Understanding communities in an age of social media: the good, the bad, and the complicated

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Notes on contributors

Dr Anatoliy Gruzd is a Canada Research Chair in Social Media Data Stewardship, Associate Professor and Director of the Social Media Lab in the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University (Toronto, Canada). He is also a coeditor of a multidisciplinary journal on Big Data and Society. Dr Gruzd’s research initiatives explore how the advent of social media and the growing availability of social big data are changing the ways in which people communicate, collaborate, and disseminate information and how these changes impact the social, economic, and political norms and structures of modern society. [email: [email protected] Twitter:@gruzd].

Jenna Jacobson is a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto in the Faculty of Information. From mining big social media data to analyzing little data, her research interests lie at the intersection of social media, identity, labur, and community. Jenna is a Conference Chair of the International Conference on Social Media & Society. She is the Project Manager on a Canada Research Chair project in Social Media Data Stewardship at Ryerson University’s Social Media Lab, and is part of the Semaphore Research Cluster at the University of Toronto. [email: [email protected] Twitter: @jacobsonjenna].

Dr Barry Wellman co-directs the NetLab Network. He has been studying community and social networks since 1967. Wellman is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the founder of the International Network for Social Network Analysis, and the coauthor of _Networked: The New Social Operating System._[email: [email protected] Twitter: @barrywellman].

Philip Mai M.A., J.D. is the Manager of Academic Communications at Ryerson University in Toronto, a member of the Office of Communications, Government and Community Engagement, the Office of the Provost and Vice President Academic. He is also the Research and Communications Manager at the Ryerson Social Media Lab and a co-founder of the International Conference on Social Media & Society. In his work, Philip focuses on knowledge mobilization, information diffusion, and social media analytics with the aim to connect people, knowledge, and ideas. [email: [email protected] Twitter: @phmai].

Notes

1. Conference participation was widespread with 400 authors from more than 100 institutions in 28 countries. Many of the participants were enthusiastic rising stars: young faculty and doctoral students. We thank William Dutton (keynote speaker), the program committee, and the volunteers for their involvement; and Ryerson University’s Ted Rogers School of Management for their support.