Jonathan T. Morgan
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I am a PhD Candidate at the University of Washington's Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering, advised by Professor Mark Zachry. I am affiliated with the LiCORICE project, the Communicative Practices in Virtual Workspaces research group, the Engage project and the dub group.
I am a Research Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation.
My Research
I work at the intersection between Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC). I study the way people interact and the social roles they inhabit when they're working collaboratively on creative tasks online. My research is aimed at creating better tools and methods for understanding and supporting online deliberation and distributed collaboration.
My dissertation research (PDF) focuses on WikiProjects: self-organized small group collaborations on Wikipedia.
About Me
I am a user experience researcher and interaction designer. I have additional professional experience in project management, technical documentation and quality assurance testing. I have an MS in Human Centered Design & Engineering, and a BA in philosophy and classics, with a focus on political philosophy. In my (ever-diminishing) spare time, I am a voracious and omnivorous reader and enjoy trail running and a good game of racquetball.
About the Site Banners
The Ye Olde-looking banner images used on this site are, in fact, Olde. They were created by John Skylitzes, a Byzantine historian from the 11th Century CE. I thank Mr. Skylitzes for creating such vibrant work, and also for being dead lo these many years so that his work is freely available in the Public Domain.