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Shawn Walker
Assistant Professor
School of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Other ASU affiliations
Information and Competition Lab
Lincoln Center Affiliated Faculty
Lincoln Center Applied Ethics
Senior Global Futures Scientist
Global Futures Scientists and Scholars
[email protected]
Phone:
602-543-6932
Mail code:
3051
Campus:
West
Long Bio
Shawn Walker is an assistant professor in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the New College at Arizona State University. He received his master's and doctoral degrees in information science from the University of Washington Information School and degrees in international studies, and liberal studies, with a focus on public policy and technology, from Northern Kentucky University.
His research focuses on two complementary areas: 1) new forms of political participation emerging on social media platforms and 2) the related challenges of collecting, analyzing, and working with data from these platforms. This work examines how new forms of political participation emerge on social media platforms through the analysis of social media posts surrounding social movements, protests, and elections. His work on social media methods addresses gaps in our understanding about social media data, collection methods, and the implications (ethics, representation, etc.) of using those methods.
Education
Ph.D. Information Science, University of Washington Information School
M.S. Information Science, University of Washington Information School
M.A. Liberal Studies (Technology and Public Policy), Northern Kentucky University
B.A. International Studies, Northern Kentucky University
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Publications
Zhao, D., Scheuerman, M., Chitre, P., Andrews, J., Panagiotidou, G., Walker, S., ... & Xiang, A. (2025).
A Taxonomy of Challenges to Curating Fair Datasets
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems
37
, 97826-97858.
Colbern, A., Walker, S., Glenn, K. M., Schmidt, R., & Harrigan, J. (2024).
Crisis Framing of Immigration Politics in United States Newspapers, 1980–2022
. In
Migration and Forced Displacement-Vulnerability and Resilience-Volume 1
. IntechOpen.
Li, Q., Shao, C., Walker, S., & Kwon, K. H. (2024).
Gun control agendas in networked digital environment: an intermedia comparison between news outlets, activism media, and ephemeral websites
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
101
(1), 127-155.
Ogden, J., Summers, E., & Walker, S. (2024).
Know (ing) Infrastructure: The Wayback Machine as object and instrument of digital research
Convergence
30
(1), 167-189.
Simeone, M., Roschke, K., & Walker, S. (2024).
Evolutionary biology as a frontier for research on misinformation
Politics and the Life Sciences
, 1-3.
Driscoll, K.,   Walker, S. (2014).
Big Data, Big Questions| Working Within a Black Box: Transparency in the Collection and Production of Big Twitter Data
. International Journal Of Communication, 8, 20.
Colbern, A., Walker, S., Lara, M. D. P. B., Glenn, K. M., Kater, L., & Busha, S. (2023).
Illegality and Enforcement in the Framing of Immigrant Education in US Newspapers
New Trends in Qualitative Research
16
, e797-e797.
Shao, C., Kwon, K. H., Walker, S., & Li, Q. (2023).
A dynamic analysis of conspiratorial narratives on Twitter during the pandemic
Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking
26
(5), 338-345.
Kwon, K. H., Shao, C., Walker, S., & Vinay, T. (2022).
Mobilizing consensus on Facebook: Networked framing of the US gun-control movement on Facebook
Walker, S., Mercea, D., & Bastos, M. (Eds.). (2022).
Disinformation and Data Lockdown on Social Platforms
. Routledge.
Bastos, M., Walker, S., & Simeone, M. (2021).
The IMPED model: Detecting low-quality information in social media
American Behavioral Scientist
65
(6), 863-883.
Proferes, N., & Walker, S. (2020).
Researcher views and practices around informing, getting consent, and sharing research outputs with social media users when using their public data
Walker, S., Mercea, D., & Bastos, M. (2019).
The disinformation landscape and the lockdown of social platforms
Information, Communication & Society
22
(11), 1531-1543.
Bennett, W. L., Segerberg, A.,   Walker, S. (2014).
Organization in the crowd: peer production in large-scale networked protests
. Information, Communication   Society, 17(2), 232–260. doi:10.1080/1369118X.2013.870379.
Agarwal, S. D., Bennett, W. L., Johnson, C. N.,   Walker, S. (2014).
A Model of Crowd Enabled Organization: Theory and Methods for Understanding the Role of Twitter in the Occupy Protests
. International Journal of Communication, 8(0), 27.
Nahon, K., Hemsley, J., Walker, S.   Hussain, M. (2011).
Fifteen Minutes of Fame: The Power of Blogs in the Lifecycle of Viral Political Information
. Policy   Internet, 3, 1–28. doi: 10.2202/1944-2866.1108.
Courses
2026 Spring
Course Number
Course Title
SDS 510
Data Wrangling
SDS 551
Computational Social Meth II
SDS 510
Data Wrangling
SDS 551
Computational Social Meth II
2025 Fall
Course Number
Course Title
SDS 590
Reading and Conference
CMN 593
Applied Project
CMN 580
Practicum
SDS 592
Research
SDS 537
Technologies of Community
SDS 537
Technologies of Community
SBS 304
Social Statistics I
SBS 304
Social Statistics I
2025 Spring
Course Number
Course Title
SBS 304
Social Statistics I
SDS 510
Data Wrangling
SBS 303
Quantitative Methods
SDS 551
Computational Social Meth II
SBS 303
Quantitative Methods
SDS 570
Social Data Projects
2024 Fall
Course Number
Course Title
SDS 590
Reading and Conference
CMN 593
Applied Project
CMN 580
Practicum
SDS 592
Research
SDS 537
Technologies of Community
SDS 510
Data Wrangling
SDS 537
Technologies of Community
SDS 537
Technologies of Community
2024 Spring
Course Number
Course Title
STC 590
Reading and Conference
STC 551
Computational Social Meth II
STC 551
Computational Social Meth II
STC 570
Social Data Projects
STC 570
Social Data Projects
2023 Fall
Course Number
Course Title
STC 590
Reading and Conference
CMN 593
Applied Project
CMN 580
Practicum
STC 593
Applied Project
STC 592
Research
STC 528
Communicating Data Science
STC 570
Social Data Projects
STC 528
Communicating Data Science
2023 Spring
Course Number
Course Title
STC 590
Reading and Conference
STC 593
Applied Project
STC 550
Computational Social Methods I
STC 550
Computational Social Methods I
STC 551
Computational Social Meth II
STC 551
Computational Social Meth II
STC 570
Social Data Projects
STC 570
Social Data Projects
2022 Fall
Course Number
Course Title
STC 590
Reading and Conference
CMN 593
Applied Project
CMN 580
Practicum
STC 593
Applied Project
STC 592
Research
STC 528
Communicating Data Science
STC 570
Social Data Projects
STC 528
Communicating Data Science
2022 Spring
Course Number
Course Title
STC 593
Applied Project
STC 550
Computational Social Methods I
STC 550
Computational Social Methods I
STC 551
Computational Social Meth II
STC 551
Computational Social Meth II
2021 Fall
Course Number
Course Title
STC 590
Reading and Conference
CMN 593
Applied Project
CMN 580
Practicum
STC 593
Applied Project
STC 592
Research
2021 Spring
Course Number
Course Title
STC 593
Applied Project
Expertise Areas
Activism and Social Movements
Social Media
Decision Making and Social Media
Big Data
Informatics
Data Cleaning and Information Extraction
Data Science
Computational Modeling