Marc A. Smith is a sociologist specializing in the social organization of online communities and computer-mediated interaction. Smith leads the Connected Action consulting group and lives and works in Silicon…

Ben Shneiderman (www.cs.umd.edu/~ben) is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and founding director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (www.cs.umd.edu/hcil) at the University of Maryland. He was elected…

Itai Himelboim from the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia where he studies the role social media plays in news, political and international communication. He applies network…

Dr Wasim Ahmed obtained his PhD from the Information School at the University of Sheffield. He regularly contributes to the popular LSE Impact blog on social media software. Wasim has…

Jure Leskovec is assistant professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. His research focuses on mining large social and information networks. Problems he investigates are motivated by large scale data,…

As Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge (MSRC), Natasa Milic-Frayling sets research directions for the Integrated Systems group (http://research.microsoft.com/is), a cross-disciplinary team focused on design, prototyping and evaluation of information…

Derek L. Hansen is  an Assistant Professor at Brigham Young University's Information Technology program in the School of Technology (http://it.et.byu.edu/). Dr. Hansen completed his PhD from the University of Michigan’s School of Information…

Cody Dunne recently graduated with a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland Human Computer Interaction Lab. His research focuses on information visualization, specifically on improving the readability…

Brian Keegan is a computational social scientist and post-doctoral research fellow at Northeastern University. He received his PhD in 2012 from Northwestern University and his dissertation examined the history, structure,…

Dr. Ines Mergel is Assistant Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Her research focuses on how public sector organizations innovate…

Sorin Adam Matei, PhD, Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Education, Professor of Communication, Brian Lamb School of Communication, College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University. Educated at Annenberg School (USC),…

Scott Golder (@redlog) is a graduate student in Sociology at Cornell University. He was previously a researcher at HP Labs, and holds an A.B. in Linguistics with Computer Science from…

Karina Alexanyan received her PhD in Communications from Columbia University in 2012, with a focus on global social media networks. Karina has presented on social media networks at a number…

Vladimir Barash (@vlad43210) is a Senior Researcher and Engineer at Graphika. He has received his Ph.D. from Cornell University, where he studied with Michael Macy, Jon Kleinberg, and Claire Cardie.…

Bernie Hogan is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford. Bernie's work focuses on the process of networking, or maintaining connections with other people.…

Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues is an Assistant Professor of Informatics Engineering at the University of Porto, Portugal. Her research interests lie in the broad areas of data mining and web information…

Jana Diesner is an Assistant Professor at the iSchool at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She earned her PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, in the…

Howard T. Welser is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Ohio University, where he explores issues of social change and technology in courses on group processes, introduction to sociology, and…

Libby Hemphill (http://www.libbyh.com) is a Research Fellow at the University of Michigan where she explores the experiences of newcomers to established virtual organizations and the use of technologies in environmentally…

Gi Woong Yun (http://www.mediaresearchlab.org/giwoongyun/) is an associate professor at Telecommunications Department in the School of Media & Communication at Bowling Green State University. His research interest is online media. He works on social…

Han Woo Park is a Professor in the Department of Media & Communication, the Interdisciplinary Program of Digital Convergence Business, and Founder of the Cyber Emotions Research Institute at YeungNam…

Gihong Yi (@gihong) is interested in investigating the relationship between offline behavior and online content in explaining ordinary people’s everyday life, and has co-authored books including Understanding the Information Society (Korean,…

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Homero Gil de Zuñiga, Ph.D., holds a Ph.D. in Politics from the Universidad Europea de Madrid and a Ph.D. in Mass Communication from University of Wisconsin – Madison, Dr. Gil de Zúñiga…

Lise Getoor is a professor in the Computer Science Department at UC Santa Cruz. Her research areas include machine learning and reasoning under uncertainty, with an emphasis on graph and…

Aras Bozkurt is a researcher and faculty member in the Department of Distance Education at Anadolu University, Turkey. He has an MA and PhD in distance education. He conducts empirical…

Jacob Groshek, PhD, has had a long list of research appointments, which currently includes the endowed Ross Beach Chair of Emerging Media Research at Kansas State University. He also maintain…

Alan Shaw is a senior lecturer in Digital Marketing at Leeds Beckett University. His PhD looked at how social marketing could influence positive health behaviours in people living with diabetes.…