2016 Social Media Lab Visiting Scholars
The Toronto Metropolitan Social Media Lab at Ted Rogers School of Management is pleased to announce the the appointment of five leading and emerging social media researchers as Visiting Scholars for 2016. The recipients were selected for this award through a competitive process. During their time in residence, the Visiting Scholars will have an opportunity to further their own research, as well as develop and complete a collaborative research project with members of the Lab. The scholars will also be invited to join ongoing research discussions at the Lab and will be connected to the Lab’s international network of social media researchers. To learn more about this year’s cohort, please follow the links below.
We wish to congratulate the following recipients:
- Conor GaughanVisiting PhD StudentPhD student in the School of Economic, Social, and Political Sciences at the University of Southampton, UK
- K. Hazel KwonResearch CollaboratorAssistant Professor, School of Social & Behavioral Sciences and in-coming Faculty at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication | Arizona State University, USA | Project: Swearing Contagion in Social Read More.
- Bree McEwanResearch CollaboratorAssociate Professor, Communication, DePaul University, USA | Project: Developing measures to assess the “strength of weak ties” in online social networks.
- Dr. Raquel RecueroResearch CollaboratorAssociate Professor at the Communication and Linguistics Department at Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPEL/Brazil) and at the Post Graduate program of Communication and Information at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande Read More.
- Laurie BonniciVisiting Scholar 2018Associate Professor, University of Alabama | Project: Social Media & Health
- Irfan ChaudhryResearch CollaboratorPhD student Dept. of Sociology, University of Alberta | Instructor, MacEwan University, Edmonton, Canada | PROJECT: #HateOnline: Using social media to examine discourses of racism and xenophobia online
- Olga BoichakVisiting Scholar 2018Ph.D. Candidate at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs doctoral program in Social Science (Syracuse University) | Project: Examining the Ukrainian diaspora on Facebook to understand what motivates Read More.
- Lina M. Gomez VasquezVisiting Scholar 2017Assistant Professor, the School of Social and Human Sciences, Universidad del Este, Puerto Rico. | Project: How #hcsm healtcare community uses Instagram and Twitter to communicate with each other and with the public.
- Barry WellmanDistinguished Visiting Scholar 2017-18Netlab Network | Founder of International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA) | Professor(ret.) – Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Canada
- Mark KleinVisiting Scholar 2016Principal Research Scientist, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence; Research Scientist, University of Zurich | Project: Using Crowd-Sourced Deliberation Mapping to Enable More Powerful Social Media Analytics
- Celine Yunya SongVisiting Scholar 2016Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong | Project: A Longitudinal Study of Discussion Networks on Weibo: Polarized Opinions on Genetically-Modified Food
- Staci ZavattaroVisiting Scholar 2016Associate Professor, College of Health and Public Affairs, University of Central Florida, USA | Project: University Use of Social Media: Communicating the Brand Identity
- Anne SuphanVisiting Scholar 2018Research Associate at the Institute for Law and Social Sciences at the University of Honenheim, Germany.
About the Social Media Lab Visiting Scholars Program
The Visiting Scholar Program at the Ted Rogers School of Management at TORONTO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY provides a unique opportunity for scholars to further their own research, as well as develop and complete a collaborative research project with members of the Lab. The program is an important part of the Lab’s effort to analyze and understand how social media is changing the ways in which people communicate and disseminate information and how these changes impact the social, economic and political structures of modern society.
The Visiting Scholar Program runs biennially and will be accepting application once again in Sept 2017. Please click here for more information about the Program and how to apply.