Selected Publications
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Journal articles (refereed)
Kazmer, M. M. (accepted April, 2011). The process of departing from online learning community revealed through examination of threaded discussions. International Journal of Web-Based Communities. Uses naturally-occurring discussions among e-learners to modify an existing model of online community departures.
Glueckauf, R. L., Davis, W. S., Hayes, J., Stutzman, M., McIntyre, V., Wesley, L., Kazmer, M. M., Burnett, K., Noel, L. T., Xu, J., Haire, K., Schettini, G., Sharma, D., Gustafson, D. J., Shipman, J., Willis, F., Murray, L., Parfitt, F., Proctor, J., Baxter, C., & Graff-Radford, N. (accepted January, 2012). Telephone-based, cognitive-behavioral therapy for African-American dementia caregivers with depression: Initial findings. Rehabilitation Psychology. Presents initial findings from a study of telephone-based cognitive-behavioral therapy for African-American dementia caregivers with depression.
Hinnant, C. C., Stvilia, B., Wu, S., Worrall, A., Burnett, G., Burnett K., Kazmer, M. M., & Marty, P. F. (accepted March, 2012). Author team diversity and the impact of scientific publications: Evidence from physics research at a national lab. Library & Information Science Research. Presents findings from the analysis of citation information and author demographics of a sub-set of publications from scientists who used the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.
Kazmer, M. M. (2011). Produsage in a/synchronous learner-led e-learning. New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 17(1), 121-139. doi:10.1080/13614568.2011.552644 Takes a produsage perspective to frame an analysis of the long-term development of a required graduate-level course in information organization.
Johnson, E. D. M., & Kazmer, M. M. (2011). Library hospitality: Some preliminary considerations. Library Quarterly, 81(4), 383-403. doi:10.1086/661655 Uses hospitality theory as a lens to examine the history and status of hospitality in public libraries.
Stvilia, B., Hinnant, C. C., Schindler, K., Worrall, A., Burnett, G., Burnett, K., Kazmer, M. M., & Marty, P. F. (2011). Composition of scientific teams and publication productivity at a national science lab. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 62(2), 270-283. doi:10.1002/asi.21464 Employs data from 1415 experiments conducted at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory between 2005 and 2009 to examine whether team diversity and network characteristics affect productivity.
Lustria, M. L. A., Kazmer, M. M., Glueckauf, R. L., Hawkins, Robert P., Randeree, E., Rosario, I., McLaughlin, C., & Redmond, S. (2010). Participatory design of a health informatics system for rural health practitioners and disadvantaged women. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(11), 2243-2255. Reports on the results of qualitative data collected via focus groups as part of the participatory design of a breast-cancer screening reminder system.[final]
Kazmer, M. M. (2010). Disengaging from a distributed research project: Refining a model of group departures. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(4), 758-771. Tests and revises an earlier model of disengaging from online social worlds against empirical data from a distributed research group.[final]
Kazmer, M. M. & Xie, B. (2008). Qualitative interviewing in Internet studies: Playing with the media, playing with the method. Information, Communication, and Society 11(2), 115-136. Compares the use of four media (face-to-face, telephone, e-mail, and Instant Messengers) for completing semi-structured qualitative research interviews.[final]
Kazmer, M. M. (2007). How do student experiences differ in online LIS programs with and without a residency? Library Quarterly 77(4), 359-383. Examines the proposition that having an on-campus residency is vital to the success of students in an online graduate degree program by comparing empirical data from students in programs with and without a residency requirement.[preprint][final]
Haythornthwaite, C., Bruce, B. C., Andrews, R., Kazmer, M. M., Montague, R., & Preston, C. (2007). New theories and models of and for online learning. First Monday 12(8). Electronic journal, no pagination. Available at http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1976/1851. Presents six theoretical perspectives on online learning: living technology; co-evolution of technology and learning practices; (latent) tie formation; community-embedded learning; learner-leader model; and braided learning.
Dickey, M. H., Burnett, G., Chudoba, K. M., Kazmer, M. M. (2007). Do you read me?: Perspective making and perspective taking in chat communications. Journal of the Association for Information Systems 8(1), 47-70. Uses perspective theory to analyze and explain miscommunications between call center employees and their customers during dyadic chat customer service interactions.
