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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 [...]

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