News & Announcements
July, 2021
I am thrilled to be awarded the position of Full Professor at UCI.
I am also excited to take on the role of Department Chair for the Department of Informatics for a term of three years.
June, 2021
Thank you to UCI for naming me a 2021-2024 Chancellor’s Fellow, “Chancellor’s Fellows are faculty with tenure whose recent achievements in scholarship evidence extraordinary promise for world-class contributions to knowledge, and whose pattern of contributions evidences strong trajectory to distinction” (according to the website). What an honor.
April, 2021
Congratulations Samantha McDonald for your successful Doctoral Defense.
Thesis: Constituent Communication in Representative Democracy: Testing Platforms for Deliberation in the U.S. Congress
Committee: Melissa Mazmanian (Chair), Paul Dourish, Bill Tomlinson and Erhardt Graeff
Sam will be is joining Facebook as a researcher in the Summer!
August, 2020
Congratulations Eugenia Rho for your successful Doctoral Defense.
Thesis: Political Hashtags and the Quality of Democratic Discourse At-Scale
Committee: Melissa Mazmanian (Chair), Judy Olson, and Kai Zhang
I’m thrilled to announce that Eugenia is joining the Stanford Natural Language Processing Group as a Post Doc. She will then be joining the Virginia Tech Computer Science Department as an Assistant Professor.
I’m so proud of you Eugenia!
August, 2020
So thrilled to have the opportunity to work with Elana Feldman and Erin Reid. Our Academy of Management Annals Paper was just published.
Feldman, Elana, Erin M. Reid, and Melissa Mazmanian. "Signs of Our Time: Time-use as Dedication, Performance, Identity, and Power in Contemporary Workplaces." Academy of Management Annals 14.2 (2020): 598-626.
Check out this cool (and informative) video that Elana made to promote the piece:
July, 2020
Christine Beckman and my book, Dreams of the Overworked: Living, Working and Parenting in the Digital Age is out.
Order on Amazon, IndieBound or Stanford University Press.
NYT, In Her Words: Ideal, Perfect, Ultimate: What Drives Parents to Seek the Unattainable?
WBUR Here and Now: Even Before Pandemic, Working Parents Struggled To Achieve The 'Dreams Of The Overworked'
The Atlantic: What America Asks of Working Parents is Impossible
May, 2020
Check out the new article Elana Feldman and I wrote for the Sloan Management Review: Why Time Signals Still Matter When Working Remotely. Trying to provide some useful advice for leaders in this crazy time.
January, 2020
Paul Dourish and I were just awarded a grant “Beautiful Code: Aesthetic Practices and Social Control in an Engineering Organization” from the NSF STS Division. Our graduate student Marina Fedorova is already embedded in a game design company doing this exciting work.
November, 2019
Check out this article written by my student Eugenia Rho about her research: “Political hashtags like #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter make people less likely to believe the news.” - written for The Conversation and picked up by KCBS Radio and Yahoo Finance.
September, 2019
Congratulations Alex Toll for your successful Doctoral Defense:
Thesis: Engaging Paradox in Situated Practice: A Study of Electronic Case Management in Family Law
Committee: Melissa Mazmanian (Co-Chair), Gerardo Okhuysen (Co-Chair), and Sharon Koppman
We’re so proud of you!
September, 2019
Check out this very cool article written by my student Sam McDonald about her research: “How Congress turns citizens’ voices into data points.” - written for The Conversation and picked up by The Chicago Tribune and several other venues.
July, 2019
Sharon Koppman and I received an NSF grant, “Examining the 'Class Ceiling' in Big Tech” from the Building Capacity in STEM Education Research Program at the National Science Foundation. Working with doctoral student Phoebe Chua, we will be examining the role of class background in the application and hiring process of software developer internships at Big Tech firms in order to understand if there is a “class ceiling” that acts as an invisible barrier to elite jobs in Big tech.
June, 2019
Ingrid Erickson and I received an NSF grant, “Augmentation for Tomorrow: Expanding the Future Capacities of Independent Workers” from the Future of work at the Human-Technology Frontier initiative at the National Science Foundation. Along with doctoral student Hillary Abraham and a team at Syracuse, we will be conducting short ethnographic investigations with independent professionals in order to understand how they technologically augment their capacities in order to live full lives and strive for variety of human goals and values.
January, 2019
Mike Lee, Leslie Perlow and I are thrilled that our paper Fostering Positive Relational Dynamics in Teams: The power of spaces and interaction scripts is currently In Press and available for download in the Academy of Management Journal.
August, 2018
I am honored to accept a position as Senior Editor for the premiere management journal, Organization Science.
June, 2018
Christine Beckman and I are happy to see our most recent Organization Science article, “Making” Your Numbers: Engendering Organizational Control Through a Ritual of Quantification, in print.
May, 2018
Congratulations Simone Lanette for your successful Doctoral Defense.
Thesis: The Mere Presence of Mobile Phones During Parent-Teen Interactions.
Committee: Melissa Mazmanian (Chair), Gillian Hayes, and Candice Odgers
Now go do amazing things!
November, 2017
I enjoyed a chance to discuss “Information Technologies in Everyday Life: Perpetuating and Intensifying the Myth of What It Is to Be an Ideal Worker, Perfect Parent and Ultimate Self” at the Informatics Seminar Series.
March, 2016
Great news. Gillian Hayes and myself have just received a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study the impact of mobile phones on perceived closeness and quality of social interactions among parents and teens with doctoral student Simone Lanette
February, 2016
Katie Pine and I are enjoying seeing our most recent Academy of Management Journal article, Artful and Contorted Coordinating: The Ramifications of Imposing Formal Logics of Task Jurisdiction on Situated Practice" in print.
May, 2015
I am happy to announce that my tenure case was approved and I am officially an Associate Professor of Informatics in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences.
May, 2015
Congratulations Ellie Harmon on your successful Doctoral Defense.
Thesis: Computing as Context: Experiences of Dis/Connection Beyond the Moment of Non/Use
Advisor: Melissa Mazmanian
Enjoy life in Portland!
May, 2015
Congratulations Lynn Dombrowski on your successful Doctoral Defense.
Thesis: Exploring and Designing for Sociotechnical Food Justice
Advisors: Gillian R. Hayes and Melissa Mazmanian
Congratulations on your position as an Assistant professor in Human Centered Computing at IUPUI!
September, 2013
I am proud to announce that Kathleen Pine and myself were recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation: Creating a Data-Driven World: Situated Practices of Collecting, Curating, Manipulating, and Deploying Data in Healthcare. Click here for information about the grant.