Employment

• Hewlett Packard Labs. June 2005 - present.

Education

• Cornell University. Sociology. Starting PhD program fall 2008.
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Laboratory, MS in Media Arts and Sciences, 2005.
• Master's thesis: "Webbed Footnotes: Collaborative Annotation On The Web."
• Harvard University, AB in Linguistics, magna cum laude, with a related field in Computer Science, 2003.
• Honors thesis: "A Typology of Social Roles in Usenet." Awarded grade of Summa-.

Research Interests

• Sociology of information and communication technologies.
• Social networks / social capital.
• Computer-supported cooperative work.
• Human-computer interaction.
• Economic sociology

Fellowships, Grants and Awards

• Research grant. Center for Economy and Society, Cornell University. 2008. $3000.
• Sage Fellowship, Cornell University. 2008.

Papers Under Review

• Kay-Yut Chen, Scott Golder, Tadd Hogg, Cecilia Zenteno. 2008. How do People Respond to Reputation: Ostracize, Price Discriminate or Punish?.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Scott A. Golder. 2008. Measuring Social Networks with Digital Photograph Collections. ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia. June 19-21, 2008. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• Travis Kriplean, Ivan Beschastnikh, David McDonald and Scott Golder. 2007. Community, Consensus, Coercion, Control: CS*W or How Policy Mediates Mass Participation. ACM Group 2007. November 4-7, 2007. Sanibel Island, Florida.
• Scott A. Golder, Dennis Wilkinson and Bernardo A. Huberman. 2007. Rhythms of Social Interaction: Messaging Within a Massive Online Network. 3rd International Conference on Communities and Technologies (CT2007). June 28-30, 2007. East Lansing, Michigan.
• Scott A. Golder and Bernardo A. Huberman. 2006. The Structure of Collaborative Tagging Systems. Journal of Information Science. 32(2).
• Fernanda Viégas, Scott A. Golder and Judith Donath. 2006. Visualizing Email Content: Portraying Relationships from Conversational Histories. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Computer Interaction (CHI). April 22-27, 2006, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
• Scott A. Golder and Judith Donath. 2004. Hiding and Revealing in Online Poker Games. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). November 6-10, 2004, Chicago, IL.
• Scott A. Golder. 2004. The Keep-In-Touch Phone: A Persuasive Telephone for Maintaining Relationships. CHI 2004 Extended Abstracts. April 27-29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.

Conference & Workshop Papers

• Scott A. Golder. 2005. Content as Conversation Space: Promoting Positive Contributions Through Vetted Annotations. In workshop "Beyond Threaded Conversation" led by Paul Resnick, Derek Hansen, Mark Ackerman, John Riedl, Loren Terveen at CHI 2005.
• Scott A. Golder and Judith Donath. 2004. Social Roles in Electronic Communities. Association of Internet Researchers AoIR 5.0. September 19-22, 2004, Brighton, England.

Workshops Organized

• danah boyd, Nicole Ellison and Scott A. Golder. Public Practices, Social Software: Examining social practices in networked publics. At The 3rd International Conference on Communities and Technologies (CT2007). June 28, East Lansing, Michigan.
• Scott A. Golder and Frank Smadja. Tagging and Metadata for Social Information Organization. At The 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007). May 8-12, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
• Frank Smadja, Andrew Tomkins and Scott A. Golder. Collaborative Web Tagging. At The 15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2006). May 22-26, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Panels

• Why Do Tagging Systems Work?. At CHI 2006. April 26, 2006.
• Tagging and Beyond: Personal, Social and Collaborative Information Architecture . At IA Summit 2006. March 27, 2006.
• Collaborative Enterprise Applications. At CollaborateCom 2005. December 19, 2005.

