I am currently a postdoctoral research fellow at HEC Montreal. I completed my PhD at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia in 2021. I was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy for my dissertation, titled “The organizing visions of digital innovations: The case of Blockchain using the Twitter discourse.” I won three awards for my dissertation: Second Runner-up of the ACM SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation Award 2022, ACPHIS PhD Medal 2022, and QUT Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award 2021.
My thesis examines the community discourse on new digital technologies, which influences how they are adopted and diffused over time. It investigates the Blockchain discourse on Twitter using both computational and qualitative methods. The thesis presents a life cycle model that explains the different phases of the community discourse and an evolutionary process model that explains the underlying generative mechanism of how community ideas about a digital technology evolve. It also highlights the emerging role of social bots in the diffusion of new technologies. In doing so, the thesis shows the importance of social media for learning about new technologies.
Awards and Achievements
- ACM SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation Award 2022 – Second Runner-up
- ACPHIS PhD Medal 2022 (Best Australian PhD thesis in the discipline of Information Systems)
- QUT Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award (2021)
- International Conference on Information Systems Doctoral Consortium Participant (2019)
- Best Research Presentation at the QUT IS School Doctoral Consortium (2018, 2020)
Selected Publications
Amadoru, M., Fielt, E., and Kowalkiewicz, M. (2021) “Organizing Visions in the Digital World: The Case of the Blockchain Discourse on Twitter.” In Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Information Systems, Texas, USA, December 12-15.
Amadoru, M., Fielt, E., Kowalkiewicz, M., and Nayak, R. (2018) “Organizing visions in online social networks: The role of community heterogeneity and real-time engagement.” In Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Information Systems, San Francisco, USA, December 13-16.
Workshop Presentations
Amadoru, M., Fielt, E., Kowalkiewicz, M., and Miranda, S. (2022) “Setting the Digital Agenda of Emerging Digital Technologies through Social Media: The Role of Social Bots.” Paper presented at the Academy of Management CTO Paper Development Workshop, Seattle, USA, August 6.
Amadoru, M., Fielt, E., and Kowalkiewicz, M. (2019) “The Botification of Organizing Vision Discourse.” Paper presented at the 1st Information Systems Journal Workshop, Virtual, June 12. [Scimago Rank A* and AIS Basket of Eight List]
Invited Panels and Seminars
Panelist for PDW on Computational Methods for Theory Building, Academy of Management Conference (with N. Levina, S. Min, S. Miranda, S. Seidel, V. Fang He. H. Lifshitz-Assaf, A. Lindberg, B. Pentland, S. Sarker, E. Vaast, and Y. Yoo), Seattle, August 2022.
Research seminar on “Theory Building Using Computational Methods” at the Victoria University of Wellington, Virtual, April 2022. [https://www.slideshare.net/MalmiAmadoru/leveraging-computational-methods-for-theorizing-is-phenomena-251499978]
