Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Uwe Matzat
Sociology Section
School of Innocation Science
Eindhoven University of Technology
P.O. Box 513
5600 MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands


Personal Data
 

Date of Birth:

18 September 1966

Place of Birth:

Duisburg-Hamborn (Germany)

Nationality: 

German


Pre-University Education
 

1986

High School Graduation (in German Abitur) at the Käthe-Kollwitz -Gymnasium Duisburg

October 1986-May 1988

Civil Service at an Elderly Peoples' Home


University Education
 

1988-1989

Study of Mathematics (2 semesters) at the Gerhard-Mercator- University Duisburg

October 1989-March 1996

Study of the Social Sciences (Sociology) with Mathematics and Social Psychology as secondary subjects at the Gerhard-Mercator-University

August-December 1992

Study abroad: Participation at the Erasmus programme of the Department of Sociology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

December 1995

Diploma Thesis:  Social Context and Delinquent Behaviour. Empirical Tests of Sociological Theories of the Effects of Social Contexts with the Help of Multilevel-Models (in German) 
The Thesis won a Price for Excellent Performance (1996) of the Gerhard-Mercator- University. Supervisors: U. Engel, H.J. Hummell

 

March 1996

Study final: Diploma-Graduation in Sociology

 

September 1996

Ph.D. project Academic Communication and Internet Discussion Groups at the Department of Sociology/ICS, University of Groningen (The Netherlands)

December 2001

Defense of the Ph.D. thesis "Social Networks and Cooperation in Electronic Communities. A theoretical-empirical Analysis of Academic Communication and Internet Discussion Groups" at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands), Department of Sociology

2002-September 2003

Postdoctoral Researcher/Asistant Professor in Sociology (in German: Wissenschaftlicher Assistent, C1) at the Institute of Social Sciences, Chair for Sociological Theory (Prof. Baurmann), University of Duesseldorf, Germany

since October 2003

Assistant Professor in Sociology at the Sociology Section, Department of Technology Management, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands


Conference Presentations:
 


16 October 1993

Nachsicht oder Verlassen in freiwilligen Partnerschaften (Indulgence or Exit in Voluntary Partnerships), Presentation at the Section Simulation and Modelbuilding of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Soziologie, Institute for Sociology, University of Bern, Switzerland


5 August 1994

Exit, Voice and Cooperation in Anonymous Markets, Presentation at the 89th Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Rational Choice Session, Los Angeles, USA

26 March 1998

Academic Communication and Active Participation in Internet Discussion Groups: Different Models of the Collective Good Problem, paper presentation at the Conference Internet Research and Information for Social Scientists (IRISS 98), Bristol, UK


19 November 1998

Academic Communication and Internet Discussion Groups: What Kinds of Returns for Whom?, Paper Presentation at the German Online Research Conference, GOR 98, Mannheim, Germany

24 September 1999

Academic Communication and Internet Discussion Groups: Transfer of Information or Creation of Social Contacts? - First empirical results, Presentation at the meeting 'Globalisation and Knowledge Organisation' of the German Section of the International Society for Knowledge Organisation (ISKO 99), Hamburg, Germany

15 November 1999

Academic Communication and Internet Discussion Groups: What can we expect?, presentation at the Knowledge Media Design Institute, University of Toronto, Canada

29 March 2000

Social Networks and communication in Internet Discussion Groups: Incentives for the Creation of new contacts or reputation effects?, presentation at the meeting of the Section 'modelbuilding and simulation' of the German Sociological Association, Duisburg, Germany

14 April 2000

Academic Communication and Internet Discussion Groups: Transfer of Information or Creation of Social Contacts?, paper presentation at the Sunbelt conference, Vancouver, Canada

16 August 2000

Academic Communication and Internet Discussion Groups: Are they sources of Information or Means for extending one's network?, paper presentation of the 95th meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington D.C., USA

1 September 2000

Academic Communication, Internet Discussion Groups and Disciplinary Differences, presentation at the Scientometrics Workshop and second Collnet meeting, Berlin, Germany

27 September 2000

Social Incentives or Hope for Reciprocity as Stimuli for Information transfer in electronic groups? An empirical test of two theories with the help of academic Internet Discussion Groups, presentation at the section 'modelbuilding and simulation' at the 30th meeting of the German Sociological Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Soziologie), Cologne, Germany

23 November 2000

The Management of Active User Participation in Online-Communities, presentation at the symposium on online-communities, KPN research, Groningen, The Netherlands

18 May 2001

Social Network Effects as Stimuli for Active User Participation in Electronic Groups? An empirical test of different theories with the help of academic Internet Discussion Groups, presentation at the conference German Online Research (GOR 2001), 16 - 18 May 2001, Goettingen, Germany

