Robert M. Mason:
Professor, Information School.
Founder & Collaborator
Working at the intersection of information technologies, social values and ethics, and behavioral norms—particularly interested in how an emerging information ecology, linked through new social media platforms, enables and shapes knowledge work
rmmason@uw.edu
Jeff Hemsley:
PhD Candidate, Information School.
Founder & Collaborator
Information flows in social media
How social media may disrupt existing power structures
jhemsley@uw.edu
Web Site
Josef Eckert:
PhD Candidate, Geography.
Founder & Collaborator
Critical Geographies of Social Media
Exploring the becoming of space as it pertains to the use of social media by social movement activists.
jeckert1@uw.edu
Shawn Walker:
PhD Candidate, Information School.
Founder & Collaborator
Political participation, social media, e-government
What forms of participation and expression are enabled by social media
stw3@uw.edu
Karine Nahon:
Associate Professor, Information School
Collaborator
Investigating questions related to politics and policy of information in networks.
What are the dynamics of power between stakeholders in networks? And how information flows changes these power dynamics?
Karineb@uw.edu
http://eKarine.org
Jason Thatcher
Collaborator
Associate Professor, Information Systems, Clemson University/Academic Lead, Social Media Listening Center, Clemson University
Examines how trust and mindfulness affect online and offline IT-enabled behavior
How social media connects virtual organizing to real world political outcomes, and how analyzing social media can enrichen our understanding of civil society
jthatch@clemson.edu
Web Page, Cyberinstitute
Lance Bennet
Professor, Political Science
Ruddick C. Lawrence Professor of Communication
Director, Center for Communication and Civic Engagement
Working on ways in which communication processes structure social and political organization.
lbennett@u.washington.edu