Center on Organizational Innovation

Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy

Columbia University


COI
Columbia University
803 International Affairs
MC 3355
420 West 118th St
NY, NY 10027
212-854-5999 (P)
212-854-8925 (F)
coi-iserp@columbia.edu
Students
Ana Andjelic
Victor Corona
Laura Forlano
Tom Glaisyer
Lucas Graves
Hawley Johnson
John Kelly
Marissa King
Elena Krumova
Joost van Dreunen
Zsuzsanna Vargha
Dani Vos

Student Affiliates:
Daniel Kutz

 

Ana Andjelic    send email  
Ana Andjelic Ana Andjelic is a 4th year Ph.D. student in Sociology at New School University. She completed her coursework in Fall 2004, and starts working on her dissertation which focuses on organizational transformations in media industry. Her research interests include sociology of media, impacts of new media technologies and organizational designs on the performance of media firms, changing shapes and behaviors of media markets, and impact of digital media on organizing principles and calculative practices in firms and markets. Her past research projects were focused on the problems of media ownership concentration in Eastern Europe, management of media in transitional societies, development of media assistance strategies, and protection of freedom of the press in South East Europe. She currently works as a Research Manager at Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) at Columbia University. In the past, she was a Junior Fellow at Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research, and worked as a research assistant on freedom of expression issues at Human Rights Watch, Freedom House, Open Society Institute and Committee to Protect Journalists.

She received her M.A. degree in Media Studies from New School University, and holds B.A degree in Psychology from University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro.

Victor Corona    send email  visit website
Victor Corona Victor P. Corona is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at Columbia University. He received a B.A. from Yale University in 2003 and M.A. from Columbia in 2006. He is interested in organizations as efforts to render social behavior manageable through various organizing principles, practices, and technologies, with his current work focusing on the peculiar exigencies faced by military organizations. His dissertation research applies optimal matching sequence analysis to career structures of U.S. Army officers in the period 1870-1985 in order to examine the management of personnel mobility in military organizations.

Laura Forlano   send email
Laura ForlanoLaura Forlano is a 1st year Ph.D. student in Communications at Columbia University. Her research interests include communications technology, organizational innovation and East Asia. More specifically, she is interested in applications of new media and new organizational forms that incorporate positive social outcomes into international communications technology policymaking. Forlano is the Project Manager for the Information Technology and Social Transformations program at the Social Science Research Council. She is currently writing a chapter on "The Emergence of Digital Government: International Perspectives" for Digital Government: Principles and Best Practices. She is the Technology Columnist for GothamGazette.com, a New York City news and policy Web site. Forlano has consulted for international organizations including the World Bank, International Telecommunication Union and United Nations. She received her B.A. in Asian Studies from Skidmore College, a Diploma in International Relations from The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies Bologna Center and her M.I.A. from the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs.

Tom Glaisyer   send email
Tom GlaisyerTom Glaisyer is a second-year student at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. His research interests lie at the nexus of social software, international affairs, security policy, and social change. He is currently working on research projects looking at the role of social software in international political institutions. He is also pursuing research on the possibilities social technology might provide for genocide prevention and counter-terrorism. Prior to coming to Columbia Tom worked as a management consultant and project manager in the private sector an in the UK, where he was born, Eastern and Western Europe and the United States in a wide range of industries.

Lucas Graves   send email
Lucas GravesLucas Graves is a first-year doctoral student in Communications at Columbia University. His research interests lie at the intersection of media technology, political communications, and news; a main question is the contention over potentially disruptive media forms and practices. As both reporter and analyst Lucas has covered media and technology for more than a decade, with a particular emphasis on digital music and movies, mobile devices and applications, and Latin American markets. He's worked for various publications and research firms, including Jupiter Research; today he writes regularly for Wired magazine. Lucas received his B.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago and an M.S. from Columbia's School of Journalism.

Hawley Johnson   send email
Hawley JohnsonHawley Johnson is a Ph.D. candidate in communications at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Her research interests include nationalism and journalism’s role in democratization processes, post-conflict reconstruction, and in transitional societies. From 2000-2004 she was the Associate Director of the Media and Conflict Resolution Program at New York University's Department of Journalism where she managed a series of grants from the U.S. Department of State to improve reporting on human rights and diversity issues in Southeastern Europe. In Cooperation with COI she is currently working on a study which will analyze the capacity of local media development NGOs in Southeastern Europe to become self-sustaining through organizational innovation and the formation of local and transnational networks. Her dissertation research explores the impact of media development policies in the former Yugoslavia. She received a B.A. cum laude from the American University School of International Service, an M.I.A. from the School of International and Public Affairs and a Harriman Certificate from the Harriman Institute at Columbia University.

