Keith N Hampton Ph.D.

• Hampton, Keith & Kelley Cotter (2025).   Disrupting Echo Chambers? How Social Media is Related to Social Tolerance Through Network Diversity: Linked Lives Over a Major Life Course Event. Information, Communication & Society.
• Hales, Gabriel & Keith Hampton (2025).   Rethinking screen time and academic achievement: gender differences and the hidden benefit of online leisure through digital skills. Information, Communication & Society.
• Salazar-Miranda, Arianna, Zhuangyuan Fan, Michael Baick, Keith Hampton, Fabio Duarte, Becky Loo, Edward Glaser, and Carlo Ratti (2025).  Exploring the Social Life of Urban Spaces Through AI. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
• Hampton, Keith & Inyoung Shin (2023).  Disconnection More Problematic for Adolescent Self-Esteem than Heavy Social Media Use: Evidence from Access Inequalities and Restrictive Media Parenting in Rural America. Social Science Computer Review.
• Hampton, Keith (2022).   Disciplinary Brakes on the Sociology of Digital Media: The Incongruity of Communication and the Sociological Imagination. Information, Communication & Society.
• Hampton, Keith (2022). A Restricted Multiple Generator Approach to Enumerate Personal Support Networks: An Alternative to Global Important Matters and Satisficing in Web Surveys. Social Networks 68(1), 48-59.
• Shin, Inyoung and Keith Hampton (2021). New Media Use and the Belief in a Just World: Awareness of Life Events and the Perception of Fairness for Self and Injustice for Others. Information, Communication & Society.
• Hampton, Keith N., Craig T. Robertson, Laleah Fernandez, Inyoung Shin, and Johannes M. Bauer (2021). How Variation in Internet Access, Digital Skills, and Media Use are Related to Rural Student Outcomes: GPA, SAT, and Educational Aspirations. Telematics and Informatics 63, 101666.
• Hampton, Keith and Wenhong Chen (2021). Studying Social Media from an Egocentric Perspective. In Mario L. Small, Brea L. Perry, Bernice Pescosolido, and Edward Smith (Eds.), Personal Networks: Classic Readings and New Directions in Egocentric Analysis. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press. 718-733.
• Hampton, Keith and Barry Wellman. (2021). All the Lonely People? The Continuing Lament about the Loss of Community. In Leah Lievrouw and Brian Loader (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Digital Media and Communication. Abingdon, UK. Routledge. 281-296.

William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award. American Sociological Association, Section on Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology (CITAMS). (2022)

Best Paper Award. 12th International Conference on Social Media & Society. (2022)

Brandt Fellowship for Faculty Excellence. College of Communication Arts and Sciences, Michigan State University. (2022)

Distinguished Partnership Award for Community-Engaged Service, Michigan State University. (2022)

Innovation in Networking and Information Technology Award. Merit Networks. (2019)

Elected Member of the Sociological Research Association (2017)

Top Paper Award, American Sociological Association, Section on Communication and Information Technologies (2015)

Outstanding Article Award, International Communication Association (2012)

Top Paper Award, American Sociological Association, Section on Communication and Information Technologies (2011)

Walter Benjamin Award for Outstanding Article in the Field of Media Ecology, Media Ecology Association (2011)

Hampton’s research explores how digital technologies shape and are shaped by human interaction, with a focus on the impact of social media, mobile communication, and the internet on communities and social networks. Recent research has looked at the relationship between new media and adolescent mental health and academic achievement, as well as the outcomes of persistent contact and pervasive awareness through social media, including stress, social isolation, exposure to diverse points of view, and willingness to voice opinions. Copies of his papers can be found here.