Interests: My research interests revolve around understanding how social media can be leveraged for social good through a ‘value in use’ framework. By applying a community based approach and exploring social networks, graph theory, affordances, and service-dominant logic, I aim to explore digital communities and value cocreation through actor-to-actor engagement. More precisely, I’m interested in examining social good in various angles including the impacts and opportunities in creating social change through long-term ethically minded practices.

Interests: Coming soon.

Interests: Information Security, Information Sharing, Strategic Deterrence, Information Warfare, Mission Assurance, Military Service Member transition, Veteran Communities, Delayed/Disconnected, Intermittent, Low-Bandwidth Operations, Critical Infrastructures, Cybersecurity, Systems and Networking, Security and Privacy, Risk Frameworks, Presumption of Compromise, Ethical Hacking, Government Information Leadership, Consumer Awareness, IoT

Interests: I am interested in examining how cultural identities are built and shaped in the modern world. I enjoy surfing, hiking, training jiu jitsu, reading, spending time with my family, and walking my dog.

Interests: Oral communication, Interpersonal communication, Intercultural communication, Health communication with ICT development, and Social Media research. Currently, I am working on the use of social media continuation on WeChat by using users and gratifications 2.0 as the main framework. 

Interests: My dissertation is tentatively titled “A system architecture approach to digital transformations.” It builds on both my work experience and my prior research and publications. Prior research included some of the earliest and formative papers on interactive 3D graphics, the relationship of programming language mechanisms to interactive systems, 3D user interface design, and a redesign of the undergraduate computer science curriculum. Presently, I am a consultant advising organizations on cybersecurity and digital transformation. 

Previous work includes five years at the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Hawaiʻi State Department of Education, where my team replaced the Departmentʻs core accounting system, modernized collaboration for all staff and students, and managed the educational technology needed to support distance learning during the COVID pandemic. Prior to that, I was the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Estee Lauder Companies, a Fortune 500 global retailer and manufacturer. I built the vulnerability management program for Morgan Stanley in response to a nation-state cyberattack, and re-architected core parts of the Bloomberg Terminal Service. I have an AB in art, an ScB in Math/Computer Science, and an MSc in Computer Science, all from Brown University. I am conversational in French and Hawaiian and enjoy stand-up paddling, role-playing games, video games, and wargaming.

Interests: I am intrigued by the Sociotechnical aspects of people and technology within the workplace.  As technology automation becomes more prevalent within the 4^th Industrial Revolution 4IR, organizations are leveraging automation to improve productivity efficiencies and decrease overhead costs while improving profitability.  My research interests are how technology automation will impact people within the workplace and how artificial intelligence and digitalization are continually evolving from an autonomous and robotics perspective.

Interests: Alena’s research interest lies in understanding how ICTs (information communication technologies can be leveraged toward social justice. Applying an interdisciplinary approach that includes components of social informatics, community engagement, game theory, cognitive science, persuasive technologies and policy. Alena analyzes digital platforms, UX design and data science to educate and inspire the public towards action. Her Master’s degree from Washington State University, combined communication strategy, content creation and digital media to illuminate environmental issues.

Interests: My academic interests are wide but rooted in information science and systems engineering. Specifically, I enjoy working with diverse, large and complex systems and that interest has brought technical experience in defensive cyber, space systems, and communication systems. Building on my technical experience, I have worked to construct systems to put forward information to improve decision making, better understand risk, and find opportunity in complex and often contested environments. Last year, I added to my work life as a systems engineer and started to conduct research on how a Networked Authoritarian uses techniques to control the information environment. I still often reference lessons from my first post-undergraduate job – High School Mathematics Instructor.

