Aaron Shaw is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University, co-founder of the Community Data Science Collective, and a Faculty Associate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard. During 2022-2023, he will serve as Scholar in Residence for King County, Washington and a Visiting Professor of Communication at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Aaron studies how people collaborate in participatory organizations and online communities, especially peer production communities (like Wikipedia). Most of his work considers why and how a few of these projects grow and produce high quality public resources when most do not. He also analyzes inequalities in online participation, especially in online communities and gig economy platforms.
