About Me
As a recent college graduate I am exploring career opportunities. I am interested in how ICTs are changing the way we interact and community with the world around us.
Most people have a speciality and are learning how to integrate social media into their work. I am the opposite. I am knowledgeable in social media and trying to figure out which career path to venture down. Whatever I am doing I give 110%.
I have done research on the use of ICTs and social media as a backchannel during disasters and for political action. I would like to travel and research the use of mobile technologies in different countries.
Using social media to collaborate is very interesting to me. I like the idea of using tools like Twitter and Facebook to organize gatherings of online communities in physical locations. I organized SacBarCamp 2009, an unconference where attendees come to share, network, and collaborate in an open participatory format.
I am planning to attend postgraduate school in the future. I am researching programs that suit my research interests and objectives. I am going to gain more experience in the workforce and explore the possibility of pursuing an MBA degree. I feel I have the knowledge and motivation to make the world a better place. I want to accomplish this by studying information communication technologies and how we can utilize them to improve society. I have multiple interests surrounding ICTs and I want to combine several of them, as these technologies interact synergistically.
Here are some of my main new media interests:
- Mobile communication
- Real-time web
- Location awareness
- Crowdsourcing
- Ad-hoc use of ICT for disaster relief and political action
- Crisis mapping
- Online communities and collaboration
- Social media monitoring
- New media curation
- folksonomies
- Citizen journalism
- Interactive mapping and geo-tagging
- Photosharing
- Information visualization
- Media literacy
- Social media for non-profits
I am always eager to be involved in research in any of the following areas. Please contact me regarding opportunities or ideas and I will be happy to help and collaborate. Thank you.
jennalanger <at> gmail <dot> com