9 October 2002

The Social Embeddedness of Academic Online Groups as a Norm Generating Structure: A Test of the Coleman Model, presentation at the 31st bi-annual meeting of the German Sociological Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Soziologie), University of Leipzig, Germany

10 October 2002

Emergence and Effects of Norms in Online Groups, presentation at the conference German Online Research (GOR 2002), Stuttgart, Germany

15 October 2002

Social Networks and Knowledge Management in Academic Online Groups, presentation at the annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, Maastricht, The Netherlands

31 July 2003

Cooperation and Community on the Internet: Perpectives for theoretical-empirical Internet Resesearch, Presentation at the conference Trust and Community on the Internet, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld, Germany

17 October 2003

Offline Social Networks and the Emergence of Norms in Onlne Groups, Presentation at the annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, Maastricht, The Netherlands

30 March 2004

The quality of information in knowledge exchanging online groups: A higher user satisfaction with online discussions via offline social networks?, presentation at the conference German Online Research04, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

6 October 2004

Problems of Interaction in different types of online groups, presentation at the 32nd bi-annual meeting of the German Sociological Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Soziologie), University of Munich, Germany

7 October 2004

The social embeddedness of online interaction in offline relationships, presentation at the 32nd bi-annual meeting of the German Sociological Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Soziologie), University of Munich, Germany

13 October 2004

Knowledge Sharing in Online Groups, Presentation at the Meeting of the 'Yearbook ICT & Society 2005' Group, Utrecht, The Netherlands

21 September 2004

The quality of Information in knowledge exchanging online groups, Presentation at the annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

22 March 2005

The Quality of Ego-Centered Network Data: A comparison of online versus offline data collection, presentation at the conference General Online Research, GOR05, University of Zurich, Switzerland

22 March 2005

A theory of relational signals in online groups, presentation at the conference General Online Research, GOR05, University of Zurich, Switzerland

3 May 2005

A theory of relational signals in online groups , presentation at the conference Trust and Coooperation in Online Interaction, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

6 May 2005

The Management of Online Communities. Social Control and Relational Signals in Online Groups , invited talk at the COSMOS conference, Munich, Germany.

10 June 2005

The social embeddedness of online communities of practice . presentation at the conference ICT, the Knowledge Society and Changes in Work, Den Hague, The Netherlands.

29 June 2005 / 5 July 2005

Determinanten der Nutzung von Internetgruppen in verschiedenen Wissenschaftsdisziplinen - Vertrauensprobleme oder unterschiedliche Kommunikationsbedürfnisse (Determinants of the use of internet groups in different academic disciplines- problems of trust or differential communication needs), invited talk at the Forschungskolloquium Soziologie, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany / invited talk at the Forschungskolloquium Psychologie, University of Tübingen, Germany

13 August 2005

A theory of relational signals in online groups, presentation at the session Theory as Wayfinding in Comunication and Information Technology Research, section Communication & Information Technology, 100th meeting of the American Sociological Assocation, Philadelphia, USA

27 September 2005

The Quality of Ego-Centered Network Data: A comparison of online versus offline data collection, presentation at the Workshop on Internet Survey Methodology of the European Science Foundation, Dubrovnik, Croatia
21 March 2006
Does the Collection of Ego-Centered Network Data on the Web reduce the Data Quality? An Experimental Comparison of online versus offline Data Collection . presentation at the conference General Online Research, GOR06, Bielefeld, Germany.
27 March 2007
When is what type of social control more adequate on the Internet? A comparison between online auctions and knowledge sharing groups. presentation at the conference General Online Research, GOR07, Leipzig, Germany.
11 March 2008
Are embedded online communities of practice more successful than exclusively virtual ones? presentation at the conference General Online Research, GOR08, Hamburg, Germany.
16 April 2008
Subsidizing the Use of High Speed Internet? Use of Web 2.0 services and the social capital of citizens . Accepted as oral presentation at the conference Politics: Web 2.0: An International Conference. London, United Kingdom, (together: with Bert Sadowski and Alberto Nucciarelli).
15 May 2008
Embeddedness of online networks in offline networks: Reduction of sociability problems and facilitation of ‘networking’? presentation at the Frühjahrstagung AG Netzwerkforschung, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany.
20 June 2008
Stimulating members' participation in distributed learning environments . Invited talk at: International Follow-up Workshop on Distributed Learning and Collaboration (DLAC-III). Participation and Personalization: The Main Factors of Social Software. Tübingen, Germany.
9 October, 2008
Online-Reputationssysteme: Die Auswirkungen von Feedback-Kommentar und anschließenden Reaktionen des Verkäufers auf den Wiederaufbau von Vertrauen während Online-Auktionen. presentation at the 34th bi-annual meeting of the German Sociological Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Soziologie, Sektion: Modellbildung und Simulation & Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung), University of Jena, Germany.
17 October 2008
Integrating online communication with place-based interaction: Reducing problems of sociability in online learning communities . Presentation at the annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, 15-19 October, Copenhagen, Denmark.

