About
I'm an assistant professor in the iSchool (College of Information Science and Technology) at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
I study how emergent uses of technology create opportunities for people to construct new knowledge together. I’m particularly interested in new literacies that are required for successful participation in an increasingly technologically mediated society. Sometimes my projects involve designing systems that support new kinds of literacies and literate action. Other times I study the ways people adapt to and appropriate existing technologies.
I received my PhD from the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology in human-centered computing with a focus on social computing and learning sciences. My MLIS is from the School of Information at University of Texas at Austin.
Useful Info
email: aforteATdrexelDOTedu
twitter: andicat
College of Info Sci/Tech
Drexel University
3141 Chestnut
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Projects
openHTML, PI
In this NSF-supported design-based research project, our team is investigating the impact of beginning web development experiences on learners' understandings of Web technologies, infrastructure, and computational concepts.
With Susan Wiedenbeck (Co-PI) and Tom Park (PhD student).Youth and Social Search, Co-PI
In this IMLS-funded project we seek to investigate the social search habits of high school students, with emphasis on how youth interact in social network sites to ask and answer questions of their peers and others.
with Denise Agosto (PI), Robin Naughton (PhD student), and Rachel Magee (PhD student).School and Public Library Social Media Practice and Policy, Co-PI
With IMLS support, we are conducting a national survey of public and school libraries about their use of and policies on social technologies to support library services to youth.
With Denise Agosto (PI), Robin Naughton (PhD student), and Rachel Magee (PhD student).Virtual Math Teams, Senior Investigator
This NSF-funded project examines mathematical discourse among learners in the dynamic geometry environment, Geogebra.
With Gerry Stahl (PI), Steve Weimar (Co-PI), Arthur Powell (Co-PI), Sean Goggins (Co-PI), Jennifer Rode (SI) and Mick Khoo (SI).New Information Literacies
In this project, we are examining how people assess collective and collaboratively constructed information sources.
Papers
(pdf) -
Forte, Andrea, Melissa Humphreys and Thomas Park. (2012). Grassroots professional development: How teachers use Twitter. Proceedings of the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM). Dublin, Ireland.
(pdf) - Willever-Farr, Heather, Andrea Forte and Lisl Zach. (2012). Cashing in on Family: The Influence of Private Companies on Online Family History Construction. Position Paper. Workshop: Heritage Matters: Designing for Current and Future Values Through Digital and Social Technologies. CHI 2012 Austin. TX.
(pdf) Forte, Andrea, Niki Kittur, Vanessa Larco, Haiyi Zhu, Amy Bruckman, Robert Kraut. (2012). Coordination and Beyond: Social Functions of Groups in Open Content Production. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 2012, Seattle, WA. pp. 417-426.
(pdf) Willever-Farr, Heather, Lisl Zach, and Andrea Forte. (2012). Tell Me About My Family: A Study of Cooperative Research on Ancestry.com. Proceedings of the iConference, 2012. Toronto, Canada. pp. 303-310.
(email me) - Agosto, D. E., Forte, A., & Magee, R. (2012). Cyberbullying and teens: What YA librarians can do to help. Young Adult Library Services, 10(1): 38-43.
(email me)- Lampe, Cliff, Paul Resnick, Andrea Forte, Sarita Yardi, Dana Rotman, Todd Marshall, Wayne Lutters. (2010) Educational priorities for technology-mediated social participation. IEEE Computer. November, 2010, pp.1-8.
(pdf)- Berland, Leema and Andrea Forte. (2010). When Students Speak, Who Listens? Constructing Audience in Classroom Argumentation . Proceedings of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences. pp 428-435.
(pdf)-
- Forte, Andrea and Amy Bruckman. (2009). Writing, Citing, and Participatory Media: Wikis as Learning Environments in the High School Classroom. International Journal of Learning and Media. 1(4). pp 23-44.
(pdf, preprint version) - Forte, Andrea, Vanessa Larco and Amy Bruckman. (2009) Decentralization in Wikipedia Governance. Journal of Management Information Systems. 26(1) pp 49-72.
