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Brian S. Butler
E-mail: [email protected]
2117b Hornbake Bldg, South
College of Information Studies
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-4325
Academic Employment & Appointments
Associate Professor (2012 –Present)
College of Information Studies, University of Maryland
Associate Professor of Clinical and Translational Research (2008 – 2011)
Clinical and Translational Science Institute, University of Pittsburgh
Associate Professor of Business Administration (2004 – 2011)
Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh
Assistant Professor of Business Administration (1998 – June 2004)
Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh
Education
Ph.D., Information Systems (1999)
Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University
Dissertation: The Dynamics of Cyberspace: Examining and Modeling the Dynamics of
Online Social Structure
Committee: Kathleen Carley, Robert Kraut, Sandra Slaughter, Richard Moreland
M.S., Information Systems (1995)
Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University
B.S., Mathematics/Computer Science with University Honors (1993)
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Refereed Journal Publications
Bateman, Patrick J., Keilor, Bruce D., Pike, Jaqueline C., Butler, Brian S. (in press) Social
Marketing: Lessons for Managing Social Media Initiatives" Innovative Marketing
Schleyer, Titus, Butler, Brian S., Song, Mei, Spallek, Heiko. (in press) Conceptualizing and
Advancing Research Networking Systems, ACM Transactions on Computer Human
Interaction (TOCHI).
Butler, Brian and Wang, Xiaoqing (in press) “The Cross-Purposes of Cross-posting:
Boundary Reshaping Behavior in Online Discussion Communities” Information Systems
Research.
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Butler, Brian S., Sharma Nikhil, Irwin, Jeannie, Spallek, Heiko. (2011) Highlighting Social
Aspects of Information Portals. Journal of the Association of Information Sciences and
Technology.
Winter, Susan J. and Butler, Brian S. (2011) Creating Bigger Problems: Grand Challenges as
Boundary Objects and the Legitimacy of the IS Field. Journal of Information Technology.
Bateman, Patrick J., Pike, Jacqueline C., and Butler, Brian S. (2011) To Disclose or Not:
Publicness in Social Networking Sites. Information Technology & People Vol. 24 Iss: 1, pp.78
– 100.
Bartos, Christa E., Butler, Brian S., and Crowley, Rebecca S. (2011) Ranked Levels of
Influence Model: Selecting Influence Techniques to Minimize IT Resistance, Journal of
Biomedical Informatics.
Bateman, P. J., P. H. Gray, B. S. Butler (2010). "The Impact of Community Commitment on
Participation in Online Communities." Information Systems Research: isre.1090.0265.
Durcikova, A., K. J. Fadel, et al. (2010). "Knowledge Exploration and Exploitation: The
Impacts of Psychological Climate and Knowledge Management System Access." Information
Systems Research: isre.1100.0286.
Robbins, R. and B. Butler (2009) Selecting a Virtual World Platform for Learning. Journal of
Information Systems Education Vol. 20: No. 2.
Mu, Enrique and Butler, B.S. (2009) The Assessment of Organizational Mindfulness
Processes, The Journal of Decision Systems, Vol. 18, No. 1.
Bartos, C. E., Fridsma, D. B., Butler, B. S., Penrod, L. E., Becich, M. J., and Crowley, R. S.
(2008). Development of an instrument for measuring clinicians' power perceptions in the
workplace. J. of Biomedical Informatics 41, 6, 1041-1049.
Spallek H, Butler B, Schleyer T, Weiss P, Wang X, Thyvalikakath TP, Hatala C, Naderi R
(2008) Supporting Emerging Disciplines with e-Communities: Needs and Benefits. Journal
of Medical Internet Research.
Schleyer T, Spallek H, Butler BS, Subramanian S, Weiss D, Poythress ML, Rattanathikun P,
Mueller G. (2008) Facebook for scientists: Requirements and services for optimizing how
scientific collaborations are established, Journal of Medical Internet Research.
Spallek, H., Irwin, J. Y., Schleyer, T., Butler, B. S., Weiss, P. M. (2007) Supporting the
Emergence of Dental Informatics with an Online Community. International Journal of
Computerized Dentistry, 10, pp. 247-264.
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Zimmer, C., Henry R., and Butler B. (2007) Determinants of the Use of Relational and
Nonrelational Information Sources, Journal of Management Information Systems, 24(3), pp.
297–331.
He, Jun, Butler, B.S., and King, William R. (2007) Team Cognition: Development and
Evolution in Software Project Teams, Journal of Management Information Systems, 24(2),
pp. 261–292.
Kim, Y.G., Koh, J., & Butler, B. S. (2007) Virtual Community Stimulation: Linking Virtual
Community Drivers to Virtual Community Activities. Communications of the ACM. 50(2),
pp. 68 – 73.
Avital, M. Lyytinen, K. Boland, R.J., Butler, B., Dougherty, D., Fineout, M., Jansen, W.,
Levina, N., Rifkin, W. and Venable, J. (2006) Design with a Positive Lens: An Affirmative
Approach to Designing Information and Organizations, Communications of the Association
for Information Systems, 18 (25), pp. 519-545.
