Curriculum Vitae

Derek Hansen is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland's College of Information Studies--an "iSchool" like Michigan's School of Information. He will be presenting a paper in October, 2007 at the ASIST conference called "Virtual Community Maintenance with a Repository" that was coauthored with Mark S. Ackerman, Paul J. Resnick, and Sean Munson (an SI Ph.D. student).

Publications

Resnick, et al. “Calculating Error Rates for Filtering Software” Communications of the ACM. Sept. 2004. Vol. 47, Issue 9.
Hansen, et al. “Adolescents Searching for Health Information on the Internet: An Observational Study.” Journal of Medical Internet Research 2003;5(4):e25.
Hansen, Derek. “CIPA: Which Filtering Software to Use?” WebJunction, Aug. 31, 2003.
Richardson, et al. “Does Pornography-Blocking Software Block Access to Health Information on the Internet?” JAMA. Dec. 11, 2002. 288(22) 2887-2894.
Knobloch-Westerwick, Silvia, Nikhil Sharma, Derek L. Hansen, and Scott Alter. "Impact of Popularity Indications on Readers' Selective Exposure to Online News" Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. Sept. 2005. Vol. 49, Number 3.
Resnick, et al. “See No Evil: How Internet Filters Affect the Search for Online Health Information” Kaiser Family Foundation Report, Dec. 2002.

Presentations

Sharma, et al. “It’s All in the Ratings: Impact of Ratings on Selection of Online News Articles.” International Communication Association, May 2004 Conference. New Orleans, Louisiana.
Hansen, Derek. “Who do you trust? The role of expertise in an online support group.” Association of Internet Research, Fall 2003 Conference. Toronto, Ontario.
Hansen, Derek. “Which Filter to Use? Selecting, Configuring, and Evaluating Internet Filters.” PaLA 2003 Workshop.
Bocher, Robert, Hansen, Derek, and Minow, Mary. “Web Filtering: Policies, Software, Staff Training and CIPA.” College of DuPage, Satellite-Delivered Teleconference, March 12, 2004.