Uwe Matzat Welcome on my homepage. I am an Assistant Professor (in Dutch: Universitaire Docent) in Sociology. I work within the Sociology Section at the School of Innovation Science, Eindhoven University of Technology (the Netherlands).

• research interests:

  • especially: online interaction, social control on the internet, social consequences of the internet, knowledge sharing in online settings, the internet and academic communication, methods of online data collection
  • in general: problems of cooperation and social order, social networks, rational choice theory, and other topics
    

• research papers (full list)

  recent ones:

  • Matzat, U. (2010). "Reducing problems of sociability in online communities: Integrating online communication with offline interaction" in: American Behavioral Scientist, 53, 8: 1170-1193. (pre-print)
  • Matzat, U. , & Snijders, C. (2010). "Does the Online Collection of Ego-Centered Network Data reduce Data Quality? An Experimental Comparison." in: Social Networks, 32, 2: 105-111. (pre-print)
  • Rooks, G. & Matzat, U., (2010). "Cross-cultural differences in effects of social embeddedness on trust. A comparative study of German and Dutch business transactions." in: Social Science Journal, 47, 1: 45-68. (pre-print)
  • Matzat, U. (2009). "The Acceptance and Effectiveness of Social Control on the Internet" in: Cook, K., Snijders, C., Buskens, V. (eds): E-Trust: Forming Relationships in the Online World. Russell Sage Foundation. New York: 238-265. (abstract)
  • Matzat, U. (2009). "Quality of Information in Academic Emailing Lists." in: Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60, 9: 1859-1870. (pre-print)
  • Matzat, U. (2009). "Disciplinary Differences in the Use of Internet Discussion Groups: Differential Communication Needs or Trust Problems?" in: Journal of Information Science, 35, 5: 613-631. (pre-print)
  • Matzat, U. (2009). "A Theory of Relational Signals in Online Groups." in: New Media & Society, 11, 3: 375-394. (pre-print)
  • Utz, S., Matzat, U., & Snijders, C. (2009). "Online Reputation Systems: The Effects of Feedback Comments and Reactions on Building and Rebuilding Trust in Online Auctions." in: International Journal of Electronic Commerce, 13, 3: 95-118. (pre-print)
    

• teaching / courses
  
• curriculum vitae

Founding and serving editor, together with Ulf-Dietrich Reips, of the International Journal of Internet Science (IJIS): Vol. 1 - Vol. 4 are published. Contents of Vol 4, issue 1: Ulf-Dietrich Reips & Uwe Matzat: Webometrics for an Open Access Start-Up Journal (Editorial) Articles Hauke Egermann, Frederik Nagel, Eckart Altenmüller & Reinhard Kopiez: Continuous Measurement of Musically-Induced Emotion: A Web Experiment Marek Fuchs & Britta Busse: The Coverage Bias of Mobile Web Surveys Across European Countries Jong-Eun Roselyn Lee: To Reveal or To Cloak? Effects of Identity Salience on Stereotype Threat Responses in Avatar-Represented Group Contexts Joseph W. Sakshaug & Scott D. Crawford: The Impact of Textual Messages of Encouragement on Web Survey Breakoffs: An Experiment

• organizing activities:
  
  

• membership in academic associations:

  member of the German Society for Online Research / Deutsche Gesellschaft für Online-Forschung (member of the board 2002-2009)

  member of the section 'modelbuilding and simulation' (Modellbildung und Simulation) of the German Sociological Society / Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie

  member of the section 'sociology of media & communication' (Medien- und Kommunikationssoziologie) of the German Sociological Society / Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie

  member of the section Communication & Information Technologies of the American Sociological Association

  member of the Association of Internet Researchers

address:

Dr. Uwe Matzat
Sociology Section
School of Innovation Science
Department of IE & IS
Eindhoven University of Technology
P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands

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