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=== Charles Kiene (University of Washington) ===

[[File:Ch2.jpg|thumb|200px|Charlie.]]

I am currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. I am advised by Professor Benjamin Mako Hill. As part of my doctoral research, I study organizational behavior of volunteer-based groups that manage communities in computer-mediated, online settings, such as Discord servers, subreddits, and MMORPG guilds. 

Topics include:

* Massive influxes of newcomers
* Technological change and adaption
* Organizational culture and conflicts
* Emergence and evolution of rules
* Turnover and division of labor

I use interviewing and ethnographic research methods for inductive qualitative studies of the groups that manage online communities. I also use computational social science methods (programming and maintaining automated web crawling software in SQL databases; machine learning; statistical modeling) for collecting and analyzing data as part of both descriptive and deductive research studies of online communities.


Details at [[User:Healspersecond]]
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