Curriculum Vitae 
Research Statement
Teaching Statement
Selected papers are available on my research page.
Education
Ph.D., Information and Library Science, Expected Fall 2010
School of Information and Library Science, UNC-Chapel Hill
Dissertation: Social Information Seeking During a Life Transition
Advisor: Gary Marchionini
Committee: Deborah Barreau, danah boyd, Paul Jones, Sri Kalyanaraman
Certificate in Survey Methodology, Expected May 2010
Odum Institute for Research in Social Science, UNC-Chapel Hill
B.A., Economics, May 2000
UNC-Chapel Hill
Publications
Key: [R]=Refereed, [RA]=Refereed Abstract/Short Paper, [I]=Invited
Books
Stutzman, F. (2010). Research and Analysis of Online Social Networks. Under Contract, Morgan-Claypool.
Book Chapters
Stutzman, F. (2008). The Vibrancy of Online Social Space. In Rigby, B. (Ed.) Mobilizing Generation 2.0: A Practical Guide to Using Web 2.0 Technologies to Recruit, Engage & Activate Youth. Jossey-Bass, New York. [I]
Journal Articles
Stutzman, F. (2008). The Spatial Production of Friendship. Re-Public special issue: Towards a critique of the social web. [R]
Stutzman, F. (2006). An Evaluation of Identity-Sharing Behavior in Social Network Communities. International Digital and Media Arts Journal, 3(1). [R]
Pomerantz, J. and Stutzman, F. (2006). Collaborative Reference Work in the Blogosphere. Reference Services Review, 34(2). [I]
Stutzman, F. (2006). Academic Blogging: The Value of Conversation. Teachers College Record, October, 2006. [I]
Conference Papers
Stutzman, F. (2009). Information Seeking During a Life Transition. AOIR 2009 Doctoral Colloquium, Milwaukee, WI. [R]
Stutzman, F. and Hartzog, W. (2009). Boundary Regulation in Social Media. AOIR 2009, Milwaukee, WI. [RA]
Stutzman, F. (2009). Late Adopters of Social Network Sites. AOIR 2009, Milwaukee, WI. [RA]
Stutzman, F., Stull, V., and Thompson, C. (2009). The Supportive Behaviors of Older Social Network Site Users. ASIST 2009 Social Informatics Workshop, Vancouver, BC. [R]
Stutzman, F. (2009). Social Network Sites and Information Needs During a Life Transition. ASIST 2009 Collaborative Information Seeking and Sharing Workshop, Vancouver, BC. [R]
Capra, R., Lee, C., Marchionini, G., Russell, T., Shah, C. and Stutzman, F. (2008). Selection and Context Scoping for Digital Video Collections: An Investigation of YouTube and Blogs. JCDL 2008, Pittsburgh, PA. [R]
Capra, R., Marchionini, G., Oh, J., Stutzman, F. and Zhang, Y. (2007). Effects of Structure and Interaction Style on Distinct Search Tasks. JCDL 2007, Vancouver, BC. [R]
Stutzman, F. (2006). Toward an Archival Approach to Digital Identity Management. Identity and Identification in a Networked World Graduate Student Symposium. New York, NY. [R]
Stutzman, F. (2006). An Evaluation of Identity-Sharing Behavior in Social Network Communities. iDMAa and IMS Code Conference 2006, Oxford, OH. [R, Best paper selected for journal]
Conference Posters
Stutzman, F. and Kramer-Duffield, J. (2008). Modeling Cultural Acquisition in Online Social Networks. ASIST 2008, Columbus, OH. [R]
Stutzman, F. (2008). Longitudinal Analysis of Freshman Adoption of Facebook.com. iConference 2008, Los Angeles, CA. [R]
Russell, T. and Stutzman, F. (2007). Self-Representation of Online Identity in Collected Hyperlinks. ASIST 2007, Milwaukee, WI. [R]
Stutzman, F. and Russell, T. (2006). ClaimID: A System for Personal Identity Management. JCDL 2007, Chapel Hill, NC. [R]
Stutzman, F., Lazorchak, B. and Wilbur, J. (2004). Metric Aggregation for Social Network Analysis in Blogspheres. ASIST IA Summit 2004, Austin, TX. [R]
Book Reviews
Stutzman, F. (2009). [Review of the book Online Social Support: The Interplay of Social Networks and Computer-Mediated Communication], Resource for Cyberculture Studies, September 2009. [I]
White Papers
Hobgen, G. et. al. (2007). Security Issues for Social Networking. European Network and Information Security Agency. [I]
Presentations
Conference Presentations
Social Annotation in Social Network Sites. iConference 2008, Los Angeles, CA. [RA]
Okay, Facebook me: Exploring Behavior, Motivations and Uses in Social Network Sites. iConference 2008. Los Angeles, CA. [RA]
Research Directions in Social Network Websites. ASIST 2007, Milwaukee, WI. [RA]
Impression Formation and Management in Social Network Websites. ICA 2007, San Francisco, CA. [RA]
Our Lives, Our Facebooks. Sunbelt 2006, Vancouver, BC. [RA]
Invited Presentations
RENCI/National Weather Service Visionary Talk. Chapel Hill, NC. 2009.
