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Overview

John D. McCarthy is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Social Sciences with a focus on Sociology and Political Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Health, Urban Studies, and Management of Technology and Innovation.

The primary topics of McCarthy's research include Innovative Human-Technology Interaction, Participatory Visual Research Methods, Impact of Technology on Adolescents, Cultural Industries and Urban Development, Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development, Art Therapy and Mental Health, and Ethics and Social Impacts of AI.

Frequent coauthors with whom McCarthy has collaborated include Maria Murray, Nadia Pantidi, Doireann Peelo Dennehy, Stephanie Murphy, and Kellie Morrissey. These collaborations underline a network that supports interdisciplinary and socially engaged research.

McCarthy's work is often published in venues such as Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, BMJ Open, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, and the Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology.

Some recent published papers by McCarthy include:

  • Participatory Design Going Digital: Challenges and Opportunities for Distributed Place-Making, 2022, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
  • How is the medical assistance in dying (MAID) process carried out in Nova Scotia, Canada? A qualitative process model flowchart study, 2021, BMJ Open
  • Rural Islandness as a Lens for (Rural) HCI, 2021, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
  • Exploring How Parasocial Intergroup Contact With Transgender Influencers on TikTok Reduces Transgender Conspiracy Beliefs, 2024, Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology
  • Agency, Power and Confrontation: the Role for Socially Engaged Art in CSCW with Rurban Communities in Support of Inclusion, 2023, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)

McCarthy's research spans multiple intersecting disciplines with a focus on the social dimensions of technology and innovative approaches to human-technology interaction and social development. This encompasses the exploration of participatory methods, technology's impact on specific societal groups such as adolescents, and the ethical implications associated with emerging technologies.

Best Publications

  • Resource Mobilization and Social Movements: A Partial Theory

    John David McCarthy;Mayer N. Zald

  • Comparative perspectives on social movements : political opportunities, mobilizing structures, and cultural framings

    Dough McAdam;John D McCarthy;Mayer N Zald

  • The Trend of Social Movements in America: Professionalization and Resource Mobilization

    John D. McCarthy;Mayer N. Zald

  • The use of newspaper data in the study of collective action

    Jennifer Earl;Andrew Martin;John D. McCarthy;Sarah A. Soule

  • Resources and Social Movement Mobilization

    Bob Edwards;John D. McCarthy

  • Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements: Introduction: Opportunities, mobilizing structures, and framing processes – toward a synthetic, comparative perspective on social movements

    Doug McAdam;John D. McCarthy;Mayer N. Zald

  • Images of protest: Dimensions of selection bias in media coverage of Washington demonstrations, 1982 and 1991

    John David McCarthy;Clark McPhail;Jackie Smith

  • Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements

    Carol M. Mueller;Doug McAdam;John D. McCarthy;Mayer N. Zald

  • Movimientos sociales, perspectivas comparadas: oportunidades políticas, estructuras de movilización y marcos interpretativos culturales

    Doug McAdam;John D. McCarthy;Mayer N. Zald

  • Analysis of age effects in longitudinal studies of adolescent self-esteem.

    John David McCarthy;Dean R. Hoge

  • The Enduring Vitality of the Resource Mobilization Theory of Social Movements

    John D. McCarthy;Mayer N. Zald

  • Social Movements in an Organizational Society.

    John Wilson;Mayer N. Zald;John D. McCarthy

  • From Protest to Agenda Building: Description Bias in Media Coverage of Protest Events in Washington, D.C.

    Jackie Smith;John D. McCarthy;Clark McPhail;Boguslaw Augustyn

  • Social Movement Industries: Competition and Cooperation Among Movement Organizations

    Mayer N. Zald;John D. McCarthy

  • Protest under fire? Explaining the policing of protest

    Jennifer Earl;Sarah A. Soule;John D. McCarthy

  • Confronting the State, the Corporation, and the Academy : The Influence of Institutional Targets on Social Movement Repertoires

    Edward T. Walker;Andrew W. Martin;John D. McCarthy

  • Social Movements in an Organizational Society: Collected Essays

    Mayer N. Zald;John D. McCarthy

  • Resource Mobilization by Local Social Movement Organizations: Agency, Strategy, and Organization in the Movement Against Drinking and Driving

    John D. McCarthy;Mark Wolfson

  • The Social Construction of School Punishment: Racial Disadvantage Out of Universalistic Process

    John D. McCarthy;Dean R. Hoge

  • The dynamics of social movements : resource mobilization, social control, and tactics

    Mayer N. Zald;John D. McCarthy

  • Legitimacy, Strategy, and Resources in the Survival of Community-Based Organizations

    Edward T. Walker;John D. McCarthy

  • Accessing public, media, electoral, and governmental agendas

    John D. McCarthy;Jackie Smith;Mayer N. Zald

  • Uncle Tom and Mr. Charlie: Metaphysical Pathos in the Study of Racism and Personal Disorganization'

    John D. McCarthy;William L. Yancey

  • Protest Events: Cause or Consequence of State Action? The U.S. Women's Movement and Federal Congressional Activities, 1956-1979

    Sarah Soule;Doug McAdam;John McCarthy;Yang Su

  • Strategy Matters: The Contingent Value of Social Capital in the Survival of Local Social Movement Organizations

    Bob Edwards;John D. McCarthy

Frequent Co-Authors

Mayer N. Zald
Mayer N. Zald University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Doug McAdam
Doug McAdam Stanford University
John D. Kasarda
John D. Kasarda University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jackie Smith
Jackie Smith University of Pittsburgh
Peter Evans
Peter Evans University of California, Berkeley
Frank R. Baumgartner
Frank R. Baumgartner University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sarah A. Soule
Sarah A. Soule Stanford University
Bob Edwards
Bob Edwards East Carolina University
John Wilson
John Wilson University of Southern California
Bert Klandermans
Bert Klandermans Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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