Butler, B. S. & Gray, P. Reliability, Mindfulness, and Information Systems. (January 2006)
MIS Quarterly, Vol 30, No. 2.
Collins, J., Kaufer, D., Vlachos, P., Butler, B. S., & Ishizaki, S. 2004. Detecting
Collaborations in Text: Comparing the Authors' Rhetorical Language Choices in The
Federalist Papers. Computers and the Humanities, 38(1): 15-36.
Saunders, C., Carte, T., Jasperson, J., & Butler, B. S. 2003. Lessons Learned from the
Trenches of Metatriangulation Research. Communications of the AIS, 11(14): 245-270.
Jasperson, J., Carte, T., Saunders, C., Butler, B. S., Zheng, W., & Croes, H. 2002. Power and
Information Technology in Organizations: A Metatriangulation Review. MIS Quarterly,
26(4): 397-460.
Cummings, J., Butler, B. S., & Kraut, R. E. 2002. The Quality of Social Ties Online.
Communications of the ACM, 45(7): 103-109.
Butler, B. S. 2001. Membership Size, Communication Activity, and Sustainability: The
Internal Dynamics of Networked Social Structures. Information Systems Research, 12(4):
346-362.
Kraut, R. E., Steinfield, C. W., Plummer, A. C., Butler, B. S., & Hoag, A. 1999.
Coordination and Virtualization: The Role of Electronic Networks and Personal
Relationships. Organization Science, 10(6): 722-740.
Appeared in joint issue with Journal of Computer Mediated Communications as:
Kraut, R. E., Steinfield, C. W., Plummer, A. C., Butler, B. S., & Hoag, A. 1998.
Coordination and Virtualization: The Role of Electronic Networks and Personal
Relationships. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 3(4).
Selected for inclusion in an edited volume as:
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Kraut, R. E., Steinfield, C. W., Plummer, A. C., Butler, B. S., & Hoag, A.
Forthcoming. Coordination and Virtualization: The Role of Electronic Networks and
Personal Relationships. In M. L. Markus & S. Newell & R. Galliers (Eds.), Exploring
Information Systems Research Approaches: Butterworth-Heinemann.
Sarkar, M. B., Butler, B. S., & Steinfield, C. W. 1998. Cybermediaries in Electronic
Marketspace: Toward Theory Building. Journal of Business Research, 41(3): 215-221.
Sarkar, M. B., Butler, B. S., & Steinfield, C. W. 1995. Intermediaries and Cybermediaries: A
Continuing Role for Mediating Players in the Electronic Marketplace. Journal of Computer
Mediated Communication, 1(3).
Selected for translation and inclusion in an edited volume as:
Sarkar, M. B., Butler, B. S., & Steinfield, C. W. 2003. Intermediaries and
Cybermediaries: A Continuing Role for Mediating Players in the Electronic
Marketplace. In G. Gottardi & E. Bolisani (Eds.), Quale Futuro Per Il Commercio
Electtronico? 136-154. Milano: FrancoAngeli.
Butler, B. S. 1995. Using the WWW/Mosaic to Support Classroom-Based Education: An
Experience Report. Interpersonal Computing and Technology, 3(1).
Books
Kaufer, D. S., Ishisaki, S., Butler, B. S., & Collins, J. 2004. The Power of Words: Unveiling
the Speaker and Writer's Hidden Craft. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Kaufer, D. S. & Butler, B. S. 2000. Designing Interactive Worlds with Words: Principles of
Writing as Representational Design. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Reviewed in Journal of Technical Writing and Communication (2001)
Kaufer, D. S. & Butler, B. S. 1996. Rhetoric and the Arts of Design. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates.
Reviewed in Philosophy and Rhetoric (1999)
Discourse and Society (1998)
Technical Communications (1997)
Argumentation and Advocacy (1998)
Technical Communication Quarterly (1997)
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communications (1997)
Quarterly Journal of Speech (1998)
Awards and Honors
Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, Sao Paulo Executive MBA, Professor of the
Year, 2011.
Research in Progress, Honorable Mention. For Butler, Brian S., Pike, Jacqueline and
Ridings, Catherine, “Growing Local Food Systems: Information Technology Use and
Impacts in Geographically-Embedded Markets”. International Conference on Information
Systems, Phoenix, Arizona, 2009.
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Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business Excellence in Research Award, 2009
Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business Excellence in Teaching Award, 2003-04, 2007-
08, 2008-09
MIS Quarterly Best Paper Award, 2002 for Jasperson, J., Carte, T., Saunders, C., Butler, B.
S., Zheng, W., & Croes, H. 2002. Power and Information Technology in Organizations: A
Metatriangulation Review. MIS Quarterly, 26(4): 397-460.
Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition finalist, 1997
Selected to attend the Human Computer Interaction Consortium (HCIC) Workshop, 1997
Selected to attend the ICIS Doctoral Consortium, 1996
Andrew Carnegie Presidential Scholar for the School of Computer Science, 1992
Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Symposium - First Place Award, 1992
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Student Poster Award -
Third Place, 1992
Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Symposium - Second Place Award, 1991
Funding
“Online Treatments for Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Primary Care” Co-Investigator with
Bruce L. Rollman (PI). Proposal for $2,794,565 for NIMH (Received Impact/Priority Score:
17 Percentile:1 in 2011 review cycle).
Project Director, “The Virtual Firm: An Interactive Environment for Teaching IT Opportunity
Recognition”, Innovation in Education Award, University of Pittsburgh Advisory Council on
Instructional Excellence, $23,000, 2010-2011.
Katz Technology Innovation Projects (including Katz Virtual World, Katz Team Technology
Initiative, and Technology Innovation Scholars/Technology Innovation Projects), $100,000
2008- present.
Primary Investigator, Designing Virtual Organizations for Impact and Sustainability: Exploring
a Resource-Use-Impact Planning Model, National Science Foundation, $241,455, (OCI-
0951630) 9/1/2009 - 8/31/2011.
Primary Investigator, OCIS Doctoral Consortium, $19,945, National Science Foundation,
8/1/08-7/31/09.
Co-Investigator, Online Research Community, $205,209 (NCRR #RR023506-01) 2006 – 2011.
Co-Investigator for the Development of a Dental Informatics Research Community, $70,161,
(NLM 1-G08-LM-8667-1A1), 2006-2009.
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“Boundaries in Social Computing Environments: The Effect of Environment Characteristics
on Publicness and Self-Disclosure”, Katz Research Fund, $1,500, 2008.
“Personal and Community Commonplace Development”, Katz – Dean’s Technology
Initiative Funds, $7,000, 2008.
Microsoft University Outreach Grant to support Online Communities Research, $5,000 in
Fall 2003, $5,000 in Fall 2004, $5,000 in Spring 2006.
"Task, Technology and Social Context: A Laboratory Investigation of Knowledge
Management Systems." University of Pittsburgh, Central Research Development Fund,
Small Grants Program, $10,000 in 1999.
“The Dynamics of Cyberspace: Examining and Modeling Electronic Group Development”
($47,000 in 1998 - National Science Foundation Grant #CSS9711548) [Brian Butler
author/project manager, Kathleen M. Carley – Principal Investigator]
"The Impact of the 'Information Superhighway' on a Knowledge-Intensive Business
Environment: A Case Study", the Colonna Family Foundation, $10,000, 1995-96.
Mellon Fellowship (1994-1997) - Stipend and Tuition for Ph.D. studies at the Graduate
School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University.
Book Chapters
Butler, B. S., Sproull, L., Kiesler, S., & Kraut, R. E. (2007). Community Effort in Online
Groups: Who Does the Work and Why? In S. Weisband & L. Atwater (Eds.), Leadership at a
Distance. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbuam Associates.
Butler, B. S. & Gibbons, D. E. 1997. Power Distribution as a Catalyst and Consequence of
Decentralized Technology Diffusion. In T. Larsen & G. McGuire (Eds.), Information
Systems and Technology: Innovation and Diffusion: Idea Publishing.
Butler, B. S. 1997. Using the World Wide Web to Support Classroom-Based Education:
Conclusions from a Multiple Case Study. In E. Badrul (Ed.), Web-Based Instruction.
Edgewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications.
Refereed Conference Proceedings
Weng, Qin, Sharma, Nikhil & Butler, Brian S., “Just-in-time Knowledge: Knowledge
Mobilization in a Public Health Network”, 17th Americas Conference on Information
Systems, Detroit, August 2011.
Sharma, Nikhil and Butler, Brian S. Supercourse: A Case Study of Knowledge Mobilization
by A Virtual Organization, In Proceedings of iConference 2011, February 8-11, 2011,Seattle,
WA.
Joyce, Elisabeth, Pike, Jacqueline, and Butler, Brian S. Handling Flammable Materials:
Wikipedia Biographies of Living Persons as Contentious Objects, In Proceedings of
iConference 2011, February 8-11, 2011, Seattle, WA.
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Robbins, Russell and Butler, Brian S. Virtual Teaching Cases? An Exploratory Study, In
Proceedings of the 27th
International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2010, St.
Louis, MO, December 2010.
Bateman, Patrick, Grey, Peter, and Butler, Brian S. I Stay or Should I Go: The Role of
Referrals on Online Community Member Turnover and Tenure, In Proceedings of the 27th
International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2010, St. Louis, MO, December
2010.
Butler, Brian S., Sharma Nikhil, Irwin, Jeannie, Spallek, Heiko. You Are Not Alone: Effects
of Highlighting Social Aspects on Responsiveness, Joining, and Profile Information Sharing
in an Information Portal. In Proceedings of the ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA,
October 22-27, 2010.
Butler, Brian, Ridings, Catherine, Pike, Jacqueline Growing Local Food Systems:
Information Technology Use and Impacts in Geographically-Embedded Markets, In
Proceedings of International Conference on Information Systems, Phoenix, AZ December
14-17, 2009.
Pike, Jacqueline, Bateman, Patrick, and Butler, Brian S. I Didn’t Know You Could See That:
The Effect of Social Networking Environment Characteristics on Publicness and Self-
Disclosure. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Americas Conference on Information Systems,
San Francisco, California August 6th-9th 2009.
