Dr Bernie Hogan

• Research Fellow, October 2008 -

Bernie's research interests lie at the intersection of social networks and media convergence. That is, what medium do people use with their ties, and when? With new media, individuals simultaneously have more convenience but also more complexity, expenses and social pressure to adopt. Some individuals thrive in this new media ecology, while others feel it has isolated them. Within this framework, Bernie examines the eroding home-work boundary, the digital self, and the shift from public spaces to cyberpublics.

He is also working on a number of methodological issues, including reliable capture of online networks, efficient strategies for capturing networks in interviews, social science software development and the application of audit studies to online housing and job markets.

Bernie Hogan completed his BA(hons) at the Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada, where he received the University Medal in Sociology. Since then he has been working on Internet use and social networks at the University of Toronto under social network analysis pioneer Barry Wellman.

Bernie received his Masters of Arts at Toronto in 2003, and defended his PhD Dissertation in the Fall of 2008. His dissertation examines how the use of ICTs alters the way people maintain their relationships in everyday life. In 2005 he was an intern at Microsoft's Community Technologies Lab, working with Danyel Fisher on new models for email management.

Research interests

social networks, human-computer interaction, methodology, social informatics, quantitative analysis, everyday life, social accessibility

Contact information

Dr Bernie Hogan, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, 1 St Giles Oxford OX1 3JS, United Kingdom. Telephone: +44 (0)1865 287210 Fax: +44 (0)1865 287211 Email: enquiries@oii.ox.ac.uk

Students

• Danica M. Radovanovic, PhD Chevening Scholar

Taught courses

• Online Social Networks

• Social Research Methods and the Internet (Parts I and II)

Publications

• Hogan, B. (forthcoming) Book Review: Portable Communities by Mary Chayko. City & Community.
• Carrasco, J.A., Hogan, B., Wellman, B. and Miller, E. (2008) Agency in social activity and ICT interactions: The role of social networks in time and space. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 99 (5) 562-583.
• Carrasco, J.A., Hogan, B., Wellman, B. and Miller, E. (2008) Collecting social network data to study social activity travel: An egocentered approach. Environment and Planning B 35 (6) 961-980.
• Hogan, B. (2008) Analyzing Social Networks via the Internet. In: N.Fielding, R.Lee and G.Blank (eds) The Handbook of Online Research Methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Veenhof, B., Wellman, B., Quell, C. and Hogan, B. (2008) Isolation, Cohesion or Transformation? How Canadians' Use of the Internet is Shaping Society. Connectedness Series 16. Statistics Canada.
• Fisher, D., Brush, A.J., Hogan, B., Smith, M. and Jacobs, A. (2007) Using Social Metadata in Email Triage: Lessons from the Field. Proceedings of the 2007 Human Computer Interaction International Conference, Beijing, 22-27 July 2007.
• Fisher, D., Hogan, B., Brush, A.J., Jacobs, A. and Smith, M. (2007) Using Social Sorting to Enhance Email Management. Microsoft Research Technical Report. MSR-TR-2007-19.
• Hogan, B. (2007) Using Information Networks to Understand Social Behavior. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin 30 (2) 6-14.
• Hogan, B., Carrasco, J.A. and Wellman, B. (2007) Visualizing Personal Networks: Working with Participant-Aided Sociograms. Field Methods 19 (2) 116-144.
• Hogan, B. and Fisher, D. (2006) A Scale for Measuring Email Overload. Microsoft Research Technical Report, MSR-TR-2006-65.
• Wellman, B., Hogan, B., Berg, K., Boase, J., Carrasco, J.A., Côté, R., Kayahara, J., Kennedy, T. and Tran, P. (2006) Connected Lives: The Project. In: P.Purcell (ed.) Networked Neighborhoods. Berlin: Springer.
• Hogan, B., Wigdor, D., Suhonos, M.J. and Josephy, M. (eds) (2004) Multimedia Proceedings. Open Source and Free Software: Concepts, Controversies and Solutions. Knowledge Media Design Institute, 9-11 May 2004.
• Wellman, B. and Hogan, B. (2004) The Immanent Internet. In: J.R.McKay (ed.) Netting Citizens. Edinburgh: St Andrew's Press, pp. 54-80.
• Wellman, B. and Hogan, B. (2004) The Internet in Everyday Life. In: W.S.Bainbridge (ed.) The Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing, pp. 389-397.
• Hogan, B. (2003) Book Review: Leonardo's Laptop. Information, Communication & Society 6 (2) 278-281.

Last updated on: 3 February 2010