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OTHER CYBERSTUDIES SCHOLARS
Altman, Dennis
"Dennis Altman is a professor in the School of Sociology, Politics, and Anthropology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of numerous books, including Defying Gravity: A political life (1997) and Power and Community: Organizational and Cultural Responses to AIDS (1994), and journal articles."
Brammer, Leila R.
Cornfield, Michael
"Research areas: campaigns for elective office, political advocacy/grassroots campaigns, political journalism, Congress, citizenship/civic life, voting/elections Michael Cornfield, a political scientist, studies campaign politics, the public discourse, and the Internet. He is the author of two books on the subject: Politics Moves Online: Campaigning and the Internet (The Century Foundation, 2004) and The Civic Web: Online Politics and Democratic Values, co-edited with David M. Anderson (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003). Cornfield writes a monthly column for Campaigns and Elections magazine, the leading trade publication for professional politicians. He is interviewed frequently about online politics by the press, and has lectured on the subject at colleges, universities, and professional conventions throughout the world. Cornfield is an Adjunct Professor at The Graduate School of Political Management (GSPM) of The George Washington University, where he has taught the core course on strategy and message development since 1994. While at the GSPM fulltime, he helped found its Semester in Washington Program for undergraduates, and its Institute for Politics, Democracy, & the Internet. Cornfield received his B.A. from Pomona College and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Before coming to The George Washington University, he taught at the University of Virginia and the College of William and Mary. He lives with his wife Kathryn Mimberg and son Matthew in Arlington, Virginia. "
Danet, Brenda
"I'm a sociologist and communication scholar specializing in research about language, culture and communication on the Internet. In October 2000 I retired early as Professor of Sociology and Communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and since then have been affiliated with Yale University. As of October 2003, I am a Research Affiliate in Anthropology at Yale University. In 2001 I published a book called Cyberpl@y: Communicating Online (Berg, Oxford). "
Fallows, Deborah
"Research areas: Email, Spam, and Everyday life on the Web Deb worked most recently at Oxygen Media, where she was Director of Data Architecture. She has a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin and an A.B. from Harvard. Deb has written many pieces about education, health, families and work, and travel for The Atlantic Monthly, National Geographic, The LA Times Magazine, Newsweek, US New & World Report, The Washington Post and The Washington Monthly. Her book, A Mother's Work, was published by Houghton-Mifflin. Deb also worked at Georgetown University as Assistant Dean for the School of Languages and Linguistics and as Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions. "
Fenichel, Michael
"MICHAEL FENICHEL, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist with a decade of experience and practice with psychotherapy and the study of "person-therapy fit". An adjunct professor at 3 New York City universities, Dr. Fenichel has a private clinical practice, works with adolescents in a variety of school settings, and supervises clinical and school psychology students. Currently the President of the NY State Psychological Association's School Psychology Division, "Dr. Mike" works closely in developing and presenting materials for adolescents, and for mental health professionals studying violence and its prevention. In recent years he has turned to the Internet for presenting and researching such phenomenon as "online addictions", the study of psychology, and the treatment of learning and emotional disorders. He is one of the founding members of ISMHO, and is on its executive board. Dr. Fenichel's award-winning website, "Current Topics in Psychology" is at http://www.fenichel.com/Current.shtml." (http://www.behavior.net/chatevents/chat991024.html)
Hammond, Nick
"Department of Psychology, University of Hull "
Haythornwaite, Caroline
"Caroline Haythornthwaite (http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/gslis/people/faculty/haythorn.html) is an Assistant Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Her research uses a social network approach for the study of information exchange via computer media, examining who communicates with whom about what and via which media. Previous studies have examined information exchange among members of an academic research group; current research examines information exchange and development of community among distance learners. Recent publications include 'Social network analysis: An approach and technique for the study of information exchange.' (1996) Library and Information Science Research, 18, 323-342; 'Studying online social networks.' (1997), with Laura Garton and Barry Wellman, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 3(1), (http://207.201.161.120/jcmc/vol3/issue1/garton.html); and 'Work, friendship and media use for information exchange in a networked organization' (forthcoming) with Barry Wellman, Journal of the American Society for Information Science. "
Horrigan, John
"Research Areas: social and economic impact of Internet on communities and cities, broadband trends and impacts, adoption of new technologies, and online communities. "
Jones, Steven
"Research areas: College Students, College Students and Gaming, Communities, Copyright, Education, Intellectual Property, Internet in Daily Life, Music, Seniors, Technology Consumption, Teens, Terrorism, Workplace "
King, Storm A.
