Students of Facebook

This is an incomplete listing of researchers that have studied Facebook and contacted or worked with this project between 2006 and 2009. Many affiliations below will be out of date.

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
• 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
• 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, ULB, Belgium - 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 - I'm looking to study second generation mexican americans as I believe that the internet allows for a greater complexity in how they shape their own identities, presentation, and deal with the dualities of migration, and nationality. In order to find some time for myself I decided to search for service that could supply me with the prime quality custom essays at prices that would be reasonable enough. On one hand, I believe that their presentations in Facebook will exagerate and underline their heritage, and on the other hand, I feel that they will represent the mundane elements of their environment which doesn't necessarily include national symbolic language. I want to see how these representations unfold, and find out what elements influence either representation. - renato (dot) galhardi (at) gmail (dot) com