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36
Citations
13575
World Ranking
6331
National Ranking
3037

Research.com Recognitions

  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management

Overview

Janet Fulk is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States, contributing research primarily within the social sciences. Their work spans various fields including business, management, accounting, communication, sociology, political science, strategy, management, computer science applications, and clinical psychology.

Their scholarly output addresses a range of topics such as social media and politics, digital marketing and social media, misinformation and its impacts, COVID-19 and mental health, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, wikis in education and collaboration, and political influence and corporate strategies.

Frequently published venues include Telematics and Informatics, the American Journal of Public Health, Communication Research, Human Communication Research, and Online Information Review.

Janet Fulk has collaborated extensively with several coauthors. Frequent collaborators include Peter R. Monge, Yu Xu, Emily Sidnam-Mauch, Matthew Sargent, and Lindsay E. Young.

Key recent papers authored or coauthored by Janet Fulk are:

  • "Disrupting the COVID-19 Misinfodemic With Network Interventions: Network Solutions for Network Problems," 2021, American Journal of Public Health
  • "The Paradox of Interaction: Communication Network Centralization, Shared Task Experience, and the Wisdom of Crowds in Online Crowdsourcing Communities," 2020, Communication Research
  • "Ecological Influences on Network Tie Dissolution in the Evolution of Affiliation Networks in the International Communication Association, 2009-2015," 2020, Human Communication Research
  • "Networking the commons: creative commons project creators funding patterns in crowdfunding," 2022, Online Information Review
  • "Creating the path to success: The impact of crowdsourced exploratory and exploitative activities of expert graphic designers on creativity performance," 2020, Telematics and Informatics

The scientist has been recognized as a Dean of Fellow by the Academy of Management.

Best Publications

  • A Social Influence Model of Technology use

    Janet Fulk;Joseph SChmitz;Charles Steinfield

  • Social construction of communication technology

    Janet Fulk

  • A Social Information Processing Model of Media Use in Organizations

    Janet Fulk;Charles W. Steinfield;Joseph Schmitz;J. Gerard Power

  • Organizational Colleagues, Media Richness, and Electronic Mail A Test of the Social Influence Model of Technology Use

    Joseph Schmitz;Janet Fulk

  • Electronic Communication and Changing Organizational Forms

    Janet Fulk;Gerardine DeSanctis

  • Emerging Theories of Communication in Organizations

    Janet Fulk;Brian Boyd

  • Age differences in perceptions of online community participation among non-users: An extension of the Technology Acceptance Model

    Jae Eun Chung;Namkee Park;Hua Wang;Janet Fulk

  • Organizations and Communication Technology

    Charles W. Steinfeld;Janet Fulk

  • Executive Scanning and Perceived Uncertainty: A Multidimensional Model

    Brian K. Boyd;Janet Fulk

  • Connective and Communal Public Goods in Interactive Communication Systems

    Janet Fulk;Andrew J. Flanagin;Michael E. Kalman;Peter R. Monge

  • Production of Collective Action in Alliance-Based Interorganizational Communication and Information Systems

    Peter R. Monge;Janet Fulk;Michael E. Kalman;Andrew J. Flanagin

  • Trust-in-supervisor and perceived fairness and accuracy of performance evaluations

    Janet Fulk;Arthur P. Brief;Steve H. Barr

  • Location, Motivation, and Social Capitalization via Enterprise Social Networking

    Janet Fulk;Y. Connie Yuan

  • Cognitive Elements in the Social Construction of Communication Technology

    Janet Fulk;Joseph Schmitz;Daehee Ryu

  • Boundaries and Role Conflict When Work and Family are Colocated: A Communication Network and Symbolic Interaction Approach

    Michelle Shumate;Janet Fulk

  • A Test of the Individual Action Model for Organizational Information Commons

    Janet Fulk;Rebecca Heino;Andrew J. Flanagin;Peter R. Monge

  • Access to Information in Connective and Communal Transactive Memory Systems

    Y. Connie Yuan;Janet Fulk;Peter R. Monge

  • Maintenance of Occupational Control: The Case of Professions.

    John Child;Janet Fulk

  • FOSTERING INTRANET KNOWLEDGE- SHARING: AN INTEGRATION OF TRANSACTIVE MEMORY AND PUBLIC GOODS APPROACHES

    Ceo Publication;Andrea Hollingshead;Janet Fulk;Peter Monge

  • Motivations to Resolve Communication Dilemmas in Database-Mediated Collaboration:

    Michael E. Kalman;Peter Monge;Janet Fulk;Rebecca Heino

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter R. Monge
Peter R. Monge University of Southern California
Charles Steinfield
Charles Steinfield Michigan State University
Andrew J. Flanagin
Andrew J. Flanagin University of California, Santa Barbara
Noshir Contractor
Noshir Contractor Northwestern University
Brian K. Boyd
Brian K. Boyd City University of Hong Kong
Arthur P. Brief
Arthur P. Brief University of Utah
Emilio Ferrara
Emilio Ferrara University of Southern California
Arvind Singhal
Arvind Singhal The University of Texas at El Paso
William H. Dutton
William H. Dutton University of Oxford
Thomas W. Valente
Thomas W. Valente University of Southern California

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