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Bruckman has taken on many leadership roles in service to her professional community, notably for the ACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) conference. She was the General Co-chair for the 2013 conference and subsequently served as Chair of the CSCW Steering Committee.
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Forte, A., & Bruckman, A. (2005). Why do people write for wikipedia? Incentives to contribute to open-content publishing. Unpublished manuscript, Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, Retrieved from
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researchers and educators. The community, managed chiefly by Bruckman, developed a significant following for its time, eventually closing down seven years later. During this time, Bruckman also worked as a research assistant for
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and was promoted to the position of associate professor. In 2012, she was made a full professor. She was the interim chair of the School of Interactive Computing from July 2017 until December.
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11,158 people used it over a one-year period. Players from 81 countries on all seven continents used the game to learn about issues of identity and diversity online through direct experience.
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presented Bruckman with the Jan Hawkins Award for Early Career Contributions to Humanistic Research and Scholarship in Learning Technologies. She was elected to the
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Bruckman, Amy (1997). "MOOSE Crossing: Construction, Community, and Learning in a Networked Virtual World for Kids." PhD dissertation, MIT Media Lab.
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Bruckman, Amy and Carlos Jensen (2002). "The Mystery of the Death of MediaMOO, Seven Years of Evolution of an Online Community." In
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Bruckman, Amy (1991). "The Electronic Scrapbook: Towards an Intelligent Home-Video Editing System." Master's Thesis, MIT Media Lab.
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in 2018 for "contributions to collaborative computing and foundational work in Internet research ethics".
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On July 22, 1999, Bruckman and graduate student Joshua Berman released The Turing Game, a multiplayer
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Upon her graduation from MIT in 1997, Bruckman accepted a position as an assistant
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2018 ACM Fellows Honored for Pivotal Achievements that Underpin the Digital Age
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initiative at Georgia Tech. She has published dozens of scholarly articles in
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http://jellis.org/work/group2005/papers/forteBruckmanIncentivesGroup.pdf
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in New York City, graduating in 1983. Following that, Bruckman attended
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for her undergraduate studies, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in
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Bruckman currently directs the ELC Lab, the UROC program, and the
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awardees, honoring 100 remarkable innovators under the age of 35.
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and Learning Group. On January 20, 1993, Bruckman established
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2018 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
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Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing
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and has given invited presentations at high-profile
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New York City
Harvard University
BA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MA
PhD
MediaMOO
MOOSE Crossing
MIT Technology Review
TR100
AERA
Online communities
Learning sciences
Constructionist learning
Information ethics
Georgia Tech
GVU Center
Doctoral advisor
Mitchel Resnick
professor
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Interactive Computing
GVU Center
online communities
learning sciences
MIT Technology Review
TR100
New York, New York
Horace Mann School

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