Curriculum Vitae:

Keith N. Hampton: Abbreviated CV

Last updated April, 2007

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 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

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

Community and Social Interaction in the Wireless City: Wi-Fi use in Public and Semi-Public Spaces. (forthcoming). New Media & Society 9(6). (with Neeti Gupta).

Neighborhoods in the Network Society: The e-Neighbors Study. (forthcoming). Information, Communication and Society 10(5).

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).

Netville: Urban Place and Cyberspace (2002). Comunicazioni Sociali 24(1), 77-85.

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. [Reprinted in Információs Társadalom (Information Society) [Hungarian] April, 2002.] (with Barry Wellman, Anabel Quan, and James Witte).

Chapters in Books 

Social Ties and Community In Urban Places (2005). In Harry Hiller (Ed.) Urban Sociology. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 95-116.

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).

Broadband Neighborhoods Connected Communities (2001). In Julie Jacko and Andrew Sears (Eds.) CHI 2001 Extended Abstracts. New York, NY: Association for Computer Machinery (ACM).

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

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

Keynote: Graduate Symposium. Social Ties and Community in the Network Society. (2007, February). Penn State, College of Information Sciences and Technology, University Park, Pennsylvania.

Social Networks and Community in the Network Society. (2007, January). Northwestern University, Department of Communication Studies, Evanston, Illinois.

Neighborhood Networks in the Information City. Social Networks in Context. (2006, March). University of Pennsylvania, Department of Sociology. Philadelphia, PA.

Neighborhood Networks in the Information City. (2006, March). The Age of Networks: Social, Cultural and Technological Connections, Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Urbana, IL.

The Everyday Use of New Technologies: Transforming Social Networks, Locally and Globally?. (2005, October). Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University. New York, NY.

To Dwell Among Friends (or not): Personal Networks in Internet and City. (2005, September). Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA.

Wireless Community Mesh Networks. (2004, September). ACM MobiCom (SIGMOBILE). Philadelphia, PA.

Keynote: Knowledge Summit: (re)Mediatization of Culture. (2004, May). Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia.

Keynote: Citizens Online. House of Lords. (2004, April). London, England.

Global Technologies - Local Networks: Studies in how ICTs Afford Local Social Capital and Social Networks. (2004, April). Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.

Keynote: ICT Seminar. Civil Renewal Unit, Home Office. (2004, April). London, England.

Keynote: Neighbourhoods and New Technologies. The Work Foundation. (2004, April). London, England.

Keynote: Cyber-Communities: Uniting Us or Dividing Us? Sociology and Anthropology Department, Rochester Institute of Technology. (2004, April). Rochester, NY.

Local Affordances of ICTs. Community Information Corps. School of Information, University of Michigan. (2004, March). Ann Arbor, MI.

Winning Small Grants for Cutting Edge Research and Research Activities. Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. (2003, August). Atlanta, Georgia.

Keynote: HOIT 2003: Networked Home and the Home of the Future. The Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations. (2003, March). University of California, Irvine.

Place Based and IT Mediated Community: A Social Network Study of Four Boston Neighborhoods. Murray Center, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. (2002, October). Harvard University.

Keynote: Shared Inspiration, Technology and Neighbourhoods. (2002, May). Fontys University.

Teaching Experience

Social Networks (Comm 481; undergrad course). Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania (Fall 2006).

New Media and Society (Comm 566; graduate course). Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania (Fall 2006).

Social Networks (Comm 555; graduate course). Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania (Spring 2005).

New Media and Community Life (Comm 398; undergrad course). Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania (Fall 2005, 2006).

Research Design and Methodology 11.233 (graduate course). Required of all first year PhD students. Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Fall 2001-2004).

Urban Sociology in Theory and Practice 11.944/11.469 (graduate course). Required of PhD students focusing on the Urban Sociology general exam. Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Fall 2004)

Recent Research Projects

Principal Investigator (2007-2008). "The Social Life of Wireless Urban Spaces". This study investigates how mobile technologies, focusing on Wi-Fi use but not excluding mobile phones, etc., impact the use of public space in select North American cities. Based on ethnographic observations of nine Wi-Fi enabled public spaces in Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, and Toronto. The goal is to identify how mobile devices augment local interactions and people's social networks more broadly.