"STORM A. KING, M.S. is a doctoral candidate in a clinical psychology program. He has been researching the value of online self help groups for several years His dissertation in progress is "The therapeutic value of virtual self-help groups," a corralational study investigating the therapeutic value perceived by members of email groups that function as self-help groups. He has been quoted as an expert on Internet addiction or on the value of online self-help groups in the following major media publications; Newsweek, The Chicago Sun Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Home PC, Fox News Online and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He created and maintain a web site that lists resources for researchers interested in researching the psychology of virtual communities at Stormsite. He is the current president of The International Society for Mental Health Online. His CV may be viewed at http://webpages.charter.net/stormking/cv/. His articles about internet addiction include "Is the Internet Addictive, or Are Addicts Using the Internet?", "Internet gambling and pornography: illustrative examples of the psychological consequences of communication anarchy", and "Compulsive Internet Gambling: A New Form of an Old Clinical Pathology"." (http://www.behavior.net/chatevents/chat991024.html)
Kollock, Peter
"My research focuses on cooperation and exchange. I study a wide range of situations in which group members gain by cooperating but where a temptation to behave selfishly exists, examining the factors that encourage or discourage the emergence of cooperation, community, and trade. I also study the social aspects of formal and informal markets. My research methods include experiments, fieldwork, and computer simulations. My recent work has concentrated on studies of online communities and markets."
Lenhart, Amanda
"Research Areas: children, teens, parents and the Internet, the digital divide, education, content creation, blogging, instant messaging. "
Macartney, Patrick
"My interests in cyberspace and the net are wide and varied. I teach a module which covers issues as diverse as cyber pschology,cyber sociology, chatrooma and online interaction (email and messengers), censorship, control of internet issues and cyber identies. This new medium is fasinating to both academics and the general public. The topic CMC (computor mediated Communication ) changes so fast is hard to keep up! Its interesting that 4 years ago students submitted very little work on this section of the course, the numbers are growing quickly! The media tends to cover the darker side of the internet ,mainly pornography and violence, hate groups and child abusers, the questions we have to ask is whats really going on behind the headlines. As a social scientist its important to get to somewhere near the truth and cyber research, or research into cyberspace (I am conducting my own at present) is important in this area.Its not an easy task, the methods used consist of online questionnaires (see my attitude survey below) or ethnographic studies. where the individual takes part in chat etc to discover what is really happening.(see the cybersociology online magazine below) "
Oehlmann, Ruediger
"ESRC Data Archive, University of Essex "
Plant, Richard R.
"Department of Psychology, University of York,"
Quarterman, John S.
"John S. Quarterman wrote The Matrix, a comprehensive book on the history, technology, and people of computer networks worldwide, as well as six other books. He writes and speaks extensively, for example at the Next Generation Networks conference in October 2002 in Boston and at the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference in Virginia in September. He presented at the workshop in March 2002 in DC on the Internet under Crisis Conditions by the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Many of his texts are collected in Matrix News. which he started in 1991; it was the earliest continuing commercial newsletter published over the Internet. Quarterman published the first maps of the whole Internet; conducted the first Internet Demographic Survey and started the first continuing series of performance data about the entire Internet in 1993, on the web since 1995 in the Internet Weather Report, and also visible as Internet Average, plus comparisons of ISPs visible as ISP Ratings. "
Rainie, Lee
"Lee Rainie is the former managing editor of U.S. News & World Report. During his 12 years at the magazine, he edited in several departments including the magazine's online operations, its national news section, and its culture and trends section. Over the years, eight of the stories or special editions of the magazine that he edited were finalists for the National Magazine Award, the magazine industry's equivalent of daily journalism's Pulitzer Prize, and other stories he has overseen have won the top prizes for education, science, health, environmental, and religious coverage. He has appeared on numerous television news shows as an analyst and commentator on national affairs, including ABC-TV's "Nightline," CBS-TV's "48 Hours" and "Face the Nation," NBC-TV's "Meet the Press," each of the network's morning shows, and a variety of news and feature programs on cable TV. "
Rheingold, Howard
Rodman, Gilbert B.
"Research interests: Cultural studies, Media studies, The study of popular culture (especially popular music, cyberspace, television, and film), Cultural diversity (especially the social construction of race), Cyberculture and new communication technologies "
Rosenwein, Robert E.
