Education

• Ph.D. in Information Science, Department of Information and Library Science, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University – Bloomington, September 2007 –July, 2015
  

  Dissertation Title:
  Investigating the use of affordances and framing techniques by scholars to manage personal and professional impressions on Twitter.

  Committee Members:

  • Dr. Howard Rosenbaum, Committee Chair
  • Dr. Cassidy R. Sugimoto
  • Dr. Staša Milojevic
  • Dr. Hamid Ekbia
  • Dr. Jeffrey Bardzell, Outside Committee Member

• Master of Information Science, Department of Information and Library Science, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University – Bloomington, 1999-2001 (formerly School of Library and Information Science)
• Bachelor of Science (Experimental Psychology Major), Indiana State University, 1997-1999

Research Experience

Measuring the Societal Impact of Open Science

• Post-doc, Research Unit for the Sociology of Education (RUSE), University of Turku, Finland (2015-2016), working with Dr. Kim Holmberg and Dr. Fereshteh Didegah
  • Perform research into open science, social media metrics, bibliometrics, scientometrics, and scholarly communication
  • Create and normalize data repositories
  • Develop dynamic, data-driven web applications and online tools
  • Collect, query, and analyze social media metrics

Canada Research Chair on the Transformations of Scholarly Communication.

• Research Professional, École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information, Université de Montréal (2014 – 2015), working for Dr. Vincent Larivière
  • Scholarly communication, scientometrics and altmetrics research
  • Assist with the creation and normalization of a data repository
  • Assist with creation of web sites and applications for a variety of CRCTSC projects (crc.ebsi.umontreal.ca)
  • Collect, query, and store social media data in MySQL and/or PostgreSQL database
  • Maintain local web server and database server

Cascades, Islands, or Streams? Time, Topic, and Scholarly Activities in Humanities and Social Science Research. Digging Into Data Grant.

• Research Assistant, Digital Culture Lab, Department of Information and Library Science, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University (2012 – 2014), working for Dr. Cassidy Sugimoto
  • Scholarly communication, scientometrics, Twitter, and digital humanities (DH) research
  • Assist with the creation and normalization of a data repository of DH affiliations
  • Assist with the creation of network analysis visualization of DH data
  • Created and designed project website: Cascades, Islands, or Streams? – Digging Into Data
  • Collected, Queried, and Stored Social Media data in MySQL and/or PostgreSQL database

Chymistry of Isaac Newton Project

• Research Assistant, Chymistry of Isaac Newton Project, Digital Culture Lab, Department of Information and Library Science, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University (2007 – 2009, 2010 – 2011), working for Dr. John A. Walsh & Dr. William R. Newman
  • Digital Humanities and font research
  • Fall 2011 – Redesign of the website, Latent Semantic Analysis Tool, and release of a new set of alchemical works
  • Spring 2010 – Released Annotation Tool Kit on Google Code
  • Fall 2007 – Spring 2010, Authored web-based Image Annotation Tool, Chymistry of Isaac Newton Project [HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, MySQL, JSON, XML]
  • Fall 2009 – Spring 2010, Redesigned Complete Chymistry of Isaac Newton Project Website [HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, XSL, JSON, jQuery, Flash, Quicktime]
  • Fall 2007 – Fall 2008, Authored dynamic web version of Newton’s Index Chymicus [HTML, CSS Javascript, XML, XSL, jQuery]

TILE Project

• Research Assistant, TILE Project, Digital Culture Lab, Department of Information and Library Science, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University (2009 – 2011), working for Dr. John A. Walsh and representatives of MYTH
  • Digital Humanities research
  • Co-authored OOP JavaScript
  • Co-developed user interface design strategies
  • Researched and recommended digital annotation standards
  • Co-presented poster at DH 2011 conference

Neuropsychology Lab, Research Assistant

• Research Assistant, Neuropsychology, Psychology Department, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana (Fall 1997  – Spring 1999), working for Dr. Allen Butt
  • Neuropsychology research
  • Developed computer algorithms to analyze maze running data
  • Performed brain surgery on PEW rats
  • Managed student schedules to run PEW rats through water maze

Scholarly Discourse

Book Chapters [peer reviewed]