Principal Investigator (2004-2008). "I-Neighbors". I-neighbors.org is a free, public resource where people find their geographic neighborhoods online and form corresponding digital communities. This project investigates in detail the specific contexts where Internet use affords local interactions and facilitates community involvement. I-neighbors.org also looks at e-democracy, the potential for new information and communication technologies to expand political participation. Supported by Microsoft Research, and L-Soft.

Co-Investigator (2003-2006). "Governance & the Internet: Mailing Lists, Social Capital and Citizen Participation". Collaborating with Dr. Gustavo Mesch and Dr. Ilan Talmud (Dept. of Sociology, University of Haifa), this longitudinal survey of residents in two communities in Israel compares how Internet use in Israel is changing the structure of social networks, public participation, and civic involvement in comparison to that of the United States. Supported by the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation.

Principal Investigator (2001-2005). "E-neighbors". A longitudinal study of how new information and communication technologies (ICTs) can be used to build local social capital. Supported by the National Science Foundation ITR and Sociology Programs, NEC Corporation Fund for Research in Computers and Communications, the MIT Humanities and Social Science Fund, the American Sociological Association Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline, and Microsoft Research.

Co-Investigator (2000-2002). "Survey2001." The second worldwide survey of Internet use administered by the National Geographic Society. Responsible for the design and analysis of social network, community, time-use and Internet related questions. Supported by the National Science Foundation.

Principal Investigator (2001). "Lost-Letter Experiment 2001." A variation on Stanley Milgram's famous lost-letter technique. In the summer of 2001 more than 5,000 stamped and self-addressed letters were “lost” in 80+ urban areas in the United States, Canada, Europe, Africa and Asia. The proportion of returned (open/unopened) letters from each area is a measure of helping behavior in a natural research setting.

Collaborator (1997-2001). "Netville: The Wired Suburb Project." An ethnographic and survey-based study of how living in a new suburban development equipped with a series of advanced communication and information technologies affects work, community, and family relationships. Supported by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Communications and Information Technology Ontario, and Bell Canada University Labs.

Co-Investigator (1998-2001). "Survey2000." Design and analysis of social network, Internet and community questions on the National Geographic Web survey of 65,000 adults and 20,000 children worldwide: their tastes, mobility, connectivity, and civic involvement. Supported by the National Geographic Society.

Research Awards

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

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

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

Council Member, Section on Communication and Information Technologies, American Sociological Association [formally the Section on Sociology & Computers] (2002-04).

Recent Media Reports

Wolfson, Hannah. (October 2, 2006). Neighborhood chat thrives on the Web. The Birmingham News.

Kathleen Burge. (August 13, 2006). Forget the tricorn hat and clanging bell. The Boston Globe.

Tatum, Christine. (February 14, 2006). When technology plays cupid Gadgets can add fun, but old-fashioned niceties score points. The Denver Post, F01.

Neighbourhoods and the Internet. (January 2, 2006). CBC Radio One. [Canadian Broadcast Corporation].

Davis, William. (July 25, 2005). Fighting the wrong battle: Soundbytes on innovation. New Statesman (London, England).

Buechner, Maryanne Murray. (June 20, 2005). 50 Coolest Websites 2005: I-neighbors. Time Magazine

Best of the New: Ideas - I-Neighbors (March 13, 2005). Boston Globe Magazine.

van Dyk, Deirdre. (January 10, 2005). Crossing the Virtual Street. Time Magazine, p80.

Waldmeir, Patti. (November 6, 2004). A campaign that set neighbour against neighbour, even online. Financial Times (London, England), p7.

Tedeschi, Bob. (October 4, 2004). E-Commerce Report; A growing Internet service has attracted a loyal following but, strangely, no rivals. The New York Times. P. C6.

Ross, Rachel. (September 13, 2004). World Wide Web links locals: MIT. Toronto Star.

Chung, Juliet. (August 26, 2004). Who's Knocking at the Door? Check Your E-Mail First. The New York Times.

Burge, Kathleen. (January 18, 2004). An e-neighborhood. Boston Globe, B1.