Making Sense of Social Network Sites. Carolina College for Lifelong Learning, Chapel Hill, NC. 2009.
Identity, Privacy and Support: Three Perspectives on Social Network Sites. CRADLE, Chapel Hill, NC. 2009.
Studying Social Network Sites. North Carolina Governor’s School. Raleigh, NC. 2008.
Identity and Interaction in the Age of Facebook. Davies Forum, University of San Francisco. San Francisco, CA. 2008.
Online Social Network Sites. North Carolina State Libraries. Raleigh, NC. 2007.
Collective Activism and Participation in Social Network Sites. Wayne State University Virtual Citizenship Symposium. Detroit, MI. 2007.
Do You Know Facebook? Morehead Planetarium Current Science Forum. Chapel Hill, NC. 2007.
Visa for MySpace and Facebook. Higher Ed Experts Webinar. 2007.
The New Identity Future. TTI/Vanguard Conference on Identity and Trust, Dallas, TX. 2007.
Online Social Networks. Community Next Conference, Palo Alto, CA. 2007.
Social Networks and Political Action. Working Assets, San Francisco, CA. 2007.
The Social Revolution: How Our Connections Will Change Technology. CTC Conference (Keynote). Chapel Hill, NC. 2006.
ClaimID and Digital Identity Management. Duke University. Durham, NC. 2006.
Our Lives, Our Facebooks. Google (Tech Talk). Mountain View, CA. 2006.
Social Software. Yahoo! Sunnyvale, CA. 2006.
An Evaluation of Identity-Sharing Behavior in Social Network Communities. CRADLE, Chapel Hill, NC. 2005.
Invited Panelist and Moderator
Imagined Identity: Envisioning the Future of Social Networks. HASTAC II, Irvine, CA. 2008.
Social Networks, Tipping Points and Organizing. Personal Democracy Forum. New York, NY. 2007.
The New Disruptors. Organized by CNN and Business 2.0 Magazine. Chapel Hill, NC. 2007.
At the Interface of Everything. HASTAC I, Durham, NC. 2007.
The Facebook Phenomenon. North Carolina State University. Raleigh, NC. 2006.
Social Networking Sites. Santa Clara University. Santa Clara, CA. 2006.
Networked Political Action. UNC Chapel Hill School of Government Local Government of the Future Conference. Chapel Hill, NC. 2006.
Organizing the World’s Information, Google’s Vision for the 21st Century. University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, NC. 2006.
Colloquia
Doctoral Colloquia
Association of Internet Researchers Doctoral Colloquium. Milwaukee, WI. 2009. [R]
iConference Doctoral Colloquium. Los Angeles, CA. 2008. [R]
Workshops
NSF Research Institute for the Science of Socio-Technical Systems. Ann Arbor, MI. 2008. [R]
NSF Workshop on Values in Design. Santa Clara, CA. 2008. (Admitted, unable to attend) [R]
Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposium. Redmond, WA. 2007. (Invited 2008) [I]
Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Program. Cambridge, MA. 2007. [R]
UNC Social Software Symposia. Chapel Hill, NC. 2006. (Organizer)
Thinking Through New Media. Durham, NC. 2006. [R]
Identity and Identification in a Networked World Graduate Student Symposium. New York, NY. 2006. [R]
Foo Camp. Sebastopol, CA. 2003, 2004, 2008. (Invited 2009) [I]
Honors
Academic Honors
Kalp Fellowship. School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, NC. 2009-2010.
