PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Editorial Activities
Editorial board memberships: The Review of Communication, 1999-present; Small Group Research, 2008-2009;Electronic Journal for Computer Mediated Communication, 1994-2009; Journal of Communication, 2001-2003, 2005-present; Journal of Applied Communication Research, 1996-1997, 2007; Communication Theory, 1997-1998, 2002-2005, 2010-present;Human Communication Research, 1992-1995, 1997-2004, 2010-present; Organization Science, 2000-2004; Management Communication Quarterly, 1992-1998; Handbook for Small Group Communication, 1996-1997.
Editorial Assistant: Communication Research, 1986-1987.
Ad hoc manuscript reviewer: Science, PNAS, Organizational Science, Management Science, Communication Theory,
Communication Research, Communication Yearbook, Journal of Communication, Communication Monographs, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Academy
of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociologist, American Journal of Sociology, Science
PNAS, International Journal of Man Machine Studies, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Business
Communication, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Journal of the American Society for Information Sciences,
The Information Society Journal.
Paper reviewer:
WWW
CSCW
CHI
International Communication Association
National Communication Association
American Institute for Decision Sciences
Academy of Management
Reviewer for Grant Proposals submitted to:
U.S. National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, European Union Information Society & Technology (IST) Program, National
Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Washington, D. C., MacArthur Foundation Digital Media & Learning Initiative.
Review Panelist: Over 15 panels for U.S. National Science Foundation in the Directories of Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences and Computing &
Information Sciences Engineering; Two panels for the National Institutes of Health 2007-2010; Portugal’s National Science Foundation; MacArthur Foundation
Digital Media & Learning Initiative; Panel for the European Union eGov awards at the 5th European eGovernment Conference in Malmoe, Sweden,
2009, European Union, 6th Framework Program on Information Society Technology, 2003; E-workshop, Scottish Higher Education
Funding Council, 1999-2002.
Reviewer of book manuscripts for: Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Guilford Publishers, Oxford University Press, MIT Press, Sage Publications,
Springer, SUNY Press, Texas A&M University Press, Bedford/St. Martin’s, Harvard University Press.
Workshop Panelist for: National Research Council workshop report (2010). Unifying social frameworks: Sociocultural data to accomplish Department of Defense Missions, several NSF workshops outlining agenda and project
directions for NSF’s Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence/Knowledge Network (KDI/KN) Initiative, National Digital Government initiative, Human and Social
Dynamics (HSD), Social and Computational Systems (SoCS),Network Science and Engineering (NetSE), and the Cyberinfrastructure Initiative.
National Committees: Member, Research Networking Group, NIH Clinical & Translational Science Awards, 2009-2010; Chair, Social Networks Working Group,
NIH Clinical & Translational Science Awards, 2009-2010; NSF Computing & Information Sciences Engineering (CISE) & Social, Behavioral &
Economic (SBE) Sciences Directorates joint advisory sub-committee on Research Portfolio Tools for Structuring, Analyzing, Visualizing and Interacting with Proposal and Award Portfolios, 2009-2010.
Advisor: 1998 NSF Summer Workshop on Collaborative Manufacturing, Purdue University, sponsored by NSF’s Engineering Research Center for Collaborative
Manufacturing.
Workshop/Conference Organizer/Program Planner
Co-chair, August 3, 2012, Professional development workshop The innovations in team innovation: The science of teams and the science in teams at
the annual meeting of the Academy of Management in Boston, MA.
http://program.aomonline.org/2012/submission.asp?mode=ShowSession&SessionID=298
Co-chair (with Brian Uzzi), Net Sci 2012 and ACM Web Science 2012, Evanston, IL.
Associate Chair, February 11-15, 2012, The 2012 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2012),
Seattle, W.A.
Member, 2011 National Communication Association Organizational Communication Division Awards Committee.
Co-organizer, 2011 Social Mobile Web workshop at ICWSM, Barcelona.
Co-organizer, 2011 NICO/ANN/SONIC Web Net Science Workshop, Evanston, IL.
Co-organizer (with Brian Uzzi) 2011 NICO (Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems) Complexity Conference, Evanston, IL.
General co-chair, 2011 3rdInternational Conference on Social Informatics, Singapore.
Member, Review and Selection Committee, May 6, 2011, Second Doctoral Consortium of the Communication and Technology Division of the International
Communication Association, Boston, MA.
