Currently, I am an assistant professor in the Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media department at Michigan State University and live with my family (pic here) in lovely East Lansing, MI.

Currently I'm involved in several research projects. My Research page has links to most of my publications, so please check there for more information. My current research projects include the following:

• Social Network Sites
  •  Charles Steinfield, Cliff Lampe and I are looking at Facebook use by undergraduates, although we hope to expand our research to examine other populations soon. We have examined the relationship between social capital and Facebook use as well as a host of other questions. Currently we are looking more closely at friendship markers in Facebook using qualitative and quantitative data.  
  • I also co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication on SNSs with danah boyd.  As part of this effort we wrote an overview of SNSs (history, definitional issues, scholarship overview)
• Self-Presentation in Online Dating Environments; Issues of Privacy and Security in Online Environments (with Jennifer Gibbs)
• Deception in Online Dating Profiles (with Jeff Hancock and Catalina Tomas) 
• The use of Blogs and Wikis in the Classroom (supported by a Lilly Teaching Fellowship from Michigan State University)