Teaching Fellowship. School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, NC. 2007-2010.
Research Assistantship. Unrestricted funds, provided by Microsoft. School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, NC. 2005-2007.
Selected to attend AOIR Doctoral Colloquium. Milwaukee, WI. 2009.
Selected to attend NSF Research Institute for the Science of Socio-Technical Systems. Travel and Lodging Support. Ann Arbor, MI. 2008.
Selected to attend NSF Workshop on Values in Design. Travel and Lodging Support. Santa Clara, CA. 2008.
Selected to advisory board of HarambeeNet, NSF-sponsored project exploring social networks and education. Honorarium. Durham, NC. 2007-2009.
Selected to attend iConference Doctoral Colloquium. Travel and Lodging Support. Los Angeles, CA. 2008.
Selected to attend Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposium. Travel and Lodging Support. Redmond, WA. 2007. (Invited 2008)
Selected to attend Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Program. Cambridge, MA. 2007.
Second Runner-Up, Best Poster. JCDL 2006. Chapel Hill, NC. 2006.
Invited Lectures
University of North Carolina, Greensboro University Library Fall Lecture. Greensboro, NC. 2009.
University of San Francisco Davies Forum. Travel and Lodging Support, Honorarium. San Francisco, CA. 2008.
Wayne State University Citizenship and New Technologies Symposium. Travel and Lodging Support, Honorarium. Detroit, MI. 2007.
TTI/Vanguard Conference on Identity and Trust. Travel and Lodging Support. Dallas, TX. 2007.
Community Next Conference. Travel and Lodging Support. San Francisco, CA. 2007.
Google. Mountain View, CA. 2006.
Yahoo! Sunnyvale, CA. 2006.
Grants
Smallwood Foundation. $25,000 Funding development of Lyceum. 2006. With Paul Jones.
IBM Shared University Research Grant. $56,000. Funding research and development at Ibiblio. 2005. With Paul Jones and John Reuning.
Johnson Center for Excellence Intellectual Life Award. $500.00. University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, NC. 2003.
IBM Shared University Research Grant. $50,000. Funding research and development at Ibiblio. 2002. With Paul Jones and John Reuning.
Experience
Teaching Experience
INLS 490-151, Online Social Networks | UNC-Chapel Hill |
Developed graduate-level course exploring online social networks. Fall 2007 (4.7/5.0), Spring 2008 (4.5/5.0), Spring 2009 (4.2/5.0), Fall 2009.
INLS 490-152: Relational Perspectives in CMC | UNC-Chapel Hill |
Developed graduate-level course exploring computer mediated communication. Fall 2008 (4.7/5.0).
Guest Lecturer | UNC-Chapel Hill |
I have guest lectured or substitute taught the following courses at UNC-Chapel Hill: INLS 92, 181, 200, 235, 461 and 500.
Research Experience (PI or Co-PI)
TOLA (Transitional, Older and Late Adopters) | 2009 - Present |
With Valeda Stull and Cheryl Thompson. This project explores how transitional, older, and late-adopting populations are using social network sites. The work focuses on how social network sites enable the provisioning of social support among the population. The first wave of this study involved fifteen semi-structured interviews, with following waves including a survey and user study.
Boundary Regulation in Social Media | 2009 - Present |
With Woodrow Hartzog. This project explores how individuals manage disclosure boundaries in social media. The first wave of the study involved twenty in-depth interviews with individuals who maintain dual identities on a social media website.
Undergraduate Facebook Privacy Behaviors | 2008-2009 |
With Jacob Kramer-Duffield. This project involved a probability web survey of undergraduates to examine privacy practices in the social network site Facebook.
