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Howard Rosenbaum is Associate Professor in the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University. His research interests include using a social informatics approach to study electronic commerce (particularly with the problem of trust), community networking, the history and development of the Internet and its implications for the information professions and managers and their uses of information in organizations. In addition to these interests, Dr. Rosenbaum is involved with an ongoing exploration of structuration theory. He has recently completed a book entitled "Understanding and Communicating Social informatics: A Framework for Studying and Teaching the Human Contexts of Information and Communication Technologies" with Steve Sawyer and the late Rob Kling. Dr. Rosenbaum holds a Ph.D. in Information Transfer from Syracuse University.