Alla Zollers

Alla Zollers is a doctoral student at UCLA in the Information Studies department. Her research interests include social tagging, social network sites, critical and cultural studies, and alternative and activist media. Her dissertation is going question the assumption that people engage in social tagging for the purpose or informaion organization versus more social motivations such as communication. Alla also likes to think about how the architecture and design of systems encourages certain types of social behavior, and how users play or repurpose systems beyond the original design.