Michael J. Ahn is an assistant professor in the department of public policy and public affairs at the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at University of Massachusetts Boston. The primary focus of Ahn’s research is exploring the effects of Information Technology on government performance, accountability and political dynamics. Ahn has examined how e-government can be strategically used to enhance the political control over government bureaucracy and provide a leverage for the executive bureaucracy against the legislature, how the changing information environment from texts-based communication to image and video-based communication (such as YouTube) affect the communication and implementation of public policies, and how “political outsiders” (governors) in the state government pursue Web 2.0 applications more actively than those who are “insiders.”