

Dr. David Tindall

Is Online Social Networking a Game Changer for Social Movement Participation, or Not? The Case of the Climate Movement
Workshop: An Introduction to Social Network Concepts and Data Collection
David Tindall earned his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto (where his dissertation research was supervised by Bonnie Erickson), and is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. He is a long time social network scholar who has been actively connected to the journal Social Networks, where he has published numerous articles, and done a considerable amount of reviewing. He recently co-edited a special issue of Social Networks on Social Networks and Anthropogenic Climate Change. He also co-edited a themed section of the Canadian Review of Sociology on Computational Methods in Sociology. Additionally, he has published numerous articles on social networks related to social movements, environmental topics, and social capital, in other top academic journals (including on social networks and climate action in Nature Climate Change), and chapters in academic books, including in the recently published second edition of the Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis. He is currently PI for the Climate Disinformation and Obstructionism Research Cluster at UBC. His current research focuses on social networks and climate action, and also on climate change policy networks.