Robbins, Russell W. and Butler, Brian S. Teaching and Learning Collaboratively and
Virtually. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Americas Conference on Information Systems, San
Francisco, California August 6th-9th 2009.
Spallek, H., Schleyer, T., and Butler, B. S. 2008. Good Partners are Hard to Find: The Search
for and Selection of Collaborators in the Health Sciences. In Proceedings of the 2008 Fourth
IEEE international Conference on Escience (December 07 - 12, 2008). ESCIENCE. IEEE
Computer Society, Washington, DC, 462-467.
Bartos CE, Butler BS, Penrod LE, Fridsma DB, Crowley RS. 2008 Negative CPOE attitudes
correlate with diminished power in the workplace. AMIA Annual Symposia Proceedings.
Nov 2008, 6:36-40.
Jones, Q., Moldovan, M., Raban, D., and Butler, B. 2008. Empirical evidence of information
overload constraining chat channel community interactions. In Proceedings of the ACM 2008
Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (San Diego, CA, USA, November 08
- 12, 2008). CSCW '08. ACM, New York, NY, 323-332.
Schleyer T, Spallek H, Butler BS, Subramanian S, Weiss D, Poythress ML, Rattanathikum P,
Mueller G. Requirements for expertise location systems in bio-medical science and the
Semantic Web. Proceedings of “Personal Identification and Collaborations: Knowledge
Mediation and Extraction (PICKME)”, workshop at the International Semantic Web
Conference, 2008.
Butler, B., Joyce, E., and Pike, J. 2008. Don't look now, but we've created a bureaucracy: the
nature and roles of policies and rules in wikipedia. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual
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SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10,
2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 1101-1110.
Pike, Jacqueline, Bateman, Patrick, and Butler, Brian. 2007 Boundaries in Social Computing
Environments: The Effect of Environment Characteristics on Publicness and Self-Disclosure.
Presentation at International Conference on Information Systems, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Spallek H, Butler B, Schleyer T, Weiss P, Wang X, Hatala C, Naderi R: Information Needs
Assessment for Dental Informatics Online Community (DIOC). Proceedings of the 84th
ADEA Annual Session & Exhibition, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 17-21, 2007, Journal of
Dental Education, January 2007: 113.
Bateman, P., Gray, P. and Butler B. 2006 Community Commitment: How Affect, Obligation,
and Necessity Drive Online Behaviors” Proceedings of the 27th
International Conference on
Information Systems, ICIS 2006, Milwaukee, WI.
Wang, X., Butler, B., & Joyce, E. 2006. An ecological perspective on online communities.
Best Paper Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management,
Atlanta, GA.
Arguello, Jaime, Butler, B.S., et al. 2006. Talk to me: foundations for successful individual-
group interactions in online communities. Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human
Factors in computing systems. Montreal, Quebec, Canada, ACM Press.
Durcikova, A., Galletta, D., & Butler, B. S. 2004. The Role of Organizational Climate in the
Use of Knowledge Management Systems to Support Problem Solving. Proceedings of the
Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2004, New York, NY.
Wang, X. & Butler, B. S. 2003. Individual Acceptance of Technology Under Conditions of
Change. Proceedings of the 24th
International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS
2003, Seattle, WA.
Saunders, C., Carte, T., Jasperson, J., Croes, H., Zheng, W., & Butler, B. S. 2000. Power and
Information Technology: A Review Using Metatriangulation. Proceedings of the 21st
International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2000, Brisbane Australia.
Henry, R. M. & Butler, B. S. 2001. The Effect of Directional Advice Ties on Perceptions of
Communication Technologies. Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information
Systems, AMCIS 2001, Boston, MA.
Butler, B. S. 2001. Communities as Dynamic Collaborative Filters: Modeling Technology,
Knowledge, and Structural Change in E-mail Based Online Communities. Proceedings of the
4th
International Conference on Organizational Learning and Knowledge, London, Ontario.
Butler, B. S. & Gibbons, D. E. 1996. Suppression or Diffusion? Using Technology as a
Vehicle for Power and Control. Proceedings of the Eastern Academy of Management Annual
Meeting, Crystal City, VA.
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Butler, B. S. & Gibbons, D. E. 1995. Values and Knowledge about Computer Mediated
Communications: Testing a Model of Social and Broadcast Media Effects. Proceedings of
the 1st Association for Information Systems Annual Meeting, AIS 1995, Pittsburgh, PA.
Butler, B. S. 1995. Using the World Wide Web to Support Classroom Based Education:
Challenges and Opportunities for IS Educators. Proceedings of the 1st
Association for
Information Systems Annual Meeting, AIS 1995, Pittsburgh, PA.
Working Papers and Papers in Process
Wang, Xiaoqing, Ren, Ching, and Butler, Brian. An Ecological Perspective on Online
Communities (In process at Organization Science – Conditional Acceptance, August 2011).
