Ben (www.gebre-medhin.com) is a PhD Candiate in sociology. His interests are in the subfields of organization, the professions, and higher education. His dissertation focuses on elite universities and the MOOC movement. For part of that project it uses topic models and text analysis tools to document changes in discourse within an organizational or professional field over time.
Laura Nelson is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Northeastern University and author of “Computational Grounded Theory: A Methodological Framework” and a contributor to various blog forums, most recently the orgtheory.net forum on data analytics and inclusivity.