1. Haustein, S., Bowman, T.D., Costas, R. (2016). Interpreting “altmetrics”: Viewing acts on social media through the lens of citation and social theories. In Cassidy R. Sugimoto (Ed.). Theories of Informetrics and Scholarly Communication. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. [link to preprint]

Journal Articles [peer reviewed]

1. Bowman, T.D, Bowman, S., & Holmberg, K. (in process). #creatorGate: Impact, Open Access, Peer Review, and Altmetrics.
2. Didegah, F., Bowman, T.D., & Holmberg, K. (in process). Internationality in Finnish Research: An Examination of Collaborators, Citers, Tweeters, and Readers.
3. Desrochers, N., Paul-Hus, A., Haustein, S., Costas, R., Quan-Haase, A, Bowman, T.D., Pecoskie, J., Tsou, A., & Larivière, V. (under review). Authorship, inventorship, citations, acknowledgments, and social media: Symbolic capital in the multifaceted reward system of science. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology.
4. Didegah, F., Bowman, T.D., & Holmberg, K. (under review). On the differences between citations and altmetrics: An investigation of factors driving altmetrics vs. citations. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology.
5. Tsou, A., Bowman, T.D., Sugimoto, T., Lariviere, V., & Sugimoto, C. (2016). Self-presentation in scholarly profiles: Characteristics of images and perceptions of professionalism and attractiveness on academic social networking sites. First Monday, 21(4). doi:10.5210/fm.v21i4.6381
6. Holmberg, Didegah, F., Bowman, S., Bowman, T.D., & Kortelainen, T. (2015). Measuring the societal impact of open science – Presentation of a research project. Informaatiotutkimus, 34(4). [link]
7. Bowman, T.D. (2015). Differences in personal and professional tweets of scholars. Aslib Journal of Information Management, 67(3), pp. 356-371. doi: 10.1108/AJIM-12-2014-0180. [link]
8. Haustein, S., Bowman, T.D., Holmberg, K., Tsou, A., Sugimoto, C.R., & Larivière, V. (2016). Tweets as impact indicators: Examining the implications of automated “bot” accounts on Twitter.  Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 67(1): 232–238. [link]
9. Hu, B., Dong, X., Zhang, C., Bowman, T.D.,  Ding, Y., Yan, E., Milojević, S., & Sugimoto, C. (2015). Lead-Lag topic evolution analysis: Preprints vs. papers. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/asi.23347 [link]  
10. Sugimoto, C.R., Hank, C., Bowman, T.D., & Pomerantz, J. (2015). Friend or faculty: Social networking sites, dual relationships, and context collapse in higher education. First Monday, [S.l.]. doi: 10.5210/fm.v20i3.5387. [link]
11. Bowman, T.D., Tsou, A., Ni, C., & Sugimoto, C. (2014). Post-interdisciplinary frames of reference: Exploring permeability and perceptions of disciplinarity in the social sciences. Scientometrics. doi: 10.1007/s11192-014-1338-z [link]
12. Ekbia, H., Mattioli, M., Kouper, I., Agrave, G., Ghazinejad, A., Bowman, T., Suri, V., Tsou, A., Weingart, S., & Sugimoto, C. (2014). Big data, bigger dilemmas: A critical review.  Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 66(8), pp. 1523-1545. doi: 10.1002/asi.23294 [link]
13. Haustein, S., Bowman, T.D., Holmberg, K., Peters, I., & Larivière, V. (2014) Astrophysicists on Twitter: An in-depth analysis of tweeting and scientific publication behavior. Aslib Journal of Information Management, 66(3), pp.279-296. doi: 10.1108/AJIM-09-2013-0081 [link]
14. Holmberg, K., Bowman, T.D., Haustein, S., & Peters, I. (2014). Astrophysicists’ conversational connections on Twitter. PLoS ONE, 9(8): e106086. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0106086 [link]
15. Butt, A.E. & Bowman, T.D. (2002). Transverse patterning reveals a dissociation of simple and configural association learning abilities in rats with 192 IgG-saporin lesions of the nucleus basalis magnocellularis. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 77(2), 211-233. doi: 10.1006/nlme.2001.4013 [link]  

Conference Presentations [peer reviewed]

