About
Unit Structures is Fred Stutzman’s blog about information, social networks, identity and privacy. Maintained since 2004, Unit Structures is an informal mix of field notes, early findings, reactions and opinions regarding social technology and social network sites. There’s also a good bit of rumination about grad school, which I suppose is par for the course.
About Fred:
Fred Stutzman is a doctoral student, researcher and teaching fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science. Advised by Dr. Gary Marchionini, his dissertation looks at how people use social network sites for support during a life transition. He is also interested in the decisions people make when constructing their online identities. Fred studies quantitative methodologies at the Odum Institute for Research in Social Sciences.
Prior to graduate school, Fred worked in technical and management roles for Ibiblio.org, The Motley Fool, and Nortel Networks. He is the co-founder of ClaimID.com, a social web identity management system, and designer of Freedom, a productivity application. Fred has consulted with top organizations, including the Pew Internet and American Life Project and MacArthur Foundation, and the presidential campaigns of Wesley Clark, John Kerry and John Edwards. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, as well as Wired, Newsweek and the New York Times Magazine, and on NPR.
Fred Stutzman is a doctoral student, researcher and teaching fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science. He studies how people use social media.
