Aaron Shaw

Aaron Shaw is a Research Fellow with the Cooperation Research Group at the Berkman Center and a Ph.D student in the Sociology Department at the University of California, Berkeley.

While at Berkman, Aaron has helped design, implement, and manage the online cooperation studies project. His ongoing dissertation examines the institutional foundations of collaborative communities online. In previous research, Aaron has written about the politics of development and Free and Open Source Software in Brazil, where he has conducted fieldwork and interviews during the past two years. His other interests include the networked public sphere, global governance and development, the knowledge-based economy, distributed research methods, and social theory.