Miscellaneous projects

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Miscellaneous Projects

Technology and society

I wrote this book chapter with my sociology advisor at the University of Wisconsin. It is a broad overview of contemporary issues in information and technology. Although published in 2008, it was written in mid-2006.

Travis Kriplean; Daniel Lee Kleinman (2008). "Our Information Future: From Open Source Software to the Digital Divide", in Karen Cloud-Hansen, Daniel Lee Kleinman, Christina Matta, and Jo Handelsman: Controversies in Science and Technology, Vol. 2. Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.. 

Undergrad sociology thesis

I engaged in a year-long ethnography of a software firm. I studied how the normative downplay of formal structure led to role stratification along occupational roles as the firm grew from a small to a mid-sized company. This work was advised by Daniel L. Kleinman.

Travis Kriplean (2005). "Crowning the Developer: Autonomy, Expertise, and Role Stratification in a Software Firm". Presented at the Society for the Social Study of Science Conference.

Undergrad computer science thesis

I attempted to build an evolutionary model that captured group dynamics and which could be used by social scientists to study organizational patterns. Lesson: pay attention to computational feasability. This work was advised by Robert R. Meyer.

Travis Kriplean (2005). "Evolving an Ecology of Two-tiered Organizations". GECCO '05: Proceedings of the 2005 Workshops on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation.