Shawn Walker
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Phone: 602-543-6932
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Mail code: 3051Campus: West
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Shawn Walker is an assistant professor in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the New College at Arizona State University. He received his master's and doctoral degrees in information science from the University of Washington Information School and degrees in international studies, and liberal studies, with a focus on public policy and technology, from Northern Kentucky University.
His research focuses on two complementary areas: 1) new forms of political participation emerging on social media platforms and 2) the related challenges of collecting, analyzing, and working with data from these platforms. This work examines how new forms of political participation emerge on social media platforms through the analysis of social media posts surrounding social movements, protests, and elections. His work on social media methods addresses gaps in our understanding about social media data, collection methods, and the implications (ethics, representation, etc.) of using those methods.
- Ph.D. Information Science, University of Washington Information School
- M.S. Information Science, University of Washington Information School
- M.A. Liberal Studies (Technology and Public Policy), Northern Kentucky University
- B.A. International Studies, Northern Kentucky University
Driscoll, K., Walker, S. (2014). Big Data, Big Questions| Working Within a Black Box: Transparency in the Collection and Production of Big Twitter Data. International Journal Of Communication, 8, 20.
Bennett, W. L., Segerberg, A., Walker, S. (2014). Organization in the crowd: peer production in large-scale networked protests. Information, Communication Society, 17(2), 232–260. doi:10.1080/1369118X.2013.870379.
Agarwal, S. D., Bennett, W. L., Johnson, C. N., Walker, S. (2014). A Model of Crowd Enabled Organization: Theory and Methods for Understanding the Role of Twitter in the Occupy Protests. International Journal of Communication, 8(0), 27.
Nahon, K., Hemsley, J., Walker, S. Hussain, M. (2011). Fifteen Minutes of Fame: The Power of Blogs in the Lifecycle of Viral Political Information. Policy Internet, 3, 1–28. doi: 10.2202/1944-2866.1108.
Courses
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SDS 510 | Data Wrangling |
| SDS 551 | Computational Social Meth II |
| SDS 570 | Social Data Projects |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SDS 590 | Reading and Conference |
| CMN 593 | Applied Project |
| CMN 580 | Practicum |
| SDS 592 | Research |
| SDS 537 | Technologies of Community |
| SDS 510 | Data Wrangling |
| SDS 537 | Technologies of Community |
| SDS 537 | Technologies of Community |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| STC 590 | Reading and Conference |
| STC 551 | Computational Social Meth II |
| STC 551 | Computational Social Meth II |
| STC 570 | Social Data Projects |
| STC 570 | Social Data Projects |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| STC 590 | Reading and Conference |
| CMN 593 | Applied Project |
| CMN 580 | Practicum |
| STC 593 | Applied Project |
| STC 592 | Research |
| STC 528 | Communicating Data Science |
| STC 570 | Social Data Projects |
| STC 528 | Communicating Data Science |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| STC 590 | Reading and Conference |
| STC 593 | Applied Project |
| STC 550 | Computational Social Methods I |
| STC 550 | Computational Social Methods I |
| STC 551 | Computational Social Meth II |
| STC 551 | Computational Social Meth II |
| STC 570 | Social Data Projects |
| STC 570 | Social Data Projects |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| STC 590 | Reading and Conference |
| CMN 593 | Applied Project |
| CMN 580 | Practicum |
| STC 593 | Applied Project |
| STC 592 | Research |
| STC 528 | Communicating Data Science |
| STC 570 | Social Data Projects |
| STC 528 | Communicating Data Science |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| STC 593 | Applied Project |
| STC 550 | Computational Social Methods I |
| STC 550 | Computational Social Methods I |
| STC 551 | Computational Social Meth II |
| STC 551 | Computational Social Meth II |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| STC 590 | Reading and Conference |
| CMN 593 | Applied Project |
| CMN 580 | Practicum |
| STC 593 | Applied Project |
| STC 592 | Research |
2021 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| STC 593 | Applied Project |
2020 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| STC 590 | Reading and Conference |
| CMN 593 | Applied Project |
| CMN 580 | Practicum |
| STC 593 | Applied Project |
| STC 592 | Research |
| HON 394 | Special Topics |
2020 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| STC 593 | Applied Project |