Andrew Schrock is a Ph.D student at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. In the past I've been a research assistant to danah boyd at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society, adjunct professor of journalism/comm/digital media (CSU Long Beach, USC, and UCF respectively), and assistant director of the Annenberg program on online communities (APOC). I'm currently a fellow at the Innovation lab, and a member of Henry Jenkins' Civic Paths and Anne Balsamo's Public Interactives Research Team (PIRT). Specific foci of my work include:
- Mobile technologies' impacts on media usage, social relationships and presence in urban space
- Online and blended online/offline communities and collectives (e.g. hackerspaces) and how they self-organize, informally learn, and share information
- Histories of the Internet, particularly new developments in HTML5 and cloud computing
- Teaching tools and applied research - see Innovative Project Portfolio, and Teaching History / Open Courseware.
Selected Papers
Schrock, A. (2010). Are You What You Tweet? Warranting Trustworthiness on Twitter. Paper presented at the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication conference, Denver, CO. (Jung-Sook Lee award for a top student paper in the Communication Technology & Policy Division)
Schrock, A., & boyd, danah. (2010). Problematic Youth Interactions Online: Solicitation, Harassment, and Cyberbullying. In K. B. Wright & L. M. Webb (Eds.), Computer-mediated communication in personal relationships (pp. 368–396). New York: Peter Lang.
Schrock, A. (2008). Examining Social Media Usage: Technology Clusters and Social Network Site Membership. First Monday, 14(1).