Curriculum Vitae:

Keith N. Hampton: Abbreviated CV

Last updated October, 2009

Academic Appointment

Assistant Professor, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania (2005-Present).

Assistant Professor of Technology, Urban and Community Sociology & Class of '43 Career Development Chair, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2001-2005).

Visiting Appointments

Visiting Professor, National Graduate Summer School, School of Journalism and Communication, Renmin University of China, Beijing (2009).

Visiting Fellow, Saguaro Seminar and the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2003/04).

University Education

Ph.D. in Sociology (2001), Department of Sociology, University of Toronto.

M.A. in Sociology (1998), Department of Sociology, University of Toronto.

B.A. Honours in Sociology (1996), Department of Sociology, University of Calgary.

Dissertation

Living the Wired Life in the Wired Suburb: Netville, Glocalization and Civil Society (dissertation advisor - Barry Wellman).

Recent Awards and Honors

CITASA Award for Public Sociology. For the development of a communication / information technology (i-neighbors.org) and the dissemination of knowledge that advances public understanding and engagement with the sociology of communications and the sociology of information technology. Section on Communication and Information Technologies, American Sociological Association (2007).

Robert E. Park Article Award (Honorable Mention) for the most distinguished scholarly paper in urban and community sociology from the last year. Section on Community and Urban Sociology, American Sociological Association (2004).

Harold A. Innis Biannual Award for Outstanding Dissertation in the Field of Media Ecology, Media Ecology Association (2003).

Herbert Dordick Biennial Dissertation Award, International Communication Association (ICA), Communication and Technology Division (2003).

Graduate Teaching Award, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2002).

Canadian Policy Research Award Graduate Prize. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canadian Institute for Health Research, and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Policy Research Initiative (2001).

Journal Articles

Internet Use and the Concentration of Disadvantage: Glocalization and the Urban Underclass (in press). American Behavioral Scientist.

The Social Life of Wireless Urban Spaces: Internet Use, Social Networks, and the Public Realm (in press). Journal of Communication.(with Oren Livio and Lauren Sessions).

Community and Social Interaction in the Wireless City: Wi-Fi use in Public and Semi-Public Spaces (2008). New Media & Society 10(6), 831-850. (with Neeti Gupta).

Neighborhoods in the Network Society: The e-Neighbors Study (2007). Information, Communication & Society 10(5). 714-748.

Simplifying the Personal Network Name Generator: Alternatives to Traditional Multiple and Single Name Generators. (2007). Field Methods 19(2), 163-193. (with Alexandra Marin).

Grieving For a Lost Network: Collective Action in a Wired Suburb (2003). The Information Society 19(5), 417-428.

Neighboring in Netville: How the Internet Supports Community and Social Capital in a Wired Suburb (2003). City and Community 2(4), 277-311. (with Barry Wellman).

Place-Based and IT Mediated Community (2002). Planning Theory &Practice 3(2), 228-231.

Long Distance Community in the Network Society: Contact and Support Beyond Netville (2001). American Behavioral Scientist 45(3), 476-495. (with Barry Wellman).

Does the Internet Increase, Decrease, or Supplement Social Capital?: Social Networks, Participation, and Community Commitment (2001). American Behavioral Scientist 45(3): 436-455. (with Barry Wellman, Anabel Quan, and James Witte).

Netville On-Line and Off-Line: Observing and Surveying a Wired Suburb (1999). American Behavioral Scientist 43(3), 475-492. [Reprinted in New Media. Leah Lievrouw and Sonia Livingstone (Eds.). Sage. 2009.] (with Barry Wellman).

Living Networked On and Off Line (1999). Contemporary Sociology 28(6), 648-654. (with Barry Wellman).

Guest Edited Journal Issues 

Sociology of ICTs. (2008). Information, Communication & Society 11(4). (with Barry Wellman).

Reports 

Social Isolation and New Technology: How the Internet and Mobile Phones Impact Americans' Social Networks.. (2009). Pew Internet & Everyday Life Project. Washington, DC. (with Lauren Sessions, Eun Ja Her, and Lee Rainie).

