Damien Lanfrey

Current

• Visiting Lecturer and Seminar Tutor at City University, London, UK
• PhD Student at City University of London

Past

• Web Science Research Initiative Research Fellow at Oxford Internet Institute
• Higher Education at MiNE Program - Management in Network Economics - Università Cattolica/UC Berkeley

Education

• Università Cattolica di Piacenza/UC Berkeley
• University of Parma

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Industry

Research

Websites

• My Website
• My Company

Damien Lanfrey’s Summary

Technology, Economics, Innovation, Web, Web Development, Social Research and Online Research Methods background.

Damien Lanfrey’s Specialties:

- Academic Research, Social Research Methods, Online Research Methods, Webometrics, Social Network Analysys (SNA);
Teaching, Seminar Planning and Management, Seminar and Conference Presentation, Lecturing;
Web Design & Evaluation, Online publishing, New media consultancy, Web consultancy, Non-profit and social entrepreneurship consultancy

Damien Lanfrey’s Experience

• Visiting Lecturer and Seminar Tutor

  City University, London, UK

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  September 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)

  Teaching at both undergraduate and post-graduate level.
  
  Undergraduate level:
  - Introduction to Media Study (1st year module)
  - New Media Challenges (2nd year module)
  - The Information Society (3rd year module)
  - World Media Industry (3rd year module)
  Postgraduate level:
  - Online research methods (MA module)
  Doctoral Level:
  - Delivered seminars on innovative online methods for social research, challenges for social research online and other PhD-related subjects

• PhD Student

  City University of London

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  February 2006 — Present (3 years 10 months)

  Department of Sociology.
  Thesis supervised by professors Frank Webster and Kevin Robins.
  Title "Social Web-born platforms for social change. Capturing emerging forms, properties and opportunities from user-generated activism"
  
  Keywords: collective action theory in information goods, activism, political sociology, generativity, generative activism, Web and Internet research, sociology of technology, technological determinism, organizations and technological change, meta-organizations, user-generated platforms, technologies and social change, Social Web.
  
  Teaching: (see "Visiting Lecturer" section)

• Web Science Research Initiative Research Fellow

  Oxford Internet Institute

  (Higher Education industry)

  March 2009 — April 2009 (2 months)

  Research developed on the following themes:
  - Collective action in communication spaces
  - Webometrics
  - Sociology of Technology in Social Web context

• Higher Education

  MiNE Program - Management in Network Economics - Università Cattolica/UC Berkeley

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2004 — November 2005 (1 year 3 months)

  Faculty includes professors from top American Universities, advisors of the White House, and C-level executives from multinational companies, venture capital firms, consultants and entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley and Europe.
  
  Personal works:
  - RCS Mediagroup media strategies presentation
  - Published Research on italian mobile tarifs comparison (all operators)
  
  Master’s Report: implementation and personalization of ERP systems, theme deepened during 3 months’ internship at Know-How srl - http://www.know-how.it/ - consultancy firm based in Padova, Milan and Reggio Emilia, Italy.

Damien Lanfrey’s Education

• Università Cattolica di Piacenza/UC Berkeley

  Master in Management in Network Economics , Information and Communication Technology, Innovation, Economics , September 2004 — July 2005

  Faculty includes professors from top American Universities, advisors of the White House, and C-level executives from multinational companies, venture capitalists, consultants and entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley and Europe. International identity and multi-culturality.

• University of Parma

  Business Economics , Economics, Business Administration, Marketing , October 1998 — October 2003

  Activities and Societies:

  Dissertation with honors in "Creation and Management of dynamic websites and interfaces through the ASP Technology", supervisor Prof. Marco Riani and co-supervisor Prof. Andrea Cerioli, Grade 110/110

Additional Information

Damien Lanfrey’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company

Damien Lanfrey’s Interests:

Geography, Visualization, Statistics, Web Development and Publishing, Information trends

Damien Lanfrey’s Groups:

PhD Research Student at City University of London, Sociology Department. Yahoo! Group: Sociocity
PhD Students at City University Group.

•    NetSquared
•    KIVA
•    Association of Internet Researchers

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