Stuart Geiger

R. Stuart Geiger is a doctoral candidate in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, with concentrations in New Media, Science & Technology Studies, and Human-Computer Interaction. He is affiliated with the Berkeley Center for New Media, the DigitalSTS initiative, and is a fellow with the Digital Ecologies Research Project. Stuart received his B.A. in Humanities from the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied political philosophy and computer science. He received his M.A. in Communication, Culture, and Technology from Georgetown University.

A computational ethnographer, Stuart studies the governance and administration of globally-distributed institutions of knowledge production. His dissertation interrogates the social and organizational roles of automated software agents in online communities and social media. He also researches socialization and gatekeeping practices in Wikipedia and the ecological sciences. He uses qualitative and quantitative methods, and is also developing mixed-method approaches to the collection and analysis of trace data.

Stuart's research has been published in The Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Information, Communication and Society, American Behavioral Scientist, Information and Organization, and Ecology & Society as well as various peer-reviewed conference proceedings, including the ACM conferences on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Human Factors in Computing (CHI), the International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym), and the AAAI International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM). He is a program committee member for CSCW, WikiSym, and ICWSM and reviews for various journals. His research has been featured in The Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, and Public Radio International.