Scholar
Emma S. Spiro
Google Scholar ID: fxoKFbEAAAAJ
Associate Professor, Information School, University of Washington
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,288
H-index
24
i10-index
43
Publications
20
Co-authors
47
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Army Research Office, and through other gifts. Her research has been published in PNAS, Science Advances, Social Networks, Field Methods, Demography, and Information, Communication & Society, as well as in premier conferences such as the International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, and the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW).
Research Experience
- In 2019, Dr. Spiro co-founded the Center for an Informed Public (CIP) at UW; she currently serves as the faculty Director. The CIP is a collaborative, multi-disciplinary effort that brings together faculty, staff, students, and community partners in service of a core mission aiming to support a more informed society. She is also the co-founder and current co-director of the iSchool’s Data Science and Analytics Lab (DataLab).
Education
- Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Irvine; M.A. from the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, Irvine; B.A. in Applied Mathematics and B.A. in Science, Technology, and Society from Pomona College.
Background
- Dr. Emma S. Spiro’s research involves the collection and analysis of large-scale social and behavioral data to answer key questions within the areas of sociology, information science, and social computing. Since early 2012, her work has focused on understanding information-related behaviors in the context of crisis events, including rumors, information manipulation, and collective sensemaking in online environments. Her work also explores the structure and dynamics of interpersonal and organizational networks in both online and offline environments.
Miscellany
- She holds adjunct appointments in the Department of Sociology and the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering. She is an affiliate of the UW Center for Statistics & the Social Sciences (CSSS) and the Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology (CSDE), as well as a Data Science Fellow at the eScience Institute at UW.