6 April 2009

Social impact of Web 2.0 use. Presentation at the conference General Online Research, GOR09, Vienna, Austria.

8 October 2009
Disentangling social purposes of online applications. Linking Web 2.0 use with access to social resources. Presentation at the annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, 8-10 October, Milwaukee, USA.
10 October 2009
The vicious circle of lacking digital literacy and infrequent internet usage. Presentation at the annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, 8-10 October, Milwaukee, USA.
 


Prizes& honours:
 

1996

Prize of the Gerhard-Mercator-University Duisburg (Germany) for an excellent Master Thesis (in German: Diplomarbeit):"Social Structure and Delinquent Behaviour. Empirical Tests of Sociological Theories of the Effects of Social Contexts with the Help of Multilevel-Models"

2000


Acceptance of the Proposal for a Research Project "Online Commmunities: Which Conditons make them succcessful" by KPN Research (proposal written together with Prof. F.Stokman, University of Groningen)

2002


Acceptance of the Proposal for a Research Project "Knowledge Management in a Virtual Organization" by the Dutch Science Foundation / Nederlandse Organisatie voor wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO) (proposal written together with Dr. H. de Vos, University of Groningen)

2002


Acceptance of the Proposal for an International Conference "Trust and Communities on the Internet. Possiblities and Restrictions for Cooperation" by the German Science Foundation / Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (proposal written together with Prof. M. Baurmann, University of Duesseldorf)

2004

 

Acceptance of the Proposal for an International Conference "Trust and Cooperation on the Internet." by the Dutch Science Foundation NWO (proposal written together with Prof. C. Snijders, Eindhoven University of Technology)

2007

 

Acceptance of the Proposal for a research project "I-Vision Broadband. Integrale Visie op Breedband in de Regio Eindhoven", submitted to the Gemeente Eindhoven, proposal written together with dr. B. Sadowski, Eindhoven University of Technology, and Ir. Jacco Kwaaitaal, Stichting Eindhoven Fiber eXchange.


Organizing and editorial research activities:


since October 2002


member of the board of the German Society for Online Research / Deutsche Gesellschaft für Online Forschung


2002/2003


Organization of the international research conference "Trust and Community on the Internet" (together with Prof. Baurmann, Dr. Lahno)


2003/2004


Organization of the international research conference German Online Research 04

2003/2004


Guest editor of a special issue on "Trust and Community on the Internet" of the journal Analyse & Kritik, together with Michael Baurmann (University of Duesseldorf) and Bernd Lahno (University of Duisburg)

2004/2005

 

Organization of the international research conference General Online Research 05

since spring 2004

 

Founding Editor of the International Journal of Internet Science (together with Dr. Ulf-Dietrich Reips, University of Zurich)

2005


Organization of the KNAW colloquium Trust and Cooperation in Online Interaction, May 2-4, Amsterdam

2004/2005


Guest editor (together with Frank Faulbaum and Marc Deutschmann, both University of Duisburg) of the first issue of the International Journal of Internet Science

2005

 

Organization of a meeting of the section on methods of empirical research (Methodensektion) of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, 15.-16.07.2005

 

2005/2006

 

Organization of the international research conference General Online Research 06

 

2006/2007

 

International Conference "General Online Research 07", 26.-28.3. 2007, University of Leipzig, Germany, Chair of the program committee

 

2008/2009

 

International Conference "General Online Research 09", 06.-08.4. 2009, University of Vienna, Austria, Member of the program committee

 

2003-2008

 

reviewer of the annual conferences of the Association of Internet Researchers: IR4, IR5, IR6, IR7, IR8, IR9

2009

Chair of Award Committee of the 'DGOF Research Thesis Award 2009'


2010
 Chair of Award Committee of the 'DGOF Research Thesis Award 2010'

other research activities:


August-October 1991

 

Practical Course at the Office for Statistics of Northrhine-Westfalia, Germany


April-July 1992 & 
April 1993-March 1995

 

Student-Assistant of Prof. Dr. Hummell at the Department of Sociology, Gerhard-Mercator-University Duisburg


September-December 1996

 

Participation at the Course 'Theory and Modelbuilding' of the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS), Universities of Groningen, Utrecht and Nijmegen, The Netherlands


January-March 1997

 

Participation at the course 'Advanced Methods and Techniques of Empirical Research' of the ICS



October 1997 - March 1998

 

Participation at the course 'Integration of Explanatory Models with Models of Analysis and Measurement' of the ICS

October - December 1999

 

Research Visit at the Center for Urban & Community Studies / Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Canada, 
host: Prof. Barry Wellman
 

April - June 2000

Research project "The Management of Online-Communities" (together with Dr. H. de Vos) for KPN Research

 

 

Journal Reviews:

 

 

 

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