My research creates value for diverse groups including practitioners. See below.
| # | Research with/related to |
Research creates value for… | Value created by
research findings |
Publications since 2016 |
| 1 | Pregnant mothers in rural Appalachia in East Tennessee | Pregnant mothers in rural parts of developed countries | illustrating how pregnant women can fight the doctor-centric birth culture to exercise birth choices | Potnis & Halladay, 2018; Potnis & Halladay, 2022; Potnis & Halladay, 2021; Potnis et al., 2022 |
| Other vulnerable populations
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Guidance for building a local, affordable, timely, enduring, and reliable support system using social networking sites | |||
| Social networking companies | Prescription for alleviating information overload, hate speech, and misinformation on social networking sites | |||
| 2 | Students with disabilities in the US
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Students with disabilities | Realizing and mitigating the factors influencing the adoption of assistive technologies offered by academic institutes | Potnis & Mallary, 2021a; Potnis & Mallary, 2021b; Potnis, & Mallary, In Press |
| Administrators and staff of academic libraries
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Guidelines on (a) how to alleviate the service divide when serving disabled patrons using assistive technologies and (b) how to make more value-driven investments in assistive technologies and supporting infrastructure | |||
| Academic institutes | Identifying information-centric reorganization of 10 work practices to better serve patrons with disabilities | |||
| 3 | People earning less than $2 a day in developing countries
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People earning less than $2 a day
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A unified mobile, financial, and information literacy toolkit to alleviate poverty and the spread of the COVID-19 virus using mobile payments | Potnis & Gala, 2020a; Potnis & Gala, 2020b; Potnis & Gala, 2022
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| Public libraries and public librarians in developing countries | How can public libraries (a) rebrand themselves as a partner of governments for building cashless economies, (b) receive more government funding, and (c) better serve as anchors of local communities | |||
| 4 | Farmers in rural, remote parts of India | People experiencing the information divide | Guidance on how to build a community of practice (e.g., social mechanisms) to bridge the information divide | Chengalur-Smith et al., 2016; Chengalur-Smith et al., 2021 |
| 5 | Undergraduate students | Administrators and staff of academic libraries | Guidelines for academic libraries to address the underutilization of library spaces and electronic resources by patrons | Potnis et al., 2018a |
| e-Book publishers
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Guidelines for designing e-Books with better, student-centric features and interfaces | |||
| Academic institutes | Helping academic institutes address the barriers to using personal safety wearable devices by students for keeping campuses safer | Potnis et al., 2017b | ||
| Government agencies | Identifying and dealing with the spread of misinformation | Potnis et al., 2020 | ||
| 6 | Mobile money users in India | Government agencies | How to address the digital divide and financial divide through new policies | Potnis et al., 2019a |
| 7 | Hashtag users on social media | Vulnerable populations who use social media | How to effectively leverage hashtags for digital activism | Potnis & Tahamtan, 2021; Potnis et al., under review3 |
| 8 | Library and information science (LIS) students | LIS graduate programs around the world | A novel curriculum to train LIS students so that they can work as mobile technology consultants | Potnis et al., 2016b; Potnis & Allard, 2018 |
| 9 | Researchers interested in engaging with vulnerable populations | Junior researchers, doctoral students, and researchers in the West who are interested in conducting research studies with vulnerable populations in developing countries | Customized application of project management principles to manage the “backend” of LIS research projects
Guidelines for designing fieldwork around 10 types of vulnerabilities of study participants |
Potnis & Gala, 2020a; Potnis & Gala, 2020b |
| Institutes funding research projects with vulnerable populations | Criteria for evaluating projects involving vulnerable populations | |||
| 10 | Public libraries | Administrators and staff of public libraries | Best practices for managing innovations in public libraries | Potnis et al., 2021; Winberry & Potnis, 2021 |
| 11 | Young, social media users in developing countries | Youths in developing countries
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How to overcome the barriers to using social media for serving as a citizen journalist to fight corruption | Potnis et al., 2018b; Potnis et al., 2019b |
| US Diplomats | How to better engage with and help youths in developing countries for helping them fight corruption |