Dhiraj Murthy’s current research explores social media, virtual organizations, digital ethnography, and big data quantitative analysis. His work on social networking technologies in virtual breeding grounds was funded by the National Science Foundation, Office of CyberInfrastructure. Dhiraj also has a book about Twitter, the first on the subject, is published by Polity Press. His work also uniquely explores the potential role of social technologies in diversity and community inclusion. Dhiraj’s work on innovative digital research methods has been cited widely. Dhiraj is co-director of the Centre for Creative & Social Technologies (CAST) , an interdisciplinary research centre broadly investigating social computing.