Co-chair (with Les Carr), Program Track, 2010, WWW2010 Extended Semantic Web Conference, Raleigh, NC.
Co-chair (with Holly Falk-Krzesinski) April 22-24, 2010, 1st Annual International Conference on the Science of Team Science, Chicago, IL.
Member, Organizing Committee, SciTS (Science of Team Science)Co-chair (with Manuel Castells and Peter Monge) February 22-24, 2010, International Seminar on
Network Theory Conference, Chicago, IL.
Member, Organizing Committee, 2009, 2010, WWW Conference
Member, Organizing Committee, 2010 Extended Semantic Web Conference
Faculty co-organizer (with Paul Leonardi) October 16-18, 2009, 22nd annual Organizational Communication Miniconference, Northwestern University, Evanston,
IL.
Co-chair (with Karen Church, Josep M. Pujol, & Barry Smyth) August 29-31, 2009, Social Mobile Web workshop, Vancouver, Canada.
Co-organizer (with Uri Wilensky and Seyed Iravani) 2009 NICO Annual Conference on Complexity and Networks, Evanston, IL.
Co-organizer (with David Lazer & Ines Mergel, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University), 2008, Workshop on Application of Social Network
Analysis in Digital Government.NSF Digital Government Conference, Montreal, Canada.
Co-organizer (with Charles Steinfield, Brian Pentland, and Mark Ackerman) of the 3rd International Communities & Technologies conference, 2007,
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.
Co-organizer (with Katy Borner, Stan Wasserman, Laszlo Barabasi, & Alessandro Vespignani) May 2006, International workshop and conference on Network
Science (NetSci 2006), Bloomington, IN.
Co-organizer (with Brad Hesse, National Cancer Institute), May 2006, Symposium on Cyberinfrastructure for Public Health, 2006 NSF Digital Government
Conference, San Diego, CA.
Co-organizer (with David Lazer & Ines Mergel, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University), May 2006, 2007, Workshop on Application of Social
Network Analysis in Digital Government. NSF Digital Government Conference, San Diego, CA.
Co-organizer (with Katy Borner), October 2006, NSF Workshop on Social Networks and Cyberinfrastructure (SNAC).National Center for Supercomputing
Applications, Urbana, IL.
Co-organizer (with David Lazer & Ines Mergel, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University), 2005, Workshop on Application of Social Network
Analysis in Digital Government.NSF Digital Government meeting, Atlanta, GA.
Co-organizer (with Scott Leischow, National Cancer Institute), May 16, 2005, Symposium and “ Birds of a Feather” Session on Cyberinfrastructure for Public Health. NSF Digital Government
Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
Member, Program Committee, August 22-26, 2005, eGov 2005 Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark. http://www.iwv.jku.at/events/egov2005/index.htm
Member, Program Committee, August 30-September 3, 2004, eGov 2004 Conference, Zaragosa, Spain.
Member, Organizing Committee, 2003-2007,International Symposium on Understanding Complex Systems, Urbana-Champaign, IL. http://www.how-why.com/ucs2005/
Co-organizer (with Steve Corman & Ron Rice), May 27, 2004, Workshop on Communication Networks in the Public Interest. Annual convention of the
International communication Association, New Orleans, LA.
Co-organizer, (with Anthony Stefandis, U of Maine) May 24, 2004, Birds of a Feather. Session on International Collaboration on Digital Government Research,
Digital Government 2004 meeting, Seattle, WA. http://www.dgrc.org/dgo2004/program/bofs/nosh.pdf
Co-organizer, (with Anthony Stefandis, U of Maine) May 21-24, 2004, NSF Workshop on Information Society Technologies and Research Challenges for the 21st Century,
Budapest, Hungary.
Organizer and Moderator, February 25, 2004, Gizmos, Gadgets and Googles, Panel sponsored by UIUC’s Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Urbana,
IL.
Organizer and Moderator, December 9, 2003, Silicon, Carbon, Culture Roundtable: Discussion on the projects undertaken as part of the 3-semester initiative,
jointly sponsored by UIUC College of LAS and FAA, Beckman Auditorium, Urbana, IL.
Program Planner, May 2003, Organizational Communication Division, Annual Convention of the International Communication Association, San Diego, CA.
