Marc A Smith

Marc Smith is a Senior Research Sociologist and founder of the Community Technologies Group at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA. His research focuses on computer-mediated collective action. Marc Smith studies and designs enhancements for social cyberspaces, in particular he is interested in the emergence of social organizations like communities in online conversation and annotation environments. With Peter Kollok he co-edited the book Communities in Cyberspace (Routledge). Co-edited with Peter Kollock, the book explores identity, social order and control, community structures, dynamics, and collective action in cyberspace.