Jessica Vitak

Jessica Vitak
Vitak lecturing in 2012
Alma materMichigan State University
Georgetown University
Elon University
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of Maryland College of Information Studies
ThesisKeeping connected in the Facebook age: the relationship between Facebook use, relationship maintenance strategies, and relational outcomes (2012)
Websitehttps://jessicavitak.com

Jessica Vitak is an American information scientist who is an associate professor at the University of Maryland. She is faculty in the University of Maryland College of Information Studies (iSchool) and Communication Department. She serves as Director of the University of Maryland Human–Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) and an Associate Member of the Social Data Science Center (SoDa).

Early life and education

Vitak studied journalism and communication at Elon University.[1] After completing undergraduate studies, she moved to Washington, D.C. and worked for PR Newswire.[1] She earned a master's degree from Georgetown University in Communication, Culture, and Technology,[2] where Linda Garcia was the advisor for her thesis titled Facebook "Friends": How Online Identities Impact Offline Relationships.[3] While at Georgetown, she also worked as a research intern at the Pew Research Center. She earned her doctorate from Michigan State University, joining the research team of Nicole Ellison and Cliff Lampe. Her doctoral research investigated the relationship between Facebook use and maintenance strategies.[4][5][6]

Research and career

At UMD, Vitak was appointed as director of the Center for the Advanced Study of Communities and Information in 2016, and simultaneously became associate director of the Human Computer Interaction Lab. She became the director of HCIL in 2021. Vitak has continued to study how new technologies can benefit and harm humans.[7] She studies the underlying motivations for people's behaviors, how humans perceive risks when they approach new technologies, and how policy makers can do more to convey critical information.[7]

Vitak's research has focused on networked privacy and data ethics, identifying the privacy risks of new communication technologies and developing tools, curricula, games, and other resources to increase children and adults' understanding of privacy and security.[8][9][10]

Selected publications

  • Lenhart, Amanda (2008). Teens, video games, and civics. Pew Internet & American Life Project. OCLC 263976244.
  • Vitak, Jessica; Zube, Paul; Smock, Andrew; Carr, Caleb T.; Ellison, Nicole; Lampe, Cliff (2011). "It's Complicated: Facebook Users' Political Participation in the 2008 Election". Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. 14 (3): 107–114. doi:10.1089/cyber.2009.0226. ISSN 2152-2715. PMID 20649449. S2CID 15543163.
  • Vitak, Jessica (2012). "The impact of context collapse and privacy on social network site disclosures". Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. 56 (4): 451–470. doi:10.1080/08838151.2012.732140. S2CID 55538443.
  • Ellison, Nicole B.; Vitak, Jessica; Gray, Rebecca; Lampe, Cliff (2014-03-19). "Cultivating Social Resources on Social Network Sites: Facebook Relationship Maintenance Behaviors and Their Role in Social Capital Processes". Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 19 (4): 855–870. doi:10.1111/jcc4.12078. hdl:2027.42/108031. ISSN 1083-6101. S2CID 15898038.

References

  1. ^ a b "about". jessica vitak, phd. 2007-11-20. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
  2. ^ Salas, Abigail (2014-02-25). "CCT '08 Alumna Jessica Vitak Teaching at UMD's iSchool and Featured on Academia.edu". Georgetown University: Master's in Communication, Culture & Technology. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  3. ^ Vitak, Jessica (April 22, 2008). Facebook "Friends": How Online Identities Impact Offline Relationships (PDF) (Thesis). Georgetown University. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  4. ^ Vitak, Jessica (2012). Keeping connected in the Facebook age: the relationship between Facebook use, relationship maintenance strategies, and relational outcomes. Michigan State University. Communication Arts and Sciences-Media and Information Studies. ISBN 978-1-267-84727-0. OCLC 931883684.
  5. ^ Urist, Jacoba (2015-02-04). "How Real Are Facebook Friendships?". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
  6. ^ "Sharing Is Caring Is Sharing". The New Yorker. 2013-10-30. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
  7. ^ a b "jessica vitak, phd". jessica vitak, phd. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
  8. ^ "Jessica Vitak". UMD College of Information Studies. 2022-01-05. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
  9. ^ "Privacy Education and Research Lab (PEARL)". Privacy Education and Research Lab. Retrieved 2022-06-08.
  10. ^ "Jessica Vitak's Google Scholar Page". Google Scholar. Retrieved 2022-06-08.

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