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We're an interdisciplinary group | We're an interdisciplinary group at Carleton College, Northwestern University, Purdue University and the University of Washington. Faculty, postdocs, graduate students, affiliates, and alumni are listed below (in alphabetical order within each section) except when we've failed at alphabetizing. | ||
You can see pictures of all together over at our [[group photos]] page. Pictures of us individually are | You can see pictures of all together over at our [[group photos]] page. Pictures of us individually are here. | ||
We are a friendly group and we welcome new affiliates! If you have been working with us for a while, perhaps it's time to add yourself to this page as an affiliate. Feel free to add yourself (use the Edit tab) in the appropriate subsection organized alphabetically by last name, and please include a sentence on HOW you are related to the group (and a fun picture of yourself!). | We are a friendly group and we welcome new affiliates! If you have been working with us for a while, perhaps it's time to add yourself to this page as an affiliate. Feel free to add yourself (use the Edit tab) in the appropriate subsection organized alphabetically by last name, and please include a sentence on HOW you are related to the group (and a fun picture of yourself!). | ||
Shorter summaries of [[research interests]] are also available. | |||
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After contributing peer production communities in various ways since I was a teenager, I began to realize (the hard way) that | After contributing peer production communities in various ways since I was a teenager, I began to realize (the hard way) that peer production rarely works and that getting it to work remained much more art than science. After being talked into the idea that academia was the right place to fix this by [https://evhippel.mit.edu/ Eric von Hippel], I've devoted the last decade of my life to trying to contribute to an emerging science of Internet-based collaborative production. Since starting as an academic, I have published tens of thousand of [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103184 articles]—nearly all of them are [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L2768 the]. | ||
In the more boring accounting (which I've copied and pasted from elsewhere): I am an | In the more boring accounting (which I've copied and pasted from elsewhere): I am an Assistant Professor in the University of Washington Department of Communication and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the departments of Human-Centered Design and Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering. I am a member of Community Data Science Collective which I founded with Aaron Shaw. At UW, I am also Affiliate Faculty in the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, the eScience Institute, and the "Design Use Build" (DUB) group that supports research on on human computer interaction. I am also a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and an affiliate of the Institute of Quantitative Social Science at Harvard. | ||
Much more information is on [https://mako.cc/academic/ my academic homepage]. If you need to find me, I have put [https://mako.cc/contact/ more detailed contact information online] than I probably should. | Much more information is on [https://mako.cc/academic/ my academic homepage]. If you need to find me, I have put [https://mako.cc/contact/ more detailed contact information online] than I probably should. | ||
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=== Sneha Narayan (Carleton College) === | |||
[[File:Snehaphoto.jpg|thumb|200px|Sneha hanging out by Lake Michigan]] | |||
I'm an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at [https://www.carleton.edu/ Carleton College]. Before that, I did my PhD in the Technology and Social Behavior program at Northwestern University, advised by Aaron Shaw (whose bio you can find by scrolling up a couple of sections). I grew up in Bangalore, India, studied mathematics at Oberlin College, and received a masters degree in Sociology and Social Anthropology from Central European University, Budapest. | |||
I've spent many years living in housing co-ops, and volunteering on the boards of co-operative organizations. My involvement in the co-op movement led to my interest in learning more (and producing knowledge) about participatory, volunteer-run endeavors such as peer production projects and online collaboration communities. My research focuses on understanding how newcomers join and become embedded in volunteer-run organizations, and what kinds of technological interventions might affect their continued participation in these communities. For (slightly) more information about all this, you can check out my [http://www.snehanarayan.com/ homepage]. | |||
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=== Aaron Shaw (Northwestern University) === | === Aaron Shaw (Northwestern University) === | ||
[[File:Shaw-2017.jpg|thumb|250px|Airbrushed, filtered, and meitu'd purikura of Aaron from 2017]] | [[File:Shaw-2017.jpg|thumb|250px|Airbrushed, filtered, and meitu'd purikura of Aaron from 2017]] | ||
