Uwe Matzat Welcome on my homepage. I am an Assistant Professor in Sociology. I work within the Human-Technology-Interaction Group at the School of Innovation Science, Eindhoven University of Technology (the Netherlands).

• research interests:

  • web science: online reputation systems, online communities, social media, sociability, 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, social signaling, rational choice theory, and other topics
    

• research papers-complete list here

  only the recent ones:

  • Matzat, U. (2013). "Do blended virtual learning communities enhance teachers’ professional development more than purely virtual ones? A large scale empirical comparison." in: Computers & Education, 60, 1: 40-51. (pre-print)
  • Matzat, U., & Snijders, C. (2012). "Re-building Trust in Online Shops on Consumer Review Sites: Sellers’ Responses to User-Generated Complaints." in: Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 18, 1: 62-79. (pre-print)
  • Matzat, U., & Sadowski, B. (2012). "Does the 'Do-it-yourself approach' reduce digital inequality? Evidence of self-learning of digital skills" in: The Information Society, 28, 1: 1-11. (pre-print)
  • 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)
    

• teaching / courses
  
• curriculum vitae

Founding and serving editor, together with Ulf-Dietrich Reips, of the International Journal of Internet Science (IJIS): Vol. 1 - Vol. 7 are published. Contents of Vol 7, issue 1: Chris Snijders, Uwe Matzat, & Ulf-Dietrich Reips: "Big Data": Big Gaps of Knowledge in the Field of Internet Science (Editorial) Articles Nic Newman, William H. Dutton, & Grant Blank: Social Media in the Changing Ecology of News: The Fourth and Fifth Estate in Britain Linda K. Kaye & Jo Bryce: Putting the "Fun Factor" Into Gaming: The Influence of Social Contexts on Experiences of Playing Videogames Christopher R. Wolfe, Christopher R. Fisher, Valerie F. Reyna, & Xiangen Hu: Improving Internal Consistency in Conditional Probability Estimation With an Intelligent Tutoring System and Web-based Tutorials Alison Attrill: Sharing Only Parts of Me: Selective Categorical Self-Disclosure Across Internet Arenas Supplement Stephanie Steinmetz et al.: WEBDATANET: A Network on Web-based Data Collection, Methodological Challenges, Solutions, and Implementation

• organizing activities:
  
  

  DGOF/DGPUK Doctoral Colloqium at the General Research Online 2013 (GOR 13)

  DGOF Research Thesis Award 2010 (German Society for Online Research) in the field of Internet/Online Research/Science

  11th international conference General Online Research 2009 (GOR09), 06.-08.4. 2009, as a member of the program committee on behalf of the German Society for Online Research,location: University of Vienna (Austria)

  9th international conference General Online Research 2007 (GOR07), 26.-28.3. 2007, as the Chair of the program committee on behalf of the German Society for Online Research,location: University of Leipzig (Germany)

  International Conference "General Online Research 06", 20.-22.3. 2006, Bielefeld, Chair of the program committee on behalf of the German Society for Online Research

  meeting of the section on methods of empirical research (Methodensektion) of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, 15.-16.07.2005, Mannheim, Germany (together with Dr. Manuela Pötschke and PD Dr. Jürgen Hoffmeyer-Zlottnik), program: here

  International Conference "General Online Research 05", 22.-23.3 2005, University of Zurich, Chair of the program committee on behalf of the German Society for Online Research,together with Prof. K. Jonas & PD Dr. U.D. Reips as local organizers

  International Conference "German Online Research 04", 30.-31.3 2004, main organizer & Chair of the program committee on behalf of the German Society for Online Research, together with Prof. F. Faulbaum as local organizer

  International Conference "Trust and Community on the Internet", 31.7.-2.8. 2003, organized by the chair for theoretical sociology of the Institute of Social Sciences at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf (where I was working at this time), together with Prof. Baurmann

  
  

• membership in academic associations:

  member of the divisions 'Communication & Technology' (CAT), 'Information Systems', and 'Instructional and Developmental Communications' of the International Communication Association (ICA)

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

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

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

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

address:

Dr. Uwe Matzat
Sociology Section / Human-Technology Interaction Group
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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