Other Research Projects and Activities

• CloudPrint. Designer and developer. A system for printing and sharing documents using mobile phones. 2007.
• European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) virtual group on Security Issues and Recommendations for Online Social Networks. 2007.
• Harvard Survey of North American Dialects (with Bert Vaux). 1999-2003

Teaching, Advising, Mentoring Experience

• Summer 2007 - Mentor for summer intern Joseph Sofaer
• Summer 2006 - Mentor for summer intern Travis Kriplean
• Spring 2005 - Teaching Assistant for MAS.965: "Techno-Identity" (Professor Judith Donath)
• January-May 2005 - Supervised undergraduate researcher (UROP) Shreyes Seshasai.
• February 16, 2005 - Guest lecturer (with Fernanda Viégas) in STS.067: "Scientific Visualization across Disciplines" (Professor Joseph Dumit)
• January 2005 - Supervised undergraduate researcher (UROP) Shirley Fung.
• Summer 2004 - Supervised undergraduate researcher (UROP) Nicholas Williams.
• March 3, 2004 - Guest lecturer (with Fernanda Viégas) in STS.067: "Scientific Visualization across Disciplines" (Professor Joseph Dumit)

Invited Talks / Presentations

• "Studying Social Life with Micro-level Interaction Data", IBM Almaden User Sciences & Experience Research Lab. July 9, 2008.
• Future of Connected Communities. At Nokia Mobile Mash-Up 2007. Nokia. November 1, 2007.
• "Digitizing Friendship: Learning from and about Massive Online Social Networks", Xerox Parc UIR Group, April 17, 2007
• The Future of Technology: On Demand Society. At The 2007 Wharton Economic Summit. Philadelphia PA, March 12, 2007.
• "Digitizing Friendship: Learning from and about Massive Online Social Networks", BayCHI, February 13, 2007
• "Digitizing Friendship: Learning from and about Massive Online Social Networks", Yahoo! Research Berkeley, January 19, 2007
• "Personal Meaning and Public Structure in Tagging Systems", University of British Columbia, March 2006
• "The Structure of Collaborative Tagging" Tag Tuesday. September 27, 2005.
• "PokerFaces: Hiding and Revealing in Online Poker Games" MIT Media Lab Digital Life Consortium Spring 2005 Meeting. May 5, 2005.
• "Data in the Field and Data in the Lab: Opportunities for Electronic Social Analysis" Hewlett-Packard Labs. March 7, 2005.

Professional Service

• Reviewer

  ACM CHI conference, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008. ACM CSCW conference, 2006, 2008. ACM Transactions on the Web, 2006, 2007. IEEE Computer, 2006. IEEE InfoVis conference, 2006, 2007, 2008. IEEE Internet Computing, 2007. Int'l Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 2007

  Int'l Symposium on Wearable Computers, 2008. Internet Research (AoIR) conference, 2006, 2007. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC), 2007. Journal of Consumer Culture, 2008. Journal of Information Science, 2006, 2008. Social Science Computer Review (SSCORE), 2005. United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation, 2005.

• Program Committees
  • Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2008.
  • Social Hypertext program, ACM Hypertext 2008.
  • AAAI Social Information Processing Symposium. 2008.
  • Int'l Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM). 2008.
  • Semnet workshop at ESWC 2007.
• Other
  • Guest Editor, IEEE Multimedia magazine. Special issue, "Collaborative Multimedia Tagging". (with Jelena Tesic), 2008.
  • Associate Chair for Notes, ACM CHI conference, 2007.
  • Alumni admissions interviewer, Harvard University, 2005, 2006, 2007

Other Employment

• IBM Research. Research Intern, Summer 2003. Conducted a study of reading behavior in email discussion lists.
• Microsoft. Software Design Engineer Intern, Summer 2002. Created and expanded statistical language models for German speech recognition system.
• ThinkingBytes Technology, Inc. 2000-2002. Software Engineer. Developed mobile database applications for Palm devices.

Technical Skills

• Proficient in C, C++, Java, Javascript, Perl, PHP, SQL on Windows, Unix. Experienced developing client-server applications, web-based applications and graphical user interfaces.

Last updated: 9 July 2008