Member, Program Committee, 2003,
Digital Cities 3: Local Information And Communication Infrastructures: Experiences And Challenges
, Kyoto, Japan.
Program Planner, July 15-19, 2002, Organizational Communication Division, Annual Convention of the International Communication Association, Seoul, South
Korea.
Member, Program Committee, 2002, International Workshop on Regulated Agent-Based Social Systems: Theories and Applications
(RASTA’02). http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/events/rasta02/cfp.html
Member, Program Committee, February 12-17, 2002, International Network for Social Network Analysis Annual Sunbelt Conference, New Orleans, LA.
Member, Program Committee, October 18-21, 2001, 3rd Kyoto Digital Cities and Communityware Meeting, Kyoto, Japan.
Member, Workshop on Collaborative Learning, May 18-21, 1998, UIUC Summer Faculty Institute, Urbana, IL.
Member, Program Committee, 1998, ICA Annual Convention, soliciting sponsorship, providing Internet/Web support, Jerusalem, Israel.
Member, Program Committee, 1997, ICA Annual Convention, soliciting sponsorship, providing Internet/Web support, Montreal, Canada.
Faculty Coordinator, 1997, IXth Annual Organizational Communication Miniconference, Champaign-Urbana, IL.
Member, 1996-1997, SCA Nominations Committee, Publications Awards in Organizational Communication.
Membership in Professional Associations
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
American Sociological Association (ASA)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS)
International Communication Association (ICA)
International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA)
National Communication Association (NCA)
Appointed Offices
Member, Nominations Committee, Organizational Communication Division, International Communication Association, 2011.
Chair, Web Science Track, ESWC, 2010.
Member, Advisory board, NSF project: Examination of Changes in Integration and Innovation Among Instructional Integration Initiative Projects.
Member, Advisory council, Family Health Diffusion System Project, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Program Committee, First IEEE Workshop on the application of social networking concepts to cluster, cloud, grid and services computing.
Member, NSF CISE-SBE Advisory Subcommittee on Discovery in Research Portfolio Tools for Structuring, Analyzing, Visualizing and Interacting with Proposal and Award Portfolios, 2009-2010.
Member, External Advisory Committee to review Social Informatics Program, School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana
University, Bloomington, IN, 2010.
Member, Advisory Board, Responsible Business in the Blogosphere, Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark,
2010-present.
Chair, International Communication Association (ICA) Liaison Committee, 2010-present
Member, National Steering Committee, National Cancer Institute’s Redes en Accion (Latin American Health Network), 2007-2009
Member, International Communication Association (ICA) External Research Funding Task Force, 2009
Member, International Communication Association (ICA) Development Task Force, 2008-2009
Program Director, Web Science Research Initiative, 2009
Member, Web Science Trust, Program Board, 2009
Chair, Freeman Awards Committee, International Network for Social Network Analysis, 2007-2008
Consultant, Canadian Health Services Research Foundation. Leveraging knowledge networks in health services research and delivery, 2007
Chair, International Communication Association, Development Task Force, 2007
External Advisory Board, Immersion Studies, 2003-2004.
Member, Applications, Middleware & Services Advisory Council (AMSAC), Internet2, 2008-2011.
Member, External Review Panel, Department of Communication, Cornell University, 2011.
Member, Media, Technology & Society, Graduate Admissions Committee, 2010-2011
Member, Technology & Social Behavior, Graduate Admissions Committee, 2010-2011
Member, NSF CISE-SBE Advisory Subcommittee on Discovery in Research Portfolio Tools for Structuring, Analyzing, Visualizing and Interacting with Proposal and Award Portfolios, 2009-2010.
Member, Jury for eGov Europe Awards, 2009.
Member, External Advisory Committee to review Social Informatics Program, School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana
University, Bloomington, IN, 2010.
Intranet Advisory Board, Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, 1996-1999.
Associate, Communication Research Associates’ proposal for workshop on managing information overload at Michigan Consolidated, 1998.
Research Associate, Intranet Working Group, Stanford Computer Industry Project, 1997-1998.
Invited Faculty, Executive M.B.A. Program, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, 1995.
