Graduate Student, Communication
Ph.D. Student & Graduate Teaching Fellow
Humanities
Thesis Title: Crowdsourcing as a Model for Problem Solving: Leveraging the Collective Intelligence of Online Communities for Public Good
Joy Pierce
Karim Lakhani
Thomas Sanchez
Tim Larson
Cassandra Van Buren
About
Daren C. Brabham is a Ph.D. candidate and graduate teaching fellow in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah. He is also an associate graduate researcher in the Lab for Communicating Complexity with Multimedia at the University of Maryland-College Park, directed by Ronald Yaros. His dissertation research focuses on crowdsourcing, an online, distributed problem solving and production model. His aim is to translate the business model of crowdsourcing into a problem solving model for governments and non-profits. Among the first to publish research on crowdsourcing, his work has appeared in the journals Convergence, First Monday, Planning Theory, Flow, Rocky Mountain Communication Review, and Space and Culture. He has a B.A. in communication and religion from Trinity University (Texas), and an M.S. in communication from the University of Utah.
Contact Information
Department of Communication
University of Utah
255 S. Central Campus Dr., Rm. 2400
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
USA
+1 (801) 633-4796
AIM: darenbrabham
