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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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REU Site: Broadening Access to Text Analytics for Social Scientists
Stanton, J. M. (PI), Hemsley, J. (CoI), Tacheva, J. (CoI) & McKernan, B. (CoI)
9/15/22 → 8/31/25
Project: Sponsored Project
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Net Zero Retrofit Campus Living Lab
Hemsley, J. (CoI) & Dedrick, J. (PI)
1/15/21 → 1/15/24
Project: Sponsored Project
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Collaboration Capacity: A Framework for Measuring Data-Intensive Biomedical Research
Qin, J. (PI) & Hemsley, J. (CoI)
1/1/20 → 12/31/23
Project: Sponsored Project
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Cyberinfrastructure-Enabled Collaboration Networks: Their Impact and Policy Implications
Qin, J. (PI) & Hemsley, J. (CoI)
9/1/16 → 8/31/19
Project: Sponsored Project
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A Practice Theory Perspective on Dribbble and the Evolving Design Industry
Duan, Y., Asante-Agyei, C. O., Kelly, R. & Hemsley, J., Jan 1 2024, In: Social Media and Society. 10, 1Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Climate Change Skeptics and the Power of Negativity
Liu, Q., Kim, Y. & Hemsley, J., Oct 2024, In: Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 61, 1, p. 999-1001 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Comparing Climate Change Content and Comments across Instagram Reels, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts and Long Videos
Duan, Y., Khoury, C., Joh, U., Smith, A. O., Cousin, C. & Hemsley, J., Oct 2024, In: Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 61, 1, p. 103-114 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Curating Virality: Exploring Curated Logics Within #BlackLivesMatter on Twitter/X
Duan, Y., Hemsley, J., Smith, A. O., Joh, U., Gray, L. V. & Khoury, C., Apr 1 2024, In: Social Media and Society. 10, 2Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Reinforming memes: a literature review of the status of memetic information
Smith, A. O., Hemsley, J. & Tacheva, Z. Y., Jun 26 2024, In: Journal of Documentation. 80, 4, p. 1003-1021 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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iSchool Researchers Present at ASIS&T 2024 Conference
Sawyer, S., Yu, B., Hemsley, J., Patin, B. & Modrow, S.
10/10/24
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Associate Professor and Recent iSchool Grad Studying the Future of Design
9/16/24
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iSchool Interim Dean, Associate Professor Awarded $15K Research Grant
9/5/24
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Creatives Rebuild NY Awards $165,000 To Support Data-Driven Solutions For Artists
8/29/24
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Jeff Hemsley Named Interim Dean of the School of Information Studies
6/28/24
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