Oeldorf-Hirsch
Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch is a Ph.D. student in Mass Communications at Penn State University, in the area of Media Effects. She received her B.A. in Psychology from Portland State University in 2005, and now applies this psychology background to her media studies. Her area of research is in what can be tentatively called "new" media, or more appropriately "interactive" media, such as the Internet, video games, mediated collaborative spaces, and virtual reality. Her focus is on the social and psychological factors of these media in which users are also creators (e.g. on sites such as Youtube, Digg, Flickr). Recent work with colleagues has explored how Facebook can be used (or misused) for social support and how other website users affect e-commerce decisions.
Facebook papers/presentations
Sundar, S. S., Bellur, S., Oeldorf-Hirsch, A., & Xu, Q. (2008, July). The Facebook paradigm for studying concepts and testing theories of communication. Poster presented at the NCA Summer Conference: Methods and Measures for Communication and Cognition Research, College Park, MD.
Bellur, S., High, A., & Oeldorf-Hirsch, A. (2008, May). Misery doesn't love company: An exploration of emotional bandwidth on online social networks. Paper presented at the 58th annual ICA conference, Montreal, Quebec.