1. Technology for Citizen Voices
April 5, 2014
Boston, MA
Dr. Stuart Shulman
Phone: +1-413-345-8939
Email: stu.shulman@visioncritical.com

2. Conflict of Interest Disclosure
• I am the founder, CEO, and sole manager of Texifter, LLC.
• Texifter sold DiscoverText to Vision Critical in 2012.
• I profited from the asset sale, as did UMass.
• I stand to profit further from sales of DiscoverText licenses.
• A UMass panel has managed the case from cradle to grave.
• Vision Critical recently sold DiscoverText back to Texifter.

3. My CurrentArea of Research

4. How Did I Get Here? May 2001

5. Seeking Deliberative Democracy November 2002

6. eRulemaking Research May 2003

7. Mass Email Campaigns December 2004

8. Misleading Members for Data June 2005

9. Membership & Resources April 2006

10. The Dam Breaks January 2007

11. Early Prototype Solutions April 2008

12. The “Notice and Spam Era” April 2009

13. Reading Inspirational Books November 2010

14. 10 Years of Coding Text October 2011

15. Innovation Happens in Groups June 2012

16. Interactive Machine Classifiers March 2013

17. Where Does This Leave Us?

18. The First Draft of History is Now Often a Tweet

19. Be Wary of Too Much Automation

20. What is the Future of Citizen Voice Online?

21. Thank-you for having me!
Dr. Stuart W. Shulman
Founder & CEO, Texifter, LLC
Research Associate Professor, UMass Amherst
Director, Qualitative Data Analysis Program (QDAP)
Editor Emeritus, Journal of Information Technology & Politics
Contact Information
stu@texifter.com
http://people.umass.edu/stu/
@stuartwshulman