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Dr Jenny Fry
Lecturer
Interests and experience
My research is concerned with disciplinary and professional
cultures and how they shape the production and use of networked digital
resources and digital infrastructures. More particularly I draw on theory
from organisational sociology to understand the non-technological factors
that influence differentiated approaches to e-Research and has recently
published a book chapter in 'New Infrastructures for Knowledge Production'
edited by Christine Hine. I am also interested in developing novel web-based
methodologies for studying scholarly communities and intellectual fields
online.
I received my Ph.D. in Information Science in 2003 from
the University of Brighton and since then have held postdoctoral research
fellowships at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam,
and in the School of Information and Library Science at the University
of North Carolina, Chapel-Hill. Before joining the Department of Information
Science I was a research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute.
Current research
PhD research
topics
External activities
• Research Associate of the Oxford Internet Institute,
Oxford University.
• Member of the editorial board of Online Information Review.
• Workshop Co-Chair for the Third International Conference on e-Social
Science. Ann Arbor, Michigan, US. October 7-9, 2007.
• Reviews completed for Information Processing and Management, Library
& Information Science Research.
• Panel reviewer for the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Society
for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T): Information Realities:
Shaping the Digital Future for All. Austin, Texas, USA, November 3-8,
2006.
Selected publications
- Talja, S., Vakkari, P., Fry, J., and Wouters, P. Impact
of Research Cultures on the Use of Digital Library Resources. Journal
of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 58(11),
2007, pp. 1674-1685.
- Fry, J. Studying the Scholarly Web: How disciplinary
Culture Shapes Online Representations. Cybermetrics: International Journal
of Scientometrics, Informetrics and Bibliometrics. 10(1), 2006, available
at: http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics/vol10iss1.html
- Fry, J. Scholarly research and information practices:
a domain analytic approach. Information Processing and Management. 42,
2006, pp. 299-316.
- Fry, J., The Cultural Shaping of ICTs within Academic
Fields: Corpus-based Linguistics as a Case Study. Literary and Linguistic
Computing 19(3), 2004, pp.303-319.
- Eynon, R., Fry, J., and Schroeder, R. The Ethics of
Internet Research. In: N. Fielding, R.M.Lee, and G.Blank. (Eds.) Handbook
of Online Research Methods. SAGE, 2008, pp. 23-41.
- Fry, J., Virkar, S., and Schroeder, R. Search Engines
and Expertise about Global Issues: Well defined Landscape or Undomesticated
Wildreness?. In: A. Spink and M. Zimmer (Eds.) Web Search: Multidisciplinary
Perpsectives. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2008, pp255-275.
Publications: [Details]
Contact details
Tel: 01509 223074
Fax: 01509 223053
Email: J.Fry@lboro.ac.uk
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