Online Identity Management | 2007-2008 |
With Terrell Russell (Co-PI). This project involved a series of studies examining how individuals construct their hyperlinked identities, using ClaimID as data source.
Facebook Privacy Pilot Study | 2006 |
Using a survey and content analysis, this project looked at the paradoxical nature of privacy behavior on Facebook.
Longitudinal Adoption of Facebook | 2005-2006 |
Using custom-built software, I collected weekly snapshots of the UNC Facebook. This data was then post-processed, and is in the process of being analyzed (using survival and hierarchical linear models).
Research Experience (Project Member)
Pew Internet and American Life Mobile Technology Study | 2009 |
PI: Amanda Lenhart, Richard Ling, Scott Campbell, Susan Douglas and Michael Traugott. Assisted in the development and execution of a national probability survey (RDD/Mobile Phones) assessing use of mobile technology. Tasks include questionnaire development, instrument testing and literature review development.
YouTube/Blog Digital Archiving Project | 2008 |
PI: Gary Marchionini, Robert Capra. Developed a large-scale blog data collection system used for curatorial comparison of social media archiving.
Endeca User Study | 2008 |
PI: Gary Marchionini, Robert Capra. Developed a corpus used in evaluation of a range of search tasks in Endeca search software.
Professional Experience
UNC School of Information and Library Science | 2007 - Present, Chapel Hill, NC |
Teaching Fellow
UNC School of Information and Library Science | 2005 - 2007, Chapel Hill, NC |
Research Assistant
Ibiblio.org | 2001 - 2005, Chapel Hill, NC |
Director of Technology, Project Manager
The Motley Fool | 2000 - 2001, Alexandria, VA |
Project Manager, Systems Engineer
Nortel Networks | 1998 - 2000, Research Triangle, NC |
Co-Op, Consultant
Consulting Experience
HASTAC/MacArthur Digital Media Competition | 2008 |
Director of Social Networking
Political Consulting | 2004-2008 |
Consultant to the campaigns of Wesley Clark, John Kerry, and John Edwards. Invited to consult for Barack Obama for America.
Private Consulting | 2004-2009 |
Consultant to firms in a range of industries, including mobile technology, search, education, development and financial sectors.
Service
Service to the Profession
Ad-Hoc Reviewer, Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology.
Ad-Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication.
Ad-Hoc Reviewer, Information, Communication and Society.
Ad-Hoc Reviewer, IEEE Spectrum.
Ad-Hoc Reviewer, IEEE Computer.
Ad-Hoc Reviewer, IEEE Internet Computing.
Ad-Hoc Reviewer, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Ad-Hoc Reviewer, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
Ad-Hoc Reviewer, iConference.
Ad-Hoc Reviewer, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications.
Ad-Hoc Reviewer, Rocky Mountain Communications Review.
Ad-Hoc Reviewer, Encyclopedia of Social Interactions Technology.
Ad-Hoc Reviewer, Handbook of Technology Management.
Program Committee, iConference. Chapel Hill, NC. 2009.
Program Committee, WWW I3 Workshop. Banff, CA. 2007.
Program Committee, CAUSE Conference. Chapel Hill, NC. 2005.
Volunteer, JCDL. Chapel Hill, NC. 2006.
Volunteer, ASIST. Charlotte, NC. 2005.
Co-Organizer, UNC Social Software Symposium. With Gary Marchionini. University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, NC. 2006.
Service to the School
Undergraduate Committee, 2009-2010.
Doctoral Student Association Representative, 2007-2008.
Research and Doctoral Committee, 2006-2007.
Organized lectures by: danah boyd, Cory Doctorow, Sarah Robbins and David Weinberger.
Committees
C. Yoder, Honors B.A., School of Journalism and Mass Communication, 2009.
D. Iberkleid, M.S. Field Experience, School of Information and Library Science, 2009.
J. Weis, Honors B.S., School of Information and Library Science, 2009.
E. K. Lyons, Honors B.S., School of Information and Library Science, 2008.
B. Bumgarner, Honors B.A., School of Journalism and Mass Communication, 2007.
Miscellaneous
Professional Affiliations
Association of Computing Machinery
American Society of Information Science and Technology
Association of Internet Researchers
Software
Freedom. (http://macfreedom.com/). Freedom is an application that disables wireless and ethernet networking on an Apple computer for a user-defined interval. Featured in The New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Salon Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the Telegraph (UK), the Chronicle of Higher Education and on the popular blogs Boing Boing, Lifehacker, Signal vs. Noise, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Download Squad, Mashable and Hacker News.