Henry, Raymond, Zagenczyk, Thomas J., Butler, Brian S. Context, Structure, and Influence:
A Field Study of Social Networks and Individual IT Acceptance. (In process at Journal of
Management Information Systems (JMIS) – 1st round Revise and Resubmit – revising for
resubmission in Summer 2011).
Butler, Brian S., Pike, Jacqueline C. and Joyce, Elizabeth . Safety Valves and Power Plays:
Officially Sanctioned Rule-Breaking in Wikipedia (In process at MIS Quarterly – received
2nd
Round Revise and Resubmit – Revising for Resubmission in Dec 2011).
Butler, Brian, Bateman, Patrick, and Diamant, Ilana Communication Costs, Benefit
Expectations, and Structural Change: A Resource Based Design Theory for Online
Community Systems. (In process at MIS Quarterly – 2nd Round Revise and Resubmit -
revising for resubmission Jan 2012).
Wang, Xiaoqing, Kraut, Robert, Butler, Brian, Burke, Moira, and Joyce, Elizabeth. Building
Commitment and Contribution in Online Groups through Social Interaction” (Revising for
submission to JMIS Jan 2012).
Mu, Enrique, Kirch, Laurie, and Butler, Brian. The Role of Scanning, Evaluation, and
Mindfulness in the Assimilation of Information Technology: The Case of Enterprise
Resource Planning (ERP) Systems. (Journal of Strategic Information Systems (JSIS)- Revise
and Resubmit –to be resubmitted Dec 2011).
Gray, Peter and Butler, Brian. Exploratory Knowledge Sourcing in Distributed and
Collocated Settings (Revising for submission to Journal of Management Information Systems
(JMIS),Dec 2011).
Grant Proposals in Process
“Supporting Urban Neighborhood Engagement with Personalized Community Information
Spaces” Co-PI with Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh, School of Information
Sciences). Proposal for $498,675 for National Science Foundation, IIS – HCC Cluster (To
be resubmitted Fall 2011).
Selected Conference Presentations
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Johnson, Steven, Butler, Brian S. Faraj, Samar, Jarvenpaa, Sirka New Directions in Online
Community Research, Panel Presentation at International Conference on Information
Systems, St. Louis. MO. December 2010.
Schleyer T, Spallek H, Song M, Butler B, Shirey W, Milnes J. CV management in Digital
Vita: a formative evaluation. Poster presented at: 2010 CTSA Informatics Key Function
Committee All-Hands Meeting; 2010 Oct 13-15; Bethesda, MD.
Ridings, Catherine and Butler, Brian. The Use of Information Technology to Alter Search
Costs in Local Food Systems. Presented at the 2010 NAREA Workshop: "The Economics of
Local Food Markets" June 15-16, 2010, Atlantic City, NJ.
Ridings, Catherine, Butler, Brian, Pike, Jacqueline “Information Technology and
Identity/Legitimacy in Local Food Systems”, Presented at Twelfth annual joint meeting of
the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS), Agriculture, Food and Human
Values Society (AFHVS), and the Annual meeting of the Society for the Anthropology of
Food and Nutrition (SAFN), June 2-5, 2010, Bloomington, IN.
Butler, Brian, Schleyer, Titus, Spallek, Heiko, Schmandt, L. Digital Vita: Designing a Social
Infrastructure for Team Science. Poster presented at Science of Team Science Conference,
April 22-24, 2010.
Pinto, Jonathan and Butler, Brian S. (2010) Career Impact of Scientists' Knowledge Creation
Strategies. Presentation at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec,
Canada.
Schleyer T, Spallek H, Butler B, Schmandt L. Digital Vita: Facebook for scientists. Poster
presented at: 2009 CTSA Informatics Key Functions Committee All-Hands Meeting; 2009
Oct 28-29; Bethesda, MD.
Butler, Brian “Look at me! Look at me!”: The Competitive Dynamics of Wikis and Online
Communities” Informs Annual Meeting, October 12-15 2008, Washington D.C.
Schleyer T, Spallek H, Butler BS, Subramanian S, Weiss D, Poythress ML, Rattanathikun P,
Mueller G. Requirements for systems that optimize how biomedical scientists choose
collaborators. NCI/NCRI Joint Conference “Biomedical informatics without borders:
Enabling collaboration to strengthen research and care”, September 2-3, 2008, Bethesda,
MD.
Wang, Xiaoqing, Kirsch, Laurie, and Butler, Brian 2007 Organizing User Participation in
Online User Communities, Presentation at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting,
Philadelphia, PA.
Butler, Brian. 2007 On Systems of Communities. Online Interaction Workshop at
Communities and Technologies, Lansing, MI.
Kane, G., Butler, B., Faraj, S., Yoo, Y. 2006 Has IS Missed the Network Revolution? Future
Directions and Potential Risks of Network Perspectives on IS Research, Panel Presentation at
International Conference on Information Systems, Milwaukee, WI.
Spallek H, Hatala C, Naderi R, Schleyer T, Weiss P, Detlefsen E, Butler B.S.: Entwicklung
und Validierung eines Forschungsinstrumentes für den Aufbau einer Online Community
[English title: Development and Validation of a Research Tool for an Online Community].
