Graduate Students
 | Jeremiah Spence |
Home Department: Radio, Television, Film, College of Communication
jspence5@mail.utexas.edu
CV (PDF format)
Education: B.A., University of Texas at Austin
M.A., University of Texas at Austin
Field(s) of Study: Health Disparities
Research interests:
Jeremiah Spence is the founder and editor of the peer-reviewed, online, academic publication: Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, and has given presentations related to virtual worlds research at universities and conferences in Brazil, Israel, Europe, the United States and Canada.
Jeremiah is pursuing his doctorate at the University of Texas at Austin in the United States in the area of Communications and Sociology of Technology with specific research activities on the themes of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), the digital divide, and virtual worlds research. Jeremiah has a Master of Arts in International Communications Theory and Technology Policy, and has been a visiting researcher at the University of São Paulo's School of the Future and the Institute of Information Science at the Federal University of Bahia, both in Brazil. Additionally, he has been invited to speak at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Unisinos, the Eduverse Foundation (Netherlands), and the University of Bonn (Germany).
Jeremiah has been a leader in developing new methodologies for the study of social stratification and community mapping. Jeremiah is fluent in both Portuguese and Spanish.
Jeremiah's paper "Demographics of Virtual Worlds" was recently published in the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research. Jeremiah's paper "Generational Shifts in Language Use among U.S. Latinos: Mobility, Education, and Occupation" was recently accepted for publication in the journal International Migration, the journal of the International Organization for Migration.
Jeremiah is the principal investigator of the Austin Memory Project and the president of the Virtual Worlds Research Consortium.
Jeremiah's areas of interest also include: Social Stratification, Digital Divide in Brazil, Technology and Culture, Virtual Worlds, and Immersive Technology
Selected Links:
''Demographics of Virtual Worlds'' in Journal of Virtual Worlds Research
''Socioeconomic Genograms: A Methodological Development'' in The Sociological Methodologist
Journal of Virtual Worlds Research