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Dr

Stefanie Havelka

Lect/Assist Prof in (MIS)

School of Information and Communication Studies

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  • Lect/Assist Prof in (MIS)
    School of Information and Communication Studies
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  • University College Dublin, School of Information and Communication Studies, Newman Building Belfield Dublin 4

BIO

Dr. Stefanie Havelka is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin in Ireland. Previously, she was the Web and Mobile Services Librarian, Assistant Professor at Lehman College, The City University of New York, and the Information Technology Manager at the Goethe-Institut New York.

Her research focuses on human-computer interaction, specifically addressing privacy and security within ubiquitous computing environments. She also explores digital literacies, including artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI literacy. She is committed to advancing equity, diversity, accessibility, and inclusion in Library and Information Science (LIS) theory and practice. Her work engages with critical librarianship, examines the impact of AI on higher education and the LIS field, and investigates the role of metadata in knowledge organization.

She has published articles on mobile privacy, apps, behavior, information literacy, and Universal Design for Learning.

One of her recent publications investigated and compared mobile privacy behavior and attitudes of library and information science students from Germany and the USA. The study discovered and discerned different mobile privacy typologies. These typologies, ranging from “mobile privacy objection” to “mobile privacy learned helplessness,” reveal how they similarly impact German and American students’ privacy behavior and attitude.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN APPOINTMENTS

  • Teaching Fellow
    University College Dublin, Information and Communication Studies, Dublin, Ireland1 Nov 2021 - 31 Jul 2023

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Web and Mobile Service Librarian/Assistant Professor
    Lehman College, Library, New York, United States1 Mar 2016 - 31 Jan 2018
  • Electronic Resources-Web Services Librarian/Assistant Professor
    Lehman College, Library, New York, United States1 Oct 2009 - 29 Feb 2016

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Information Technology Manager
    Goethe Institute New York, New York, United States2 Sep 2002 - 30 Apr 2009

DEGREES

  • BSc
    Stuttgart Media University
  • Certificate
    Syracuse University NY
  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
    Humboldt Univ. Berlin DE
  • MComm
    Rutgers State Univ of New Jers
  • MSc
    Syracuse University NY

LANGUAGES

  • German
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review