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Christine Ogan

Faculty Title

Professor of Informatics

Research Statement

My research is in the area of social informatics that focuses on uses of new communication technologies in the United States and also in other parts of the world, with a special focus on Turkey. Of late, my U.S.-based research addresses work force issues related to technologies. Together with colleagues from the School of Journalism, I conducted a national survey of journalism educators on their uses of computer-based technologies in the classroom and the stress that is associated with the continuous updating and changing of software. Gender issues were of particular interest in that research as women experienced significantly higher technology-based stress than men.

I am also part of an Indiana University-based team of researchers that has received a NSF grant to study educational environments for men and women who wish to enter information technology fields and which type of environment shows the most promise for the recruitment and retention of women.

Internationally I am researching a popular web site in Turkey where people share stories about their lives with others. Kursat Cagiltay, a Middle East Technical University Professor of computer education and institutional technology, and I are surveying the users of this web site that attracts around 70,000 users and 1,000 stories daily. This is especially interesting because of the low computer and Internet penetration rate in Turkey. We are exploring the uses of the site and the gratifications gained by users who view the site as an important part of their daily lives.

Select Publications

  • Ogan, Christine. “Big Turkish Media and the Iraq War: A Watershed?”. Transnational Broadcasting Studies. 10, Spring/Summer 2003. View Web site.
  • Ogan, Christine and Deborah Chung. “Stressed Out! A National Study of Women and Men Journalism and Mass Communication Faculty, their Uses of Technology, and Levels of Professional and Personal Stress”. Journalism & Mass Communication Educator 57(4), 2003, pp. 352–368.
  • Voakes, Paul, Randal Beam and Christine Ogan. “The Importance of Technological change on Journalism Education: A Survey of Faculty and Administrators”. Journalism & Mass Communication Educator 57(4), 2003, pp. 318–334.
  • Ogan, Christine, Communication and Identity in the Diaspora: Turkish Migrants in Amsterdam and the Impact of Satellite Television, Lexington Books, Lanham Maryland, 2001.

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Christine Ogan

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