Keith N Hampton Ph.D.

• Hampton, Keith (2022).  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). 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.
• Reisdorf, Bianca, Laleah Fernandez, Keith Hampton, Inyoung Shin and William Dutton (2020). Mobile Phones will not Eliminate Digital and Social Divides: How Variation in Internet Activities Mediates the Relationship between Type of Internet Access and Local Social Capital in Detroit. Social Science Computer Review 40(2), 288-308.
• Hampton, Keith (2019). Social Media and Change in Psychological Distress over Time: The Role of Social Causation. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
• Marin, Alexandra & Keith Hampton (2019). Network Instability in Times of Stability. Sociological Focus 34(2).
• Hampton, Keith & Barry Wellman. (2018). Lost and Saved… Again: The Moral Panic about the Loss of Community Takes Hold of Social Media. Contemporary Sociology 47(6), 643-651.
• Hampton, Keith (2017). Studying the Digital: Directions and Challenges for Digital Methods. Annual Review of Sociology 43, 167-188.

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 recent research has looked at 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.