Marisa Ponti

Biosketch: Dr. Marisa Ponti

Marisa works as researcher at the Department of Applied Information Technology at Chalmers | University of Gothenburg. Marisa Ponti earned her Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from the University of Gothenburg. She won the 2010 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award in the Information Science category. Her research interests include the use of technology to support different forms of collaboration, cooperation and collective activities in learning and research. In particular, she is interested in studying the potential of digital technologies to enhance learning and research, and investigating whether they can be applied to science to make research communities more open (also to other groups not traditionally involved in research, such as professionals), and increase the speed in which new knowledge is created and disseminated.

Marisa's academic background is multidisciplinary. She holds an Italian laurea in Sociology from the University of Rome, and a M. Sc. in Information Management from Syracuse University, USA. She participated in several European funded projects related to technology-enhanced learning.

Recent Publications

Doctoral dissertation

Ponti, M. (2010). Actors in collaboration: Sociotechnical influence on practice-research collaboration. (Doctoral dissertation). Valfrid Series n. 43 Borås, Sweden: Valfrid. ISBN: 978-91-89416-24-6. Accessible at: http://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/22135

Journal articles - refereed

Ponti, M. (in press). Uncovering causality in narratives of collaboration: Actor-network theory and event structure analysis. To be published in Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung/Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 13(1), Art. 11, January 2012 [CSA Sociological Abstracts/SocINDEX].

Ponti, M. (Accepted for publication in Journal of Librarianship & Information Science/Sage). Peer-production for collaboration between academics and practitioners [SSCI ISI impact factor 0.636].

Ponti, M. (2011). Sociotechnical relations in the creation of an interest-driven open course. E-learning and Digital Media, 8(4). ISSN 2042-7530 [ULRICH’S].

Ponti, M. (2010). Sociotechnical influences on virtual research environments. International Journal of e-Collaboration (IJeC), 6(2), Part II of Special Issue on Collaborative Working Environments, pp. 33-44. ISSN: 1548-3673 [SCOPUS].

Fruchter, R., & Ponti, M. (2010). Distributing attention across multiple social worlds. AI & Society: Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Communication, 25(2), pp. 169-181. ISSN0951-5666 [SCOPUS].

Sonnenwald, D.H., Lassi, M., Olson, N., Ponti M., & Axelsson, A-S (2009). Exploring new ways of working using virtual research environments in library and information science. Library Hi Tech, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 191-204. Special Issue on Virtual Research Environments: Issues and Opportunities for Librarians. ISSN: 0737-8831 [SSCI ISI impact factor 0.344].

Chapters in edited books

Ponti, M., Renzi, S. & Klobas, J. (forthcoming). A wiki for informal learning among social workers in a local health authority, solicited chapter in S. Bocconi and G. Trentin (Eds.), Wikis Supporting Formal and Informal Learning. Nova Science Publishers: Hauppauge, NY.
Conference proceedings - refereed

Ponti, M., & Sonnenwald, D. H. (2008). Investigating the Potential Uptake of e-Research within a Social Science Discipline: Socio-technical Issues within Library & Information Science. Online Proceedings of the fourth International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester, UK.

Ponti, M., & Hodgson, V. (2006). Networked Management Learning for Managers of Small and Medium Enterprises. In Banks, S., Hodgson, V., Jones, C., Kemp, B., McConnell, D. & Smith, C. (Eds.). Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Networked Learning 2006. Organized by Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK. Available at: http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/19/01/57/PDF/Ponti_2006.pdf

Esnault, L., Ponti, M., & Zeiliger, R (2005). Constructing knowledge as a system of relations. In Khosrow-Pour, M. (Ed.). Managing Modern Organizations with Information Technology. Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) 2005 Conference Proceedings. Hershey, PA: IRM Press.

Ponti, M., & Ryberg, T. (2004). Rethinking virtual space as a place for socialisation: Theory and design implications. In Banks, S., Goodyear, P., Hodgson, V., Jones, C., Lally, V., McConnell, D. & Steeples, C. (Eds.). Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Networked Learning 2004 (pp. 332-339). Jointly organized by Lancaster University and the University of Sheffield. Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.