Fred Stutzman  fred@metalab.unc.edu
 

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Brief Biography

Fred Stutzman is a Ph.D. student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science. His research interests include online social networks and their use in relationship management, social computing, and emergent perspectives on digital identity. His work is supported by a Research and Teaching Fellowship at the University of North Carolina. In addition to his graduate work, Stutzman is the co-founder of ClaimID.com, a project that empowers individuals to manage their online identity.

Extended Biography

Fred Stutzman is a Ph.D. student, research and teaching fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science. His research interests include online social networks and their use in relationship management, social computing, and emergent perspectives on digital identity. His work is supported by a Research and Teaching Fellowship at the University of North Carolina. His work and analysis is often cited by local and national media, and he is a popular guest lecturer, presenting to organizations such as Google and Yahoo.

In addition to his academic work, Fred is the co-founder of ClaimID.com, a project that empowers individuals to manage their online identity through open, decentralized identity tools. Prior to entering graduate school, Fred worked as technical director of Ibiblio.org, the large digital repository of open-source, open-access content. While at Ibiblio, he proposed and managed the development of Lyceum, the open-source blogging platform. He has previously worked for The Motley Fool and Nortel Networks, and he holds a BA in Economics from UNC-Chapel Hill.

Fred provides consulting and advisory services to a number of projects and organizations, including media and software companies, non-profits and political campaigns. Previous clients include the presidential campaigns of John Kerry, Wesley Clark and John Edwards. Fred maintains the blog Unit Structures (http://chimprawk.blogspot.com) and is a contributing author to techPresident (http://techPresident.com), a group blog examining how presidential candidates use web technology. He is the author of a series of articles examining Web 2.0 technology, published by O'Reilly, and is currently writing a book on online social networks to be published by Morgan-Claypool.

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Web-use photograph Credit: York Wilson
Web/print photograph Credit: Scott Beale/Laughing Squid