Aaron Shaw is Professor of Communication Studies and Sociology (by courtesy) at Northwestern University; Co-Founder of the Community Data Science Collective; faculty affiliate of the Northwestern Center for HCI+Design, the Institute for Policy Research, and the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs; as well as a Faculty Associate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
He studies organizing, participation, and governance in online communities, especially ones that create public information resources and digital infrastructure. His most recent work includes projects on online community governance, LLM-based social science, AI impacts on digital public infrastructure, and a book, Peer Production, published by MIT Press.
