Students of Facebook

From The Facebook Project Wiki

This is a short listing of Facebook researchers that have connected at one point or another to the Facebook Project.

Graduate Students

• Jeff Ginger - Library and Information Science & Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - ginger@illinois.edu
• Jenny Ryan - Anthropology, Wesleyan University - tunabananas@gmail.com
• Eric Gilbert - Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - @cs.uiuc.edu egilber2
• Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch - Communications, Penn State - anneo (at) psu (dot) edu
• Kelin Kitchener - English, University of Idaho - kelin.kitchener (at) vandals (dot) uidaho (dot) edu
• Joseph De Leo - Department of Psychology, University at Albany (SUNY) - "Problem Internet & Behavior Study" - jd798667@albany.edu
• Holly Teresi - Political Science, Georgia State - "impact (if any) that the level of political activism one's network has on their own political participation" - hteresi (at) yahoo
• Kelly Wherley - English, University of Toledo - kwherle (at) UTNet (dot) UToledo (dot) Edu
• Michael Kaplan - mike.h.kaplan (at) gmail
• Mim Plavin - Sociology, Brown - Facebook in the business world, "the organizational implications of sharing information via Facebook and linking (or not linking) to coworkers, bosses, how much blur there is at work between ‘typical’ work behavior and SNS behavior, etc" - miriam_plavin (at) brown (dot) edu
• Jennifer Park - English, UNC Chapel Hill - "popular culture and Facebook" - jmpark (at) email (dot) unc (dot) edu
• Munna Hoffmann-Jorgensen - Sociology, Aalborg, Denmark - "virtual socialization" - munnahoffmann (at) yahoo (dot) dk
• lailei huang - Computer Science, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China - xiaonei.com and other Facebook mimics - huanglailei (at) gmail
• Alex Lambert - Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - "privacy dangers of Facebook, particularly third-party applications" - alex (at) alexlambert (dot) com
• Basaveswara Preethi Dumpala - Journalism, New York University - "why people seem more comfortable Facebooking each other rather than picking up the phone, and why some have this compulsive need to snoop into friends, relatives or even strangers' Facebook pages" - bpd231 (at) nyu (dot) edu
• Salla Matilainen - University of Turku, Finland - "What is Facebook like as a medium and how/why is it a sign of the times? The spatial aspects of Facebook - evidence of place in an electronic space" - smatil (at) gmail
• Saba Alimadadi - University of Tehran, Iran - s.alimadadi (at) gmail
• Matthew J. Kushin - New Media, Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University -
• Adriana Gutierrez - Department of psychology, University of Puerto Rico - "Researcher at the Computer Mediated Communication Laboratory (CMCEP) Areas of interest self-presentation and gender at the Network society." - adriana (dot) gutierrez (at) uprrp (dot) edu
• Ekaterina Netchitailova - Sheffield Hallam University - "Facebook and everyday society, from a philosophical angle." - epetrovna (at) gmaill (dot) com
• Norah Tang - Communication Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago - "Interested in social networks in general" - wtang (at) uic (dot) edu
• Kimberly Byers - Human-Computer Interaction, University College London (University of London) - "Expressing emotional context with Status Updates" - kimbyers (at) gmail
• Hanniffa Patterson Université Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle '09, M1 Information and Communication - nicenav (at) hotmail (dot) com
• Kate Raynes-Goldie Curtin University of Technology, Australia - ethnographic study of 20 something Facebook users in Toronto, Canada, focusing on identity, privacy and communication - kate (at) k4t3 (dot) org
• Sandy Schumann - Psychology - taking a social psychological look at the group feature, intergroup aspects of Facebook, issues of social influence, stereotypes, prejudices and extreme political attitudes - schumann.sandy (at) gmail (dot) com
• Renato Galhardi - Sociology, FLASCO, Mexico Faculdad Latino Americano de Ciencias Sociales - Studying second generation mexican american presentation strategies of the Self in Facebook through the theories of symbolic interactionism, phenomenology and social psychology. http://www.wix.com/renowave/El-laberinto-teatral-de-espejos-digitalesrenato (dot) galhardi (at) gmail (dot) com
• Kirsty Bryant - Psychological Research Methods (MSc), the University of Nottingham (UK) - I'm looking to do an explorative study into young adults (aged 18-25) use of Facebook as a social and support function......... any advice would be great! - lwxkeb (at) nottingham (dot) ac (dot) uk
• Teresa Pulido - National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman - I'm studying information spread across social networks; now looking at real-world datasets like Facebook's - tecigurl (at) gmail (dot) com
• Tamlyn Ryan - Department of Sociology, University of York (UK) - Conducting PhD research looking at the ways in which psychic practitioners and mediums use the different features of Facebook. tr519 (at) york (dot) ac (dot) uk

PostDoc, Facebook Rockstars Etc.

• danah boyd - Researcher, Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at the Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society
• Fred Stutzman - Information and Library Science, UNC, Chapel Hill
• Laurie Bridges - Librarian, Oregon State University

Professors

• Nicole Ellison- Assistant Professor, Deptartment of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media, Michigan State University - nellison (at) msu (dot) edu
• Cliff Lampe - Assistant Professor, Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media, Michigan State University - lampecli (at the ole) msu (dot) edu
• Lori Kendall - Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - loriken (aaat) illinois (daaat) edu
• Zeynep Tufekci - Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology, University of Maryland, Baltimore