1. Mongeon, P., Paul-Hus, A., Shu, F., & Bowman, T.D. (2016, July). Social Media in Academia: iSchools and their Faculty Members on Twitter. Paper to be presented at the Social Media & Society 2016, London, UK
2. Didegah, F., Bowman, T.D., & Holmberg, K. (2016, March). Increasing our understanding of altmetrics: Identifying factors that are driving both citation and altmetric counts. Paper to be presented at the iConference 2016, Philadelphia, PA.
3. Bowman, T.D. & Didegah, F. (2015, December). Terms and sentiments may apply: Examining sentiments in tweets and epistemic terms in scientific abstracts. Poster presented at the GESIS Winter Symposium, Cologne, Germany. [link]
4. Desrochers, N. (moderator), Paul-Hus, A., Bowman, T.D., Costas, R., Haustein, S., Larivière, V., & Mongeon, P. (2015, November). Authorship, patents, citations, acknowledgments, tweets, reader counts and the multifaceted reward system of science. Panel at Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2015, St. Louis, Missouri. [link]
5. Bar-Ilan, J., Bowman, T.D., Haustein, S., Milojević, S., & Peters, I (moderator). (2015, November). Self-presentation in academia today: From peer-reviewed publications to social media. Panel at Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2015, St. Louis, Missouri. [link]
6. Homberg, K., Didegah, F., & Bowman, T.D. (2015, November). The different meanings and levels of Impact of Altmetrics. Paper to be presented at the 11th International Conference (cOLLNET 2015) on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics (WIS) & 16th Meeting, Dehli, India.
7. Bowman, T.D. (2015, October). Citation presentation: Combining methods from bibliometrics and altmetrics to examine citation importance. Paper presented at the Bibliometriikkaseminaari, Helsinki, Finland.
8. Holmberg, K., Bowman, T.D., & Didegah, F. (2015, October). The meaning of impact in altmetrics. Paper presented at The 2015 Altmetrics Workshop, Amsterdam, Netherlands. [link]
9. Friedrich, N., Bowman, T.D., & Haustein, S. (2015, October). Do tweets to scientific articles contain positive or negative sentiments? Paper presented at The 2015 Altmetrics Workshop, Amsterdam, Netherlands. [link]
10. Didegah, F., Bowman, T.D., & Holmberg, K. (2015, October). The need for more sophisticated altmetric indicators: A proposal for the categorization and development of aggregate indicators. Paper presented at The 2015 Altmetrics Workshop, Amsterdam, Netherlands. [link]
11. Bowman, T.D. (2015, July). Scholars on Twitter: An analysis of tweeting behavior. Poster presented at Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Scientometrics & Infometrics, Istanbul, Turkey. [link]
12. Friedrich, N., Bowman, T. D., Stock, W. G., & Haustein, S. (2015, July). Adapting sentiment analysis for tweets linking to scientific papers. Paper presented at Proceedings of the 15th International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference, Istanbul, Turkey. [link]
13. Haustein, S., Bowman, T. D., & Costas, R. (2015, July). When is an article actually published? An analysis of online availability, publication, and indexation dates. Paper presented at Proceedings of the 15th International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference, Istanbul, Turkey. [link]
14. Tsou, A., Bowman, T.D., Ghazinejad, A., & Sugimoto, C.R. (2015, July). Who tweets about science? Paper presented at Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Scientometrics & Infometrics, Istanbul, Turkey. [link]
15. Haustein, S., Bowman, T. D., & Costas, R. (2015, July). ‘Communities of attention’ around scientific publications: Who is tweeting about scientific papers? Paper presented at Social Media & Society 2015 International Conference, Toronto, Canada. [link]
16. Zahedi, Z., Bowman, T. D., & Haustein, S. (2014, November). Exploring data quality and retrieval strategies for Mendeley reader counts. Paper presented at SIG/MET Workshop, ASIS&T 2014 Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington. [link]
17. Bowman, T.D. (2014, November). Affordance use differences between personal and professional scholarly tweets.Paper presented at the SIG/MET Workshop, ASIS&T 2014 Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington. [link]
18. Bowman, T.D. (2014, September). Tweet or publish: An analysis of Association of American Universities (AAU) scholars on Twitter. Paper presented at The 19th Nordic Workshop on Bibliometrics and Research Policy, Reykjavík, Iceland. [link]
19. Haustein, S., Holmberg, K., Bowman, T.D., & Lariviere, V. (2014, Sept. 25). Automated arXiv feeds on Twitter: On the role of bots in scholarly communication. Paper presented at The 19th Nordic Workshop on Bibliometrics and Research Policy, Reykjavík, Iceland. [link]
20. Haustein, S., Bowman, T.D., Macaluso, B., Sugimoto, C.R., & Lariviere, V. (2014, June 23). Measuring Twitter activity of arxiv e-prints and published papers. Paper presented at Altmetrics14, Bloomington, Indiana. doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1041514 [link]
21. Bowman, T.D., Peters, I., Haustein, S., & Holmberg, K. (2013, Nov. 2). #twinkletweet: Hashtag use of astrophysicists on Twitter. Paper presented at the SIG/MET Workshop, ASIS&T 2013 Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada. [link]
22. Haustein, S., Bowman, T.D., Homberg, K, Larivière, V., Peters, I., Sugimoto, C., & Thelwall, M. (2013, Oct. 10-13). Empirical analyses of scientific papers and researchers on Twitter: Results of two studies. Paper presented at the ALM Workshop 2013, San Francisco, CA. [link]
23. Bowman, T.D., Demarest, B., Weingart, S.B., Simpson, G.L., Lariviere, V., Thelwall, M., & Sugimoto, C.R. (2013, July 16-19). Mapping DH through heterogeneous communicative practices. Paper presented at the Digital Humanities 2013, Lincoln, Nebraska. [short paper] [link]
24. Bowman, T.D. (2010, Feb. 3-6). Backstage or front stage with YouTube. Paper presented at the iConference 2010, Urbana-Champaign, IL. [link]

