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Yuan, Yu
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- Associate Professor, Communication (COMM), College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS)
I teach and conduct research in the area of organizational communication. Specially, I am interested in studying knowledge management through the development of social capital, and the adoption and usage of information and communication technology. My ultimate goal is to integrate findings from organizational behavior and information systems, and to develop and test new social science theories that advance our understanding of knowledge management.
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Affiliations
member of
- David R. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future (ACSF) Faculty Fellow
Research
research activities
principal investigator on
- COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: RETAINING ORGANIZATIONAL KNOWLEDGE IN CONNECTIVE AND COMMUNAL TRANSACTIVE MEMORY SYSTEMS: A CROSS-CULTURE INVESTIGATION FROM A MULTILEVEL, NETWORK PERSPECTIVE awarded by NATL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 2008 - 2012
- VOSS: THE ROLES OF AWARENESS AND SOCIAL NETWORKS IN THE INITIATION AND SUSTENANCE OF RESEARCH ORIENTED VIRTUAL ORGANIZATIONS awarded by NATL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 2009 - 2013
co-principal investigator on
submitted impact statement
- The role of social capital and communication technologies in knowledge transfer within Cornell Cooperative Extension programs
- The role of social capital and communication technologies in knowledge transfer within Cornell Cooperative Extension programs
- The development of social capital and transactive memories systems in computer-supported collaborative work
- The development of social capital and transactive memories systems in computer-supported collaborative work
- NASA Advanced Interactive Discovery Environment (AIDE)
- NASA Advanced Interactive Discovery Environment (AIDE)
Publications
individual publications
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academic article
- Cross‐campus collaboration: A scientometric and network case study of publication activity across two campuses of a single institution. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 64:162-172. 2013
- Getting a feel: Email usage in a nonprofit community organization in a low-income community. Communication Quarterly. 60:103-121. 2012
- Twenty-Five Years of Hidden Profile Studies: A Meta-Analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Review. 16:54-75. 2012
- Building stronger ties with alumni through Facebook to increase volunteerism and charitable giving. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 16:445-464. 2011
- Evolution of public issues in wildlife management: How social networks and issue framing change through time. Human Dimensions of Wildlife. 16:381-396. 2011
- Exceptional lability of a genomic complex in rice and its close relatives revealed by interspecific and intraspecific comparison and population analysis. BMC Genomics. 12:142. 2011
- Shall I Google it or ask the competent villain down the hall? The moderating role of information need in information source selection. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 62:133-145. 2011
- The interplay between interpersonal and electronic resources in knowledge seeking among co-located and distributed employees. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 62:535-549. 2011
- Expertise directory development, shared-task interdependence, and strength of communication network ties as multilevel predictors of expertise exchange in transactive memory work group systems. Communication Research. 37:20-47. 2010
- The impact of awareness, social accessibility and media multiplexity on expertise retrieval. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 61:700-714. 2010
- Exploring negative group dynamics: Adversarial network, personality, and performance in project groups. Management Communication Quarterly. 23:32-62. 2009
- The diffusion of a task recommendation system to facilitate contributions to an online community . Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 15:32-59. 2009
- Access to information in connective and communal transactive memory systems. Communication Research. 34:131-155. 2007
- Focused activities and the development of social capital in a distributed learning community. Information Society. 22:25-39. 2006
- Homophily of network ties, and bonding and bridging social capital in distributed teams. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 11:1062-1084. 2006
- Individual participation in organizational information commons: The impact of team level social influence and technology-specific proficiency. Human Communication Research. 31:212-240. 2005
- Situated learning theory: Adding rate and complexity effects via Kauffman’s NK model. Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences. 8:65-101. 2004
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book
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chapter
- Internet-based social networking and collective action models of citizen science: theory meets possibility. Citizen Science: Public Participation in Environmental Research. 226-233. 2012
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conference paper
- Influence, Commitment and Social Roles: Predicting the Adoption of Innovation in an Online Community. American Sociological Association, 2010 Group Processes Conference. 2010
- The impact of affective relationships and awareness on expertise retrieval: A multilevel network perspective on transactive memory theory. Best Papers Proceedings of the Seventieth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. 2010
- Managing organizational knowledge via connective and communal transactive memory. International Conference on Administrative Development: Towards Excellence in Public Sector Performance. 2009
- That’s what Friends are for: Facilitating ‘Who Knows What’ Across Group Boundaries . Proceedings of the 2007 international ACM conference on Supporting group work. 379-382. 2007
- The impact of negative relations on performance and satisfaction in group work. Proceedings 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'07). 2007
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document part
- Operating a Dairy Farm - Getting Information: Dealing with Low Milk Prices, Getting Rid of Used Bale Wrap, Computers, Phones, Magazines, Salesmen, Cows, Websites... 2009
selected publications listing
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Journal Publications
- Yuan, Y. C., Carboni, I., & Ehrlich, K., (2010). The impact of awareness, social accessibility and media multiplexity on expertise retrieval. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/76504585/issue
- Yuan, Y. C., Fulk, J., Monge, P. R., & Contractor, N. (2010). Expertise directory development, shared task-interdependence, and strength of communication network ties as multilevel predictors of expertise exchange in transactive memory work group systems. Communication Research. 37(1), 20-47 http://crx.sagepub.com/cgi/rapidpdf/0093650209351469v1.
- Yuan, Y. C., Cosley, D., Welser, H., Xia, L., & Gay, G. (2009). The diffusion of a task recommendation system to facilitate contributions to an online community. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 15(1), 32-59.
