Jeff Hemsley

Jeff Hemsley is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. He is co-author of the book Going Viral (Polity Press, 2013 and winner of ASIS&T Best Science Books of 2014 Information award and selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2014), which explains what virality is, how it works technologically and socially, and draws out the implications of this process for social change. You can see Jeff talk about researching viral events on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecbxtnm4N_Y

He is a computational social scientist, drawing on theories from sociology and communication to study social media. His current research looks at information flows in social media networks, with an emphasis on social movements and political events. As part of his work he builds tools that collect, curate, visualize and analyze big data sets. His research has appeared in journals like Policy & Internet, American Behavioral Scientist and the Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce.

Currently, Jeff teaches Information Visualization to amazing, dedicated and creative graduate students at the iSchool!

You can follow Jeff on Twitter at: @JeffHemsley