Dr Magda David Hercheui
Department: Business Information Management and Operations (BIMO)Location: Room M201, Marylebone
Contact:
+44 (0) 207911 5000 ext. 3033
m.hercheui@westminster.ac.uk
Education
MBCS
PGCertHE (LSE)
PhD (Information Systems) (LSE)
MSc New Media, Information and Society (LSE)
MBA (Finance)
BA (Economics)
BA (Journalism)
Background and expertise:
Magda joined WBS in 2008 after three years of teaching experience in Information Systems and Systems Development, at the London School of Economics. Magda is specialized in the project management of software development and in financial markets. She has 15 years of experience as a journalist and editor of financial services and ten years of experience in developing information services and related information systems to Brazilian financial markets.
Research interests and activities:
Magda is currently engaged in researching knowledge and information management about sustainability. She is particularly interested in understanding how organizations create, manage and diffuse information and knowledge related to sustainability and corporate social responsibility. Magda is currently the vice-chair of the Work Group ICT and Sustainable Development at IFIP (International Federation of Information Processing, TC 9 - WG 9.9). She is also researching social networks and virtual communities, and how they use Internet interfaces, including Web 2.0 solutions, in their interactions, being responsible for fostering the development of New Media Knowledge virtual communities using social media (forums, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, De.li.cio.us, Flickr and YouTube). Furthermore, she studies how organizational and institutional environments influence the social interactions in virtual spaces. Magda is also a member of the Centre for Business Information, Organisation and Process Management (BIOPoM).
Teaching responsibilities:
At WBS, Magda is a member of the teaching team in many courses, including Managing for Competitive Advantage, Project Management, Business Systems Analysis, Information Management, Systems and Databases, Managing Technology Services, Strategic Use of Information Systems, and Research Methods.
Selected publications:
- Hercheui, M.D. (2010). Review Handbook of Research on Socio-Technical Design and Social Networking Systems. International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development. (forthcoming).
- Hercheui, M.D. (2010). Review Network Communities: Strategies for Digital Collaboration. International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development, vol. 2 (1) (January-March).
- Hercheui, M.D. (2009). Virtual Communities and Democratic Debates: A Case Study on Institutional Influences. Proceedings 30th International Conference of Information Systems (ICIS), Phoenix, Arizona, USA, 14th-18th December 2009.
- Hercheui, M.D. (2009). Decision making in virtual communities: how conflictive institutions may influence the formation of parallel governance structures. Proceedings 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), San Francisco, California, USA, 6th-9th August 2009.
- Hercheui, M.D. (2009). When institutionalized behaviours create obstacles to democratic debate: analyzing the silence in Brazilian environmental-education virtual communities. Proceedings 3rd European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation (ECIME), University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 17th-18th September 2009.
- Hercheui, M.D. (2008). From democratic spaces to the electronic panopticon: a Foucauldian analysis on how virtual interactions may support disciplinary power. OASIS IFIP8.2 Workshop Programme, ICIS (International Conference in Information Systems) Ancillary Meeting.
- Hercheui, M.D. (2008). Governmental Policy for ICT diffusion and Leadership Legitimacy in Grassroots Movements. Proceedings of the 8th Conference Human Choice and Computers, Pretoria, 25-27 September 2008. Springer.
- Hercheui, M.D. (2007). An institutional analysis of governance structures: how institutional carriers influence decision making in Brazilian environmental-education Internet-mediated communities. PhD thesis at the London School of Economics. Available at the LSE Library.
- Hercheui, M.D. (2004). Social networks and the Internet: A study of Brazilian social movements that work with sustainable development. Master’s degree at the London School of Economics. Available at the LSE Media Department.