Reports

1. Work, S., Haustein, S., Bowman, T. D., & Larivière, V. (2015). Social Media in Scholarly Communication. A Review of the Literature and Empirical Analysis of Twitter Use by SSHRC Doctoral Award Recipients. Study commissioned by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, 87p. Retrieved from: http://crctcs.openum.ca/files/sites/60/2015/12/SSHRC_SocialMediainScholarlyCommunication.pdf

Presentations & Invited Talks

1. Bowman, T.D. (2012, Oct. 6). The Development of a Socio-Technical Version of Frame Analysis for Investigating Interaction in Social Network Sites. Paper presented at the Department of Information and Library Science, School of Informatics and Computing Doctoral Forum, Bloomington, IN.
2. Bowman, T.D. (2009, Oct. 17). Goffman’s The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life in HCI.  Paper presented at the Department of Information and Library Science, School of Informatics and Computing Doctoral Forum, Bloomington, IN.
3. Hooper, W. & Bowman, T.D. (2009, Mar. 25). Isaac Newton’s alchemical symbols. Digital Libraries Brownbag Presentation, Bloomington, Indiana.
4. Kowalczyk, S.T., Walsh, J.A., Bowman, T.D., & Dunn, J.W. (2009, Feb. 5). Digital humanities annotation. The Indiana University Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities Brownbag Series, Bloomington, Indiana.
5. Bowman, T.D. (2008, Oct. 11). A community of sinners: An analysis of confessional web sites.  Paper presented at the Department of Information and Library Science, School of Informatics and Computing Doctoral Forum, Bloomington, IN.
6. Bowman, T.D. (2007, Nov. 8-9). Presented Chymistry of Isaac Newton Project summary at the Eranos Annotation Meeting 2007, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

Workshops

1. Social Network Analysis. Introduction to methods and applications to the EUPRO database. February 16-18, 2016, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland. [link]

Teaching Experience

1. Instructor, Z656- Information Technology Standardization: Advanced XML (Fall, ’13)
2. Instructor, S532- Information Architecture for the Web (Spring ’13, Spring ’12, Fall, ’11)
3. Instructor, S604- Web Programming II (Fall, ’12) *
4. Instructor, S603 – PHP/Postgres Workshop (Summer II, ’11, Summer II, ’10,) *
5. Instructor, S604- Online Social Networking Sites (Summer I, ’11) *
6. Instructor, S517 – Web Programming (Spring ’11, Fall ’10)
7. Assistant Instructor, S604 – Digital Humanities (Spring ’11)
8. Assistant Instructor,  S603 – Introduction to GIS (Summer ’09)
   * indicates new course developed

