Research CV

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Journal Papers

Chong, J., & Kvasny, L. (2007). A disease that “has a woman’s face”: The social construction of gender and sexuality in HIV/AIDS discourses. Intercultural Communication Studies, 16 (3), 53-65

Park, E., Sinha, H., & Chong, J. (2007). Beyond access: An analysis of the influence of the e-rate program in bridging the digital divide in American schools. Journal of Information Technology Education, 6, 387-406. Available at http://jite.org/documents/Vol6/JITEv6p387-406Park226.pdf

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

Kvasny, L., & Chong, J. (2008). The ABC approach and the feminization of HIV/AIDS in the Sub-Saharan Africa. In N. Wickramasinghe & E. Geisler (Eds.), Encyclopedia of healthcare information systems. Hershey, PA: IGI Global publication. 

Chong, J., & Kvasny, L. (2006). Social construction of gender and sexuality in online HIV/AIDS information. In E. Trauth (Ed.), The encyclopedia of information technology and gender (pp. 1112-1116). Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing   

Kvasny, L., & Chong, J. (2006). A third world feminist perspectives on information technology. In E. Trauth (Ed.), The encyclopedia of information technology and gender (pp. 1166-1171). Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing 

Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers

Chong, J. (2008). Health inequality and health education: HIV/AIDS prevention information for women on U.S. government health websites. Accepted by 9th Annual Internet Research Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 16-18, 2008

Chong, J. (2007). Target population and behavior change: Hypertextual discourse analysis of prevention information on HIV/AIDS websites. Oral presentation at the doctoral symposium of 2007 Information Resource Management Association International Conference . In M. Khosrow-Pour (Ed.) Managing worldwide operations & communications with information technology (pp.1634-1636), Vancouver, BC, Canada. May 19-23, 2007. Hershey, PA: IGI Publishing
 
Chong, J. (2007). Target population and behavior change: Hypertextual discourse analysis of prevention information on HIV/AIDS websites. Oral presentation at the doctoral symposium of IsOneWorld Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV, April 11-13, 2007
 
Chong, J. (2007). Are computers and Traditional Chinese Medicine enemies or friends? Electronic poster presentation at Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) AsiaPac 2007 Annual Conference & Exhibition E-Session. Singapore, May 15-18, 2007

 Payton, F., Kvasny, L., Mbarika, V., & Chong, J. (2007). IT education and employment for women in Kenya: Responses and benefits. Proceedings of the International Federation on Information Processing, Working Group 9.4 Conference, Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 28-30.

Chong, J., & Kvasny, L. (2006). Reality or illusion for empowerment: Social construction of women and microbicides in discourses on UNAIDS website. Accepted by AIDS 2006 - XVI International AIDS Conference, Toronto, Canada, August 13-18, 2006. Abstract no. THPE0670. Available at http://www.iasociety.org/Default.aspx?pageId=11&abstractId=2194370

Chong, J., & Kvasny, L. (2006). A disease that “has a woman’s face”: The social construction of gender and sexuality in HIV/AIDS discourses. Accepted by International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies (IAICS) 12th International Conference: Globalization, Communication and Cultural Identity, San Antonio, TX, August 2-4, 2006

Chong, J. & Kvasny, L. (2006) Critical hypertextuality analysis (CHA): A case study of HIV/AIDS websites. Oral presentation at Connections 2006: A Doctoral Conference. Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, May 19-21, 2006

Kvasny, L., Payton, F.C., Chong, J., & Mbarika, V. (2006). Information technology education and employment for women in Kenya. Proceedings of the ACM SIGMIS CPR Conference (pp. 114-119), Claremont, CA, April 13-15, 2006. 

Kvasny, L., Chong, J., & Payton, F. C. (2006) Minority women and ehealth: Social inclusion in online HIV/AIDS information. Electronic poster presetation at International Conference on Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 8.2 Conference, Limerick, Ireland, July 13-15, 2006

Park, E., Sinha, H., & Chong, J. (2006). Beyond access: An analysis of the influence of the e-rate program in bridging the digital divide in American schools. Oral presentation at PTC’06 Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 15-18, 2006

Chong, J., & Kvasny, L. (2005). Social construction of gender and sexuality in online HIV/AIDS discourses in China: A feminist critical discourse analysis. Oral presentation at IT issues in Healthcare Track of The 2005 AIS SIG-ISAP (Special Interest Group on IT/IS in Asia-Pacific) Annual Pre-ICIS Conference, Las Vegas, NV, December 11, 2005.

Chong, J. (2005). Consumer health digital divide: A research agenda for studying inequality in online health information access and use. Poster presentation at American Society on Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC, October 28-November 2, 2005

Kvasny, L., & Chong, J. (2005). Minority women’s consumption of online HIV/AIDS information. American Society on Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) 5th Annual Research Symposium of the SIG on Information Needs, Seeking, and Use (SIG USE) Workshop, Charlotte, NC, October 29, 2005

Kvasny, L., & Chong, J. (2005). Designing web-based HIV/AIDS prevention resources for minority women. Pre-Conference Workshop of eHealth Express Grantsmanship for New Researchers, Bethesda, MD, June 9-10, 2005 

Non-Peer-Reviewed Articles

Chong, J. (2003). Analysis of business competitive intelligence. China Information Review, 8, 27-29

Chong, J. (2003). Revolution of information services resulting from change in the definition of information disadvantaged groups. Library and Information, 5, 36-38

Chong, J. (2003). Analysis of the competitive model in IT consulting industry. China Information Review, 9, 26-28

Chong, J. (2003). The bibliometric study of Tianjin Library Journal, 1983-2002. Tianjin Library Journal, 6, 70-78

Chong, J. (2002). Modelized analysis of competition in China’s consulting industry. Library and Information Work, 8, 92-95, 73 

Co-Authored Books

Li, Y., Shi, H.X., & Chong, J. (2002).Human resources management in private enterprises (1st vol). Beijing: China Fangzheng Press. 

