My research characterizes large-scale online social movements -- usually those that involve themes of health or harm for society or the environment -- using the public records and advertising that members of those movements publish or leave behind. The work combines a social science perspective with interpretive and statistical research methods to show which ideas are either emerging from within populations, or being imposed upon them, and how/where it is happening.

Ongoing and past studies have regarded: academic and online fan community representations of popular military science fiction TV shows, rival young-adult gangs creating amateur animations in a competitive online environment, the websites and literature of alternative health movements immigrating into the United States from South Asia, and constructing a collaborative content analysis environment for geographically dispersed research teams.

Publications

• Paolillo, J; Warren, J; and Kunz, B. (accepted). Morphological genre analysis of amateur digital multimedia. In Mehler, A., Sharoff, S., Rehm, G., & Santini, M. (Eds.), Genres on the Web: Corpus Studies and Computational Models (working titles). New York : Springer. 
• Paolillo, J; Warren, J; and Kunz, B. (2007). Social Network and Genre Emergence in Amateur Flash Multimedia. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, IEEE Computer Society Press, 70b.
• Warren, J. (2002). Vipassana in the Pacific Northwest. Undergraduate thesis. Reed College : Portland, OR.

Presentations

• Warren, J. Longitudinal network and genre emergence in an online new media community. 28th Annual International Sunbelt Social Network Conference. St. Pete Beach, FL. January 23, 2008. SLIDES (pdf)
• Warren, J. A social archaeology of digital artifacts. IU SLIS Friday Conversations talk series. Bloomington, IN. October 12, 2007.
• Warren, J. Longitudinal social network analysis of virtual community peer-review behavior. IU SLIS Doctoral Student Research Forum. Bloomington, IN. October 6, 2007.
• Paolillo, J; Warren, J; and Kunz, B. Social Network and Genre Emergence in Amateur Flash Multimedia. IU Informatics Network and Complex Systems Talk Series. Bloomington, IN. February 12, 2007. 
• Paolillo, J; Warren, J; Kunz, B. Social Network and Genre Emergence in Amateur Flash Multimedia. 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Waikoloa, Big Island, Hawaii. January 3-6, 2007. 
• Warren, J. Social Network and Genre Emergence in Amateur Flash Multimedia. IU SLIS Doctoral Student Research Forum. Bloomington, IN. September 16, 2006. 
• Paolillo, J; Warren, J; and Kunz, B. Social Network and Genre Emergence in Amateur Flash Multimedia. 26th Annual International Sunbelt Social Network Conference. Vancouver, BC, Canada. April 24-30, 2006. 
• Warren, J. On Similarity. IU SLIS Doctoral Student Research Forum. Bloomington, IN. September 24, 2005.