Dariusz Jemielniak (born 17 March 1975) is a professor of management at Kozminski University, faculty associate at the

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, and vice-president of

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. His interests revolve about social data science and collaborative society,

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projects (such as

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or F/LOSS), strategy of knowledge-intensive organizations,

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, and disinformation. In 2015, he was elected to the

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board of trustees and has served for three consecutive terms until 2025. In 2024

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appointed him to the board of

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Career

He is a graduate of VI Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Tadeusza Reytana w Warszawie and a 2000 ''

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'' graduate from the Faculty of Management,

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. In 2004, he earned a Ph.D. in management (as subfield of economics) from the Kozminski University, under the supervision of

Andrzej Koźmiński Andrzej Krzysztof Koźmiński (born 1 April 1941 in Warsaw, Poland) is a professor of management, the founder of Kozminski University (named after his late father, Leon Koźmiński), 1993–2011 the rector of this school, and currently its presid ...

. In 2014, he received his

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's title from the

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. He heads MINDS (Management in Networked and Digital Societies) department at Kozminski University. In 2019, he was elected to the Polish Academy of Sciences, as the youngest member in social sciences and humanities in history, and in 2022 he became its youngest vice-president. Since 2016 he is a faculty associate at the

. A

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at the

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(2004–2005)

(2007, 2015–2016, 2019–2020),

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(2008),

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(2011–2012),

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(2015–2016, 2019–2020),

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(2019), and others. Jemielniak received scholarships from, among others,

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(1998), Foundation for Polish Science (2000-2001),

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(2004), Kosciuszko Foundation (2007), as well as a scholarship for outstanding young scholars of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (2009), the academic scholarship from

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(2009), team award from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for didactic work (2009), individual award of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for his post-doctoral work (2010). He was awarded the Medal of the

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(2010) and the Mobility Plus scholarship from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (2011). In 2018, he received the bronze Cross of Merit. In 2015, he received the Dorothy Lee Award from Media Ecology Association. In 2016, he received the academic excellence award from the President of Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2020, he received the academic merit award from Polish Prime Minister. Since 2011, Jemielniak has been a non-paid member of the board of the Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw. Since 2002 he has been a non-paid program board member at Nida Foundation, supporting English education of teachers in small towns and villages. Since 2016, he has been supporting the Equality Parade (Warsaw) and has been the honorary committee member. In 1998–2004, he was an ED of

, one of several non-profits created by the

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to foster social sciences and humanities excellence in post-Soviet regions. He has researched and published books in the field of work-space studies about IT professionals and other

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. He has also published articles on organisational changes in higher education facilities and is an active participant in the debate on the reform of higher education in Poland. An experienced ethnographer and digital ethnographer, more recently he has been doing social data science, and advocating mixing digital ethnography with data science. He devised a mixed-method of Thick Big Data, described in a book published in 2020 by

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Wikimedia

Within the Wikimedia movement, Jemielniak is involved in the Polish Wikipedia, where he has served in various roles, including as an administrator, bureaucrat and check-user. He was also a steward for all Wikimedia projects. He is a member of the Polish chapter of Wikimedia, but has never held any roles or position in it. Dariusz has voiced his support for the enabling of paid editing of Wikipedia under certain constraints, and has been vocal about reducing the bureaucracy within projects. He is an advocate of wider involvement of women and academics in the Wikimedia movement, and the need to start actively promoting its use and development in academia. He has authored a book on the

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of Wikipedia, titled '' Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia'', following a period of research on identity and roles in

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projects, in the form of participating ethnography. The book was well received by critics and other scholars. More recently, he co-wrote a book about the collaborative society (2020, MIT Press), explaining seemingly unrelated phenomena such as

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, or the

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Business

From 2003 to 2015, he founded, developed, and sold ling.pl, the largest online dictionary in Poland. In 2013 he co-founded InstaLing, a free educational platform for language educators used by over 200 thousand people. Since 2016, he has been a board member and a vice-chair of Escola S.A., a public traded company developing mobile apps and one of 100 fastest growing companies according to Clutch and

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Hobbies

He is a

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blackbelt and an instructor.

Selected academic publications

* Jemielniak, Dariusz and Kociatkiewicz, Jerzy (ed.) (2008), ''Management Practices in High-tech Environments'', Hershey-New York: Information Science Reference, . * Jemielniak, Dariusz and Kociatkiewicz, Jerzy (ed.) (2009), ''Handbook of Research on Knowledge-Intensive Organizations'', Hershey-New York: Information Science Reference, . * Jemielniak, Dariusz (2012), ''The New Knowledge Workers'', Cheltenham, UK – Northampton, US:

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, . * Jemielniak, Dariusz and Marks, Abigail (ed.) (2012), ''Managing Dynamic Technology-Oriented Businesses: High-Tech Organizations and Workplaces'', Hershey-New York: Information Science Reference, . * Koźmiński, Andrzej K. and Jemielniak, Dariusz (2013) ''The New Principles of Management'', Frankfurt – New York – Oxford: Peter Lang, . * Koźmiński, Andrzej K., Jemielniak, Dariusz, Jendrych, Elżbieta, and Wiśniewska, Halina (2014) ''Management matters'', Warszawa:

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. * Jemielniak, Dariusz (ed.) (2014) ''Legal Professions at the Crossroads'', New York: Peter Lang . * Jemielniak, Dariusz (ed.) (2014) ''The Laws of the Knowledge Workplace'', Farnham – Burlington: Gower (Ashgate) . * Jemielniak, Dariusz (2014) ''Common Knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia'', Stanford:

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, . * Jemielniak, Dariusz (2020)'' Thick Big Data: Doing Digital Social Sciences'', Oxford:

. * Jemielniak, Dariusz and Przegalińska, Aleksandra (2020)'' Collaborative Society'', Cambridge, MA:

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. * Przegalińska, Aleksandra and Jemielniak, Dariusz (2023) ''Strategizing AI in Business and Education'', Cambridge:

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Notes and references

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jemielniak, Dariusz Polish sociologists Fellows of Collegium Invisibile 1975 births Living people Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees members Academic staff of Kozminski University Polish Wikimedians Wikipedia people