Interests: Aloha, my name is Kapono Gaughen; I was raised on the Big Island, where I graduated from Kealaheke High School in 2010. I graduated from UH Manoa with a BA in Biology in 2015, at which time I returned home. I spent the next few years working as a busser, a Park Ranger, and a State Department of Agriculture Pesticide Inspector. I began making videos with my friends sharing our fishing trips, which we posted on YouTube. This ended up having a much larger impact on me than I would have ever expected. The channel grew a strong local community, and I found a possible solution to many of the issues the government agencies I formally worked for were trying to solve. Natural resource managers have a hard time connecting with the users and stakeholders of the environment. On my channel, a community of such stakeholders had self-organized. Could the marketing practices used to connect online communities with businesses work in a resource management setting? I returned in 2021 to Manoa and tested the theory in my Master’s Project. I worked, and I want to dive deeper. I am now here with the CIS program, seeking to understand how social media, online communities, and the environment interact and might benefit one another.

Interests: I am interested in promoting public library/community relations and increasing job satisfaction for library workers.

Interests: My research interest revolves around the field of human-computer interaction.  I am interested in studying media accessibility, specifically audio-description.  I am exploring the usage of audio-description in entertainment and education, and how it impacts information consumption for people who are blind or visually impaired.  I am currently working on a long-term project to audio-describe the brochures of all 420 national parks in the United States.

Interests: My background is in public relations, and I am interested in researching invisible disabilities in the workplace through an internal communication lens. I enjoy traveling, nature walks, baking, painting and spending time with my dog.

Interests: I currently work as the Director of Mānoa Academy and Academic Pathways for the University of Hawai’i. I help build pathways for students at all phases. I have my business degree in marketing and master’s in Public Administration with a graduate certificate in Nonprofit Management.

I’m interested in social media, cybersecurity, gaming, and Esports. I love spending time with my family and friends, camping, and all things soccer-related (as that is what my kids do 24/7). It is my strong desire and life’s pursuit to make a significant positive impact on society.

Interests: My research interests are a combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR), and how a self-lead virtual university compares to both online and in-classroom educational systems. I am also interested to know how a person interacts in the virtual environment compared to a real, live environment, so human computer interaction (HCI) is also an integral part of my studies.

Interests: I am passionate about how library and information science processes can support and elevate Hawaiian communities. My general research interests are Hawaiian librarianship and Indigenous information literacy instruction. My recent work included a focus on research support for Hawaiian Studies faculty, and Hawaiian language descriptive metadata.

Interests: My research interests revolve around educational techniques and technologies, particularly in the field of Computer Science. My prior work has focused on the concept of learning by teaching.

Interests: I am interested in data visualization, data literacy, how groups use data to make decisions and data governance/policy.

Interests: I am interested in Community Engagement and Network Science, as it relates to the building and maintaining of relationships that can support culture- and place-based education of Hawai’i’s youth.

Interests: I am a full-time Information Technology Instructor at Kapi’olani Community College (KapCC) teaching a range of technology related courses, including programming, databases, network security, project management, cloud-based computing, and ethical hacking. Prior to joining academia, I had a 20-year IT career, which included working as a programmer, website developer, project manager and cryptographer. My interest in cyber-security compels me to continually research, analyze, solve for, discuss, and educate on the ever-increasing number of vulnerabilities associated with most web-based applications that rely on user authentication for access. For my research, I want to focus on secure online voting systems and their secure implementation.

Interests: Employing the framework of cultural competency as a cultural engagement strategy to increase DEIA in both the archival profession and the archival record. This approach strives to address who manages collections and what lies within them including the decolonization efforts, accountability, healing, and notions of identity for diverse communities.

Yiting Wang is a PhD candidate at the interdisciplinary program in Communication and Information Sciences at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She is interested in bridging visual communication, human computer interaction, and social media & online performance. Her current research focuses on short videos, affordances and multimodal analysis. Yiting’s background includes traditional Chinese theatre, with a B.A. and M.A. in international cultural communication and management from the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts in Beijing.

Website: https://yiting.world

Interests: I am interested in applying futures studies theories and methods to music consumption. Specifically, I am interested in investigating how various key drivers such as emerging technologies, affordances, policies and fan labor may shape alternative futures of music consumption.