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General Information
- Full Name
- Brian C. Keegan
- Date of Birth
- February 1984
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Citizenship
- United States
Education
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Ph.D.
2012- Media, Technology, and Society
- High Tempo Knowledge Collaboration in Wikipedia's Coverage of Breaking News Events
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M.A.
2010- Media, Technology, and Society
- Breaking News, Breaking Planes, and Breaking Hearts: Psycholinguistic Dynamics and Sensemaking in Collaborative Accounts of Catastrophe
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S.B.
2006
Experience
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Associate Professor
2025 – present- Department of Information Science (primary)
- Department of Computer Science (by courtesy)
- Affiliate, Research and Education Addressing Cannabis and Health
- Affiliate, Population Center, Institute for Behavioral Research
- Affiliate, American Politics Research Lab, Department of Political Science
- Affiliate, Natural Hazards Center, Institute for Behavioral Research
- Faculty Fellow, ATLAS Institute
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Assistant Professor
2016 – 2025 -
Visiting Scientist
2025 – 2026 -
Research Associate and Data Scientist
2014 – 2016 -
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
2012 – 2014 -
Graduate Student
2007 – 2012
Research disciplines
- Computational social science
- Social computing
- Network science
- Computer-supported cooperative work
- Computer-mediated communication
Academic Interests
- High-tempo online collaboration
- Online commons
- Public-interest data science
Funding
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TEACHR: Technical Explanation of Algorithmic Choice Hierarchy and Reasoning
2021 -
Multiplayer Online Battle Arenas as Models of High-Tempo Virtual Teams
2019 – 2021 -
Prosopographical data mining for analyzing multiple network among members of U.S. Congress since 1789
2017 – 2018
Open Source Projects
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wikifunctions
2021 – present- A lightweight collection of scripts for retrieving data from the MediaWiki API.
Honors and Awards
- 2019
- Honorable Mention, Best Paper; ACM CSCW
- 2017
- Participant, Leadership in Science Policy Institute; Computing Community Consortium
- 2015
- Honorable Mention, Best Paper; ACM CSCW
- 2011
- Best Paper; ACM Conference on Web Science
- Best Paper; The Game Behind the Video Game Conference
- Best Student Paper; Communication and Technology Division, ICA
- 2010
- Honorable Mention, Best Paper; ACM CSCW
- 2005
- John Burchard Scholar; MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Other Interests
- Rowing, astronomy, gardening and composting, hiking, 4X games