City University London

Post-Doc, Sociology

Other Affiliations: Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Faculty of Humanities

Research Fellow

School of Social Sciences

Thesis Title: Organizing for collective action in the Social Web: capturing the emergence of Web-native Meta-Organizations

About

Research interests:
Interdisciplinary research. Joining Sociology, Sociology of Technology, Organizational Studies, Political Science, Communication Studies, New Media and Information Science around Web Studies.
Current research: (updated December 2011)
- Investigating cross-platform engagement in digital-native advocacy projects through APIs (methods: Webometrics, sentiment analysis, content analysis, interviews, digital ethnography).
- Organizational implications of information and communication in contemporary collective action. Co-evolution of technology and organizational forms.
- Public engagement and governance online; monitorial and data-rich citizenship, implications of transparency and publicity. Open data. Deliberation and disagreement in communication spaces.
- Online research methods, Webometrics, challenges and opportunities for social sciences online.

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