Dr. Timothy D. Bowman, Assistant Professor, Wayne State University
I have a Ph.D. from the Department of Information and Library Science , School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University, Bloomington (IUB). At IUB, I had the opportunity to work with Dr. Howard Rosenbaum , Dr. Cassidy R. Sugimoto , and Dr. John A Walsh . I am currently an Associate Professor at the School of Information Studies , Dominican University, Chicago, ILL, USA. Prior to this I was at The School of Information Sciences at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. Before being hired by W
My interests include understanding how it is that people interpret the information that their network connections (e.g. friends, followers, etc.) post within social media environments. How is it that one’s audience understands when something that you have posted to social media is a joke or it is to be taken seriously? How do social media participants understand when their “friends” are speaking from the perspective of their professional lives or their personal lives? How do social media users learn how to