E. Cook: green-tint Image text logo
Bio -- Academic -- Music -- Extras -- Contact

Academic Interests & Research

    Broadly, I'm interested in researching the influence of technology of amateur artistic and cultural production. One way to frame this interest is to position it in the overlap between four related topics:
  • Bottom-up/Participatory Culture
  • Creative Arts Collaboration & Practices
  • Digital/New Media Affordances & Issues
  • Amateur Activity, Motivation & Identity

    As of April 07, I've started an academic blog about my work on these and related topics.


Publications & Related Activities

    Peer reviewed publications/presentations:
  • Doctoral symposium paper: The Knot of Amateurs & Professionals: Untangling Social Roles in Creative Practice
    Authors: Cook, E.
    To be presented at ACM Creativity and Cognition 2007, in Washington, D.C. on June 13-15, 2007
  • Research presentation: Many-to-Few: Motivation and Communication in Amateur Media
    Authors: Cook, E.
    To be presented at Connections 2007, in Philadelphia, PA on May 18-20, 2007
  • Poster: Socio-technical Factors of Practice Transmission in an Online Creative Tool Community
    Authors: Cook, E., Teasley, S. D., Ackerman, M.
    Presented at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2006, in Bloomington, IN on June 27-30, 2006
  • Workshop Position Paper: Socio-technical Factors of Practice Transmission in an Online Creative Community
    Author: Cook, E.
    Presented at ACM CHI 2006, at the About Face: Interface Creative Engagment in New Media Arts and HCI workshop sesson, in Montreal, ON on April 22-23, 2006.
  • Poster: Heterogeneity in Harmony: Practice and Preferences of a Multimedia Arts Collective
    Authors: Cook, E., Teasley, S. D., Olson, J.
    Presented at ACM Group 2005, Sanibel Island, FL on Nov 6-8, 2005
    Grants/Awards:
  • ICOS small awards grant 2005-2006, awarded January 2006.
    Proposal: Facilitating Innovation in an Open/Closed System: Socio-technical Factors of Practice Transmission in an Online Creative Community
    Teaching & Service activities:
  • GSI for two sections of SI504 (Profs. Michael Cohen & Paul Edwards), Fall 2006.
  • Doctoral Student representative, SI North Quad Planning Committee, Winter 2006 - present.
  • 1st Annual ICOS Retreat planning committee (co-chairs, Michael Cohen & Jane Dutton), Fall 2005.
  • Paper Reviewer for CHI 2006, CSCW 2006, CHI 2007, CSCL 2007.
    Work in progress:
  • Field Prelim on Motivations in Amateur Media Production
    Faculty advising: Stephanie Teasley
  • Book chapter: Case Studies: Three Distributed Biomedical Research Centers
    Authors: Teasley, S. D., Schleyer, T., Hemphill, L., Cook, E.
    Status: Accepted, in final revisions for Science on the Internet (eds. Olson, G., Zimmerman, A., Bos, N.)
  • Graduate Student Research Asst. for Prof. Stephanie Teasley
    Research and support distributed scientific research for Gates Foundation Grand Challenges for Global Health project: Nanoemulsions as Adjuvants for Nasal-Spray Vaccines