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. (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
• Dodson, S. (2024). “Having just the right answer is almost as worthless as not having an answer”: Conceptualizing the information needs of emerging engineers. Journal of Documentation, 80(7), 246–266. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-01-2024-0003
• Dodson, S., Sinnamon, L., & Kopak, R. (2024). Mapping the relationship between genres and tasks: A study of undergraduate engineers. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24897
• Seo, K., Yoo, M., Dodson, S., & Jin, S.-H. (2024). Augmented teachers: K–12 teachers’ needs for artificial intelligence’s complementary role in personalized learning. Journal of Research on Technology in Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/15391523.2024.2330525
• Chopra, A., Mo, M., Dodson, S., Beschastnikh, I., Fels, S., & Yoon, D. (2021). “@alex, this fixes #9”: Analysis of referencing patterns in pull request discussions. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 5(CSCW2), 385:1–25. https://doi.org/10.1145/3479529

• Dodson, S. (2025). Genre knowledge: A metacognitive approach to exploring document practices in science. Information Research an International Electronic Journal, 30(CoLIS), 498–507. https://doi.org/10.47989/ir30CoLIS51931;
• Dodson, S., & Bartley, J. (2024). (Disrupting) continuities between eugenics and statistics: A critical study of regression analysis. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 61(1), 892–895. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.1131;
• Montiel, J., Moy, A. Q., & Dodson, S. (2024). Healthcare disparities in telemedicine access and use during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 61(1), 1036–1038. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.1178;
• Sinnamon, L., Dodson, S., Li, A., & Hina Shahid, S. (2024). Re-envisioning search education through a critical information literacy lens. Proceedings of the Association for Library and Information Science Education Annual Conference. https://doi.org/10.21900/j.alise.2024.1666;
• Dodson, S. (2023). Tracing information use over time: A comparative study of undergraduate engineers. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 60(1), 938–940. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.904;