Subject-area research interests

  • Sociotechnical cybersecurity
  • Managerial & organizational information behavior
  • Organizational knowledge management and information diffusion
  • Political informatics
  • Emerging & disruptive technologies
  • Science & technology communication and institutions
  • Government as an innovator in the market and public expenditures for R&D
  • International cooperation, relations, global government, and sovereignty transfers
  • Public sector transparency, ethics, accountability and administration
  • Public opinion

Methodological research interests

  • Quantitative social science
  • Social network analysis
  • Text analysis
  • Survey design & execution
  • Computational social science (learning)
  • Data scraping & mining (learning)
  • Machine learning (learning)
  • Natural language processing (learning)

Publications

  • Journal Publications
    • Janzen, S., Orr, C., & Terp. S.J. (2022). Building Cognitive Security and Resilience to Enhance Crisis Preparedness: A social ecological approach to minimizing information-based harms. SIG SI & IEP: 2022: The 18th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium and the 4th Annual Information Ethics and Policy Symposium, held as part of the 85th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), October 29, 2022, Pittsburgh, PA. https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/124453 Nominated for best symposium paper.
    • Janzen, S., Orr, C., & Terp, S.J. (2022). Cognitive Security and Resilience: A social ecological model of disinformation and other harms with applications to COVID-19 vaccine information behaviors. ROMCIR 2022: The 2nd Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval, held as part of ECIR 2022: the 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval, April 10-14, 2022, Stavanger, Norway. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3138/paper4_jot.pdf
    • Lee, M., Wang, J., Janzen, S., Winter, S., & Harlow, J. (2021). Crowdsourcing Behavior in Reporting Civic Issues: The Case of Boston’s 311 Systems. Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings (AOM). July 29 – Aug 3. Virtual.
    • Amirkhanyan, A.A., Meier, K.J., O’Toole Jr, L.J., Janzen, S.P., & Dakhwe, M.A. (2017). Management and performance in US nursing homes. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/mux003
  • Conference Papers
    • Janzen, S. (2022). Advancing the Advanced Search: Improving the Web of Science User Experience with a Spreadsheet Search Query Tool. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M., Ntoa, S. (eds) HCI International 2022 Posters. HCII 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1580. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06417-3_40
    • Chan, J., Brier, J., Farhadi, Z., Lee, M., Janzen, S., Chi, W., Fellows, A., & Winter, S. (2020). A theoretical analysis of independent business owners’ preferences for informal information sources. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science & Technology 2020; e352. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.352
  • Workshop Papers
    • Lee, M., Harlow, J., Gordon, E., Wang, J., Jonston, E., Janzen, S., & Winter, S. (2020). Toward Understanding Civic Data Bias in 311 Systems: An Information Deserts Perspective. In CSCW Workshop on Civic Technologies: Research, Practice, and Open Challenges, ACM CSCW 2020, Miami, FL. October 17th. https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2012/2012.00515.pdf
    • Daepp, M.I.G., Fitzmaurice, H., Janzen, S., Ponce, J., Roseway, A., Felkner, J., Copfer, W., Pinfold, W., & Niyogi, D. (2020). Popping into focus: Community engagement for environmental impact and awareness. Microsoft Research Urban Futures Summer Workshop 2020. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2020 /10/Community-Engagement.pdf
  • White papers & unpublished papers
    • Janzen, S., Watkins, M., Stephens, W., Kelly, J., & Bostick, R. Global IT Assessment Literature Review. Applied Research Lab for Intelligence and Security. October 2022. [Not authorized for public release].
    • Broniatowski, D., Carter-Browne, B., Caskey, B., Gordon, R., Janzen, S., Orr, C.; Paletz, S., Reyna, V., Shearn, A., & Tromble, R. (2022). U.S. COVID response: Testing different messages to increase COVID-19 vaccine intentions. Applied Research Lab for Intelligence and Security. 31 October 2022. [Not authorized for public release].
    • Beaudoin, M.E.; Pandza, N.B., & Janzen, S. (2022). Horizon scanning through bibliometric analysis [Simplified report title]. Applied Research Lab for Intelligence and Security. 8 June 2022. [Not authorized for public release].
    • Jones, K., Janzen, S., Kelly, J., Stephens, B., & Russell, A. (2021). Countering Insider Threat (CInT) (Moving to Insider Risk) Insider Risk Speaker Series (IRiSS) Final Report. Applied Research Lab for Intelligence and Security. 30 September 2021. https://www.arlis.umd.edu/sites/default/files/2022-05/ARLIS_CInT_IRiSS_2021_Countering_ Insider_Threat_%28CInT%29_%28Moving_to_Insider_Risk%29.pdf
    • Marvi, S., Novak, V., Morrison, M., Gordon, R., Wood, T., Oates, S., Rytting, A., Jones, K., Janzen, S. & Maxwell, M. (2021). COVID Needles in Social Media Haystacks: Identifying Cross-Language and Longitudinal Changes in Pandemic-Related Discussion Topics. 2021 IDeaS Conference, Virtual, 12 July 2021. https://www.cmu.edu/ideas-social-cybersecurity/events/conference-archive/archive-conference-2021/conference-papers-2021/conference-2021-paper-12-covidneedles.pdf
    • McCurdy, H. E., Robinson, J., & Janzen, S. (2015). How much did we really spend to go to the Moon?. Public Policy for Innovation. https://www.publicpolicyinnovation.com/_files/ugd/419892 _e57175fb89f341c4a473463a71c7f8dc.pdf

