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General Information

Full Name Brian C. Keegan
Date of Birth February 1984
Languages English, Spanish
Citizenship United States

Education

  • 2012
    Ph.D.
    Northwestern University
  • 2012
    M.A.
    Northwestern University
    • Media, Technology, and Society
    • Breaking News, Breaking Planes, and Breaking Hearts: Psycholinguistic Dynamics and Sensemaking in Collaborative Accounts of Catastrophe
  • 2006
    S.B.
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Experience

Research disciplines

  • Computational social science
  • Social computing
  • Network science
  • Computer-supported cooperative work
  • Computer-mediated communication

Academic Interests

  • High-tempo online collaboration
  • Human-centered data science
  • Cannabis informatics

Funding

Open Source Projects

  • 2021 - present
    wikifunctions
    • A lightweight collection of scripts for retrieving data from the MediaWiki API.

Honors and Awards

  • 2019
    • Honorary Mention, Best Paper; ACM CSCW
  • 2017
    • Participant, Leadership in Science Policy Institute
  • 2015
    • Honorary Mention, Best Paper; ACM CSCW
  • 2011
    • Best Paper; ACM Conference on Web Science
    • Best Paper; The Game Behind the Video Game Conference
    • Best Student Paper; Communication and Technology Division, ICA
  • 2010
    • Honorary Mention, Best Paper; ACM CSCW

Other Interests

  • Rowing, astronomy, gardening and composting, hiking, 4X games