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Education and Training:
PhD, University of British Columbia, Library, Archival and Information Studies (2021)
MLIS, University of British Columbia, Library and Information Studies (2016)
BA, Lewis & Clark College, Computer Science and Psychology (2013)
Recent Publications:
Journal Articles:
Dodson, S., & Bartley, J. (2025). The paper behind the program: A documentary history of FORTRAN. Journal of Documentation, 81(7), 464–481. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-08-2025-0213
Dodson, S. (2025). Using genres for laboratory work, report writing, and design projects: Comparing second and fourth year undergraduate engineers. Information and Learning Sciences, 126(3/4), 173–191. https://doi.org/10.1108/ILS-03-2024-0031
Seo, K., Yoo, M., Dodson, S., & Jin, S.-H. (2025). Augmented teachers: K–12 teachers’ needs for artificial intelligence’s complementary role in personalized learning. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 57(4), 876–893. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/15391523.2024.2330525
Conference Proceedings:
Dodson, S., & Bartley, J. (2025). Paper work: The role of documents in the development and uptake of FORTRAN. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 62(1), 1428–1431. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.1425
Kim, H. J., Park, J., Jeon, H., Fels, S., Dodson, S., & Seo, K. (2025). Augmented educators and AI: Shaping the future of human-AI collaboration in learning. Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 769:1–769:6. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3706720
Recent Presentations:
Conferences:
Buljung, B., Vuletich, S., Cohen, A., & Dodson, S. (2026, June 1–6). Graduate student information behavior: Early findings from a multi-disciplinary literature review. [Poster presentation]. Information Seeking in Context Conference, Montréal, Canada.;
Dodson, S., & Buljung, B. (2026, August 17–19). Forces of documentality: Exploring the genre–task relationship in undergraduate physics education. [Paper presentation]. Annual Meeting of the Document Academy, Borås, Sweden.;
Dodson, S., & Buljung, B. (2026, June 1–6). A co-citation analysis of ISIC conference proceedings: Mapping foundational literature from 2004 to 2024. [Poster presentation]. Information Seeking in Context Conference, Montréal, Canada.;
Dodson, S., & Buljung, B. (2025, September 17–20). Flypaper: The documentation and documentality of model organisms. [Paper presentation]. Annual Meeting of the Document Academy, Berlin, Germany.;
Dodson, S. (2024, September 19–21). Genre stability amidst technological advancement: A comparative analysis of Fortran and Python programming language manuals [Paper presentation]. Document Academy, Philadelphia, PA, United States.;