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Brian S. Butler

E-mail: bsbutler@umd.edu

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