Alcides Velasquez is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Media and Information Studies program. He is part of The Online Interaction Research lab (TOIL) in the department of Telecommunication, Information Studies & Media.
His research interests include online political participation, lifecycles in online communities, and information and communication technologies for development.

Recent publications:

Velasquez, A. (2011, May). The Effect of Status Cues and Informational Cascades on Participation in Online Political Communities. To be presented at the International Communication Association conference, Boston, MA.

Chew, H. E., LaRose, R., Steinfield, C., & Velasquez, A. (2011). The Use of Online Social Networking by Rural Youth and its Effects on Community Attachment. Information, Communication & Society. doi:10.1080/1369118X.2010.539243

Lampe, C., Wash, R., Velasquez, A., & Ozkaya, E. (2010). Motivations to Participate in Online Communities. Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems, CHI .