Hello! I'm Aaron (he/they). I grew up around New York and went to school for a while in northern California. Along the way, I got involved in participatory movements and projects of various kinds. At first, these were more traditional movements advancing egalitarian social agendas. Over time, I got involved in peer production projects, online communities, and other sorts of open collaboration online. | Hello! I'm Aaron (he/they). I grew up around New York and went to school for a while in northern California. Along the way, I got involved in participatory movements and projects of various kinds. At first, these were more traditional movements advancing egalitarian social agendas. Over time, I got involved in peer production projects, online communities, and other sorts of open collaboration online. | ||
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== Staff == | == Staff == | ||
=== | === Molly de Blanc (Northwestern University) === | ||
I do communications, outreach, and research support for CDSC. This means that, among other things, I think about how our work can help the communities we study and other online communities. My CDSC research is about how community values are embodied in policies and rules. | |||
Before joining CDSC, I worked in open education and free and open source software. I recently completed a degree in Bioethics from New York University. My work was on health care technologies, autonomy, and the tools we use to protect autonomy, including informed consent and privacy. My thesis was on Right-to-Repair and implanted medical devices. | |||
I spend most of my time reading, but sometimes bake bread, I write and play music, hang out with my cat, ride a bike, and swim. I wrote [https://techautonomy.org The Declaration of Digital Autonomy] with Karen Sandler. | |||
I | I can be reached at molly [dot] deblanc [at] northwestern [dot] edu. Feel free to address emails to "Molly," but if you insist on using a salutation "Mx." is fine. | ||
== Postdocs == | == Postdocs == | ||
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=== Nathan TeBlunthuis (University | === Nathan TeBlunthuis (Northwestern University) === | ||
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=== Kaylea Champion (University of Washington) === | |||
I (she/her) am investigating how organizations collaborate to build information public goods -- groovy things like Linux and Wikipedia. What gets made and maintained -- and what gets neglected? | |||
I | After growing up in Oregon, I spent two decades in Chicago, primarily at the University of Chicago as an academic technology director and consultant. I have a BA in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and an MS in Computer Science, both from the University of Chicago. I also hold an MA in Critical & Creative Thinking from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. | ||
I' | My husband, three kids, and I live in Shoreline, WA, which seems to be Seattle's version of Evanston. I'm particularly fond of visiting museums, tromping in the woods, cooking for crowds, smashing goblins, and scribbling fiction. | ||
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=== | === Regina Cheng (University of Washington) === | ||
[[File: | [[File:Regina hime.JPG|thumb|200px|Regina with her new feline best friend, [https://www.instagram.com/hime_theprincesscat/ Hime].]] | ||
I | I'm a PhD candidate in the Human-Centered Design and Engineering department at University of Washington, co-advised by Mako Hill and Jennifer Turns. I describe my research goal as to understand and support collaborative informal learning in online communities of creators. I am interested in studying how different types of collaborative activities (e.g. feedback exchange, collaborative sense-making) lead to different learning outcomes, and designing for more effective collaboration to facilitate learning. Right now I am especially interested in the domain of data science learning among non-technical population. | ||
Outside research, I like cats, drawing (mostly fanart these days), reading, cooking, hiking, hapkidoing, and preaching about my mother tongue, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangzhou_dialect Hangzhou dialect] | |||
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=== | === Carl Colglazier (Northwestern University) === | ||
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=== Stefania Druga (University of Washington) === | |||
[[File:Stef2019.jpg|thumb|200px|Stef in Summer of 2019, [//anoxic.me/huli Fancy].]] | |||
I'm a first-year Ph.D. student in the Information School at the University of Washington, co-advised by Jason Yip and Alexis Hiniker. I am the co-founder of Cognimates and HacKIDemia. My research focuses on how children interact with and make sense of the growing collection of “smart” inter-connected playthings in the world around them together with their parents. I am exploring how families, as they play with these new smart assistants and applications, develop new ways of thinking about intelligence, emotion, and social interaction. Based on these studies, I am designing new tools and activities to introduce families to machine learning and data science in a playful way. | |||
Outside research, I like climbing, dogs, reading, dancing and learning new languages. | |||
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Hi there! I am is a PhD | Hi there! I am is a PhD student in the [https://communication.northwestern.edu/programs/phd_media_technology_society Media, Technology and Society program ] at Northwestern Uni. Academically speaking, I am interested in the field of digital inequality, particularly as it relates to online labor markets and the gig economy. Outside academia, I love (cold water) swimming and rollerblading, and I spend way too much time on organizing two music & theater festivals in the Netherlands. | ||