Chapters in Books 

Cyburbia (in press). In Ray Hutchison (Ed.). The Encyclopedia of Urban Studies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Social Ties and Community in Urban Places [revised] (2009). In Harry Hiller (Ed.) Urban Sociology 2nd ed. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 86-107.

Networked Sociability On-Line, Off-Line (2004). In Manuel Castells (Ed.) The Network Society: A Global Perspective. London, UK: Edward Elgar. 217-232.

Netville: Community On and Offline in a Wired Suburb (2004). In Stephen Graham (Ed.) Cybercities Reader. London, UK: Routledge. 256-262.

Wired Communities (2003). In David Levinson and Karen Christensen (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 1478-1482.

Neighboring (2003). In David Levinson and Karen Christensen (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 978-983.

Digital Divide (2003). In David Levinson and Karen Christensen (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 405-407. (with Wenhong Chen and Barry Wellman).

The Not so Global Village of a Cyber Society: Contact and Support Beyond Netville (2002). In Barry Wellman and Caroline Haythornthwaite (Eds.) The Internet and Everyday Life. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. 345-371. (with Barry Wellman).

Does the Internet Increase, Decrease, or Supplement Social Capital?: Social Networks, Participation, and Community Commitment (2002). In Barry Wellman and Caroline Haythornthwaite (Eds.) The Internet and Everyday Life. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. 291-324. (with Barry Wellman, Anabel Quan, and James Witte).

Examining Community in the Digital Neighbourhood: Early Results from Canada's Wired Suburb (2000). In Toru Ishida and Katherine Isbister (Eds.) Digital Cities: Technologies, Experiences, and Future Perspectives. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1765. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag. 194-208. [Reprinted in The Wired Homestead: New Views on a Web World. Joseph Turow and Andrea Kavanaugh (Eds.) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2003] (with Barry Wellman).

Conference Presentations

Core Discussion Networks, Internet and Mobile Phone Use: New Media are not Increasing Privatism in America. (August, 2009). . Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA. (with Lauren Sessions and Eun Ja Her).

Internet Use and the Concentration of Disadvantage: Glocalization and the Urban Underclass. (May, 2009). International Communication Association. Chicago, IL.

The Social Life of Wireless Urban Spaces: Wireless Internet Use, Social Networks, and the Public Realm. (May, 2009). International Communication Association Pre-Conference, Mobile 2.0: Beyond Voice? Chicago, IL (with Oren Livio and Lauren Sessions).

New Technologies in Public Spaces: How Wireless Internet Use Influences Sociability and Social Networks. (August, 2008). Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Boston, MA. (with Lauren Sessions and Oren Livio).

Internet Use and Collective Efficacy in Disadvantaged Communities: A Naturalistic Experiment. (August, 2008). Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Boston, MA.

Is WiFi use Compatible with Public Spaces?: Wireless Internet Use, Sociability, and Social Networks. (May, 2008) International Communication Association, Montreal, PQ. (with Craig Trachtenberg, Oren Livio, and Lauren Sessions)

WiFi and Public Spaces: A Study of Privatism and Network Diversity as a Result of Wireless Internet Use. (January, 2008). International Sunbelt Social Network Conference. St. Pete Beach, FL.

Neighborhoods in the Network Society: The e-Neighbors Study. (August, 2007). Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York.

Community and Social Interaction in the Wireless City: Wi-Fi use in Public and Semi-Public Spaces. (2007, June). International Conference on Communities and Technologies, East Lansing, Michigan. (with Neeti Gupta).

e-Neighbors: Neighborhoods in the Network Society. Panel on Communication Technology in Urban Neighborhoods. (2007, May). International Communication Association, Communication & Technology Division, San Francisco, California.

e-Neighbors: Neighborhoods in the Network Society. Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) (2006, September). Brisbane, Australia.

Grande Wi-Fi: Social Interaction in Wireless Coffee Shop. Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association (2006, August). Montreal, Quebec. (with Neeti Gupta).

