Jeffrey Hemsley

Personal profile

Professional Information

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. You can also see his Benefunder Profile.

He is a founding member of the Behavior, Information, Technology and Society Laboratory (BITS lab) here at the Syracuse iSchool.

Jeff earned his Ph.D. from the University of Washington’s Information School, where he was a founding member of the Social Media Lab at the University of Washington. The lab received RAPID and INSPIRE awards from NSF, an Amazon Web Services in Education research grant award, and a gift from Microsoft Research. 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!

Research Interests

My research is about understanding how people are using social media, how their use influences the flow of information, and how information mediates user’s interaction online. I draw on theories and concepts like information gatekeeping, personal influence, status, presentation of self, social capital and viral events. I use exploratory data analysis (data visualization techniques), inferential statistics, social network analysis and content analysis to answer my questions.

Education

Information Science, Ph.D., University of Washington

Award Date: Aug 10 2014

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Projects

1 Finished
1 Active

Collaboration Capacity: A Framework for Measuring Data-Intensive Biomedical Research

Qin, J. & Hemsley, J.

Department of Health & Human Services

1/1/20 → 12/31/22

Project: Research project

Cyberinfrastructure-Enabled Collaboration Networks: Their Impact and Policy Implications

Qin, J. & Hemsley, J.

National Science Foundation

9/1/16 → 8/31/18

Project: Research project

Research Output

190 Citations
8 h-Index
22 Conference contribution
13 Article
3 Paper
1 Book
2 More
- 1 Review article
- 1 Other contribution

A Closer Look at Data Co-authorship: Team size trends in ‘big science’

Bratt, S., Qin, J. & Hemsley, J., Jan 1 2019, 17th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, ISSI 2019 - Proceedings. Catalano, G., Daraio, C., Gregori, M., Moed, H. F. & Ruocco, G. (eds.). International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, p. 2664-2665 2 p. (17th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, ISSI 2019 - Proceedings; vol. 2).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Followers Retweet! The Influence of Middle-Level Gatekeepers on the Spread of Political Information on Twitter

Hemsley, J., Jan 1 2019, In : Policy and Internet.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

Introduction to the 2019 International Conference on Social Media & Society

Gruzd, A., Mai, P., Kumar, P., Jacobson, J., Recuero, R., Hemsley, J., Kwon, K. H., Quan-Haase, A., Sloan, L. & Hodson, J., Jul 19 2019, 10th International Conference on Social Media and Society: Rethinking Privacy and Trust, SMSociety 2019. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 1-4 4 p. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Scratching a Niche: How Smaller Social Media Players Such as Dribbble Reflect the Viral Phenomenon

Hemsley, J. & Kelly, R. D., Jan 1 2019, In : Social Media and Society. 5, 4

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

Automated diffusion? Bots and their influence during the 2016 U.S. Presidential election

Boichak, O., Jackson, S., Hemsley, J. & Tanupabrungsun, S., Jan 1 2018, Transforming Digital Worlds - 13th International Conference, iConference 2018, Proceedings. Springer Verlag, p. 17-26 10 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 10766 LNCS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution