It has been a while, but a lot has happened in my life. The biggest thing that happened is that I got a new job. Starting August 15th, I will be an assistant professor (tenure-track) at Michigan State University. I have a joint appointment in the Department of Telecommunications, Information Studies, and Media, and the School of Journalism. I’m going to be continuing working on my main research interests: understanding how we can use social science theories of motivation and incentives to build better social media systems.
I have also successfully moved into a new house and purchased a new car with my wife for her to use. She also got a job as an assistant professor at Northwestern University in the Communication Studies department.
Now that we are approaching the new school year, and I’ve got all this craziness behind me, I hope to be blogging more regularly about things I’m thinking about. And I’m sure the new academic year will bring lots to think about: I’m teaching a class on the intersection of Computing and Journalism, and I’m running a seminar series on Social Media. In the meantime, I’ve been traveling a lot, and spending that much time in my car has caused me to think about traffic more than I should. So in the next couple of posts, I’m going to take a break from talking about social media and talk about how some of the ideas I work with can be applied to improve traffic.
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