Associate Professor
College of Communications and Information Science
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
United States of America
Dr. Bonnici is an Associate Professor at The University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences. Her research is focused in two areas: information technologies for universal access as well as social media use in education and advocacy forums. Research methods expertise centers on interpretivist approach to investigate user interaction with information and communication technologies for information access. Employing a strong theoretical approach, theories applied include Innovation Diffusion, TAM, Social Support among other sociological approaches. She has served as an investigator on federal and state-funded grants. Dr. Bonnici holds a Master of Library Science degree from the University of South Florida (1996) and a Ph.D. in Information Science from Florida State University School of Information (2001). Dr. Bonnici's research focuses on the interpretation of non-verbal and physiognomic signals to discover disconnects in ICT use posed by physiological impairments, specifically in aging populations. Methods employ facial action coding of video-captured user behavior. In addition she also conducts research in the area of semiotics for e-communication as well as social media metrics for the academic environment.