Originally from the Netherlands, I first came to the US attend the [https://www.uwc.org/ United World College ] (Montezuma, NM), after which I pursued a BA in Sociology from [https://www.stlawu.edu/ St. Lawrence University ] (Canton, NY). During the pandemic, I worked remotely from the University of Zurich's [https://www.ikmz.uzh.ch/en/research/divisions/internet-use-and-society/team.html Internet & Society division]. For more background, see [https://www.floorfiers.com my website]. | Originally from the Netherlands, I first came to the US attend the [https://www.uwc.org/ United World College ] (Montezuma, NM), after which I pursued a BA in Sociology from [https://www.stlawu.edu/ St. Lawrence University ] (Canton, NY). During the pandemic, I worked remotely from the University of Zurich's [https://www.ikmz.uzh.ch/en/research/divisions/internet-use-and-society/team.html Internet & Society division]. For more background, see [https://www.floorfiers.com my website]. | ||
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=== Ryan Funkhouser (Purdue University) === | === Ryan Funkhouser (Purdue University) === | ||
Hey! My name is Ryan Funkhouser, I'm a first year PhD student in the Brian Lamb School of Communication at Purdue University, and I study conflict in communication across difference. In particular, I'm interested in using computational approaches to studying online communities and the ways in which they can foster discourse that reduces incivility and increases understanding across lines of ideological conflict. | Hey! My name is Ryan Funkhouser, I'm a first year PhD student in the Brian Lamb School of Communication at Purdue University, and I study conflict in communication across difference. In particular, I'm interested in using computational approaches to studying online communities and the ways in which they can foster discourse that reduces incivility and increases understanding across lines of ideological conflict. | ||
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I originally hail from the beautiful city of Bellingham in the PNW, a place which nurtured within me a love for mountains and long-distance trail running. While I am living a relatively mountain-less existence in West Lafayette, Indiana while at Purdue, I continue to find joy in running and finding the beauty in the midwest. When not running, you will likely me and my wife watching a good show or going for walks. | I originally hail from the beautiful city of Bellingham in the PNW, a place which nurtured within me a love for mountains and long-distance trail running. While I am living a relatively mountain-less existence in West Lafayette, Indiana while at Purdue, I continue to find joy in running and finding the beauty in the midwest. When not running, you will likely me and my wife watching a good show or going for walks. | ||
=== Emilia Gan (University of Washington) === | |||
[[File:EGan.jpg|200px|thumb|Emilia G.]] | |||
I'm a PhD candidate in the [https://www.cs.washington.edu/ Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering] at the University of Washington (Seattle). My research has involved analyzing data from the [https://scratch.mit.edu/ Scratch programming platform] (Link: [https://mako.cc/academic/gan_hill_dasgupta-gender_feedback_sharing-CSCW18.pdf paper]) and from [https://codeday.org/ CodeDay]. I am interested in factors that promote longterm participation in coding by newcomers to programming. | |||
Before starting graduate school in CS, I earned an MS ([https://globalhealth.washington.edu/education-training/phd-pathobiology Pathobiology]) from UW. I initially started learning how to program with the thought of using these skills for analyzing large biological data sets, but I eventually realized everything I was doing was pointing me away from biology and towards computer science. | |||
Before starting graduate school at UW, I homeschooled with my kids for over a decade, and before that I earned an MD from the [https://www.umassmed.edu/ University of Massachusetts Medical School] and a BS in Materials Science and Engineering from [https://dmse.mit.edu/ MIT]. | |||
[https://emilia.cloud/ Personal Website] | |||
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:' | === Wm Salt Hale (University of Washington) === | ||
[[File:Salt_Xmas.jpg|thumb|200px|Salt shedding the holiday cheer (2016)]] | |||
Growing up in Seattle during the early 90s offered many technological opportunities, most of which I took advantage of. As an avid GNU/Linux user for over 20 years, I have been exposed to numerous technology orientated communities on various levels. | |||
During high school I entered the Running Start program, completing an Associate's degree in Computer Science from South Seattle College. After which I transfered to the University of Washington, pursuing the same major. It was not a fit, instead I developed a number of businesses, traveled, and spoke at various conferences, conventions, events, faires, and festivals. | |||
Upon returning to the University of Washington to complete my Batchelor's degree in Communication, I connected with [[Mako]] and was shown a world of academia previously unimagined. After another year of traveling, I have decided to return to the UW Department of Comm yet again and am just beginning to delve deeper into the intersection of Technology and Society in the MA/PhD program. | |||
