Coye Cheshire, assistant professor in the School of Information

Coye Cheshire is an assistant professor in the School of Information, where he studies cooperation, trust, collective action and interpersonal relationships in computer-mediated systems.

Cheshire’s research has been funded by grants from the National Science Foundation and Yahoo! Research, including studies of trust and transitions in modes of social exchange, the role of social incentives in online collective action, and a large-scale study of online interpersonal communication and attraction. His work appears in Social Psychology Quarterly, The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, and Analyse & Kritik. He is co-editor on the new book from the Russell Sage Foundation Series on Trust, "eTrust: Forming Relationships in the Online World."