Graduate Student, Communication Studies
School of Communication
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Noshir Contractor
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About
I'm a Ph.D. candidate at Northwestern University in the Media, Technology & Society program. Broadly, I am interested in how people use the Internet to make and maintain friendships. Right now, I am using data from the virtual world Second Life to see how online friendship networks compare with offline friendship networks. I hope that this research will give us insight into if/how we can use virtual worlds as laboratories to study the dynamics of friendship, online and offline.
Before I returned to school for my Ph.D., I worked as an ethnographic researcher for Intel. I did research in several different countries around the world and studied how people use technology at home, at work, and on the go. Before that, I earned my B.S. and M.S. degrees in Communication from Cornell University.
Contact Information
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| Address: | Northwestern University |
| IM: | brookefoucault (Skype) |