I am extremely interested in: Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) and Culture; Hackers, Makers, and Breakers; and Computer-Mediated Communication using real-time synchronous systems. Along with numerous hobbies including: urban hiking (walking), dancing (folk, east coast swing, lindy, blues), windsports (windsurfing, kiteboarding, sailing), bicycling, boffering, cooking, driving, event planning, gaming, programming, public speaking, reading, robotics, skiing, and travel. | |||
Up to date information and links to various profiles around the web can be found on ''my'' IndieWeb presence, [http://www.altsalt.net/ The Alt World of Salt]. | |||
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=== Sohyeon Hwang (Northwestern University) === | === Sohyeon Hwang (Northwestern University) === | ||
[[File:Sohyeonhwang.jpg|thumb|200px|Sohyeon and her dog-child, Tubby.]] | [[File:Sohyeonhwang.jpg|thumb|200px|Sohyeon and her dog-child, Tubby.]] | ||
I'm Sohyeon (she/they), a | I'm Sohyeon (she/they), a third-year PhD student in the Media, Technology, and Society program at Northwestern University, advised by Aaron Shaw. My research interests broadly circle around online governance, mostly around ideas of heterogeneity, scale, and polycentric + decentralized models. I focus on the complexities arising in governance, such as how online groups diversely interpret, innovate beyond, subvert, and co-opt socio-technical affordances to manage themselves. | ||
I am pretty methods-agnostic, doing both computational/quantitative approaches as well as qualitative work here and there. You can find more information at my [https://www.sohyeonhwang.com site]. | |||
Outside of work, I like to eat french fries (love poutine) and take (blurry but not by choice) film photos. | |||
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=== Dyuti Jha (Purdue university) === | === Dyuti Jha (Purdue university) === | ||
[[File:DS(1).png|thumb|200px|Dyuti when she used to have time to go out.]] | [[File:DS(1).png|thumb|200px|Dyuti when she used to have time to go out.]] | ||
Hi there! I am a | Hi there! I am a first year PhD student at the Lamb School at Purdue. Dr Jeremy Foote is my advisor. My interests sit at the intersection of sociology, political science, and communication My work has largely been qualitative in the past but I am interested to learn computational methods and use them to study political aggression and violence in online communities. I worked in the Indian nonprofit sector for five years before deciding to come back to academia. As I find my way around what other things interest me, you will see them here! | ||
Outside of work, I love playing my ukulele and singing, watching and | Outside of work, I love playing my ukulele and singing, watching and analysing trashy films from all over the world, and cooking. | ||
=== Charles Kiene (University of Washington) === | === Charles Kiene (University of Washington) === | ||
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Details at [[User:Healspersecond]] | Details at [[User:Healspersecond]] | ||
=== Nick Vincent (Northwestern University) === | |||
=== | My research focuses on studying the relationships between human-generated data and computing technologies to mitigate negative impacts of these technologies. I am especially interested in research that (1) makes people aware of the value of their data and (2) helps people leverage the value of their data. My work relates to concepts such as "data dignity", "data as labor", "data leverage", and "data dividends". | ||
[ | Here's my [https://www.nickmvincent.com website]! | ||
I am | === Yibin Fan (University of Washington) === | ||
Hi ;) I am a first year MA/PhD student in the Department of Communication at University of Washington. My graduate advisor is Professor Benjamin Mako Hill. My research interest is focued on digital group dynamics, and I am deeply curious about questions like how online communities connect and influence each other, or when and why group polarization forms. I am glad to include both quantitive and qualitative methods in my research, and also looking forward to learning more social scientific methods to see whether they make effects in different areas or topics. | |||
=== Kevin Ackermann (Northwestern University) === | |||
Hiiii! I'm Kevin. (∩`-´)⊃━☆゚.*・。゚ | |||
I'm a first year PhD Student in the Media, Technology and Society program at Northwestern University. I'm interested in studying impacts of commercialization on digital community space, historicizing platform governance conversations, and thinking about the political (and emotional) ramifications of quantification. In the past, my attempts to study these topics have largely revolved around studying dead computer networks of the 80s and 90s. Said another way, I'm interested in how communities form and falter online, and what it's like to be a part of one. | |||
I've spent years of my pre-PhD life honing archival methodology skills, so I'm a sucker for qualitative storytelling, but I hope to try out myriad methods in my graduate studies. There are so many ways to know things! | |||
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=== Serene Ong (Northwestern University) === | |||
I am a current junior at Northwestern studying Cognitive Science with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence as well as Psychology and minoring in Computer Science. I'm interested in understanding the motivations behind human decision making and why there tends to be consistent patterns of irrationality. I plan on entering the consulting field post graduation. Outside of school I like to crotchet, watch nature documentaries, and explore Chicago! | |||
