructure

    Article • February 2011, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  50. The Social Design of Information Systems

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  51. Membership Has its Privileges? Contracting and Access to Jobs That Accommodate Work-Life Needs

    Article • ILR Review, January 2011, SAGE Publications

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  52. Design observations regarding public safety networks

    Article • January 2011, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  53. Requirements engineering blinders: exploring information systems developers’ black-boxing of the emergent character of requirements

    Article • European Journal of Information Systems, January 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  54. Conceptualizing time, space and computing for work and organizing

    Article • Time & Society, November 2010, SAGE Publications

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  55. Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology is Reshaping the Economy

    Article • Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, July 2010, Wiley

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  56. Social interactions of information systems development teams: a performance perspective

    Article • Information Systems Journal, January 2010, Wiley

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  57. The formation of inter-organizational information sharing networks in public safety: Cartographic insights on rational choice and institutional explanations

    Article • Information Polity, April 2009, IOS Press

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  58. Digital culture: blurred boundaries and ethical considerations

    Article • Journal of Information Communication and Ethics in Society, February 2009, Emerald

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  59. Data Wealth, Data Poverty, Science and Cyberinfrastructure1

    Article • Prometheus, November 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  60. Pennsylvania's transition to enterprise computing as a study in strategic alignment

    Article • Government Information Quarterly, October 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  61. Using Problems to Learn Service-Oriented Computing

    Article • July 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Steve Sawyer, SANDEEP PURAO

  62. Locating packaged software in information systems research

    Article • European Journal of Information Systems, October 2007, Nature

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  63. Roberta Lamb, On the Way

    Article • The Information Society, September 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  64. The I-conference and the transformation ahead

    Article • Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, September 2007, Wiley

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  65. From Findings to Theories: Institutionalizing Social Informatics

    Article • The Information Society, June 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  66. Information Technology-Enabled Innovation: A Critical Overview and Research Agenda

    Article • February 2007, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  67. Introduction

    Article • February 2007, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  68. Handbook of Information Technology in Organizations and Electronic Markets

    Article • February 2007, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  69. Handbook of Information Technology in Organizations and Electronic Markets

    Article • January 2007, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  70. Conceptualizing information, technology, and people: Comparing information science and information systems literatures

    Article • Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, January 2007, Wiley

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  71. The Sociotechnical Nature of Mobile Computing Work

    Article • January 2007, IGI Global

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  72. Always Articulating: Theorizing on Mobile and Wireless Technologies

    Article • The Information Society, December 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  73. Social informatics: Overview, principles and opportunities

    Article • Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, October 2006, Wiley

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  74. Integrated criminal justice

    Article • May 2006, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  75. Design principles for public safety response mobilization

    Article • May 2006, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  76. Organic development

    Article • May 2006, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  77. Gender and IT Professionals in the United States: A Survey of College Graduates

    Article • Labour & Industry a journal of the social and economic relations of work, April 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  78. Tectonic inheritance at a continental margin

    Article • GSA Today, January 2006, Geological Society of America

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  79. Redefining access: uses and roles of information and communication technologies in the US residential real estate industry from 1995 to 2005

    Article • Journal of Information Technology, November 2005, Nature

    Kevin Crowston, Dr Steve Sawyer

  80. On extending social informatics from a rich legacy of networks and conceptual resources

    Article • Information Technology and People, March 2005, Emerald

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  81. Social informatics: Perspectives, examples, and trends

    Article • Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, February 2005, Wiley

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  82. The Sociotechnical Nature of Mobile Computing Work

    Article • International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction, January 2005, IGI Global

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  83. Software development teams

    Article • Communications of the ACM, December 2004, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  84. Mobility and the first responder

    Article • Communications of the ACM, March 2004, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  85. Editorial: Broadband Internet and Electronic Commerce

    Article • Journal of Information Technology, December 2003, Nature

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  86. Broadband and mobile opportunities: a socio-technical perspective

    Article • Journal of Information Technology, June 2003, Nature

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  87. The Social Embeddedness of Transactions: Evidence from the Residential Real-Estate Industry

    Article • The Information Society, April 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Kevin Crowston, Dr Steve Sawyer

  88. Conceptualizing Information Technology in the Study of Information Systems: Trends and Issues

    Article • January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  89. New Words and Old Books: Challenging Conventional Discourses about Domain and Theory in Information Systems Research

    Article • January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  90. Temporal Issues in Information and Communication Technology-Enabled Organizational Change: Evidence From an Enterprise Systems Implementation

    Article • The Information Society, July 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  91. Special Issue of Journal of Information Technology

    Article • Journal of Information Technology, March 2002, Nature

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  92. A market-based perspective on information systems development

    Article • Communications of the ACM, November 2001, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  93. The Social Shaping of Technology

    Article • The Information Society, October 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  94. Investigating the interplay between structure and information and communications technology in the real estate industry

    Article • Information Technology and People, June 2001, Emerald

    Kevin Crowston, Dr Steve Sawyer

  95. Effects of intra-group conflict on packaged software development team performance

    Article • Information Systems Journal, April 2001, Wiley

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  96. Web Information Systems Management: Proactive or Reactive Emergence?

    Article • January 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  97. Packaged software: implications of the differences from custom approaches to software development

    Article • European Journal of Information Systems, March 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  98. Studying Organizational Computing Infrastructures: Multi-Method Approaches

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  99. Social Informatics in the Information Sciences: Current Activities and Emerging Directions

    Article • Informing Science The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, January 2000, Informing Science Institute

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  100. The distribution of computing: the knowledge markets of distributed technical support specialists

    Article • Information Technology and People, June 1998, Emerald

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  101. Coporate IT skill needs

    Article • ACM SIGCPR Computer Personnel, April 1998, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  102. Packaged software development teams: what makes them different?

    Article • Information Technology and People, March 1998, Emerald

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  103. IT skills in the context of BigCo.

    Article • January 1998, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  104. Software development: Processes and performance

    Article • IBM Systems Journal, January 1998, IBM

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  105. Supporting the social processes of software development

    Article • Information Technology and People, March 1997, Emerald

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  106. The effective use of automated application development tools

    Article • IBM Systems Journal, January 1997, IBM

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  107. Social Informatics and Consumer Health

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  108. Deploying Distributed Computing

    Article • IGI Global

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  109. Electronic Government Strategies and Research in the U.S.

    Article • IGI Global

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  110. Analysis by Long Walk

    Article • IGI Global

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  111. Five Perspectives on Women and Men in the IT Workforce

    Article • IGI Global

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  112. The Sociotechnical Nature of Mobile Computing Work

    Article • IGI Global

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  113. The Computerization of Service: Evidence of Information and Communication Technologies in Real Estate

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  114. Social Informatics: Principles, Theory, and Practice

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  115. Methods as Theories: Evidence and Arguments for Theorizing on Software Development

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  116. Beliefs about Computing: Contrary Evidence from a Study of Mobile Computing Use among Criminal Justice Personnel

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  117. Information Systems in Organizations and Society: Speculating on the Next 25 Years of Research

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Steve Sawyer

  118. Turning Products into Services and Services into Products: Contradictory Implications of Information Technology in the Service Economy

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Steve Sawyer