Research Symposium: Frontiers in Online Community Research

The Brian Lamb School of Communication and the Methodology Center at Purdue (MCAP) are sponsoring a symposium on “Frontiers in Online Community Research” on Friday, September 13, from 10AM-1:30 PM in Stewart 310.  The symposium will feature faculty and students from communication, sociology, and computer science who will discuss the current state of online community studies as well as present cutting-edge research and argue for visions of what the future of online community research could look like.The symposium is being organized by Dr. Jeremy Foote (Brian Lamb School of Communication) and the Community Data Science Collective, a multi-institutional research group that studies the social and organizational dynamics of online communities and online platforms. Dr. Foote is the faculty affiliate of the group at Purdue; the group also includes faculty at Northwestern University, the University of Washington, and the University of Texas at Austin.

The symposium will feature faculty and students from the Community Data Science Collective, as well as additional faculty from Purdue—Diana Zulli (Brian Lamb School of Communication) and Marcus Mann (Sociology). The keynote will be given by Eshwar Chandrasekharan, Assistant Professor in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and a leading online community scholar. His talk is titled, “Proactive Approaches to Promote Community Resilience and Foster Desirable Behavior Online”, in which he will present recent work from his group aimed at complementing ongoing efforts to combat undesirable behavior in online communities by developing new computational models, causal inference frameworks, and human-AI systems to promote resilience and facilitate desirable outcomes within online conversations and communities.

Additional information about the symposium and a link to register can be found at https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9QUVSsTY2OpwEwS.