Online Communities and Online Organizing

Welcome to Purdue!

Research Areas

How do people change, and how are they changed by, online spaces?

What communication patterns produce productive and long-lived communities?

How do people decide whether and where to participate?

Too many current projects

  • What pathways do people take to radicalized views?
  • How do communities evolve different frames and norms?
  • Using agent-based models to understand dynamics between communities

Involving graduate students in research

  • Teaching computational methods
    • Useful for “data science” and qualitative approaches
    • Offered Fall 2022!
  • Collaborating with students