Tara Zimmerman, Ph.D.

Contact

tzimmerman1@twu.edu
940-898-2609
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Biography

Tara Zimmerman is an Assistant Professor at Texas Woman's University's School of Library and Information Studies. In 2023 she was awarded the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Early Career Development research grant. Her goal is to develop a K-5 scaffolded curriculum to teach children about the dangers of misinformation as well as practical critical thinking skills to identify and address it. This curriculum would be taught by school librarians who have specialized training in information literacy and interact with students across all grade levels. Besides her focus on information literacy, Dr. Zimmerman is continuing to develop her Social Noise framework in the context of misinformation as well.

Education

Ph.D., Information Science, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
M.L.S., University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
B.A., Public Relations & Advertising, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

Latest Articles

A feeling for the data: How government and nonprofit stakeholders negotiate value conflicts in data science approaches to ending homelessness.
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (2022)
S. C. Slota, K.R. Fleischmann, M.K. Lee, S.R. Greenberg, I. Nigam

Misinformation and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy
Vaccine (2022)
Tara Zimmerman, Kristina Shiroma, Kenneth R. Fleischmann, Bo Xie, Nitin Verma

Trust in COVID-19 public health information
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (2022)
Nitin Verma, Kenneth R. Fleischmann, Box Xie, Min Kyung Lee, Tara Zimmerman

Default to truth in information behavior: A proposed framework for understanding vulnerability to deceptive information.
Information and Learning Sciences (2022)
Tara Zimmerman, Millicent Njeri, Malak Khader, Jeff Allen

Social Noise: The influence of observers on social media information behavior
Journal of Documentation (2022)
Tara Zimmerman

Chapters

Supporting Workforce Wisdom in a Global Economy
in Strategies for Attracting, Maintaining, and Balancing a Mature Workforce | IGI Global (2020)
Jeff Allen, Pamela Bracey, Mariya Aguilar, Tara Zimmerman

Professional Affiliations

• Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)
• Association for Library & Information Science Education (ALISE)

Honors & Awards

• College of Professional Education Above and Beyond Faculty Award, Texas Woman's University (2023)