Technology-Enabled Political Empowerment (2006, August). Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, Quebec. (with Jacob Faber).

Media Use and Personal Support Networks: A Longitudinal Study (2006, April).. International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Simplifying the Collection of Support Network Data: Evaluating A Middle Road Between Multiple and Single Name Generators. (2005, February). International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Redondo Beach, California. (with Alexandra Marin).

Neighboring and the Internet: Ties Across the Street (2004, May). International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Portoroz, Slovenia. (with Benjamin Forman).

Information and Communication Technologies and the Structure and Maintenance of Personal Support Networks (2004, May). International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Portoroz, Slovenia.

The Diversity of Personal and Neighborhood Networks in the Informational City (2003, July). Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, Georgia.

Reducing Respondent Burden and Maintaining Reliability in the Collection of Support Network Data (2003, July). Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, Georgia. (with Alexandra Marin).

Comparing Network Diversity in Four Boston Neighborhoods: The E Neighbors Study of Community and Technology (2003, February). International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Cancun, Mexico.

Beyond the Digital Divide: Using Community Technology to Expand Social Networks, Build Social Capital and Inspire Empowerment in a Low-income Boston Neighborhood (2002, August). Annual meeting of the American Sociology Association, Chicago, Illinois. (with Richard O'Bryant and Randal Pinkett).

Altruism as a Measure of Social Capital: A Comparative Study Based on the Lost-Letter Experiment (2002, July). XV World Congress of Sociology of the International Sociology Association (ISA), Brisbane, Australia.

Invited Lectures

New Technologies and the Structure of Community in Private, Public, and Parochial Spaces. (2009, October). 3rd Annual Schmidt Lecture on Technology and Society. Department of Sociology, College of William & Marry. Williamsburg, VA.

Social Isolation and New Technologies. (2009, October). Workshop on Social Network Dynamics, Management Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA.

New Technologies and the Structure of Community in Private, Public, and Parochial Spaces. (2009, October). School of Information, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI.

Keynote Speaker. New Media and the Structure of Community in Private, Public, and Parochial Spaces. (2009, June). Conference on Communicative Cities: Integrating Technology and Place. Knowlton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University. Columbus, OH.

Social Network Theory and Analysis. (2009, June). Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Third Annual New Connections Symposium. Princeton, NJ.

Information, Engagement, and Democracy at the Community Level. (2008, November). The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in Democracy Chicago, IL.

New Media in the Parochial and Public Realms: Building Social Networks in Place. (2008, April). LSU Digital Media Speakers Series: Rebuilding New Orleans through Online Social Networks. Manship School of Mass Communications D. Jenson Holiday Forum. Center for Computation & Technology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA.

Social Networks and Internet Use: Privatism in the Public and Parochial Realms. (2008, January). Social Network Workshop. Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA.

Research Awards

i-neighbors (2007-2009). Google Grant. Google Inc. $200,000.

Provost’s Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program (2008). University of Pennsylvania. $7,500.

Hybrid Neighborhood Community Networks (2004-06). Microsoft Research. $15,000.

Governance & the Internet (2003-06). United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation. $90,000.

Ubiquitous Network Awareness (2003). Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Fund (HASS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. $15,000.

National Science Foundation. Sociology and Information Technology Research (ITR) Programs (2002-2005). $300,000.

The American Sociology Association's Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline (2002). Supported by the American Sociology Association and the National Science Foundation, $7,000.

Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Fund (HASS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, $15,000.

MIT Research Support Group. NEC Corporation Fund for Research in Computers and Communications, $52,000.

Other Professional Activities

Editorial Board. Information, Communication and Society (iCS). (2007-Present).

Past-Chair, Section on Communication and Information Technologies, American Sociological Association (2009/10).

Chair, Section on Communication and Information Technologies, American Sociological Association (2007-09).

Reviews Editor. New Media & Society. Sage Publications (2003-2006)

Associate Housemaster. Sidney-Pacific Graduate Residence. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2002 - 2005).