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

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On Thu 12/01/12  1:09 PM , Steve Jones sjones at uic.edu sent:
> Hear hear! Looking forward to what this stellar collective will accomplish
> in the future.
> Steve
> 
> On Jan 12, 2012, at 3:02 PM, Michael Zimmer wrote:
> 
> > Congrats to all!
> > 
> > -michael
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Michael Zimmer, PhD
> > Assistant Professor, School of Information
> Studies> Co-Director, Center for Information Policy
> Research> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
> > e: zimmerm at uwm.e
> du> w: www.michaelzimmer.or
> g> 
> > 
> > On Jan 12, 2012, at 12:21 PM, danah boyd
> 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-crawford-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/20
> 12/01/12/microsoft-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 abs
> > 
> > ol
> >> 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::  >> 
> >> 
> >> ------
> >> 
> >> "taken out of context, i must seem so
> strange" -- ani>> http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/>> http://www.danah.org/>> @zephoria
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
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