Kevin Lewis

Graduate Student in Sociology

Biographical Note

Kevin is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Sociology and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Over the past several years he has overseen the development of a new cultural, multiplex, and longitudinal social network dataset using data from Facebook. This dataset has given rise to a number of collaborative projects exploring the intersection of social networks, cultural tastes (with Jason Kaufman and Marco Gonzalez), race/ethnicity (with Andreas Wimmer), and online privacy. Other current projects include a comparative study of culture in action in the context of contemporary tattooing; an analysis of reciprocity and dominance in a gang homicide network (with Andrew Papachristos); and an exploration of the "structure of activism" based on the Save Darfur campaign (with Jens Meierhenrich). His dissertation examines stratification in the early stages of mate choice using data from a popular online dating site.

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Publications

Lewis, Kevin, Marco Gonzalez, and Jason Kaufman. 2012. “Social Selection and Peer Influence in an Online Social Network.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109:68-72.

Lewis, Kevin. 2011. “The Co-evolution of Social Network Ties and Online Privacy Behavior.” Pp. 91-109 in Privacy Online: Perspectives on Privacy and Self-Disclosure in the Social Web, edited by S. Trepte and L. Reinecke. Heidelberg: Springer.

Wimmer, Andreas and Kevin Lewis. 2010. “Beyond and Below Racial Homophily: ERG Models of a Friendship Network Documented on Facebook.” American Journal of Sociology 116:583-642.

Lewis, Kevin, Jason Kaufman, and Nicholas Christakis. 2008. “The Taste for Privacy: An Analysis of College Student Privacy Settings in an Online Social Network.” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 14:79-100.

Lewis, Kevin, Jason Kaufman, Marco Gonzalez, Andreas Wimmer, and Nicholas Christakis. 2008. “Tastes, Ties, and Time: A New Social Network Dataset Using Facebook.com.” Social Networks 30:330-342.

01/08/2012

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

culture, social networks, theory, social psychology, family, inequality

Previous Degrees

MA in Sociology, Harvard University (2008)
BA in Sociology and Philosophy, UC San Diego (2005)

photo by Leah Davis

Contact

617-493-6872 (Phone)
617-496-5794 (FAX)

33 Kirkland Street Cambridge, MA 02138