Kristin Page Hocevar

Kristin Page Hocevar graduated magna cum laude from Connecticut College with a BA in English and American Studies (concentration in politics, society, and policy). She has worked in public media, documentary, and web production at ITVS, WGBH, and KQED, and as a research assistant for the United States Department of Defense examining organizational and mediated communication in international humanitarian assistance efforts. Her current research focuses on knowledge sharing using communication technologies and the social implications of the interactions, communities, and pooled information facilitated by these technologies. Specifically, she has examined motivations for sharing information via social media as well as the processes through which people evaluate and the judgments they make about information they find online.