Thank you for visiting my website. I am a PhD candidate in Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. idHoc means I + ad hoc. I have an interest in building and studying ad hoc communities.
I'm working on my dissertation now, and am about to defend it in the next one or two months. My dissertation is about the use and impact of geocoding and geotagging technologies in social media. I am calling it The Social Meaning of Geocoding and Sharing: Location Awareness in Online Communities. My initial results show that geo technologies make people rely more on effective reputation systems and recommendation systems. Geolocation alone is not a strong enough social glue.