Kazmer, M. M., Burnett, G., & Dickey, M. H. (2007). Identity in customer service chat interaction: Implications for virtual reference. Library & Information Science Research 29, 5-29. Examines data from three thousand dyadic chat sessions to explore issues of identity and provide implications for provision of virtual reference services.[final]
Kazmer, M. M. (2007). Beyond C U L8R: Disengaging from online social worlds. New Media and Society 9(1), 111-138. Proposes 12-step theoretical model of disengaging from online social worlds, based on longitudinal empirical research data with online distance learners.[preprint][final]
Kazmer, M. M. (2006). Creation and loss of sociotechnical capital among information professionals educated online. Library & Information Science Research 28, 172-191. Examines professional networking and cooperation from the perspective of sociotechnical capital lost when students disengage from distributed learning social worlds.[preprint][final]
Kazmer, M. M. (2005). Community-embedded learning. Library Quarterly 75, 190-212. Proposes new concept of community-embedded learning, based on empirical research with online distance learners, arguing that learning outcomes for such students are different from, and often better than, learning achieved by on-campus students.[preprint][final]
Kazmer, M. M. (2005). Cats in the classroom: Online learning in hybrid spaces. First Monday, 10(9), September. Electronic journal, no pagination. Available at http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1278/1198. Examines online learning classrooms as hybrid spaces, those that include both virtual and real places, and the impact of hybrid space on students' experiences.
Kazmer, M. M. (2005). How technology affects students' departures from online learning communities. ACM SIGGroup Bulletin, 25 (1), 25-30. Describes the effects of a variety of technologies on the intake and departure processes of online distance learners, based on analysis of multi-project dataset.
Kazmer, M. M. & Thakkar, U. (2004). Developing technological fluency in undergraduate IT education: Teaching amid evolving change in LIS. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 45(3), pp. 229-241. Uses evaluation and participant observation to analyze the process of course development in the area of information technology, given the rapid change in technologies and in students' expertise.
Burnett, G., Dickey, M. H., Kazmer, M. M., & Chudoba, K. M. (2003). Inscription and interpretation of text: A cultural hermeneutic examination of virtual community. Information Research, 9(4). Electronic journal, no pagination. Available at http://InformationR.net/ir/9-1/paper162.html. Uses an anthropological perspective and a methodology based in hermeneutics to illustrate how language use both reflects and influences culture in a virtual community of Usenet participants.
Kazmer, M. M., & Haythornthwaite, C. (2001). Juggling multiple social worlds: Distance students on and offline. American Behavioral Scientist, 45 (3), pp. 510-529.
Kazmer, M. M. (2000). Coping in a distance environment: Sitcoms, chocolate cake, and dinner with a friend. First Monday. 5 (9): September. Electronic journal, no pagination. Available at http://http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/791/700.
Haythornthwaite, C., Kazmer, M. M., Robins, J. & Shoemaker, S. (2000). Community development among distance learners: Temporal and technological dimensions. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 6 (1). Electronic journal, no pagination. Available at http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol6/issue1/haythornthwaite.html.
Cole, T. W. & Kazmer, M. M. (1995). SGML as a component of the digital library. Library Hi Tech, 13 (4): 75-90.
Wall, C. E., Cole, T. W. & Kazmer, M. M. (1995). HyperText MARCup: A conceptualization for encoding, de-constructing, searching, retrieving, and using traditional knowledge tools. Reference Services Review. 23 (4): 13-18.
Articles and chapters
Kazmer, M. M., Randeree, E., & Heald, G. (2010). Creating an interdisciplinary ICT bachelor's degree at Florida State University. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 36(4), 14-17.[final]
Kazmer, M. M. (2009). Online learning community. In P. Rogers, G. Berg, J. Boettcher, C. Howard, L. Justice, & K. Schenk (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Distance and Online Learning (pp. 1506-1511). Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference.
Kazmer, M. M. (2007). Community-embedded learning. In R. Andrews & C. Haythornthwaite (Eds.), Handbook of E-learning Research. London: Sage, 311-327.
Kazmer, M. M. & Haythornthwaite, C. (2004). Multiple perspectives on online learning. ACM SIGGroup Bulletin, 25 (1), 7-11. Introduces online education as a multi-disciplinary field whose research problems may be approached using a variety of methods and theoretical approaches, and whose stakeholders vary widely.
Kazmer, M. M. (2004). Disengaging from online community. In C. Haythornthwaite & M. M. Kazmer (Eds.), Learning, culture and community in online education: Research and practice. New York: Peter Lang, pp. 112-126. Provides an overview of the process distance learners go through as they prepare to graduate from an online education program.
Haythornthwaite, C., & Kazmer, M. M. (2004). Multiple perspectives and practices in online education. In C. Haythornthwaite & M. M. Kazmer (Eds.), Learning, culture and community in online education: Research and practice. New York: Peter Lang, pp. xiii-xxviii. Discusses in-depth the multiple research approaches that have been used to study online learning, and the activities of many parties involved in creating online learning, including students, faculty, administration, and support staff.
