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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., Hemsley, J., Tacheva, J. & McKernan, B.
9/15/22 → 8/31/25
Project: Sponsored Project
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Net Zero Retrofit Campus Living Lab
Hemsley, J. & Dedrick, J.
1/15/21 → 1/15/24
Project: Sponsored Project
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Collaboration Capacity: A Framework for Measuring Data-Intensive Biomedical Research
1/1/20 → 12/31/23
Project: Sponsored Project
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Cyberinfrastructure-Enabled Collaboration Networks: Their Impact and Policy Implications
9/1/16 → 8/31/19
Project: Sponsored Project
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A Human-Centered Design Approach to Creating Tools to Help Journalists Monitor Digital Political Ads: Insights and Challenges
McKernan, B., Stromer-Galley, J., Korsunska, A., Bolden, S. E., Rossini, P. & Hemsley, J., 2023, In: Digital Journalism. 11, 3, p. 411-430 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Left and Right Retweets! Curation Logics During Black History Month
Duan, Y., Hemsley, J., Smith, A. O. & Gray, L., 2023, Information for a Better World: Normality, Virtuality, Physicality, Inclusivity - 18th International Conference, iConference 2023, Proceedings. Sserwanga, I., Goulding, A., Moulaison-Sandy, H., Du, J. T., Soares, A. L., Hessami, V. & Frank, R. D. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 131-142 12 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 13972 LNCS).Research output: Chapter in Book/Entry/Poem › Conference contribution
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Collaboration Networks and Career Trajectories: What Do Metadata from Data Repositories Tell Us?
Hemsley, J., Qin, J., Bratt, S. & Smith, A., 2022, In: Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 59, 1, p. 100-110 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Disrupting Design: A Multi-level Technological Transition Study of Dribbble.com
Duan, Y., Hemsley, J. & Kelly, R., 2022, In: Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 59, 1, p. 55-66 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Memetics as informational difference: offering an information-centric conception of memes
Smith, A. O. & Hemsley, J., Aug 9 2022, In: Journal of Documentation. 78, 5, p. 1149-1163 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
1 Scopus citations
Press and Media
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NYSERDA ENERGY TO LEAD GRANT TO SUPPORT NET-ZERO ENERGY LIVING LAB ON SOUTH CAMPUS
Bess Krietemeyer & Jeff Hemsley
6/8/21
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KNIGHT FOUNDATION FUNDS RESEARCH ON PAID POLITICAL ADS ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Jeff Hemsley & Jennifer Stromer-Galley
1/8/20
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The Internet Made ‘Fake News’ a Thing—Then Made It Nothing
12/19/19
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Social media giants are restricting research vital to journalism
7/11/19
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ILLUMINATING 2018' RECEIVES CONTINUING TOW CENTER JOURNALISM PROJECT FUNDING
Jeff Hemsley & Jennifer Stromer-Galley
10/4/18
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