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
Links
Selected publications
- Hogan, B. (2008) Analyzing Social Networks via the Internet. In: N.Fielding, R.Lee and G.Blank (eds) The Handbook of Online Research Methods (Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA).
- Hogan, B., Carrasco, J.A. and Wellman, B. (2007) Visualizing Personal Networks: Working with Participant-Aided Sociograms. Field Methods 19:116-144.
- Hogan, B. (2007) Using Information Networks to Understand Social Behavior (pdf, 120kb). IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin 30:6-14.
- 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 (pdf, 1Mb). In: P.Purcell (ed.) Networked Neighborhoods (Springer: Berlin).
- Wellman, B. and Hogan, B. (2004) The Internet in Everyday Life. In: W.S.Bainbridge (ed.) The Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction (Berkshire Publishing: Great Barrington, MA), pp. 389-397.
