| Angsana Techatassanasoontorn | |
| Thesis1 Title: | The state-based and regional contagion theories of technology diffusion |
| Thesis1 Year: | 2006 |
Angsana A. Techatassanasoontorn (Thai: อังสนา เตชะทัศนสุนทร (อัชชะกุลวิสุทธิ์)) is a New Zealand academic, and is Professor of Information Systems at the Auckland University of Technology, specialising in the social effects of, and attitudes towards, digital transformations and emerging technologies.
Techatassanasoontorn completed a Bachelor of Science in statistics at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, and a MSc degree in management information systems at Arizona State University. Techatassanasoontorn then worked as a lecturer at Thammasat University in Bankgkok, before completing by PhD titled The State-based and Regional Contagion Theories of Technology Diffusion at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota.[1] [2] Techatassanasoontorn then worked as an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University before joining the faculty of the Auckland University of Technology in 2011, rising to associate professor in 2015 and full professor in 2023.[3]
Techatassanasoontorn's research focus is the societal implications of emerging technologies. She is interested in accessibility and social inclusion, and the positive and negative effects of digital developments such as workplace automation.[4] She was the co-director of the World Internet Project, through the Work Research Institute at AUT, which was the New Zealand version of a multi-year global examination of internet access trends, how people use the internet and their attitudes towards it.[5]
Techatassanasoontorn has received research funding from the Association for Computing Machinery, Microsoft, the U.S. National Science Foundation, and Qualcomm. She is a senior editor on the board of the journal Information Systems Journal.[6]