User:Swalker~metawiki
Hi! I'm Shawn, one of the Summer of Research 2011 Fellows with WMF. I am a PhD Candidate at the University of Washington Information School. I study digital government and public engagement. I'm particularly interested in new forms of civic participation that are emerging out of social media.
I also interested in:
- viral videos as part of the retroV research group at the iSchool
- why people choose to in participate high and low threshold activities online
- new methods for collecting data from social media sites
- baking killer cupcakes
- hiking with my dog
I award you the Wikidoop Barnstar for your tireless work on getting Hadoop and the Wikimedia XML files to live peacefully together. Drdee 13:46, 21 July 2011 (UTC)