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Aaron Shaw is an American Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Sociology at Northwestern University. His work focuses on "collaboration, governance, and inclusion in participatory organizations. Most of his work focuses on online communities that create public information resources like Wikipedia."[1]
Education
[edit]Shaw has completed a Bachelor of Arts in Humanities at Stanford University. He has two Masters degrees, one in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley and one in Humanities from Stanford. He received his doctorate from UC Berkeley in Sociology.[1]
Career
[edit]At Northwestern University, Shaw is involved with the Center for Human-Computer Interaction + Design, the Institute for Policy Research, and the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs. In addition, he is a Faculty Associate of the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.[2]
He is a co-founder of the Community Data Science Collective, which investigates "how communities function, how collaborative production of information infrastructure (like Wikipedia and Linux) works, and dynamics of online participation."[3]
From 2017-18, he held a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University.[4] He was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Washington from 2022-23.[5]
In 2016, his research on "Pathways to Community Success: Advancing a Comparative Science of Online Collaborative Organization" won an award from the US National Science Foundation.[6]
Selected publications
[edit]- "The future of crowd work", CSCW '13: Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work, February 2013, pp. 1301–1318.[7]
- "Designing incentives for inexpert human raters", Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 1 March 2011.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Aaron Shaw: School of Communication - Northwestern University". communication.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2024-02-27.
- ^ "Aaron Shaw | Berkman Klein Center". cyber.harvard.edu. 2023-08-20. Retrieved 2024-02-27.
- ^ "About - CommunityData". wiki.communitydata.science. Retrieved 2024-02-27.
- ^ "Aaron Shaw | Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences". casbs.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2024-02-27.
- ^ "Visiting Scholars". Department of Communication. Retrieved 2024-02-27.
- ^ "NSF Award Search: Award # 1617468 - CHS: Small: Collaborative Research: Pathways to Community Success: Advancing a Comparative Science of Online Collaborative Organization". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2024-02-27.
- ^ Kittur, Aniket; Nickerson, Jeffrey V.; Bernstein, Michael; Gerber, Elizabeth; Shaw, Aaron; Zimmerman, John; Lease, Matt; Horton, John (2013-02-23). "The future of crowd work". Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work. CSCW '13. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 1301–1318. doi:10.1145/2441776.2441923. ISBN 978-1-4503-1331-5. S2CID 267841517.
- ^ Shaw, Aaron D.; Horton, John J.; Chen, Daniel L. (2011-03-19). "Designing incentives for inexpert human raters". Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work. ACM. pp. 275–284. doi:10.1145/1958824.1958865. ISBN 978-1-4503-0556-3. S2CID 11291205.