- Xia, L., Yuan, Y. C., & Gay, G. (2009). Exploring negative group dynamics: Adversarial network, personality, and performance in project groups. Management Communication Quarterly, 23(1), 32-62.
- Yuan, Y. C., Fulk, J., & Monge, P. R. (2007). Access to information in connective and communal transactive memory systems. Communication Research, 34(2), 131-155. [Lead article in CR; Distinguished Article Award from Communication & Social Cognition Division of NCA 2008 Annual Conference]
- Yuan, Y. C., & Gay, G. (2006). Homophily of network ties, and bonding and bridging social capital in distributed teams. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(4), 1062-1084.
- Yuan, Y. C., Gay, G., & Hembrooke, H. (2006). Focused activities and the development of social capital in a distributed learning “Community.” The Information Society,22(1), 25-39.
- Yuan, Y., Fulk, J., Shumate, M., Monge, R. P., Bryant, J. A., & Matsaganis, M. (2005). Individual participation in organizational information commons: The impact of team level social influence and technology-specific proficiency. Human Communication Research, 31(2), 212-240.
- Yuan, Y., & McKelvey, B. (2004). Situated learning theory: Adding rate and complexity effects via Kauffman’s NK model. Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences, 8(1), 65-101.
Book/Monograph
- Yuan, Y. C. (2009). Social capital and the development of group transactive memory systems. Saarbrűcken, Germany: VDM Verlag Dr. Műller.
Best Papers Proceedings
- Yuan, Y. C., Monge, P. R., & Fulk, J. (2005). Social capital and transactive memory systems in work groups: A multilevel approach. In K. M. Weaver (Ed.), Best Papers Proceedings of the Sixty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (CD), ISSN 1543-8643. [Top 5%]
Teaching
teaching activities
- COMM-6100: Seminar in Social Networks - Spring 2013
- COMM-7970: Graduate Independent Study - Spring 2013
- COMM-7980: Communication Teaching Laboratory - Spring 2013
- COMM-7990: Graduate Research - Spring 2013
- COMM-8900: Master's-Level Thesis Research - Spring 2013
- COMM-9900: Doctoral-Level Dissertation Research - Spring 2013
- INFO-5900: Independent Research - Spring 2013
- INFO-9900: Thesis Research - Spring 2013
- COMM-7970: Graduate Independent Study - Fall 2012
- COMM-7980: Communication Teaching Laboratory - Fall 2012
- COMM-7990: Graduate Research - Fall 2012
- COMM-8900: Master's-Level Thesis Research - Fall 2012
- COMM-9900: Doctoral-Level Dissertation Research - Fall 2012
- INFO-5900: Independent Research - Fall 2012
- INFO-9900: Thesis Research - Fall 2012
- COMM-6910: Seminar: Topics in Communication - Spring 2012
- COMM-7970: Graduate Independent Study - Spring 2012
- COMM-7980: Communication Teaching Laboratory - Spring 2012
- COMM-7990: Graduate Research - Spring 2012
- COMM-8900: Master's-Level Thesis Research - Spring 2012
- COMM-9900: Doctoral-Level Dissertation Research - Spring 2012
- INFO-5900: Independent Research - Spring 2012
- INFO-9900: Thesis Research - Spring 2012
- COMM-3150: Organizational Communication: Theory and Practice - Fall 2011
- COMM-6910: Seminar: Topics in Communication - Fall 2011
- COMM-6950: Structural Equation Modeling in Social Science Research - Fall 2011
- COMM-7970: Graduate Independent Study - Fall 2011
- COMM-7980: Communication Teaching Laboratory - Fall 2011
- COMM-7990: Graduate Research - Fall 2011
- COMM-8900: Master's-Level Thesis Research - Fall 2011
- COMM-9900: Doctoral-Level Dissertation Research - Fall 2011
- INFO-5900: Independent Research - Fall 2011
- INFO-9900: Thesis Research - Fall 2011
Service
service to the profession
- Academy of Management Member 2002 -
- International Network for Social Network Analysis Member 2001 -
- International Communication Association Member 1998 -
- National Communication Association Member 2004 - 2008
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Background
education and training
- Ph.D. in, University of Southern California 2004
- M.A. in, University of Southern California 2001
- M.A. in, University of Connecticut 1998
awards and honors
- Inclusion in Best Papers Proceedings, 2010
- Dennis Gouran Research Award, 2009
- Distinguished Article Award, 2008
- Top 3 Papers Award, 2007
- Laura Crowell Best Dissertation Award, 2005
- Best Papers Award, 2005
- Top 3 Papers Award, Group Communication Division of National Communication Association, November 2007: Chicago, IL
- Dennis Gouran Research Award, Group Communication Division of National Communication Association, November 2009: Chicago, MA [Given to best published article in 2007 and 2008 on group communication research]
- Laura Crowell Best Dissertation Award, Group Communication Division of National Communication Association, November 2005: Boston, MA
- Distinguished Article Award, Communication and Social Cognition Division of National Communication Association, November 2008: San Diego, CA [Given to articles published in 2006 and 2007 communication journals]
- Best Papers, Managerial and Organizational Cognition division of Academy of Management Annual Conference, August 2005: Honolulu, HI
- Best Papers, Managerial and Organizational Cognition division of Academy of Management Annual Conference, August 2010: Montreal, Canada
Other
alternate name
- Y. Connie Yuan
college
- CALS