Using Social Media and Online Community Data for Social Science Research Webinar

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Dr. Jeremy Foote is an Assistant Professor in the Brian Lamb School of Communication at Purdue University and member of the Community Data Science Collective, a group of computational social scientists working to understand online communities. Dr. Foote received his PhD in Media, Technology, and Society from the School of Communication at Northwestern University, and has published work in academic journals including Social Science Research and computer science conferences including Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).

His research interests focus on studying the processes that influence which communities gain attention and membership—why people start new communities, what pathways people take as they join and participate in different communities, etc. More broadly, Dr. Foote is interested in the conditions that promote cooperation, the social construction of understanding and knowledge, and how automated systems (algorithms, bots, etc.) influence the way social cognition happens. Dr. Foote frequently utilizes computational and statistical tools to analyze large datasets. In his most recently published paper, work by Dr. Foote and his colleague Sohyeon Hwang looks at on small Reddit communities and the processes by which they structure access to information and provide benefits unattainable from larger online groups.

You can read more about Dr. Jeremy Foote on his personal website here.