Senior Lecturer in Information Systems
PhD, University of Southern California, 2006
MA, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1999
BA, Huazhong University of Science and Technology,
Wuhan, China, 1996
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Michael G. Foster School of Business |
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252 Mackenzie Hall
shaosong@u.washington.edu
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Info Systems and Ops Management Department
Box 353200
Seattle, WA 98195-3200 |
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Specialties
Technology-mediated learning; information systems and socially-shared cognition; open-source software
Positions Held
At the University of Washington since 2007
Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Albany, State University of New York (SUNY) (2006-2007)
Selected Publications
- "Working for free? Motivations for participating in open source projects", with A. Hars, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Vol. 6, No. 3, Spring 2002.
- "Why is Open Source viable? A study of intrinsic motivation, personal needs and future returns", with A. Hars, in Chung, M. (ed.), Proceedings of the 2000 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Long Beach 2000.
Current Research
Individual learning on Internet discussion forums from a cognitive elaboration view; the effects of user interactivity and information contextualization on technology-mediated learning; user-developer interaction and the success of an Open-Source Software project
Honors and Awards
Undergraduate Professor of the Year for Information Systems and Operations Management (2008, 2009)
Professor of the Year, Graduate Students Association, School of Business, SUNY-Albany (2007)
Beta Gamma Sigma (2007)
Decision Science Institute (DSI) Doctoral Students Consortium Fellowship (2003)
Doctoral Student Fellowship, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California (1999 – 2003)
Dean’s Award of Teaching Excellence, University of Illinois at Chicago (1999)
Academic Service
Discussant, Management of IT (MoIT) Track, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Seattle (2003)
Presenter, Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), San Jose (2002)
Panelist, Track of Entrepreneurship and the Digital Divide, Graduate and Professional Students Senate (GPSS) Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Southern California (2003)
Reviewer for
- Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS)
- Electronic Commerce Research Journal (ECRJ)
- E-Commerce Research and Applications
- Economic Systems
- International Conference on Information Systems
(ICIS)
- Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
- Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)
- European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS)
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