Papers Social Roles in Electronic Communities - This paper will be presented at AoIR 2004 in September 2004. The full paper: [ PDF ] The text of the extended abstract: [ HTML ] A Typology of Social Roles in Usenet - Scott Golder's senior honors thesis for the Harvard Linguistics Department in Spring 2003. This thesis is the first of our efforts to use social roles as a framework for studying online communities. The thesis text is available upon request. The above paper from AOIR extends and refines the work in this thesis and is preferred for citation.