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Benjamin Mako Hill is a social scientist and technologist who works to understand the social dynamics that shape online communities. His research focuses on communities engaged in peer production and digital public goods, such as Wikipedia and Linux. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington and a founding member of the Community Data Science Collective. He also serves as a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Over the past two decades, he has been an activist, developer, contributor, and leader in the free and open source software movement and the free culture movement, being a part of initiatives such as Debian, Ubuntu, and various Wikimedia projects.
Administered by the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS).