User:EpochFail/Andrea Forte

Andrea Forte is an associate professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia. She directs the Drexel Social Computing Research Group and is an National Science Foundation CAREER award winner.

Education and career

 * received her PhD from the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology in human-centered computing
 * Studies social computing and learning sciences
 * She also holds a masters of library information sciences from the University of Texas at Austin.

Official and or projects

 * http://andreaforte.net/ -- Official website
 * http://openhtml.org/
 * http://www.drexelsocialcomputing.net/
 * https://twitter.com/andicat

Press

 * http://drexel.edu/now/archive/2016/June/adult-teen-socialmedia/ -- "The benefits of Friending a Grownup"
 * "Benefits of Friending a Grown-up Online" on the BYURadio show https://www.byuradio.org/episode/53591485-4771-4458-8f3a-2b6c03dab679/top-of-mind-with-julie-rose-immigration-detention-elie-wiesel-value-of-a-consumer?playhead=2098 (This link is crap)
 * http://hitechwiki.com/2017/02/social-media-platforms-help-people-cope-depression/ -- depression and social media (along with her student Nazanin Andalibi) Found that communities on reddit are often a source of positive social support.
 * http://www.businessinsider.de/why-people-use-tor-anonymity-online-collaboration-wikipedia-threats-andrea-forte-study-2016-10?r=US&IR=T -- Tor users want to edit Wikipedia to avoid harm and harassment
 * https://phys.org/news/2016-10-privacy-anonymous-wikipedia-editors-dont.html -- (more about the Tor study)

High impact publications

 * Becoming Wikipedian: transformation of participation in a collaborative online encyclopedia
 * http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1099205
 * Decentralization in Wikipedia governance
 * http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2753/MIS0742-1222260103
 * Crossing boundaries: Identity management and student/faculty relationships on the Facebook
 * https://www.researchgate.net/publication/238079412_Crossing_Boundaries_Identity_Management_and_StudentFaculty_Relationships_on_the_Facebook
 * From Wikipedia to the classroom: Exploring online publication and learning
 * http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1150061
 * Privacy, Anonymity, and Perceived Risk in Open Collaboration: A Study of Tor Users and Wikipedians
 * http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2998273