ClaimID (http://claimid.com) ClaimID is a consumer identity management utility. ClaimID enables the presentation of a selective, curated link-based identity, and provides users with emergent identity management tools, such as OpenID and Microformats. ClaimID is a production service, with over 100,000 registered users. ClaimID was co-designed with Terrell Russell. Featured in USA Today, The New Scientist, The Christian Science Monitor, The Times of London, Business Week, Information Week, Reuters.
Additional Software: Amazon Wishlist Analytics (under development), Campaign Meme Finder (JCDL 2008), Social Media Recommender (ASIST 2007), Lyceum (ASIST IA Summit 2004).
Technical Skills
Operating Systems: OS X, Unix, Windows
Languages: Perl, Java, Ruby, PHP, Javascript, HTML, LaTeX
Software: Stata, Atlas.Ti, Pajek
Media
Selected press citations. Full list of press citations: http://fredstutzman.com/press.html
Orenstein, P. (2009, October 23). Stop Your Search Engines. The New York Times Magazine.
Manjoo, F. (2009, September 19). Taming the Digital Distractions That Make Your PC a Time Waste. The New York Times.
Soller, K. (2009, July 22). Facebook at Age Five. Newsweek.
Sydell, L. (2009, June 23). Social Networks: They’re Popular, But Will They Pay? [Radio] NPR, Morning Edition.
Stasio, F. (2009, May 20). The State of Things. [Radio] WUNC. (Featured guest).
Grigoriadis, V. (2009, April 5). Do You Own Facebook? New York Magazine.
Traister, R. (2009, April 1). Stop the Internet, I want to get off! Salon Magazine.
Vara, V. (2008, January 28). Thinking About Tomorrow. The Wall Street Journal.
Levy, S. (2007, August 10). Facebook Grows Up. Newsweek.
Newitz, A. (2007, March). Herding the Mob. Wired Magazine.
Gordon, J. (2006, January 11). Researcher Studies Facebook use by College Freshmen at UNC. [Radio] Future Tense. (Profile).
References
Gary Marchionini (Dissertation chair)
Cary C. Boshamer Professor
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Email: march@ils.unc.edu
danah boyd (Reader)
Researcher
Microsoft Research New England
Fellow
Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Email: danah@danah.org
Paul Jones (Reader)
Clinical Associate Professor
School of Information and Library Science
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Founder and Director
Ibiblio.org
Email: pjones@ibiblio.org
Sriram ”Sri” Kalyanaraman (Reader)
Associate Professor
School of Journalism and Mass Communications
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Founder and Director
Media Effects Laboratory
Email: sri@unc.edu
Vitae: November, 2009
- INLS 500: Human Information Interactions
- INLS 696: Directed Study in Human-Computer Interaction
- INLS 752: Digital Preservation and Access
- INLS 818: Seminar in Human-Computer Interaction
- INLS 881: Research Issues and Questions I
- INLS 882: Research Issues and Questions II
- INLS 883: Research Colloquium
- INLS 988: Independent Study in Human-Computer Interaction
- JOMC 890: Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction
- SOCI 708: Linear Models
- SOCI 709: Advanced Linear Models
- SOCI 711: Categorical Data Analysis
- SOCI 754: Survey Sampling
- SOCI 760: Data Collection Methods
- SOCI 761: Questionnaire Design
- SOCI 762: Case Studies in Survey Research
- SOCI 763: Introduction to Survey Computing
- SOCI 905: Practicum in Data Collection
- Special Courses: Subjective Measurement, Latent Class Analysis, Web Surveys, Nonresponse Analysis, Bayesian Statistics for the Social Sciences, Survey Weighting, Structural Equation Modeling, Focus Groups, Survey Management, Qualitative Methods, RTI International Survey Research Seminar
