Nicole Ellison

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Nicole Ellison
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Nicole Ellison

Los Angeles, California, United States
Nationality American
Citizenship United States
Alma mater
Awards ICA Fellow (2019)
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Website http://www-personal.umich.edu/~enicole

Nicole Ellison is the Karl E Weick Collegiate professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. She is best known for her research in the fields of computer-mediated communication, social media, and social networking sites. Her research has been cited over 83,000 times according to Google Scholar. [1]

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Education

Nicole Ellison was born in Los Angeles and received her B.A. cum laude in English at Barnard College at Columbia University in 1990. She received her MA from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California in 1998 and her PhD from there in 1999. She was a professor at Michigan State University before joining the School of Information at the University of Michigan. During the 2019–2020 academic year, Ellison was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University. [2]

Research, teaching, and service

Ellison has made foundational contributions in the areas of computer-mediated communication, mediated interpersonal interaction, self-presentation, use of social media in organizations, relationship initiation and maintenance in online contexts, and online dating sites. Her 2007 and 2013 articles on social network sites (with danah boyd) [3] have over 23,000 citations. Her work on Facebook relationship maintenance has been cited by and adopted in a variety of scholarly articles, and she is frequently sought as a speaker, advisor, and collaborator in these areas. She received a grant from the National Science Foundation in 2009 to pursue her work on "the role of social network sites in facilitating collaborative processes". [4] She also received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the College Knowledge Challenge group to explore the potential for social media to address college-going behaviors among low-income and first-generation college students.

She was named an International Communication Association Fellow in 2019. [5] From 2016 to 2019, Ellison served as the Director of the Doctoral Program at the School of Information.

Media

Ellison is frequently sought for expert commentary on social media. She has been quoted in mainstream news articles on popular social media sites like Facebook [6] and Snapchat, [7] on news and social media, [8] and on relationships and social media. [9]

Selected works

Related Research Articles

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References

  1. "Nicole B. Ellison – Google Scholar Citations" . Retrieved 2024-01-15.
  2. "CASBS Announces 2019–20 Fellows". Stanford University. 2020-03-05.
  3. Boyd, Danah m.; Ellison, Nicole B. (2007). "Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship". Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 13: 210–230. doi: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2007.00393.x .
  4. "NSF Award Search: Award #0916019 - HCC: Small: The role of social network sites in facilitating collaborative processes" . Retrieved 2020-03-04.
  5. "Ellison voted International Communication Association Fellow" . Retrieved 2020-03-04.
  6. Williams, Casey (2016-01-25). "Only 4 Of Your Facebook Friends Really Matter, New Study Finds". Huffington Post. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  7. Dave, Paresh (March 2, 2017). "Evan Spiegel has described Snap as a camera company. He tells us what that means". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  8. Sherr, Ian (2017-02-15). "There's a dating site called TrumpSingles. It's not fake". c|net. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  9. Sherr, Ian (2017-02-10). "Here's why tech has taken over our relationships". c|net. Retrieved 30 November 2017.