Mr Cliff Lampe - The Promise and Peril of Social Media
Cliff Lampe is an assistant professor in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media at Michigan State University.
Cliff studies large-scale online interactions, and how socio-technical tools can be used as architecture in online systems. He has studied sites like Facebook, Slashdot, NewsTrust, and Everything2 as part of this research agenda. Topics he studies includes the use of recommender systems to socialize new members of online communities, the role Facebook interaction has on the generation of social capital, and how users participate in sites over longer periods of time.