Keith N. Hampton
Department of Communication, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University
Keith N. Hampton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University. Before joining the faculty at Rutgers, he was an assistant professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, and Assistant Professor and Class of '43 Chair in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His research interests focus on the relationship between new information and communication technologies, social networks, and the urban environment. Most recently, he has looked at how the size and composition of people's social networks, and the extent of social isolation, have changed as a result of the use of new digital settings - the Internet and mobile phones - as well as traditional social settings, like neighborhoods and urban public spaces. He has offered graduate- and undergraduate- level courses in social network analysis, new media and society, mediated communication, urban sociology, and research methods. In 2001 he was awarded the M.I.T. Graduate Teaching Award. He is a Past-Chair of the American Sociological Association's Section on Communication and Information Technologies (CITASA).
He is an active member of the editorial board of the journals, Human Communication Research, and Information Communication and Society, and a former book review editor for the journal New Media and Society.
For more information: http://www.mysocialnetwork.net/