Researchers
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Professors
Gabriella Coleman | Assitant Professor, Media, Culture, and Communication @ NYU
• Free Software, computer hacking/phreaking/trolling, political activism online, patient activism online
Nicole Ellison | Assistant Professor, Dept of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media @ Michigan State University
• Online social networking, social capital, Facebook, self-presentation, impression formation
Laura Forlano | Postdoctoral Associate, Human Computer Interaction Lab @ Cornell
• mobile work practices, community wireless networks, open innovation systems
Christine Hine | Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology @ University of Surrey
• Virtual ethnography, methodology, cyberscience
Henry Jenkins | Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism and Cinematic Arts @ USC
• Media theory, popular culture, fandoms, gaming, media literacy, digital media in the classroom
Scott MacLeod ~ Aphilo Aarde, here and in SL | Professor of Anthropology at World University & School, (founder) and in virtual worlds like Second Life
• Virtual ethnography, teaching in Second Life, Society and Information Technology, California, 1960s, virtual worlds, UNESCO World Heritage Sites
Howard Rheingold | Professor of Media and Communications @ Stanford and UC Berkeley
• Smart mobs, cooperation, virtual communities, digital media in the classroom
Clay Shirky | Adjunct Professor, Interactive Telecommunications Program @ NYU
• Open source culture, network economics, p2p politics, media and community, internet globalization
Mike Wesch | Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology @ Kansas State University
• YouTube, social media, digital ethnography
Barry Wellman | Professor, Department of Sociology @ University of Toronto
• Social networks, social support, virtual community, computer networks as social networks
Researchers
danah boyd | Microsoft Researcher
• Social media, youth culture, MySpace, identity
Mark Graham | Oxford Internet Institute research Fellow
• Internet Geography, Web 2.0, ICT4D, Digital Divide, Place and Cyberspace
Reid Cornwell CEO Research Director, The Center for Internet Research
• Social context of knowledge, Internet neologisms, social networks, philosophy of science, quantitative and qualitative methodology
Graduate Students
Morgan Leigh | PhD Candidate, University of Tasmania.
• Religion in virtual worlds, ethnography in Second Life, qualitative analysis.
Jeff Ginger | Graduate LIS Student
• Facebook, community informatics, digital literacy
Jenny Ryan | Graduate Communication Student
• Online social networking, digital ethnography, digital literacy, neotribalism
Fred Stutzman | Graduate Sociology Student
• Facebook, quantitative analysis, late adoption
Eric Gilbert | Graduate Computer Science Student
• Online social networking, HCI, social capital
Julian Hopkins | Graduate Social Anthropology Student
• Blogs, monetisation of blogs, Malaysia
Soraya Sacaan | Graduate Digital Communications Student
• Online Social Networking, Facebook, Twitter, blogs
Mary Theberge | Graduate Social/Cultural Anthropology Student
• Online environmentalism, blogging, digital ethnography
Mark Chen | Graduate Educational Technology/Learning Sciences Student
• Ethnographic accounts of collaboration and expertise development of World of Warcraft player groups, new media and learning
