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People: Ph.D. Student Profile
Sean A. Munson
samunson@umich.edu
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Background:
BS in Engineering (System Design), Franklin W Olin College Engineering, 2006
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Research Tags:
- social computing
- political diversity online
- organizational memory & innovation
Current Research:
Political Diversity Online: When political discussion includes diverse points of view, societies make better collective decisions at all levels of government, and these choices have greater public legitimacy. I seek to identify online spaces where diverse political discussion already occurs and identify ways to select and present diverse items in online news aggregators.
Social software for wellness: We are building and deploying a series of social software applications designed to support various aspects of wellness. This will help us learn more about best practices for adding social dimensions to these applications. Our first application is Three Good Things. Participants in the Three Good Things positive psychology exercise list three positive events each day - big or small - and reflect on the reasons they occurred. This exercise has been shown to increase happiness and decrease symptoms of depression.
Recent Publications:
- 2009: Munson, S; Zhou, DX; Resnick, P. "Sidelines: An Algorithm for Increasing Diversity in News and Opinion Aggregators." ICWSM 2009.
- 2008: Munson, Sean. "Motivating and Enabling Organizational Memory with a Workgroup Wiki," Proceedings of the 2008 ACM International Symposium on Wikis, Porto, Portugal.
- 2007: Hansen, Derek; Ackerman, Mark; Resnick, Paul; Munson, Sean. "Virtual Community Maintenance with a Repository," ASIS&T 2007, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Profile last updated Jul 21, 2009.
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Cal Lee (MSI '99, Ph.D. '05) is now an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina. At SI he distinguished himself with his research in the archives and records management field. In 2002, Lee was the first winner of the Paul Evan Peters Fellowship for graduate study in the information sciences or librarianship. The award is sponsored by the Coalition for Networked Information and "recognizes not only outstanding scholarship and intellectual rigor, but also civic responsibility, democratic values, and imagination, honoring the memory of CNI founding executive director Paul Evan Peters."
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