John Kelly   send email
John KellyJohn Kelly is a researcher at Columbia's Interactive Design Lab and a Ph.D. student in Communications. His research interests include design processes and the development of content for interactive television and mobile devices. Kelly has focused on the innovative adaptation of emerging digital technologies to the demands of professional media production during his twelve years as a sound designer and producer of film, music, video and digital effects. In 1995, Kelly became Director of Digital Media for Columbia's School of the Arts, with the responsibility of integrating digital tools into the school's graduate programs in Film, Visual Arts, Theatre and Writing. That year he led the Film division to become the first graduate program in the nation to make nonlinear technologies part of basic training and helped the Visual Arts program make digital arts part of its core curriculum. In 1996, he created the School's curriculum for interactive media, establishing Interactive Design as the school's newest area of study. In 1999, Kelly shifted his focus from teaching to research, joining IDL to help develop the formal study of Interactive Design. He received his B.A. from Columbia University.

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Marissa King    send email
Marissa KingMarissa King is a first-year Ph.D. student in Sociology at Columbia University. Her research interests include social movements, social networks, and organizational behavior. More specifically, King is interested in transnational interorganizational relations and institutional reform. Her current research examines how Progressive era social movements caused substantial shifts in the distribution of organizational forms in the economy by promoting cooperative alternatives to corporations. She received her B.A. in Sociology from Reed College.

Elena Krumova
Elena Krumova Elena Krumova is a PhD candidate in the sociology department at Columbia University. Her research interests include organizational learning and innovation, forms of governance, social networks theory, globalization, and local development. Currently, she is focusing on projects as a new form of organizing collaborative work both within and across formal organizations. She would like to further expand this research into a comparative study of regional development projects in Eastern Europe. Elena received an MBA degree from City University of New York and a BA in economics from the American University in Bulgaria.

Daniel Kutz   send email
Daniel Kutz Daniel Kutz is a doctoral student at the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University, Bloomington . His research interests lie in Human-Computer Interaction and Information Visualization. Specifically, he is focusing on how technology-mediated interaction between participants is guided by studying the social norms within a group, affordances provided by the human-computer interface, visualization of group activities, representation of members, and the underlying system architecture. In collaboration with COI, he is currently researching how best to analyze, summarize, and archive the large influx of heterogeneous citizen input and commentary received in regard to the post 9/11 rebuilding process. He earned a M.S. in Computer Science from Binghamton University.

Joost van Dreunen   send email
Joost van DreunenA third-year doctoral student in Communications, Joost studies video games as an entryway into understanding contemporary media culture and media logic. Ultimately, he aims not to find out what place 'play' holds among other cultural phenomena, but to what extent culture itself can be characterized as play. After receiving his Master's degree in Media Studies from the Universiteit van Amsterdam, Joost worked at New York University and later at the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information as a project manager on an extensive study on media ownership. On this topic, Joost was part of a testimonial hearing for the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee in 2003. Since starting the Ph.D program at Columbia University he has presented some of his writing at the Media Ecology Association's annual conference and at New School University. In spring 2006 his 'Video Game Vocabulary' will be published as part of a collection of essays in Germany. Outside of academia, Joost has worked as a consultant on video games for several marketing companies (Faith Popcorn, BuzzMetrics), appeared on daytime television debating video game violence, and has written for Dutch gaming sites on role-playing games.

Zsuzsanna Vargha   send email
Zsuzsanna VarghaZsuzsanna Vargha is a third year Ph.D. student in Sociology at Columbia University. Her research interests include consumption and everyday life, new media industries, risk and calculation, network theory, and socialist and post-socialist Eastern Europe. At present, her main line of research explores the confluence of consumption and collective (national) identity in advertising discourse. Vargha presented her paper '"We're not there yet': the West according to advertising professionals in Hungary" at the annual conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics in July 2004, which is based on interviews at Hungarian ad agencies, and demonstrates how diverse concepts of the West are utilized by actors in their positioning efforts and to the requirements of multiple contexts. Vargha received her M.Sc. from the Budapest University of Economics and Public Administration (or Budapest Corvinus University) with a concentration in actuarial sciences. She worked at a life insurance company and the Hungarian Office of Economic Competition, and collaborates with Hungarian anthropologists and sociologists in the research project "Consumer Cultures in Hungary".

Dani Vos   send email
Dani VosDani Lainer-Vos is a fourth year Ph.D. student in Sociology at Columbia University and a graduate fellow at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy. His research interests include nationalism, postcolonial theory, science and technology and economic sociology. His dissertation research project centers on nationalism studied through the prism of diaspora communities (Irish Americans and Jewish Americans). By examining instances of contacts between diaspora groups and homeland communities, he traces the technologies and discursive mechanism that enable these fragments of the nation to cooperate and create flows of resources that are essential to the existence of national movements. Dani grew up in Israel and earned his bachelors degree in Behavioral Science from Ben-Gurion University. He is an active member of Courage to Refuse, a movement of Israeli reserve soldiers that refuse to serve in the Occupied Territories.