Dr Ralph Schroeder
Director of Research, MSc Programme Director, Senior Research Fellow, January 2009 -
James Martin Research Fellow, September 2004 - December 2008
Ralph Schroeder was formerly Professor in the School of Technology Management and Economics at Chalmers University in Gothenburg (Sweden). He completed his PhD about Max Weber at the LSE in 1988. His publications include Possible Worlds: The Social Dynamic of Virtual Reality Technology (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1996), as editor, The Social Life of Avatars: Presence and Interaction in Shared Virtual Environments (Springer, 2002), and Rethinking Science, Technology and Social Change (Stanford University Press, 2007).
He is currently working on shared virtual environments and on the social implications of e-science.
Research interests
virtual environments, social aspects of e-Science, sociology of science and technology
Links
- http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/schroeder/
- Curriculum Vitae
- e-Horizons Institute
- Oxford e-Social Science (OeSS) Project
- World Wide Web of Science Project
- Presence Research in Action (PEACH) Project
Selected publications
- Schroeder, R. and Fry, J. (2007) Social Science Approaches to e-Science: Framing an Agenda. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 12(2).
- Schroeder, R., Heldal, I. and Tromp, J. (2006) The Usability of Collaborative Virtual Environments and Methods for the Analysis of Interaction. Presence 15:655-667.
- Axelsson, A.-S., Abelin, A. and Schroeder, R. (2003) Anyone Speak Spanish? Language Encounters in Multi-User Virtual Environments and the Influence of Technology. New Media and Society 5:475-498.
- Schroeder, R. (2002) The Consumption of Technology in Everyday Life: Car, Telephone, Television in Sweden and America in a Comparative-Historical Perspective. Sociological Research Online 7(4).
- Schroeder, R. and Swedberg, R. (2002) Weberian perspectives on science, technology and the economy. The British Journal of Sociology 53:383-401.