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=== | === Donny Tou (Northwestern University) === | ||
Hi everyone! I'm Donny (he/him), a soon-to-be sophomore at Northwestern studying Social Policy and Economics with a certificate in Civic Engagement. I am fascinated by human organization – specifically how formal institutions through which to pursue cooperative action are born despite the unpredictability of human decision-making. I have some experience with projects focusing on participatory budgeting processes and qualitative policy research, and I'm hoping to further immerse myself in the quantitative component of the social sciences in the future. Outside of school, you'll probably find me longboarding or marveling at nature (or both!). | |||
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* Marlene Alanis, Northwestern University | |||
* Paz Baum, Northwestern University | |||
* Dylan Griffin, Northwestern University | |||
* Amy Guo, Northwestern University | |||
* Noah Hellyer, University of Washington | |||
* Joshua Hong, Northwestern University | |||
* Eric Rosin, Northwestern University | |||
* Davida Yalley, Northwestern University | |||
* Grace Zhu, Northwestern University | |||
* Carolyn Zou, Northwestern University | |||
* Emily Zou, Northwestern University | |||
=== Alums === | |||
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* Daryn McElroy, Northwestern University | |||
* Matthew Holleran-Meyer, Northwestern University | |||
* Gabrielle Alava, University of Washington | |||
* Hannah Yang, Northwestern University | |||
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You can find more about my work on my [https://unmad.in homepage]. | You can find more about my work on my [https://unmad.in homepage]. | ||
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=== Bastian Greshake Tzovaras ( | === Bastian Greshake Tzovaras (Center for Research & Interdisciplinarity, Université Paris Descartes) === | ||
[[File:BastianGreshakeTzovaras.jpg|200px|thumb|Bastian, being so old-timey that his beard has grown.]] | [[File:BastianGreshakeTzovaras.jpg|200px|thumb|Bastian, being so old-timey that his beard has grown.]] | ||
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=== Morten Warncke-Wang (Wikimedia Foundation) === | === Morten Warncke-Wang (Wikimedia Foundation) === | ||
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Also, I like bikes, nature, hiking, traveling, and sharing my life with beautiful people. | Also, I like bikes, nature, hiking, traveling, and sharing my life with beautiful people. | ||
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=== | === Sejal Khatri === | ||
[[File:Sejal_Khatri.jpg|thumb|200px|Sejal]] | |||
I recently graduated from the Information School at the University of Washington, Seattle. My specialization was in User Experience Research and Design in the Information Management program at iSchool. I did my undergrad in Computer Science at SPPU in Pune, India, and then interned for Wikimedia Foundation as a UX Engineer. My current research interests revolve around online communities, peer-production, and open source software. When I'm not working, I participate in design jams and hackathons where I get the opportunity to turn curiosities and concerns into design interventions. | |||
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=== Kat Walsh === | |||
[[File:katwalsh_purple.jpg|thumb|200px|Kat Walsh, with freshly purpled hair]] | |||
I'm a lawyer working in copyright, speech, policy, and nonprofit leadership around various Free and Open projects and communities, currently working with individual clients including Creative Commons. I got into open communities through volunteering for Wikimedia, first as an editor, then in community dispute resolution, and then as a board member for several years. I've also been on the board of the Free Software Foundation. | |||
I enjoy collaborating with academic researchers on work in peer production communities and their copyright/"intellectual property", dispute resolution, governance, and legal policy issues. I am located just north of San Francisco, where I enjoy playing my bassoon, viola, and occasionally some other things in a delightfully weird collection of musical groups, and lifting heavy objects for no particular reason. | |||
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=== Hong Qu === | |||
I'm a PhD candidate at the [https://www.networkscienceinstitute.org Network Science Institute] in Northeastern University. I try to analyze and understand how social networks facilite collective action, proprogate beliefs, and influence public opinion. For my Masters degree, I studied HCI and NLP with Professor Marti Hearst at UC Berkeley's School of Information, and developed a passion for user-centered design. | |||
Although I am working with a lot of graph data (and hairball visualizations), I really miss qualitative user research such as contextual inquiry and unstructured interviewers, and hope to conduct more mix methods studies as much as I can in the future. | |||
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When I'm not working on research, I'm probably riding my bike or planning a backpacking trip. You can find more about my research at my [http://jmaddock.net/ website]. | When I'm not working on research, I'm probably riding my bike or planning a backpacking trip. You can find more about my research at my [http://jmaddock.net/ website]. | ||
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