Research Sociologist, Microsoft Research

Marc Smith is a research sociologist leading the Community Technologies Group at Microsoft Research, where he specializes in the social organization of online communities. He is the co-editor of Communities in Cyberspace (Routledge), a collection of essays exploring the ways identity, interaction, and social order develop in online groups. See: http://www.research.microsoft.com/~masmith and http://netscan.research.microsoft.com