German Annual Dental Meeting, Erfurt (Germany), November 23-25, 2006.
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Butler, B. 2006 Designing Topical Boundaries in Online Communities. Presentation at the
Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
Zimmer, C., Henry R. and Butler, B. 2006 Factors Affecting the Use of Relational and
Nonrelational Information Sources, Presentation at the Academy of Management Annual
Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
Kraut, R., Ling, K., Butler, B., Wang, X. Burke, M., & Joyce, E. 2006. Determining Success
in Online groups. INGRoup: Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research.
Gibbons, D. E., Butler, B. S., & Boss, S. 2004. When Should I Tell?: Modeling Interpersonal
IT Diffusion. Presented at DIGIT: ICIS Pre-conference workshop, Washington D.C.
Butler, B. S., Smith, M., & Combs-Turner, T. 2004. Connectivity vs. Coherence: Boundary
Tensions in Online Technical Discussion Communities. Presentation at the Academy of
Management Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
Butler, B. S. 2004. When is a Group not a Group: An Empirical Examination of Metaphors
for Online Social Structure. Presentation at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting,
New Orleans, LA.
Everard, A. & Butler, B. S. 2001. Paradigms of Power: Mapping Power and IT research in
US and European Research Literatures. Presentation at the Organizations and Society in
Information Systems (OASIS) Workshop, New Orleans, LA.
Henry, R. M. & Butler, B. S. 2001. Is it Who You Know or Where You Go: A Comparison
of Relational and Non-Relational Information Sources. Presentation at the Academy of
Management Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
Butler, B. S. 1998. Power and Politics in IT Implementation: Perspective, Threat, and
Promise. Panel organizer and participant, The 19th
International Conference on Information
Systems, ICIS 1998, Helsinki, Finland.
Butler, B. S. & Gibbons, D. E. 1997. Organizational Distribution of Information Technology:
Effects of Social Context and Power Differences on Diffusion. Research-in-Progress
Presentation at the 18th
International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 1997,
Atlanta, GA.
Butler, B. S. 1997. The Dynamics of Cyberspace: An Interdependent Public Goods Model of
Electronic Group Development. Presentation at the 17th
Sunbelt Social Network Conference,
San Diego, CA.
Butler, B. S. & Kraut, R. E. 1997. The Dynamics of Cyberspace: Entry and Exit Behavior in
Electronic Groups. Presentation at the Human Computer Interaction Consortium Workshop,
HCIC, Fraiser, CO.
Plummer, A. C., Hoag, A., Steinfield, C. W., Kraut, R. E., & Butler, B. S. 1997. Producer-
Supplier Integration and Electronic Transactions Between Firms: Empirical Evidence from
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Four Industries. Paper presented at the International Communication Association Annual
Meeting, ICA 1997, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Butler, B. S., Kraut, R. E., & Carley, K. 1996. Social Interaction and Influence on Attitudes
and Behavior Regarding Communication Technologies: A Comparison of Alternative
Measures. Paper presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH.
Butler, B. S. 1996. Communication Technologies in Support of Classroom and Distance
Education. Panel participant, Information Resources Management Association International
Conference, Washington, DC.
Butler, B. S. & Gibbons, D. E. 1996. When, Where and With Whom? Network Shifts Across
Time, Place, and Task in a Knowledge-Intensive Organization. Paper presented at the 16th
Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Charleston, SC.
Butler, B. S., Plummer, A. C., Hoag, A., Kraut, R. E., & Steinfield, C. W. 1996. Talk, Trust,
and Telecommunications: Alternative Mechanisms for Coordinating Commercial
Transactions. Research-in-Progress Presentation at the 17th
International Conference on
Information Systems, ICIS 1996, Cleveland, OH.
Plummer, A. C., Hoag, A., Steinfield, C. W., Butler, B. S., & Kraut, R. E. 1996. Factors
Influencing the Use of Inter-Company Networks for Processing Transactions. Presentation at
the International Communication Association Annual Meeting, ICA 1996, Chicago, IL.
Gibbons, D. E. & Butler, B. S. 1995. Early Adopters of Electronic Communications:
Missionaries, Archivists, or Standard-Bearers? Presentation at the Academy of Management
Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Invited Presentations
I3 Workshop, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, “Crowdsourcing and
Open Innovation: How Wikipedia Changes Everything (without really changing anything).”,
June 2011.
Faculty Business Briefs, Katz Graduate School of Business,“What is a Question?” April
2011.
University of Pittsburgh Symposium, “Natural Language Processing in the World of
Business, Law, and Medicine”, Invited Panel Member, March 2011.
Temple University, “Handling Flammable Materials: Wikipedia Biographies of Living
Persons as Contentious Objects”, March 2011.
Syracuse University, School of Information Studies, Information Systems Research Speaker
Series. Wikipolicies: Application and Adaptation of Policies in Wikipedia, February 2011.
University of Maryland, College of Information Studies, Information Systems Research
Speaker Series. Wikipolicies: Application and Adaptation of Policies in Wikipedia, February
2011.
