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Joseph B. Walther Bertelsen Presidential Chair in Technology and Society |
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Biography
Joe Walther is a behavioral scientist who has developed several original theories and conducted a number of empirical studies on the interpersonal aspects of computer-mediated communication and social media, with applications in personal relations, online groups, inter-ethnic conflict, and online hate. The research examines how people form impressions and get to know one another online, and how they relate to one another personally and/or professionally as they work, socialize, or collaborate in hate posting. The work has been cited frequently in a number of disciplines. Extensions of this work have been made into online dating, deception, collaboration and knowledge-sharing, social network sites, and other social media.
Walther served as the division chair to the Academy of Management's Organizational Communication and Information Systems division, and the ICA's Communication and Technology division.
He is a Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Children and Media, Amsterdam School of Communication Research ASCoR, University of Amsterdam; and was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Rebooting Social Media at BKC(2023-2024); a Mercator Fellow, Institute for User-Centred Media, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany; and a Fulbright Senior Scholar. He is a Fellow of the International Communication Association and a Distinguished Scholar in the National Communication Association.
Journal publications (bibliography with email request facility)
Courses
Fulbright to Amsterdam School of Communication Research ASCoR 2013 (Blogged here)
View Walther's non-authoritative, but extensive bibliography of Computer-Mediated Communication articles, chapters, and books.
