Education

• Cornell University, PhD program in Sociology, 2008-present.
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Laboratory, MS in Media Arts and Sciences, 2003-2005.
• 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, 1999-2003.
• Honors thesis: "A Typology of Social Roles in Usenet." Awarded grade of Summa-.

Research Interests

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

Fellowships, Grants and Awards

• Honorable mention, National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship program.
• Research grant. Center for Economy and Society, Cornell University. 2008. $3000.
• Sage Fellowship. Cornell University. 2008.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• danah boyd, Scott A. Golder and Gilad Lotan. 2010. Tweet, Tweet, Retweet: Conversational Aspects of Retweeting on Twitter. Proceedings of the Forty-Third Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-43). January 5-8, 2010. To appear.
• Sarita Yardi, Scott A. Golder and Michael J. Brzozowski. 2009. Blogging at Work and the Corporate Attention Economy. ACM CHI 2009. April 2009. Boston, MA.
• 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.

Conference & Workshop Papers and Posters

• Scott A. Golder, Sarita Yardi, Alice Marwick and danah boyd. 2009. A Structural Approach to Contact Recommendations in Online Social Networks. Workshop on Search in Social Media at ACM SIGIR Conference on Information Retrieval. July 23, 2009, Boston, MA.
• Scott A. Golder. 2009. Status Signals and Network Ties of First-Term Members of Congress. Poster. Harvard Political Networks Conference. June 11-13, 2009, Cambridge, MA.
• Sarita Yardi, Scott Golder and Mike Brzozowski. 2008. The Pulse of the Corporate Blogosphere. Poster presented at ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). November 2008, San Diego, CA.
• Kay-Yut Chen, Scott Golder, Tadd Hogg, Cecilia Zenteno. 2008. How do People Respond to Reputation: Ostracize, Price Discriminate or Punish?. Second IEEE Workshop on Hot Topics in Web Systems and Technologies (HotWeb2008).
• 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.
• Scott A. Golder. 2004. The Keep-In-Touch Phone: A Persuasive Telephone for Maintaining Relationships. Poster presented at ACM Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (CHI). April 27-29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.

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 Experience

• Teaching assistant:
  • MAS 965: Techno-Identity (MIT Media Lab, Prof. Judith Donath, Spring 2005)
• Interns supervised:
  • Sarita Yardi (HP Labs, Summer 2008)
  • Joseph Sofaer (HP Labs, Summer 2007)
  • Travis Kriplean (HP Labs, Summer 2006)
  • Shreyes Seshasai (MIT Media Lab UROP, Jan-May 2005)
  • Nicholas Williams (MIT Media Lab UROP, Summer 2004)
• Guest lectures:
  • STS.067: Scientific Visualization Across Disciplines (with Fernanda Viégas; MIT STS Dept., Prof. Joseph Dumit, Feb. 16, 2005)
  • STS.067: Scientific Visualization Across Disciplines (with Fernanda Viégas; MIT STS Dept., Prof. Joseph Dumit, Mar. 3, 2004)

Invited Talks / Presentations

• "Temporal Rhythms in Electronic Society: Examples from Facebook and Elsewhere". At Studying Society in a Digital World, Princeton University Center for Information Technology Policy. Friday, April 24, 2009.
• "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

• Conference / Occasional Reviewer

  ACM CHI conference, 2005-2009. ACM CSCW conference, 2006, 2008, 2010. ACM UIST conference, 2009. ACM Transactions on the Web, 2006, 2007. HICSS, 2010. Human-Computer Interaction (journal), 2009 IEEE Computer, 2006. IEEE InfoVis conference, 2006, 2007, 2008. IEEE Internet Computing, 2007. Interacting With Computers, 2008, 2009.

  Int'l Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 2007, 2009 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
  • Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN), Usenix 2010.
  • Social Computing track, ACM Hypertext. 2010.
  • 18th Int'l World Wide Web Conference (WWW2009), Social Networks and Web 2.0 track, 2009.
  • Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. 2008.
  • Social Hypertext program, ACM Hypertext. 2008, 2009.
  • AAAI Social Information Processing Symposium. 2008.
  • Int'l Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM). 2008, 2009.
  • Semnet workshop at ESWC 2007.
  • Mobile Social Web workshop at IEEE Conference on Social Computing, 2009.
• Other
  • Guest Editor (with Jelena Tesic). IEEE Multimedia magazine. Special issue, "Collaborative Multimedia Tagging". vol. 15, iss. 3, July-September 2008.
  • Associate Chair for Notes, ACM CHI conference, 2007.
  • Alumni admissions interviewer, Harvard University, 2005, 2006, 2007.

Professional Employment

• Hewlett Packard Labs. Social Computing Lab (formerly Information Dynamics Lab). June 2005 - July 2008.
  • Carried out and published a wide variety of research projects, including laboratory experiments, software prototypes and large-scale data analyses of online social spaces.
• Summer internships:
• Microsoft Research. Research Intern. Summer 2009.
  • Projects included a web-based experiment on triadic closure in friendship ties in Twitter and an interview study with social media managers at Fortune 500 companies.
• 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, Java, Javascript, Perl, PHP, SQL on Windows, Unix. Experienced developing client-server applications, web-based applications and graphical user interfaces. Experienced managing and analyzing large datasets using R and Stata.

Last updated: 10 September 2009