Faculty Profile

Ari Wigdor

Title
Assistant Professor
Department
Information Technology and Decision Sciences
College
College of Business

    

    

      


                          

            
Curriculum Vitae

            

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Education

            



  

  


  
PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2023. 
Major: Management
Degree Specialization: Information Systems
Dissertation Title: User Participation and Commitment in Online Communities: An Interactivity-Cost Framework
BBA, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2016. 
Major: Operations and Information Management
Degree Specialization: Intergrated Operations & Information Management





          

        
                

          
Current Scheduled Teaching*


          
No current or future courses scheduled.


          
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  Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of
  higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for
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Previous Scheduled Teaching*


            
                    

                    BCIS 5420.002, Foundations of Database Management Systems, Spring 2024 Syllabus
                    

                    BCIS 5420.006, Foundations of Database Management Systems, Spring 2024 Syllabus
                    

                    BCIS 5420.010, Foundations of Database Management Systems, Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    BCIS 5420.011, Foundations of Database Management Systems, Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT

          


          
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  Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of
  higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for
  undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.
  

        

      

    

  

  
  	

	

	  

		

		   
Published Publications



  

  
Published Intellectual Contributions


  
Abstracts and Proceedings
Wigdor, A. D., Kolotylo-Kulkarni, M., Maruping, L. M. (2020). On the positive and negative facets of online community involvement: The divergent effects of members’ psychological ownership. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems. https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2020/paperathon/paperathon/3
Conference Proceeding
Young, A. G., Wigdor, A. D. (2021). “Ideal speech” on Wikipedia: Balancing social marginalization risks and social inclusion benefits for individuals and groups. 2574-2584. Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/c3059314-47af-4ba2-aa18-ddd700200957/content
Wigdor, A. D., Hess, T. J., Zou, Y.  (2019). A review of knowledge contribution measurement in online communities. Americas Conference on Information Systems. https://aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=amcis2019
Young, A. G., Wigdor, A. D., Kane, G. C. (2018). Theorizing human and bot co-production effects on information quality. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems. https://aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1219&context=icis2018
Young, A. G., Wigdor, A. D., Kane, G. C. (2016). It’s not what you think: Gender bias in information about Fortune 1000 CEOs on Wikipedia. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems. https://aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1226&context=icis2016
Pettinico, G., Milne, G. R., Wigdor, A.  (2015). Exploring the quantification of self phenomenon in health and fitness: The perfect storm of technology, personal well-being and social media sharing. Association for Marketing and Health Care Research Conference. 
Journal Article
Young, A. G., Wigdor, A. D., Kane, G. C. (2020). The gender bias tug-of-war in a co-creation community: Core-periphery tension on Wikipedia. Journal of Management Information Systems. 37(4), 1047-1072. Taylor & Francis. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07421222.2020.1831773
Ortiz, J., Young, A., Myers, M. D., Bedeley, R. T., Carbaugh, D., Chughtai, H., Davidson, E., George, J., Gogan, J., Gordon, S., Grimshaw, E., Leidner, D. E., Pulver, M., Wigdor, A.  (2019). Giving voice to the voiceless: The use of digital technologies by marginalized groups. Communications of the Association for Information Systems. 45, 20-38.  Atlanta, GA: Association for Information Systems. https://aisel.aisnet.org/cais/vol45/iss1/2/



	
		
		
	  

	

	

  
    
	

	

	  

		

		   	
		
		
	  

	

	

	
	

  
  
  

  	

		

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  • Overall Summative Rating (median):
    
			This rating represents the combined responses of students to the four global summative items and is presented to provide an overall index of the class’s quality. Overall summative statements include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 5 = Excellent, 3 = Good, and 1= Very poor):
				
      
					
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			This rating combines student responses to several SPOT items relating to how academically challenging students found the course to be and how engaged they were. Challenge and Engagement Index items include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 7 = Much higher, 4 = Average, and 1 = Much lower):
				
      
					
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