About Pnina
Pnina Fichman is a Professor of Information Science at the Luddy School of Informatics Computing and Engineering, the director of the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics, the director of the Doctoral Program in Information Science, and director of the Doctoral Minor in Social Informatics, at Indiana University, Bloomington. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research in social informatics focuses on social aspects of technology, particularly on social media platforms. She publishes on topics such as gender and digital technologies, technology mediated international and cross-cultural research, and information access. Her studies of online trolling, examine political, ideological, and satirical trolling.
Prof. Fichman has published seven books (co-authored or co-edited): 1) Scoial Informatics (edited); 2)The Usage and Impact of ICTs during the Covid-19 Pandemic (edited); 3) Online Trolling and Its Perpetrators: Under the Cyberbridge; 4) Social Informatics Evolving; 5) Social Informatics: Past, Present and Future (edited); 6) Global Wikipedia: International and Cross‐Cultural Issues in Online Collaboration (edited); 7) Multiculturalism and Information and Communications Technology (ICT). She has published over a hundred peer reviewed journal articles, conference papers, and book chapters and is currently working on another book about Online Political Trolling.
Recent Publications
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IC & S
Fichman, P., & Amidu, G. (2024). The roles of collapsing contexts and TikTok’s features in reciprocal trolling.
Information, Communication & Society
, 1–21.
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Routledge
Hara, N., & Fichman, P. (Eds.) (2025). Social Informatics. Routledge
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Telematics and Informatics
Fichman, P., & Akter, S. (2025). Political trolling on TikTok. Telematics & Informatics, 96.