Clifford Lampe is a

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in the School of Information at the

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. He is best known for his research in the fields of human-computer interaction,

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, and

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. Since 2018 he has been Executive Vice President for ACM SIGCHI. Lampe made foundational contributions in the areas of

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, and

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, work that has been cited over 34,000 times according to

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Education

Cliff Lampe was born in

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and attended

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for his undergraduate studies. He received a

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at the

in 2006 in the School of Information where he was advised by

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. His thesis examined the effects of comment ratings on site participation on the website Slashdot. After graduating from the University of Michigan, Lampe became an assistant

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in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences.

Research, teaching, and service

Lampe currently advises graduate and undergraduate students in the areas of online harassment, incivility online, and civic engagement online. He has developed a citizen interaction course that partners students with local communities to design technologies that support community needs. Lampe received a grant from the

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in 2009 to pursue his work on "the role of social network sites in facilitating collaborative processes". He received a grant from the

Third Century Initiative in 2013 to support his Citizen Interaction project. He is a frequent consultant, speaker, and guest lecturer on topics related to social media and online behavior. He is regularly cited in the press on topics like fake news, privacy, and trolling. He was the technical program chair for the 2016

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Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems and the General Co-Chair for the 2022

Conference.

Awards

In 2013, Lampe (with Eytan Adar and

) received a Google Award for his "MTogether: A Living Lab For Social Media Research" project. In 2014, Lampe received the Joan Durrance Community Engagement Award for his Citizen Interaction Design program. He was named as an

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, in the 2024 class of fellows, "for contributions on social network systems, and outstanding leadership in the ACM SIGCHI community".

Selected works

* 2007. "The benefits of Facebook "friends:" Social capital and college students' use of online social network sites". (with

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and Charles Steinfeld) * 2008. "Social capital, self-esteem, and use of online social network sites: A longitudinal analysis". (with Charles Steinfeld and

) * 2004. "Slash (dot) and burn: distributed moderation in a large online conversation space". (with

)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lampe, Cliff Living people University of Michigan School of Information alumni Kalamazoo College alumni University of Michigan faculty Human–computer interaction researchers Social computing researchers Year of birth missing (living people) 2024 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery