Samuel Dodson (he/him/his)

For more information about my research and teaching, please visit my website.

• 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)

• 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

• 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

• 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.;
• Dodson, S. (2023, November 8–11). Roots of inequality in informal information sources: Growing more inclusive practices on Stack Exchange [Paper presentation]. Society for the Social Studies of Science, Honolulu, HI, United States.;
• Sinnamon, L., Dodson, S., Li, A., & Shahid, S. H. (2023, March 19–23). Search education: A critical information literacy approach [Workshop paper presentation]. Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, Austin, TX, United States.;