Chair, International Communication Association, Nominating committee, 2004-2005
Member, Joint ICA-NCA Task Force, Organizational Assessment Tools, 2003-2005
Member, Best Publication Award Committee, Organizational Communication & Information Systems Division, Academy of Management, 2004-2005
Panelist, NSF Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure for the Social Sciences. Airlie Center, Warrenton, VA, 2004-2005
Invited Expert for Addiction Treatment Vision Panel. Organized by the Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment funded by The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation and the US Government’s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. St. Charles, IL, 2004-2005
Member, National Cancer Institute, Initiative on the Study and Implementation of Systems, 2003-2004
Member, International Communication Association Nominating Committee, 2003-2004
Member, International Communication Association Theme Committee, 2003-2004
Member, Faculty Advisory Board, Jones International University, Jones Intercable, Englewood, CO, 1996-1997, 2001-2002
Chair, Web Services, International Communication Association, 2000-2001
Member, National Communication Association (NCA) -National Science Foundation (NSF) Task Force, 2000-2003
Department Representative, University of Illinois Computing and Communications Services Office, 1998
Chair, International Communication Association, Organizational Communication Division, Redding Dissertation Award Committee, 1998
Elected offices
Chair, Social Network Analysis Working Group, Clinical & Translational Science Awards, 2010-present
Member, Applications, Middleware & Services Advisory Council (AMSAC),Internet2, 2008-2011.
Chair, Organizational Communication Division, International Communication Association, 2002-2004
Vice-Chair Elect, Organizational Communication Division, International Communication Association, 1999, 2001
Secretary, Organizational Communication Division, International Communication Association, 1997-1999
SELECTED UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Northwestern University
Member, Steering Committee, Northwestern Scholars, 2012 – present
Advisor NU/Kellogg Community Social Media Platform, 2012 – present
Member, Advisory Committee, Physical Sciences-Oncology Center (PSOC), 2011 – present
Member, VPIT-CIO Search Committee, Northwestern University, 2009-2011
Member, NICO Executive Committee, 2008-present
Member, Segal Chair Faculty Search Committee, 2010-2011
Member, Media Technology & Society Faculty Search Committee, 2010-2011
Member, McCormick School of Engineering, Tenure & Promotion Committee, 2010-2011
Member, Graduate Committee, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, 2009-2010
Member, Strategic Planning Committee, Department of Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences, 2009-present
Junior Faculty Mentor, School of Communication, Northwestern University, 2007-2010
Member, Ad hoc Promotion Committee, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University, 2009
Member, TSB Executive Committee, Northwestern University, 2009-present
Member, McCormick Cabell Fellows Committee, Northwestern University, 2008-2009
Member, TSB Graduate Admissions Committee, Northwestern University, 2008-2009
Member, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences Graduate Admissions Committee, Northwestern University, 2008-2009
Member, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences Advisory Committee, Northwestern University, 2008-2009
Member, Northwestern Research and Academic Computing Committee (RACC), Northwestern University, 2007-2011
Chair, MTS Search Committee, Northwestern University, 2007-2009
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Member, UIUC Chancellor’s Intellectual Visioning Committee, 2007
Director, Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), 2004-2007
Director, UIUC Center for Advanced Study initiative on The Age of Networks II: Social, Cultural and Technological Connections, 2004-2007
Member, Intellectual Visioning Committee, appointed by Chancellor Richard Herman, 2006-2007
Co-Chair, Department Colloquium Series, 2006-2007
Member, Steering committee UIUC Illinois Informatics Initiative (III), 2006-2007
Member, Steering Committee, UIUC Illinois Homeland Security Research Center, 2006-2007
Director, Woolbert Computing Laboratory and Instructional Computing Laboratory, 1995-2007
Member, Selection committee, UIUC Millercom Distinguished Lectures, 2003-2007
Chair, UIUC Center for Advanced Study Lecture Series on The Age of Networks: Social, Cultural and Technological Connections, 2005-2007
