Shawn Walker

PhD Student
The Information School
University of Washington
stw3 at uw dot edu
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I am a PhD student at the Information School at the University of Washington. I study digital government and public engagement. I'm particularly interested how online participation systems allow the public to take part and have a voice in government and understanding the different factors, both internal and external, that impact their development and implementation. I have a BA in International Studies, and a Masters in Liberal Studies, with a focus on public policy and technology, from Northern Kentucky University

I also study viral information flows as a member of the retroV research team.

My advisor is Karine Nahon.

Publications

• Karine Nahon, Jeff Hemsley, Shawn Walker and Muzammil Hussain, 2011, Fifteen Minutes of Fame: The Place of Blogs in the Life Cycle of Viral Political Information, Policy & Internet, Vol. 3(1) [forthcoming].

Conference Presentations

• Viral Metabase: Collecting, Tracking, and Storing Viral Diffusion Patterns, presented at Internet Research 12 (Seattle, WA), October 2011
• Blogs: Spinning a Web of Virality, paper presented at the iConference, February 2011.
• A vision for Information Visualization in Information Science, paper presented at the iConference, February 2011.
• Fifteen Minutes of Fame: The Place of Blogs in the Life Cycle of Viral Political Information, paper presented at Internet, Politics, Policy 2010: An Impact Assessment (Oxford Internet Institute), September 2010.
• Budget Mapping: Increasing Citizen Understanding of Government via Interactive Design, paper presented at the 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 2010
• New Relationships: The Potential and Reality of E-Government, paper presented at the Eighth International CISS Millennium Conference, June 2008
• The E-Government Path: A Comparison of the U.S. and U.K., paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Social Science Association, April 2008
• The Development of Russian Drug Policy, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, March 2007
• Privacy and Transparency in Homeland Security, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, March 2005
• Privacy in the European Union, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, March 2005
• Technology and the Doctrine of Preemption, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, March 2004
• Technology and the Doctrine of Preemption, presented at NKU’s Celebration of Student and Research and Creativity, April 2004
• If I Start a Revolution Will I Get Extra Credit? A College Student’s Guide to Activism, presented at the NKU’s Celebration of Student Research and Creativity, April 2004
• AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, March 2003
• The Impossible Task: Public Administration & Terrorism With Respect to Critical Infrastructure Protection, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, March 2002