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University of Alabama - Birmingham, Information Systems Research Speaker Series.
Wikipolicies: Application and Adaptation of Policies in Wikipedia, February 2011.
McGill University, Information Systems Research Speaker Series. Wikipolicies: Application
and Adaptation of Policies in Wikipedia, February 2011.
United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service. Use and Impact of
Information Technology Use in Local Food Systems, October 2010.
Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business, Information Systems Research
Seminar Series. Safety Valves and Power Plays: Officially Sanctioned Rule-Breaking in
Wikipedia, November 2009.
McGill University, Information Systems Research Speaker Series. Safety Valves and Power
Plays: Officially Sanctioned Rule-Breaking in Wikipedia, April 2009.
Lehigh University, Information Systems Research Speaker Series. Safety Valves and Power
Plays: Officially Sanctioned Rule-Breaking in Wikipedia. February 2009.
CMU Online Communities Working Group, Safety Valves and Power Plays: Officially
Sanctioned Rule-Breaking in Wikipedia. February 2009.
Arizona State University, Don’t Look Now, But We’ve Created a Bureaucracy February
2008.
CMU Online Communities Working Group, Don’t Look Now, But We’ve Created a
Bureaucracy January 2008.
University of Pittsburgh, School of Pharmacy, Online Communities in Healthcare, February,
2008.
University of Arizona, Eller College of Management, Department of Management
Information Systems, Designing Ontological Structures: Structural Implications of Topical
Boundaries in Online Communities, Spring 2005.
University of Cincinnati, Information Systems Department, The Cross Purposes of Cross-
Posting: Dynamic Tensions in Online Technical Discussion Communities, Fall 2004.
University of Maryland – College Park, Robert H. Smith School of Business, The Cross
Purposes of Cross-Posting: Dynamic Tensions in Online Technical Discussion Communities,
Fall 2004.
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Information Systems Department, Making and Breaking
Boundaries in Online Communities, Spring 2004.
Microsoft Research, Community Technologies Group, Making and Breaking Boundaries in
Online Communities, Spring 2004.
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Microsoft Research, Community Technologies Group, Making a Mess on Purpose: Online
Communities as Reliability Centered Organizations, Spring 2003.
University of Oklahoma, Information Systems Department, Social and Power Dynamics
Surrounding Burgeoning Resource Distribution, Fall 2000.
AT&T Labs, Information Systems and Services Laboratory, An Interdependent Public Goods
Model of Electronic Group Development, Fall 1997.
Professional and Editorial Service
Program Committee member for WikiSym 2011 (2011)
Editorial Review Board for Organization Science (2010 – present)
Associate Editor for MIS Quarterly (2007- 2010)
Associate Editor for MIS Quarterly special issues on:
New Ventures in Virtual Worlds (2010)
Information Systems and Environmental Sustainability (2011)
On Sociomateriality of Information Systems and Organizing (2011)
Associate Editor for Journal of Association of Information Systems special issue on
Expanding the Frontiers of Information Systems Research (2011).
Special Guest Editor, Information Systems Journal special issue on Interpreting Digital
Enabled Social Networks (2011)
Editorial Board member for Information System Research special issue on IS in Healthcare
(2009)
Associate Editor for Information Systems Research (2004 - 2006)
Program committee member for Workshop on Health IT and Economics (2010)
Program committee member for Interdisciplinary Workshop on Communication for
Sustainable Communities (2010)
National Science Foundation Review Panels (2007, 2009 [2], 2010 [2], 2011)
Editorial Review Board member for Small Group Research (2008 – present)
Editorial Board Member for Information and Organization (2004 - present)
Division Chair, Organizational Communication and Information Systems division of the
Academy of Management (2010-2011)
Division Chair Elect & Junior Faculty Consortium Chair, Organizational Communication
and Information Systems division of the Academy of Management (2009-2010)
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Program Chair, Organizational Communication and Information Systems division of the
Academy of Management (2008-2009)
Professional Development Workshop (PDW) Program Chair and Doctoral Consortium Chair,
Organizational Communication and Information Systems division of the Academy of
Management (2007-2008)
Co-Track Chair, Knowledge Management Track of International Conference on Information
Systems (2007)
Co-Chair, Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST) (2006)
Associate Editor for International Conference on Information Systems (2001 – 2006, 2010-
2011)
Chief Information Officer for Organization Communication and Information Systems (OCIS)
Division of the Academy of Management (2003-2006)
Nominating Committee Member for Organization Communication and Information Systems
(OCIS) Division of the Academy of Management (2002-2003)
Reviewer for: Academy of Management Journal
Information Systems Research
Academy of Management Review
MIS Quarterly
Management Science
Organization Science
Communications of the ACM
Information and Organization
Communication Research
Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS)
Journal of Computer Mediated Communications
Journal of AIS
JSIST
Decision Sciences
Small Group Research
Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) [2011 (1)]
Academy of Management Annual Meeting
International Conference on Information Systems
Computer Supported Collaborated Work (CSCW) [2011 (3)]
CHI
HICSS [2011 (1)]
Other workshops, conferences, or secondary journals
Member of: The Academy of Management
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Informs
Association for Information Systems (AIS)
School and University Service
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University of Pittsburgh Conflict of Interest Committee (2009 – present)
Katz Doctoral/Research Committee (2009 – present)
School of Information Science Faculty Search Committee (2009-10)
Katz Faculty Executive Committee (2007-Present, Chair 2008-10)
MBA Redesign Taskforce (2008 & 2009)
IS Interest Group Coordinator (2006-2009)
Director of the Undergraduate IS Program (2006-07)
Undergraduate IS Curriculum Committee (Chair, 2006)
Katz Undergraduate Committee (Member, 2006-2007)
Masters Policy/Program Committee (2000-2006)
Technology Policy and Use Committee (1998-1999)
Techno-MBA Club Advisor (1998-2003)
Organized the Information Systems Research Speaker series (2002-2006)
Dissertation committee participation
Sue Syn (SIS)
Chi-Jung Liu (SIS)
Jacqueline Pike (chair)
Greg Moody
Heather Piwowar (Biomedical Informatics)
Patrick Bateman (chair)
Worasit Choochaiwattana (SIS)
Xiaoqing Wang (chair)
Claudia Costa (co-chair)
Enrique Mu (co-chair)
Dharma Nursani (co-chair)
Alexandra Durcikova (co-chair)
Brian Jones (co-chair)
Zhechao (Charles) Liu
Christa Bartos (Biomedical Informatics)
Thomas Zagenczyk
Scott Boss
Jun He
Raymond Henry
Andrea Everard
Ali Kamal Shaker (SIS)
Vichita Vathanophas (SIS)
Alex Lopes
Peter Marks
Exam committee participation
Pratyush Sharma (chair)
Saral Naklava (chair)
Greg Moody
Jacqueline Pike (chair)
Ilana Diamant (chair)
Mark Haney
Patrick Bateman (chair)
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Charles Liu
Xiaoqing Wang (chair)
Claudia Costa
Raymond Henry
Dharma Nursani
Selected MBA/MS-MIS independent study courses supervised
Bipin Kaul, Michael Hordijk, Jen-Wei Hung, George Zhang, Brian Kolowitz, Amee Parikh,
Aaron Piper (Open Source Technologies)
Michael Lichtenstein, Bryan Mackrell, and Christina McCann (IT Infrastructure
Management)
Kurt Zander (Advanced Database Management)
Manisha Rungta (Object Oriented Analysis)
Vaughn Holbrook, Lisa Flath, Christina Lorenzetti, Julie Rotelli (E-Commerce impacts)
Greg Petro (Electronic marketplaces)
Darryl Dolan, William Nolan (Web/Database integration, design and implementation)
Todd Schrubb (Document database development and implementation)
Seth Cohen (Web services & distributed system design)
Jai Ahn (Supply chain management systems)
Javier Martinez (Oracle administration and database design)
Vasilica Chirileasa (Advanced data modeling)
Brian Brill (Systems Analysis and Design)
Paul Thompson (IT in biomedical industry) [MBA/MS-MIS]
Thomas Pierce, Christopher Moratis (Business Continuity for small organizations)
Avinash Jhangia (Radio Frequency ID (RFID) technologies)
Michael Smith (Linux administration and implementation of content-management systems)
Christopher Unick, David Blaze (Online Community design and implementation)
Teaching Experience
Executive MBA
Information Systems and Business Value [Prague, Czech Republic and Sao Paulo, Brazil]
(2005-present)
MBA/MS-MIS Courses
Current Topics in MIS: Green IT (2010)
Current Topics in MIS: The Business of Blogs, Online Communities and Social
Networking (2007)
Current Topics in MIS: Open Source Technology (2004)
Current Topics in MIS: Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery (2003, 2005)
Database Management – MS-MIS core course (1999-2006)
Systems Analysis and Design – MS-MIS core course (1999-2002)
MS-MIS Practicum (1999-present)
Katz Consulting Projects (2007-present)
Doctoral Courses
Communications and Technology – Seminar (2000, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009)
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Undergraduate Courses
Introduction to Information Systems (2006-Present)
Telecommunications for Business (1997)
Management Information Systems (1994-1996)
Research Interests
Social media, social computing, and online communities
Community informatics (with an emphasis on IT use in Local Food Systems)
Business Continuity Management, disaster response and organizational mindfulness
Power, politics, and IT; Policies and rules in mass collaboration systems
Implications of e-commerce technologies for inter-organizational relationships
Rhetorical communication as written information design
Teaching Interests
Business Continuity Management and Disaster Recovery
Online Communities, Social Networks and Blogs
Open Source technologies
Database management
Systems analysis and design
Leading IT-enabled organizational change projects
Organizational impacts of information systems
Work and Consulting Experience
Infrastructure Architecture and Online Community Development Consultant (2006-2007) –
First Insight, Inc.
Systems Analyst and R&D Consultant (1992 - 1996) - Innovative Systems Inc.
Programmer (1990 - 1991) - Carnegie Group Inc.
Research Assistant (1989 - 1990) - Laboratory for Computational Linguistics