Book Reviews

Chong, J. (2005). Biological and social construction of gender differences and similarities: a psychological perspective. The Review of Communication, 5(4), 269-271

Hellar, D. B. & Chong, J.  (2005). The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace. Information Technology and People, 18(4), 407-408           

NON-CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Guest Speaker

How Much Can They Benefit: Women’s Information Seeking Outcome and Information Evaluation on Government Health Websites in the Context of HIV/AIDS Prevention. At Eileen Trauth’s IST 541 class “Qualitative Research in IST”, College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, February 16, 2010

Social Construction of Gender and Sexuality in Online HIV/AIDS Discourses in China. At Jan Mahar’s IST 341 class “Human Diversity”, College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, April 13, 2009

Minority women & ehealth: Social inclusion in online HIV/AIDS information. At Eileen Trauth’s IST 341 class “Human Diversity”, College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, October 30, 2007 

How did I end up in the methodology I am currently using? At Eileen Trauth’s IST 541 class “Qualitative Research in IST”, College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, January 25, 2007.   

Who should be targeted? A dilemma in the communication of HIV/AIDS prevention information. At Eileen Trauth’s IST 402 class “Human Diversity in the Global Information Economy”, College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, November 9, 2006 

Panel Speaker

Social construction of gender and sexuality in HIV/AIDS discourse online. At 1st IST Graduate Symposium: Information Technology in a Globalizing World, College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, February 24, 2006

HONORS AND AWARDS  

Travel Award

One of the two winners of ASIS&T 2008 SIG (Special Interest Groups) USE (Information Needs, Seeking and Use) PhD Student Conference Travel Award, Columbus, Ohio, October 24-29, 2008   

Doctoral Symposiums

Information Resource Management Association (IRMA) International Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 19-23, 2007 

IsOneWorld Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV, April 11-13, 2007  

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE  

Research Assistant   

Faculty: Lynette Kvasny, Eileen Trauth                                    May 2009-December 2009

College of Information Sciences and Technology                 June 2008-August 2008

The Pennsylvania State University                                           June 2007-December 2007

                                                                                                     August 2004-December 2006                  

Research Project Assistance                                                                                                                  

      National Science Foundation: 2007-2010 Exploration of the Effects of Race, Ethnicity and Socio-economic Class on Gender Stereotyping. E. Trauth, PI, L. Kvasny, Co-PI.
      May 2009-December 2009   (http://etrauth.ist.psu.edu\/current_research.htm)
 
      BCP-DP: Cyber Mentor: An Internet-based Infrastructure for Enhanced Mentoring of Women and Under-Represented Minority Graduate Students and New Faculty Members in
      the Computing Sciences. E. Trauth & M. J. Irwin, Co-PI. May 2005
 
      NSF (National Science Foundation) Grant IIS-0238009-$450,000 for CAREER: Broadening the Participation of Underrepresented Groups in the Information Society. L.
      Kvasny, PI. September, 2004-December, 2004  
 
Grant Writing Assistance
       NIH (National Institute of Health) Grant PA-07-289: Health Disparities in HIV/AIDS:  Focus on African Americans. M. Hecht & L. Kvasny, Co-PI. June 2008-August 2008       

 Children, Youth and Family Consortium (Pennsylvania State University) - $5,000 for Intergenerational Learning Using IT in Low-Income, African American Families. L. Kvasny & R. Belue, F. Payton, J. Kiwanuka-Tondo, Co-PIs. 2006  

Invited Peer-Reviews 

Journal Papers

The African Journal of Information Systems (AJIS), 2008

European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS) Special Issue on "Healthcare Information Systems Research, Revelations and Visions", 2007

African Journal on Information Systems, 2006

e-Health: A Special Issue of e-Service Journal, 2006

Information Systems Management Special Issues on “IT in Healthcare”, 2006

The Social Science Computer Review (SSCORE) Special Edition: Critical Theory and Information Systems Research, 2005 

Book Chapters

Encyclopedia of Gender and IT, 2005

Information Communication Technologies and Healthcare Systems: Costs and Benefits, 2005 

Conference Papers

Pre-ICIS Workshop: 16th Annual Cross-Cultural Research in Information Systems (CCRIS) Meeting, 2008

International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), "Underserved Communities" track, 2006

IT issues in Healthcare Track of The 2005 AIS SIG-ISAP (Special Interest Group on IT/IS in Asia-Pacific) Annual Pre-ICIS Conference, 2005 

Volunteered Peer-Reviews 

Conference Papers

      The Fourth Annual Iconference---Isociety: research, education, engagement. School of Information and Library 

      Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. February 8-11, 2009 

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS  

ASIS&T and SIG (Special Interest Groups) USE (Information Needs, Seeking and Use)                   August 2008-August 2009
 
Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE)                                                     December 2007-December 2008
 
International Communication Association (ICA)                                                                                        January 2007-September 2007
 
Delaware Valley Chapter of Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)    November 2006-October 2007
 
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)                                                                                   September 2006-December 2006
Association for Information Systems, International Conference on Information Systems,
SIG on IS/IT in Asia-Pacific (AIS ICIS SIG-ISAP)                                                                                       October 2005-October 2006
 
Branch Society of Competitive Intelligence, China Society for Scientific and Technical Information  September 2001-July 2004