Brief Biography
Fred Stutzman is a doctoral candidate and teaching fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science. Advised by Dr. Gary Marchionini, his dissertation looks at how people use social network sites for support during a life transition. He is also interested in the decisions people make when constructing their online identities. Fred holds a BA in Economics, and a graduate certificate in quantitative methodologies from the Odum Institute for Research in Social Sciences.
Prior to graduate school, Fred worked in technical and management roles for Ibiblio.org, The Motley Fool, and Nortel Networks. He is the co-founder of ClaimID.com, a social web identity management system, and the designer of Freedom and Anti-Social, the productivity applications. Fred has consulted with top organizations, including the Pew Internet and American Life Project and MacArthur Foundation, and the presidential campaigns of Wesley Clark, John Kerry and John Edwards. His work has been featured in the Economist, New York Times Magazine, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Wired Magazine, Newsweek Magazine, Slate Magazine, Salon Magazine and on NPR.
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Web-use photograph Credit: York Wilson
Web/print photograph Credit: Scott Beale/Laughing Squid
