Keith N. Hampton

Assistant Professor, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

Keith N. Hampton received his PhD in sociology from the University of Toronto. He is an assistant professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and was previously a member of the faculty in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a past chair of the American Sociological Association’s section on Communication and Information Technologies. Hampton is the founder of i-Neighbors.org, a website that allows people to form digital communities that overlap with their geographic neighborhoods.

His research interests focus on the relationship between new media, social networks, and the urban environment. Recent projects include a national survey on how use of the Internet and mobile phone is related to participation in the urban environment, an observational study of how people use wireless Internet access in urban public spaces in the United States and Canada, and a natural experiment on how the Internet is changing the context for collective action within residential areas that have high levels of concentrated disadvantage.  

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