Aaron Shaw

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. During the 2010-2011 academic year, I am also a Research Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

I study political and economic dimensions of collective action online. My current projects address the effects of power inequalities in information sharing communities; the relationship between online participation and political engagement; and the dynamics of participation in commercial crowdsourcing markets and non-commercial peer production projects.

Some of my previous research has compared participatory infrastructure of the right and left of the U.S. political blogosphere; investigated the origins of Free Software policies in Brazil; and analyzed applications of crowdsourcing for both social scientific research and humanitarian crisis relief.

If you'd like to read more, here's my CV. For more information, copies of papers, or just to say hello, please send me an email.