Expertise

Research Areas: Computational social science, new media, organizational communication, research methods

Dr. Britt's research primarily focuses on the macro-level communicative structures of large-scale online organizations, whose structures are co-constructed through the activities and interactions among organizational members themselves—such as collectives that congregate on social media platforms around topics and issues of special interest—as well as the evolution of those communicative structures over time. As a computational social scientist, Dr. Britt connects large-scale data collection and management approaches with innovative statistical analyses in order to address social scientific problems and contexts that would otherwise be intractable.

Areas of Expertise

  • Computational Social Science
  • Organizational Systems and Structures
  • New Media
  • Big Data
  • Data Mining
  • Network Analysis
  • Time Series Analysis
  • Quantum Computing
Degrees
MS, Purdue University, Statistics, 2013
PhD, Purdue University, Communication, 2013
BA, Purdue University, Communication, 2011
BS, University of Tulsa, Communication, 2008