Wikitheoria is a new way to share and collaborate on researchable ideas in sociology. It uses a form of web-based crowd-sourcing. This means lots of people each contributing only a small effort to enhance whatever part of the system interests them the most.
To learn more about Wikitheoria, please click on the short “Welcome” presentation on the home page. There is also a “Welcome” transcript available for downloading. Each will instruct you on how to proceed if you’re interested.
The Wikitheoria project is a collaboration between sociologists and computer scientists. The initial phase of the work (2012-2014) was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (#1123040). Key personnel are listed below.
Conceptualization & Content Prof. Barry Markovsky [barry@sc.edu]
Principal Investigator
Dept. of Sociology, Univ. of South Carolina
Jake Frederick [jfrederick979@gmail.com]
Graduate Research Assistant
Dept. of Sociology, Univ. of South Carolina
Functionality & Software Development Prof. Jose Vidal [jmvidal@gmail.com]
Co-Principal Investigator
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering
University of South Carolina
Mingzhe Du [dan.du.pub@gmail.com]
Research Assistant & Lead Developer
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering
University of South Carolina
Additional Programming Jason Rikard
Undergraduate Assistant
Jonathan Mayhak
Undergraduate Assistant