Carter Butts
Carter T. Butts is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. He is also a member of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, where he leads the Networks, Computation, and Social Dynamics Laboratory.
Butts was a member of the Center for the Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems and the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems at Carnegie Mellon University. He serves as an area editor for the journal Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Mathematical Sociology and Sociological Methodology. He is the recipient of early career awards from the American Sociological Association and the International Network for Social Network Analysis.
Butts's research involves the measurement and modeling of social and organizational networks, including those arising in response to disasters and other extreme events. His published work includes studies of responder communication and coordination in the World Trade Center disaster and organizational collaboration in response to Hurricane Katrina, as well as methods for modeling emergent networks and responder interaction.
Through UCI's Center for Emergency Response Technologies, he is involved in ongoing collaborative research to combine social science and information technology to improve group, organizational, and community responses to crises and disasters. He is also studying the role of social media in supporting informal communication and information gathering by the members of the general public.
Workshop Abstracts
Informal Online Communication in the Deepwater Horizon Disaster
Project HEROIC: Understanding Informal Online Communication in Disasters and Other Extreme Events
Related Resources from Carter Butts
Emergent Coordinators in the World Trade Center Disaster
With Miruna Petrescu-Prahova
International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, March 2008
