Andrew Flanagin

Andrew Flanagin’s research focuses on the ways in which communication and information technologies structure and extend human interaction. More specifically, he is interested in how contemporary technologies affect the dynamics of collective organizing/collective action and the sharing of all kinds of "resources," broadly defined. Central to this issue is his second major research concern: how people assess the credibility of information and its sources in online contexts. These issues are central to social computing, which is fundamentally concerned with people pooling (or not pooling) their resources toward some goal, which often hinges on perceptions of expertise, trust, and believability (i.e., issues of credibility).