My research focuses on how people integrate diverse types of knowledge. From interdisciplinary collaborations in the NASA Astrobiology Institute and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, to social Q&A and music discovery communities, I've consistently found that experts matter, but people who do the invisible work of translation and connection matter more.
For a deeper dive, some selected publications (most are pdfs):
- Thanking the Algorithm: Discovering Prosocial Communities Through YouTube Music Recommendation Pathways
- Seven Words You Can't Say on Answerbag: Contested Terms and Conflict in a Social Q&A Community
- First-Mover Advantage in a Social Q&A Community
- The Hammer of Hawking: The Impact of Celebrity Scientists, the Intent of Extraterrestrials and the Public Perception of Astrobiology
- Social Q&A
- Redesign as an Act of Violence: Disrupted Interaction Patterns and the Fragmenting of a Social Q&A Community
- Microcollaborations in a Social Q&A Community
- When Online Communities Become Self-Aware
- Social Annotations in Digital Library Collections
- Seekers, Sloths and Social Reference: Homework Questions Submitted to a Question Answering Community
- Understanding the Rogue User
- Specialists and Synthesists in a Question Answering Community
- Imposing Structures: Narrative Analysis and the Design of Information Systems
A complete list can be found on my CV