Jennifer Gibbs

Jennifer Gibbs
Faculty Research Affiliate

Specialization

Jennifer Gibbs (Ph.D, Annenberg School of Communication at USC) is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on collaboration in global teams and other distributed work arrangements, as well as the affordances of new technologies such as social media for strategic communication practices. Her current projects include studies of: 1) social media and organizational knowledge sharing, 2) global virtual team collaboration, 3) social support and normative control in online communities, and 4) distraction and the role of new technologies.