Member, Steering Committee, UIUC Seedbed Initiative on Arts in a Technology-Intensive World, 2004-2007 http://www.seedbed-initiative.uiuc.edu/
Director, Department of Speech Communication Computing and Instructional Laboratories, 1987-2007
Member, Steering Committee, Food Security Initiative, 2003-2007
Member, UIUC Information Technology Advisory Board, 2002-2007
Reviewer, University Research Board, 1990-2007
Department Representative, University Computing Services, 1987-2007
Co-Director, UIUC Center for Advanced Study initiative on The Age of Networks: Social, Cultural and Technological Connections, 2005-2006
Member, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (LAS) Technology Advisory Committee, 2004-2006
Member, UIUC Center for Advanced Study/ George A Miller Program Committee, 2003-2006
Member, Search Committee, Department of Speech Communication, 2005-2006
Co-Chair, Working Group for the UIUC Center for Advanced Study, 2005-2006
Member, Search Committee, Department of Speech Communication and Sociology, 2004-2005
Member, Steering Committee, Campus Initiative on Food Security, 2002-2005
Member, Advisory Board, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), 2003-2005
Member, Advisory Board, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, 2003-2004
Member, Steering Committee, Cross-campus Initiatives, 2003-2005
Member, Steering Committee, Ethnography of the University Initiative, 2003-2004
Member, Steering Committee, Arts & Technology Initiative, 2002-2004
Faculty Mentor and Technology Resource, UIUC’s Center of Advanced Study initiative on Who gets What? The interactions of health policy and social welfare policy, 2003-2004
Member, Steering Committee, Madden Initiative: Silicon, Carbon, Culture: Combining Codes Through the Arts, Humanities, and Technology, 2001-2004
Member, Department Faculty Search Committee, 1999-2004
Member, Steering Committee, Cross Campus Initiatives, 2002-2003
Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Caroline Haythornthwaite, Graduate School of Library & Information Sciences, 2001-2002
Member, Department Advisory Committee, 1999-2002
Member, UIUC Search Committee for the Director of Computing and Communications Services Office, 2000-2001
Member, Faculty Senate, 1999-2001
McNair Scholar Mentor, 2000
Member, Department Advisory Committee, 1998-2000
Member, Department of Speech Communication Human Subjects Committee, 1994-1999
Department Representative, University Research Services, 1987-1999
Director, Macintosh Instructional Computing Laboratory, 1995-1997
Member, Selection Committee, Illini Tradition Awards, 1996-1997
Faculty Representative, UIUC Educational Technologies’ Board, Microsoft Site Builder’s Conference, November 1996
Faculty Advisor, UIUS CCSO’s Virtual Classroom Initiative, 1996
Chair, Oversight Committee on Computing and Communications in the Social Sciences, 1993-1996
Chair, Area Committee on Communication Research and Quantitative Methods curricula, 1995-1996
Member, Advisory Committee of the Advanced Information Technology Program, 1995-1996
Member, Search Committee, OCCSS’ Manager of System Services, 1995-1996
Member, Executive Committee, Language Learning Laboratory, 1988-1989; 1991-1996
Chair, Lincoln Hall Building Network Committee, 1992
Member, Lincoln Hall Building Network Committee, 1990-1992
Faculty Coordinator, Midwest Organizational Communication Mini-conference, 1988, 1992, 1996
Research Affiliate, Advanced Research Institute, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 1990-1991
University of Southern California
Member, Doctoral Research Methods Committee, 1986-1987
Coordinator, Western States Communication Mini-conference, 1986
Member, Facilities and Equipment Committee, 1984-1985
PUBLIC SERVICE
Consulting Activities
Procter & Gamble, 2002-present
Livestrong Foundation, 2009
Vodafone, 2004-2007
Executive Development Associates, 2003-2005
Communication Research Associates, 1995-2001
Annenberg Public Policy Center, 1999-2000
Purdue University, 1998
Utah Transit Authority’s, 1998
Amoco, 1998
Arthur Anderson, configurations of knowledge networks for Change Management Group, 1998
Stanford, 1997-1998
Steelcase Inc., 1996-1998
Merrill Lynch, 1997
Gensler Associates, 1996-1997
Anderson Consulting, 1996
Spectrum Technologies, 1996
DCM, 1996
Government of India’s planning commission, 1996
Indian Institute of Mass Communication, 1996
India’s National Informatics Center, 1996
Illinois Power, 1995-1996
U.S. Department of Commerce, 1995-1996
Member, Programming Committee, Champaign-Urbana Cable Commission, 1992
Oasis Management Consultants, 1987-1990
McDonnell Douglas Corporation, 1987-1990
Communimetrics, Inc., 1984-1987
First Interstate Bancorp, 1985
KSCI-TV, Los Angeles, 1985
Paramount Pictures, 1984