"Personal Information: I graduated from the University of Michigan's joint program in Psychlogy and Sociology in 1970. I started my scholary career interested in social interaction and emotional communication in classroom settings. My love affair with psychodynamic perspectives has cooled but never died. How I got from there to the social psychology of scientific controversy, with side interests in relational development in cyberspace and popular culture (music and television talk shows) is a long story that I'd be happy to relate to specific individuals who contact me. At present, I'm a Professor of Social Psychology in the department of Sociology and Anthropology at Lehigh University. Research Areas: communication, sociology of science, popular culture Teaching Areas: small groups, human communication, research methods, politics of science "
Rostron, Andrew
"Department of Psychology, University of Hull "
Senft, Theresa M.
"Theresa M. Senft is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University, focusing on gender and technology. She is currently completing a dissertation, to be published in 2001 by Peter Lang, on the female Web-camera 'stars' who have inspired films like The Truman Show. Terri's co-authored History of the Internet,1843-Present won an American Library Association citation as one of the best reference books of 1999, and her co-edited Sexuality & Cyberspace is currently assigned in over 50 universities. Terri has published essays in The New York Times, The Village Voice, and other mainstream press venues. She has appeared on National Public Radio and was recently profiled in Lingua Franca Magazine."
Slater, Don
"Don Slater joined the LSE as a Reader in Sociology in January 2001. After taking his BA and Ph.D from Cambridge (Social and Political Sciences) and spending several years in publishing, photography and community arts, he taught in the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, from 1987 till 2001. Don Slater's work focuses on the relations between culture and economy, and falls into three broad areas: the sociology of economic life (in particular, consumer culture and market society); the sociology of the Internet and new media; and visual sociology (particularly photography and advertising). This work has been informed by a commitment to empirical (particularly ethnographic) research, to historical research, to critical traditions within modern social theory, and to interdisciplinary study and collaboration. "
Smith, Mark A.
"I am a graduate student in the UCLA Department of Sociology. I specialize in the sociology of cyberspace. In particular I am interested in the emergence of social organizations like communities in online environments. "
Spooner, Tom
"Research Areas: use of the Internet by minority groups, e-Government issues, Internet and high-technology policymaking, and "The Dark Side" of the Internet. Tom comes to the Project from the State Department, where he was a Presidential Management Intern in the Bureau of Legislative Affairs. Prior to that, he obtained his Master's in Southeast Asia studies and International Economics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. When not at the office, Tom is coaching high school rowing. "
Stern, Steven E.
"STEVEN E. STERN, Ph.D. in Social/ Organizational Psychology Temple University, 1995, M.A. 1992, Temple University, B.A. 1988 (Psychology and History) Clark University. A student of the late David Kipnis, Steven Stern has spent much of his career studying various ways in which technology shapes social interaction. He has examined how the use of automated technology influences self-perception and the perceptions of others. He is presently researching how computer synthesized speech is perceived in both disabled and non-disabled users. His interest in computer-mediated ommunication dates back to his development of the Lost Email Method, an adaptation of Milgram's Lost Letter Technique. He teaches at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown and is a consulting editor of Behavior Research Methods, Instruments and Computers." (http://www.behavior.net/chatevents/chat991024.html)
Stevenson, Will
"School of Psychology, University of Cardiff "
Strangelove, Michael
Suler, John
"JOHN SULER, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at Rider University and a practicing clinical psychologist. His online hypertext book The Psychology of Cyberspace (http://www.rider.edu/users/suler/psycyber/psycyber.html) describes the results of his ongoing research on how individuals and groups behave in cyberspace. His work has been reported by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the BBC, the Chicago Sun Times, CNN, MSNBC, and US News and World Report, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He is consulting editor for Behavior Online, a member of the editorial board of CyberPsychology and Behavior, an executive member of the International Society of Mental Health Online, editor of The Contemporary Media Forum for The Journal of Applied Psychoanalysis, and staff writer for Cybertowers Self-Help and Psychology Magazine." (http://www.behavior.net/chatevents/chat991024.html)
Thomas, Sue
"I am not an anthropologist myself but I am very interested in online society and have been working in online communities for ten years. I recently published a book about online life Hello World: travels in virtuality http://www.rawnervebooks.co.uk/helloworld.html There is also a blog at http://travelsinvirtuality.typepad.com/"
Trapp, Annie
"Department of Psychology, University of York"
Turkle, Sherry
"Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT and the founder (2001) and current director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, a center of research and reflection on the evolving connections between people and artifacts in the co-construction of identity http://web.mit.edu/sturkle/techself. The Initiative looks at a range of technologies including robotics, psychopharmacology, video games, and simulation software and their effects on human development.
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