Barley’s research explores how individuals and groups use technology to construct and represent knowledge across technical and occupational boundaries. His fieldwork has led him to observe collaborative relationships in contexts such as applied atmospheric science, automobile design and engineering, children’s hospital emergency rooms, car enthusiast communities, service organizations, and couples driving together. Barley is currently a fellow at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications where he is studying the communicative challenges that technical experts face as they try to help apply “big data” techniques in disciplinary contexts where large-scale computational analytics have only just begun growing in popularity. See more at www.willbarley.com