CURRICULUM VITA |
Education
| Ph.D. | 1998 |
University of California, Los Angeles, In Progress
(Sociology) Areas of Certification: Social Psychology, Theory, Research Methods |
| M.Phil. | 1990 |
Cambridge University, (Social Theory) |
| B.S. | 1988 |
Drexel University, (International Area Studies: Concentration Japan) |
Research and Teaching Experience
| 1995 - Present | Research consultant to Microsoft Corporation Virtual Worlds Group |
| Winter 1997 | Social Science Collegium Teaching Fellow, UCLA Sociology of Cyberspace |
| 1992 –1997 | Teaching Associate: University of California, Los Angeles |
| Fall 1997 | Sociology of Rules and Norms |
| Spring 1997 | Sociology of Collective Action |
| Fall 1996 | Sociology of Time |
| Spring 1996 | Sociological Approaches to Social Psychology |
| Winter 1996 | Sociology of Collective Action |
| Fall 1995 | Sociology of Mass Communication |
| Spring 1995 | Sociology of American Society |
| Winter 1995 | Social Construction of Reality (Honors Collegium) |
| Winter 1994 | Sociology of Collective Action |
| Spring 1993 | Introduction to Sociology |
| Winter 1993 | Twentieth Century Social Theory (Honors Collegium) |
| Fall 1992 | Ethnic and Status Relations |
| 1988 – 1989 | Adjunct Professor of Sociology: Drexel University |
| Fall 1988 | Sociology of Deviant Behavior |
| Winter 1989 | Wealth and Power |
| Spring 1989 | Introduction to Sociology |
Professional Memberships
American Sociological Association
Pacific Sociological Association
International Network for Social Network Analysis
Professional Activities
Organizer and Chair, Session on Methodological Approaches to the Sociology of Cyberspace, Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, 1997.
Organizer and Chair, Session on Sociology of Cyberspace, Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Seattle, 1996.
Academic Honors
| 1996 | Winner Student Award of the Sociology and Computers Section of the American Sociological Association for "Netscan" a social network analysis tool. |
| 1991-1992 | Graduate Fellowship: University of California, Los Angeles |
| 1988 | Graduated Highest Honors: Drexel University |
Fields of Professional Interest
| Society and Technology | Social Psychology |
| Computers and communications | Cooperation and Collective Action |
| Online Interaction and Communities | Exchange Theory |
| Social Network Theory | Social and Personal Relationships |
| Social Cognition | Symbolic Interactionism |
| Ethnomethodology | Sociology of Knowledge |
Invited Lectures
ACM Special Interest Group for Computer-Human Interaction (1998)
American Association for the Advancement of Science (1997)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Communications Forum (1997)
AT&T Research Labs (1997)
Microsoft Corporation, Advanced Technology Group (1995, 1996, 1997)
Interval Corporation (1994)
University of California, Irvine (1993)
Papers Presented at Professional Meetings
"Social Maps of the Usenet." Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Toronto, Canada, 1997.
"Visualizing Newsgroup Neighborhoods" Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, 1997.
"Social Structural Measures of the Usenet." Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, 1996.
"Cooperation and Conflict in Computer Communities" (with P. Kollock). Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, 1994.
"Connection, Commerce: Community? Future Visions and Fateful Choices on the Electronic Frontier." Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, San Francisco, 1995.
"Managing the Virtual Commons" (with P. Kollock). Sixth International Conference on Social Dilemmas, Wassenaar, the Netherlands, 1995.
Publications
Smith, Marc and Kollock, Peter. "Managing the Virtual Commons: Cooperation and Conflict in Computer Communities." Computer-Mediated Communication, edited by S. Herring. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1996.
Work in Progress
Smith, Marc and Kollock, Peter. Communities in Cyberspace: Perspectives on New Forms of Social Organization. Forthcoming August 1998, Routledge Press.
Smith, Marc. "Invisible Crowds in Cyberspace: Measuring and Mapping the Social Structure of USENET" in Communities in Cyberspace: Perspectives on New Forms of Social Organization.
Kollock, Peter and Smith, Marc. "Community and Communication in Cyberspace: An Introduction" Communities in Cyberspace: Perspectives on New Forms of Social Organization.
Smith, Marc. Voices from the Well: The Logic of the Virtual Commons.
http://netscan.sscnet.ucla.edu/csoc/
References
Available upon request