Peter Enrique Kollock was an American

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 sociologist and an associate professor and vice chair in the department of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Los Angeles

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. His research focused on cooperation and exchange in online communities, arguing that cooperation is sustained by credit and relatively loose accounting systems.

Background

Kollock was born November 1, 1959 in Zaragoza

Zaragoza

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, Spain. He received his B.A. in sociology at the University of Washington

University of Washington

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 in 1982, M.A. from Washington in 1984, and Ph.D. at Washington in 1990. He joined the department of sociology at UCLA in 1989 and remained there until his death in 2009. He died in a motorcycle accident on Jan. 10.

Book

• Smith, Marc, and Peter Kollock (editors). 1999. Communities in Cyberspace. London: Routledge. http://www.cjsonline.ca/reviews/cyberspace.html

Selected papers

• Kollock, Peter, and Marc Smith. 1996. "Managing the Virtual Commons: Cooperation and Conflict in Computer Communities." pp. 109–128 in Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, Social, and Cross-Cultural Perspectives, edited by Susan Herring. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Kollock, Peter. 1996. "Design Principles for Online Communities." Harvard Conference on the Internet and Society. Also published in PC Update 15(5): 58-60. June 1998.
• Kollock, Peter. 1998. "Annual Review of Sociology - Social Dilemmas: Anatomy of Cooperation"
• Kollock, Peter. 1999. "The Production of Trust in Online Markets." Advances in Group Processes (Vol. 16), edited by E. J. Lawler, M. Macy, S. Thye, and H. A. Walker. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
• Kollock, Peter, and Marc Smith. 1999. "Introduction: Communities in Cyberspace." pp. 3–25 in Communities in Cyberspace, edited by Marc Smith and Peter Kollock. London: Routledge.
• Kollock, Peter, and E. Russell Braziel. 2006. “How Not to Build an Online Market: The Sociology of Market Microstructure.” Advances in Group Processes: Social Psychology of the Workplace, edited by S. R. Thye and E. J. Lawler. New York: Elsevier Science.

Presentations and videos

Howard Rheingold and the IFTF host a lecture from Peter Kollock

Obituaries

• In Memoriam -- Peter Kollock - UCLA TODAY
• In Memoriam - UCLA Sociology
• Long-time sociology professor dies at 49 - UCLA Daily Bruin
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• My friend, colleague and teacher Peter Kollock by Marc Smith.

External links

• From 'Craig's List' to virtual community - CNN
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  , March 25, 1998 (interview)