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Marcus Foth

Marcus Foth is an Australian Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia. 

Marcus’ research interest is at the intersection of people, place and technology.  He is pioneering new development approaches towards interactive social networking systems informed by community, social and urban studies and employing human-centred and participatory design methods.  His doctoral thesis entitled Towards a Design Methodology to Support Social Networks of Residents in Inner-City Apartment Buildings delivered advanced understandings in new media, interaction design, sociology, urban studies and community informatics. 

Marcus is leading the technical refinement of network action research and its appropriation to the context of social networks in urban neighbourhoods.  He helps to build bridges between new media and new urbanism theories and promotes cross-disciplinary relationships and exchange. 

Marcus is also a sessional tutor and lecturer in the Creative Industries Faculty, and web designer and information architect of several commercial and community web projects. More information at www.vrolik.de.

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