Kelly Quinn, PhD
Clinical Associate Professor
Communication
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About
Kelly Quinn (PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, Communication) is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Coordinator of Graduate Student Instructors in the Department of Communication, and Treasurer of the Association of Internet Researchers. She has taught classes on the social implications of new media technologies, organizational communication, research methods and statistics, and public speaking. Her work focuses on new media and how they relate to diverse topics such as aging, social capital, friendship and privacy. It has been featured in Information, Communication & Society, the Journal of Broadcast and Electronic Media, Social Media + Society, and the International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society, as well as several edited volumes.
Current research projects include:
- The ActivityAssist study, which explores how voice-activated personal assistants, such as
Amazon’s Alexa or Google Home, can be used to help sedentary older adults become more
physically active; - The Social Media Privacy Research Collective, which examines privacy from the perspective of
the user, leveraging a “framing in thought” approach to capture how users make sense of
privacy in their social media use; and - The Comparative Privacy Research Network, which is an international collaboration whose goal
is to create a sustainable framework for comparative privacy research across political,
geographic and cultural boundaries.
Dr. Quinn also holds advanced degrees in library and information science an (MSLIS , Dominican
University) and in business (MBA, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University).
Selected Publications
Quinn, K. (2018). Cognitive effects of social media use: A case of older adults. Social Media + Society, 4(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305118787203
Quinn, K. & Epstein, D. (2018). #MyPrivacy: How users think about social media privacy. Proceedings of SMSociety’18. July 18–20, 2018, Copenhagen. New York: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217945
Quinn, K. & Papacharissi, Z. (2018). The Contextual Accomplishment of Privacy. International Journal of Communication, 12, 23. [link: https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/7016]
Quinn, K. (2016). Contextual social capital: Linking the contexts of social media use to its outcomes. Information, Communication & Society, 19(5), 582-600. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2016.1139613
Quinn, K., Smith-Ray, R. & Boulter, K. (2016). Concepts, terms, and mental maps: Everyday challenges to older adult social media adoption. In J. Zhou & G. Salvendy (Eds.), Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Healthy and Active Aging, Chapter 22. Berlin: Springer International Publishing. [email to request a copy]
Quinn, K. & M. Powers, R. (2016). Revisiting the concept of ‘sharing’for digital spaces: an analysis of reader comments to online news. Information, Communication & Society, 19(4), 442-460. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2015.1092565
Quinn, K. (2014). An ecological approach to privacy: “Doing” online privacy at midlife. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 58(4),562-580. https://doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2014.966357
Education
PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, Communication
MSLIS, Dominican University
MBA, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University