Guest Lectures

1. Bowman, T.D. (2015, April 12). Impression management, altmtetrics, and #CreatorGate . Åbo Akademi, Turku, Finland.
2. Bowman, T.D. (2015, January 27). The Reward System of Science and Altmetrics in Academia Today. University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
3. Bowman, T.D. (2015, January 26). Self-Presentation in Academia Today: From Peer-Reviewed Publications to Social Media. University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
4. Bowman, T.D. (2012, January 12). Social Network Sites and Privacy. SLIS-S541 Information Policy, Bloomington, Indiana.
5. Bowman, T.D. (2011, Oct. 14). Introduction to XSLT. SLIS-S656 Information Technology Standardization, Bloomington, Indiana.
6. Bowman, T.D. (2011, Oct. 13). SQL Commands. SLIS-S511 Database Design, Bloomington, Indiana.
7. Bowman, T.D. (2011, Apr. 11). Search Engine Optimization. SLIS-S512 Information Systems Design, Bloomington, Indiana.
8. Bowman, T.D. (9:30am section, 2011, Jan. 27). CSS Introduction. SLIS-S532 Information Architecture for the Web, Bloomington, Indiana.
9. Bowman, T.D. (5:45pm section, 2011, Jan. 27). CSS Introduction. SLIS-S532 Information Architecture for the Web, Bloomington, Indiana.
10. Bowman, T.D. (2010, Oct. 18). Information Retrieval. SLIS-S510 Introduction to Information Science, Bloomington, Indiana.
11. Bowman, T.D.  (2009, Oct. 5). HCI research and ubiquitous computing. SLIS-S510 Introduction to Information Science, Bloomington, Indiana.
12. Bowman, T.D. & Hooper, W. (2008, Nov. 3). Chymistry of Isaac Newton Project presentation. SLIS-S656 Information Technology Standardization, Bloomington, Indiana.

Grants and Awards

1. Outstanding Poster Award, 15TH International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics, 2015
2. Margaret Griffin Coffin Fellowship, IU Department of Information and Library Science, School of Informatics and Computing, 2013-2014
3. Margaret I. Rufsvold Fellowship, IU Department of Information and Library Science, School of Informatics and Computing, 2010-2011
4. Margaret Griffin Coffin Fellowship, IU Department of Information and Library Science, School of Informatics and Computing, 2008-2009

Professional Service

Reviewer

• Aslib Journal of Information Management
• Digital Humanities Quarterly
• First Monday
• Graduate Journal of Social Science
• Information Research
• International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing
• Journal of Informetrics
• PLOS One
• SIG-SI 2012 best student paper award
• Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR ’12) at the 18th Americas Conference on Information Systems.
• Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR ’11) at the 17th Americas Conference on Information Systems.
• Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR ’10) at the 16th Americas Conference on Information Systems.

Organizations

• Member. Center for Research on Mediated Interaction, Department of Information and Library Science, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University (2008-Present).
• Member. Stonecutters Digital Humanities Group, Department of Information and Library Science, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University (2011-Present).

Volunteer

• 2017 ASIS&T SIG/MET Chair-elect, Cabinet Representative
• 2013-2015 ASIS&T SIG/MET Communications/Webmaster
• 2011 SLIS CareerCon Speaker. SLIS CareerCon 2011, Bloomington, IN (Oct 20, 2011)
• GPSO Awards Committee member. Graduate and Professional Student Organization Research Awards, Bloomington, IN (Spring, 2011; Spring, 2012)
• Student Volunteer. ASIS&T 2008 Annual Meeting, Columbus, Ohio (November, 2008)

Department of Information and Library Science, School of Informatics and Computing

• Ph.D. Representative, Curriculum Steering Committee (2011, 2012, 2013).
• Manager, SLIS Ph.D. Listserv (2011, 2012, 2013).

Professional Membership

• Member. American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)
• Member. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Member. Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)
• Member. Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH)
• Member. Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC)
• Member. Institute of Electrical and Electrical Engineering (IEEE)

Previous Employment

• Director of the Web, St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas (2001 – 2007)
• Usability Engineer/CEO, BowCor, Inc., Bloomington, Indiana (2000 – 2001)
• Web Master, Department of Information and Library Science, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University (2000 – 2001)
• Graduate Assistant, Halls of Residence Libraries, Indiana University (1999 – 2000)
• Usability Specialist, M3Studio, Inc., Bloomington, IN (1998-1999)