Presentations

  • Mind the Gap: Is Technology Administration Missing in the Public Administration Curriculum? American Society for Public Administration National Conference, Seattle, WA, 20 March 2016
  • In for a dime, in for a dollar: A survey experiment on federal spending for science research and space exploration. Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management National Conference, Miami, FL, 12 November 2015
  • MOM helps take out the orbital trash: A tool bridging public management and international relations. Poster presentation. Northeast Conference on Public Administration, Arlington, VA, 6 November 2015
  • In for a dime, in for a dollar: A survey experiment on federal spending for science research and space exploration. Lightning talk. Northeast Conference on Public Administration, Arlington, VA, 6 November 2015
  • Do Bird of a Feather Tweet Together: Analyzing the U.S. Federal Funded Research & Development Agencies’ Twitter Network. Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management National Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 8 November 2014
  • National Cybersecurity Development in a Developing Country: Case Study of St. Vincent & the Grenadines. Capstone Field Research Presentation, DePaul University 22 May 2013
  • To Chain or Not to Chain: Predicting Shopping Tours and Shopping Tour Complexity. Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development Research Forum, DePaul University, 20 August 2012
  • LEEDing the pack: An exploratory analysis of LEED projects outside the United States. Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development Research Forum, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, 24 May 2012
  • Employment diversification & livelihood opportunities in a post-watershed development village. First Midwest Student Conference on Sustainable Development in India, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, 21 April 2012
  • Working as a research intern within the European Union Parliament. Invited guest presenter for the DePaul European Policy study abroad course, Brussels, Belgium, 21 March 2012
  • Knowledge-sharing and immersion research evaluation between DePaul University and the Watershed Organization Trust of India. India Development Coalition of America, Illinois Institute of Technology, Willowbrook, IL, 16 October 2011

Team Research

  • Global IT Assessment. Co-Principal Investigator and Research Fellow. Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS), Aug 2022 – Present
    Managed project budget and performance tracking, prepared reports and US DoD client briefs, and hired and supervised student interns.
  • Bibliometrics for horizon scanning of scientific publications. Research Fellow. Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS), Oct 2021 – Jun 2022 Supported natural language modeling, statistical data analysis, and survey vendor relations.
  • Malinformation narratives around vaccine acceptance and message testing to increase U.S. COVID-19 vaccine intentions. Research Fellow. Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS), Jan 2021 – Oct 2022 Supported natural language modeling, statistical data analysis, and survey vendor relations.
  • Shifting the Insider Threat paradigm to Insider risk. Research Fellow. Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS), Jan 2021 – Aug 2022 Supported to idea generation, project administration, data analysis, and survey vendor relations.
  • Making information deserts visible: Computational models, disparities, in civic technology use, and urban decision making. Doctoral researcher.
    Boston 311 Project Team, UMD College of Information Studies, Jul 2019 – Dec 2021 Data science and analytics, source data verification and provision, and collaborative writing.
  • KNEXT Library knowledge extensions: Data analytics to support innovation communities. Doctoral researcher. Library Knowledge Extension (KNEXT) Project Team, UMD College of Information Studies, Jul 2019- Sep 2021.
    Survey design development, public administration and policy advising, and collaborative writing.
    Related publications: CP.01
  • Independent Review of the NexGen Analysis of an Evolveable Lunar Architecture That Leverages Commercial Space Capabilities and Public-Private Partnerships. Assistant researcher for data and document review. American University Public Policy for Innovation Group, 2015.
  • How Much Did We Really Spend to Go to the Moon? Assistant researcher for data collection, historical and economic data analysis, and report editing. American University Public Policy for Innovation Group, 2015.
  • Science Fiction Farming for The Great Beyond. Assistant researcher and presenter. American University Public Policy for Innovation Group. 2014.
  • Examining Perceptual and Archival Measures of Performance in the Context of Nursing Home Care. Assistant researcher on data collection and analysis. Joint American University and Texas A&M University project. 2014.
  • Citizen Participation and Contracting: Exploring Citizen Participation Practices in the Context of Local Health and Human Services. Acknowledged research duties: literature review, transcription, interview data coding, American University, 2015. Forthcoming book by A. Amirkhanyan, K. Lambright, and J. Kim.
  • Technology in Intercity Travel Study, Data Team Leader and Field Observation Data Collector, Chaddick Institute, DePaul University, 2013
    • Part A: “Tablets Take Flight: The Rise of Personal Electronic Devices & The Growing Cost of the FAA Ban on Technology Use During Takeoffs/Landings”
    • Part B: “The Digitally Connected Commuter: The Rapidly Rising Use of Personal Electronic Devices on Chicago’s Suburban Trains, 2012-2013”
    • Part C: “The Personal Tech Tidal Wave: The Surging Use of Electronic Devices on Intercity Buses, Planes, & Trains: 2012 – 2013”
  • The Store Next Door: How Ethnic Grocery Stores Contribute to Neighborhood Life & Cross-Cultural Food Consumption in Chicago, Survey Data Collector, Chaddick Institute, DePaul University, 2013.
  • Tablets and E-Readers Leap Past Music Players and Regular Cell Phones as “Technologies of Choice” on Commuter Trains, Field Observation Data Collector, Chaddick Institute, DePaul University, 2012.
  • Privacy Invades Public Space: The Growing Use of Portable Electronic Technology on Intercity Buses, Trains and Planes, Field Observation Data Collector, Chaddick Institute, DePaul University, 2011.