[Air-L] Nancy Baym, Kate Crawford, Mary L. Gray to Join Microsoft Research

[Jean Burgess]

Congrats to Nancy, Kate and Mary on your new adventure, and to MSR for
making such clever appointments - this is gonna be great.
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Dr Jean Burgess

Deputy Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries &
Innovation
http://cci.edu.au

Creative Industries Faculty
Queensland University of Technology
http://creativeindustries.qut.edu.au

Phone: +61 3138 8253
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Digital Storytelling at QUT http://digitalstorytelling.ci.qut.edu.au






On 13/01/12 4:21 AM, "danah boyd" <aoir.z3z at danah.org> wrote:

>Many of you have asked me whether or not Microsoft Research was truly
>intending to invest in social media / internet studies.  With this in
>mind, I have fantastically awesome news to share: Nancy Baym, Kate
>Crawford, and Mary L. Gray are all joining Microsoft Research.  MSR will
>continue to invest in postdocs, PhD internships, and visitors with the
>hope of supporting social scientists who are asking critical
>socio-technical questions about the rise of new technologies.
>
>In short, I'm sooo soooo sooooooo excited.  <GRIN>  w0000t!!!!
>
>
>My Blog Post: 
>
>"Nancy Baym, Kate Crawford, Mary L. Gray to Join Microsoft Research"
>http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2012/01/12/nancy-baym-kate-crawf
>ord-mary-l-gray-to-join-microsoft-research.html
>
>::bounce:: I am *ecstatic* to announce that Nancy Baym, Kate Crawford,
>and Mary L. Gray are all joining Microsoft Research New England in
>Cambridge, MA. See Jennifer Chayes' announcement:
>http://blogs.technet.com/b/inside_microsoft_research/archive/2012/01/12/mi
>crosoft-research-raises-the-bar-in-social-media-research.aspx
>
>Three years ago (this week), I joined Microsoft Research to help
>integrate social scientists and computer scientists.  I have known about
>and admired MSR since my undergraduate days when I was studying computer
>science.  From the perspective of a researcher, it seemed like
>heaven-on-earth.  As I slowly shifted disciplines, I was saddened to
>think that I had moved myself away from MSR so I was utterly delighted
>when, in 2008, I learned that Jennifer Chayes wanted to start a lab that
>brought computer scientists and social scientists together in new ways.
>I was even more ecstatic when she invited me to help with this endeavor.
>Over the last three years, I've invited numerous scholars to come to MSR
>as visitors, postdocs, and interns.  In particular, I've focused on
>bringing in social scientists from fields that haven't commonly been in
>conversation with industrial researchers.  This loose network of folks
>have come to be known as the "Social Media Collective." Much to my absol
> ute pleasure, Nancy, Kate, and Mary are going to come to MSR to join the
>Collective.
>
>The Social Media Collective focuses on research related to
>socio-technical issues, primarily from a social scientific perspective.
>Most of us use qualitative research methods, but there are also
>quantitative, computational, and experimental folks among us.  We
>primarily look at topics related to the rise of social media, but we do
>so from a variety of different disciplinary lenses.  Our work tends to
>have implications for a wide array of audiences: scholarly, technical,
>policy, business, and public.  Nancy, Kate, and Mary are three of the
>leading scholars in this arena and I'm ecstatic that they'll be coming to
>MSR to advance this line of inquiry.
>
>- Nancy Baym is a communication scholar, currently at University of
>Kansas.  She helped define the field of internet studies with her work on
>personal connections, fandom, and online communities.
>
>- Kate Crawford is a media studies scholar, currently at the University
>of New South Wales. She weaves together a diverse set of interests to
>examine mobile media, intimacy, and listening, with an eye towards public
>policy implications.
>
>- Mary L. Gray is an anthropologist, currently at Indiana University. Her
>work on rural queer youth has helped complicate our understandings of
>marginalized populations' use of technology.
>
>Each of these phenomenal scholars has a long history of helping us
>understand the relationship between technology and society and I'm sooo
>soooo soooo excited that they're coming to MSR.  As all of you who know
>me know, I love MSR.  I also love Nancy, Kate, and Mary.  So the
>combination makes me feel like a kid in a candy store.
>
>MSR is a truly special place: an interdisciplinary home base for folks
>who are interested in studying issues related to technology.  I still
>remember the day that Nancy, Kate, and Mary came back from talking to a
>group of computer scientists and mathematicians about the very meaning of
>"communication."  Needless to say, social scientists don't use that term
>in the same way as mathematicians.  But instead of being horrified, these
>three were glowing because they ended up diving deep into the kind of
>intense conversations that only scholars relish.  That's when I knew that
>MSR was the place for them.
>
>Microsoft Research is so lucky that Nancy, Kate, and Mary are coming to
>MSR.  And I'm super lucky that I'm going to have three more awesome
>colleagues. ::bounce::
>
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