(pdf)
- Forte, Andrea and Amy Bruckman. (2008). Scaling
consensus: increasing decentralization in Wikipedia governance. Proceedings
of Hawaiian International Conference of Systems Sciences (HICSS).
(online) (pdf)
- Forte, Andrea and Amy Bruckman. (2008). Information
Literacy in the Age of Wikipedia.
In Symposium on Learning and Research in the Web 2 Era: Opportunities for
Research (Organized by James Slotta) Proceedings of
International Conference on the Learning Sciences.
(pdf)
- Forte, Andrea and Amy Bruckman. (2007). Constructing
text: wiki as a toolkit for (collaborative?) learning. Proceedings
of WikiSym 2007. (Montreal, Canada.) pp 31-42.
(email me) - Bruckman, Amy, Alisa Bandlow and Andrea Forte. (2007).
HCI for Kids.
In The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving
Technologies, and Emerging Applications. 2nd Ed. Edited
by Julie Jacko and Andrew Sears. NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
(pdf) -
Hewitt, Anne and Andrea Forte. (2006). Crossing
Boundaries: Identity Management and Student/Faculty Relationships on
Facebook. Poster/Extended Abstract, CSCW 2006.
(pdf) -
Forte, Andrea and Amy Bruckman. (2006) From
Wikipedia to the classroom: exploring online publication and learning. Proceedings
of the International Conference of the Learning
Sciences, Vol 1. Bloomington, IN, pp. 182-188.
(pdf) - Bryant,
Susan, Andrea Forte and Amy Bruckman. (2005). Becoming
Wikipedian: transformation of participation in a collaborative online encyclopedia.
Proceedings
of GROUP International Conference on Supporting Group Work, Sanibel
Island, FL, pp. 1-10.
(pdf) -
Forte, Andrea and Amy Bruckman. (2005). Why
do people write for Wikipedia? Incentives to contribute to open-content publishing. Position Paper.
GROUP 05 workshop: Sustaining community: The role and design of incentive
mechanisms in online systems. Sanibel Island, FL.
(pdf) - Forte,
Andrea and Mark Guzdial. (2005). Motivation and
non-majors in computer science: identifying discrete audiences for introductory
courses. IEEE Transactions on Education. (48)2: 248-253.
(pdf) - Guzdial,
Mark and Andrea Forte. (2005). Design process for
a non-majors computing course. Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE Technical
Symposium on Computer
Science Education. 361-365.
(pdf) -
Forte, Andrea and Mark Guzdial. (2004). Computers
for communication, not calculation: media as a motivation and context for
learning. Proceedings of the Hawaiian
International Conference of Systems Sciences, Big Island, HI.
(pdf) - Forte,
Andrea. (2003). Programming for communication: overcoming
motivational barriers to computation for all. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposia on Human-Centered
Computing Languages and Environments, Auckland, NZ.
Teaching
INFO 611 - The Design of Interactive Systems - Winter 2012
INFO 215 - Social Aspects of Information Systems - Fall 2011, Spring 2012
Events
May 5-10, Austin TX: CHI
June 4-8, Dublin, Ireland: ICWSM
June 25-29, Monterey, CA: HCIC
July 12-15, Washington, DC: Wikimania
August 27-30, Linz, Austria: WikiSym
Past Events...
Wednesday 2/15, 2pm, Bellevue, WA: Presenting research paper at CSCW Beyond Coordination: Social Functions of Groups in Open Content Production.
Tuesday 2/14, 2pm, Bellevue, WA: Moderating the CSCW panel Some of all human knowledge: Gender and participation in peer production communities.
Monday 2/13, 4pm, Bellevue, WA: Discussing the most impactful paper of CSCW 2002, Grinter and Palen's "Instant Messaging in Teen Life" at CSCW 2012 in the session Impact of CSCW.
Saturday 2/11, Redmond, WA: Attending the Social Search Social at Microsoft.
2/2-2/3, Washington DC: Attending Computing Education in the 21st Century NSF community meeting.
Community Engagement
Web Workshops: As part of the openHTML project, our team is developing web design workshops with young people in West Philly neighborhoods of Powelton and Mantua.