AcaMako
As I mentioned recently, I’ve been writing summaries of academic articles I read over on AcaWiki. You should join me and write summaries of academic articles you read or help improve the summaries...
View ArticleBerkman Fellowship
Last week, the Berkman Center for Internet and Society announced it’s 2011-2012 list of fellows. I’m honored and excited that they elected to include me in a pretty incredible list of fellows, faculty...
View ArticleScience as Dance
The following selected bibliography showcases only a small portion of the academics who have demonstrated that while it may take two to tango, it only takes one to give a scholarly paper a silly cliche...
View ArticleAdvice for Prospective Doctoral Students
There is tons of advice on the Internet (e.g., on the academic blogs I read) for prospective doctoral students. I am very happy with my own graduate school choices but I feel that I basically got...
View ArticleWiki Conferencing
I am in Berlin for the Wikipedia Academy, a very cool hybrid free culture community plus refereed academic conference organized, in part, by Wikimedia Deutschland. On Friday, I was very excited to have...
View ArticleUser Innovation on NPR Radio
I was invited onto NPR in Boston this week for a segment on user innovation alongside Eric von Hippel (my advisor at MIT) and Carliss Baldwin from Harvard Business School. I talked about innovation...
View ArticleA Model of Free Software Success
Last week I helped organize the Open and User Innovation Conference at Harvard Business School. One of many interesting papers presented there was an essay on Institutional Change and Information...
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Heading West
This week, I accepted a job on the faculty of at the University of Washington Department of Communication. I’ve arranged for a post-doc during the 2013-2014 academic year which I will spend at UW as...
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The Cost of Collaboration for Code and Art
This post was written with Andrés Monroy-Hernández for the Follow the Crowd Research Blog. The post is a summary of a paper forthcoming in Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2013. You read also read...
View ArticleConversation on Freedom and Openness in Learning
On Monday, I was a visitor and guest speaker in a session on “Open Learning” in a class on Learning Creative Learning which aims to offer “a course for designers, technologists, and educators.” The...
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MIT LaTeX Stationery
The MIT graphic identity website provides downloadable stationery templates for letterhead and envelopes. They provide both Microsoft Word and LaTeX templates. But although they provide both black and...
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The Remixing Dilemma: The Trade-off Between Generativity and Originality
This post was written with Andrés Monroy-Hernández. It is a summary of a paper just published in American Behavioral Scientist. You can also read the full paper: The remixing dilemma: The trade-off...
View ArticleThe Cost of Inaccessibility at the Margins of Relevance
I use RSS feeds to keep up with academic journals. Because of an undocumented and unexpected feature (bug?) in my (otherwise wonderful) free software newsreader NewsBlur, many articles published over...
View ArticleLondon and Michigan
I’ll be spending the week after next (June 17-23) in London for the annual meeting of the International Communication Association where I’ll be presenting a paper. This will be my first ICA and I’m...
View ArticleJob Market Materials
Last year, I applied for academic, tenure track, jobs at several communication departments, information schools, and in HCI-focused computer science programs with a tradition of hiring social...
View ArticleThe Wikipedia Gender Gap Revisited
In a new paper, recently published in the open access journal PLOSONE, Aaron Shaw and I build on new research in survey methodology to describe a method for estimating bias in opt-in surveys of...
View ArticleDoctor of Philosophy
On Wednesday, I successfully defended my PhD dissertation in front of a ridiculously packed house at the MIT Media Lab. I am humbled by the support shown by the MIT Sloan, Media Lab, and Harvard...
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Community Data Science Workshops in Seattle
Photo from the Boston Python Workshop – a similar workshop run in Boston that has inspired and provided a template for the CDSW. On three Saturdays in April and May, I will be helping run three...
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Community Data Science Workshops Post-Mortem
Earlier this year, I helped plan and run the Community Data Science Workshops: a series of three (and a half) day-long workshops designed to help people learn basic programming and tools for data...
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Another Round of Community Data Science Workshops in Seattle
Pictures from the CDSW sessions in Spring 2014 I am helping coordinate three and a half day-long workshops in November for anyone interested in learning how to use programming and data science tools to...
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