Haythornthwaite, C., Kazmer, M. M., Robins, J., & Shoemaker, S. (2004). Community development among distance learners: Temporal and technological dimensions. In C. Haythornthwaite & M. M. Kazmer (Eds.), Learning, culture and community in online education: Research and practice. New York: Peter Lang, pp. 35-57. Uses longitudinal data collected with distance learners to outline the processes of community development, maintenance, and dismantling in an online master's level program.
Kazmer, M. M., & Haythornthwaite, C. (2004). Juggling multiple social worlds: Distance students online and offline. In C. Haythornthwaite & M. M. Kazmer (Eds.), Learning, culture and community in online education: Research and practice. New York: Peter Lang, pp. 90-109. Presents a social world perspective as an alternative to the construct of virtual community, and demonstrates the influences of multiple social world involvement on the life management strategies of adult distance learners.
Haythornthwaite, C., & Kazmer, M. M. (2002). Bringing the Internet home: Adult distance learners and their Internet, home and work worlds. In B. Wellman & C. Haythornthwaite (Eds.), The Internet in everyday life. Oxford, UK: Blackwells, pp. 431-463. Examines how the everyday lives of adult distance learners are changed by the introduction of an Internet-based online education program.
Kazmer, M. M. (2002). Distance education students speak to the library: Here's how you can help even more. The Electronic Library, 20 (5), pp. 395-400. Uses empirical data collected with online distance learners to develop service implications for library service to such students.
Kazmer, M. M. (2001). Information industry. In J. R. Schement et al. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Communication and Information (Vol. 2), pp. 426-430. New York: Macmillan Reference.
Schwarzwalder, R. N. & Kazmer, M. M. (1998). Electronic information resources. In Myer Kutz (Ed.), The Mechanical Engineers' Handbook, Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons, 1998.
Edited book and journal issues
Marty, P. F., Kazmer, M. M., Jorgensen, C., Urban, R., & Jones, K. B. (Eds.) (2011). Involving users in the co-construction of digital knowledge in libraries, archives, and museums. Library Trends, 59(3).
Harris, L. E., Kazmer, M. M., & Mon, L. (Eds.) (2007). Distance Education, special issue of the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 48(1).
Learning, culture and community in online education: Research and practice. (2004). C. Haythornthwaite & M. M. Kazmer, (Eds.) New York: Peter Lang. Assembles research papers and practitioner statements from administrators, faculty, and staff to demonstrate the multiplexity of education, interpersonal relationships, and the creation of culture in online learning.
Conference proceedings
Haythornthwaite, C., Lunsford, K. L., Kazmer, M. M., Nazarova, M., & Robins, J. (2003). The generative dance in pursuit of generative knowledge. Proceedings from the Thirty-Sixth Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-36), Knowledge Management, Organizational Memory and Organizational Learning Minitrack. January 6-9, 2003, pp. 1-10. Available at http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/hicss/2003/1874/04/187440115b.pdf. Describes knowledge generation processes among a group of researchers working to determine what it means to be "culturally and linguistically appropriate" as they select materials for inclusion in a database.
Burnett, G., Dickey, M., Kazmer, M. M., & Chudoba, K. M. (2003). Understanding virtual community through language: A cultural hermeneutic examination. Proceedings from the 2003 Academy of Management Conference, Seattle, WA, pp. OCIS A1-A6. Uses an anthropological perspective and a methodology based in hermeneutics to illustrate how language use both reflects and influences culture in a virtual community of Usenet participants.
Book reviews
Kazmer, M. M. (2011). Review of Eubanks, V. (2011). Digital dead end: Fighting for social justice in the information age. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology 62(11), 2296-2297. doi: 10.1002/asi.21617
Kazmer, M. M. (2008). Review of Keeran, P., Moulton-Gertig, S., Levine-Clark, M., Schlotzhauer, N., Gil, E., Brown, C. C., Kraus, J., Forbes, C., & Bowers, J. (2007). Research within the disciplines: Foundations for reference and library instruction. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. Library Quarterly 78(3), 338-340.
Kazmer, M. M. (2007). Review of Mann, T. (2005). The Oxford guide to library research. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Library Quarterly 77(4), 491-493.
Kazmer, M. M. (2006). Review of Rumsey, S. (2004). How to find information: A guide for researchers. New York: Open University Press. Library Quarterly, 76, pp. 488-490.
Kazmer, M. M. (2003). Review of Zucker, A., Kozma, R., Marder, C., and Yarnall, L. (2003). The virtual high school: Teaching generation V. New York: Teachers College Press. Convergence 9(2), pp. 118-120.