Jeff Hemsley - Bio
Jeff Hemsley is a third year PhD candidate at the iSchool and co-founder of the Social Media Lab at UW. He is interested in understanding how social media may provide a grassroots feedback mechanism for social change. Specifically, he intends to study viral information (as well as other types of information flows) as a type of influential cultural artifact that mediates agent's intentions and alters social structures. Social network analysis, process analysis and sociotechnical perspectives are all approaches he hopes to employ.
He earned a B.A. in Economics (summa cum-laude), with an emphasis in statistics, and a minor in Mathematics from Cal State East Bay.
Before returning to school, Jeff spent 15 years in the software industry as a Software Test Engineer and QA Manager.
He enjoys flying his stunt kites and playing cribbage and Magic the Gathering and making data visualization with R. Jeff and his wife live in a tiny house that they built before coming to Seattle.
Journal Papers:
Barzilai-Nahon, K., Hemsley, J., Walker, S., Hussain, M., 2011, "Fifteen Minutes of Fame: The Place of Blogs in the Life Cycle of Viral Political Information", Policy & Internet, Vol. 3(1).
Conference Papers:
Hemsley, J., & Robert M. Mason. 2012. The Nature of Knowledge in the Social Media Age: Implications for Knowledge Management Models. Presented at the 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Wailea, Maui, HI.
Hemsley, J., Patin, B., Nahon, K., 2011 "Information Movements in Networked Spaces: A Model of Networked Private and Public Spaces", Presented at Internet Research 12.0: Performance and Participation, Seattle WA.
Hemsley, J., 2011. "Blogs and Viral Political Information", Presented at Northwest Summit 2011: Workshop on Information Systems and Management, Seattle WA.
Ostergren, M., Hemsley, J., Belarde-Lewis, M., Walker, S., "A vision for Information Visualization in Information Science", Proceedings of the iConference 2011, Seattle, WA. (2011). *Best Paper Award
Nahon, K., Hemsley, H., Walker, S., Hussain, M., "Blogs: Spinning a Web of Virality", Proceedings of the iConference 2011, Seattle, WA. (2011)
Barzilai-Nahon, K. and Hemsley, J. "Democracy.com: A Tale of Political Blogs and Content". Proceedings of the 44th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2011. HICSS'11, 2011., (2011). *Best Paper Award
Barzilai-Nahon, K., Hemsley, J., Walker, S., Hussain, M., "Fifteen Minutes of Fame: The Place of Blogs in the Life Cycle of Viral Political Information", Conference Internet, Politics, Policy 2010: An Impact Assessment, Oxford, UK
Hemsley, J., 2008. "Tobacco Interests, Information Policy and Market Failure", 32th Annual CSU, SSRIC Student Research Conference *Gloria Rummels Award for Best quantitative data Paper
Hemsley, J., 2000. "Classes, Objects, Dynamic Instantiation and Constructors", Segue Software's User Conference, San Diego, CA