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John
P. Robinson
Professor
Ph.D.
University of Michigan, 1965
Office:
3131 Art-Sociology Building
Phone: 301 405-5734
Email: jpr@umd.edu
Departmental Specialty Areas:
Social Psychology
John P. Robinson is Professor
of Sociology and Director of the Americans'
Use of Time Project as well as Director of the the Internet Scholars Program. He is primarily interested
in the study of time and is co-author of several
books dealing with the use of time and the quality
of life, including Time for Life (with
G. Godbey, Penn State Press, 1999), The Rhythm
of Everyday Life: How Soviet and American Citizens
Use Time (Westview, 1988) and How Americans
Use Time (Praeger, 1977).
 Professor
Robinson has also published widely on the social
implications of the Internet, and was a contributor
on the seminal ARS piece dealing with the study
of the Internet (DiMaggio, Hargittai, Neuman,
and Robinson, 2001, “Social Implication
of the Internet” ARS). This work, undertaken
under the auspices of a $3 million grant from
the National Science Foundation, has also led
to the creation of a website, www.webuse.umd.edu,
which contains a wide variety of internet related
data as well as an online statistical tool for
analysis of the data (the award winning SDA program
created at UC Berkeley). Professor Robinson also
co-founded, along with Stanford Professor Norman
Nie, a journal, jointly published with the Stanford
Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society,
entitled IT and Society (www.itandsociety.org),
which publishes up-to date Internet research.
In addition, over the past three years Professor
Robinson has conducted an annual summer Webshop,
where 40-50 top graduate students are brought
into College Park and given the opportunity to
interact with leading Internet scholars and researchers.
Course
Syllabi:
Sociology
402: Procedures for Data Collection
Sociology
450: Measurement of Time, Work, and Leisure
Other
Links:
Webuse Project
IT and Society Journal
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