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iConference 2011 Wiki roles paper awarded best paper – University of Washington, Seattle, WA

April 24th, 2011 · 3 Comments

http://www.ischools.org/iConference11/2011index/ Our paper, Finding Social Roles in Wikipedia, about the variety of roles people perform in Wikis received the best paper award (along with 4 others) in a field of 86 papers. The 2011 iConference accepted 86 papers, and had about 550 attendees. The paper is authored by: Howard T. Welser at Ohio University, [...]

Sociology of the Internet Awards from CITASA – The Communications and Information Technology section of the American Sociological Association

May 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment

This year’s CITASA awards have been announced! CITASA is the Communications and Information Technology section of the American Sociological Association. It gathers together more than 300 sociologists interested in the ways groups of people make use of computation and networks. This year the line up is uniformly high quality scholarship about the nature of societies [...]

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Best paper at HICSS-42! A Conceptual and Operational Definition of “Social Role” in Online Community

February 2nd, 2009 · 5 Comments

A shout out to my co-authors Eric Gleave, Howard (“Ted”) Welser, and Tom Lento – our paper “A conceptual and operational definition of “Social Role” in Online Community” got the best paper award at HICSS-42! The Hawaii International Conference of System Sciences has featured a great series of mini tracks over the years. The Persistent [...]