Fields of Study
- Sociology of Culture
- Qualitative Methods
- Computational and Quantitative Methods
- Social Networks
Areas of Interest
Research and teaching areas: Social Research Methods, Sociology of Culture, Social Networks, Urban Sociology
James Lannigan is a PhD candidate enrolled in the Sociology department at the University of Toronto. His current research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of the Sociology of Culture, Social Networks, and Urban Sociology. His dissertation work focuses on the networks of specialty coffee retailers paying close attention to the development of distinct identity-making practices and their contemporary adaptation to challenges in the marketplace from chain competition. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, James has been recently focusing on how this population has adapted their organizational practices to deal with uncertainties facing the niche as a whole.
Dissertation title: “Discourse and structure: An examination of the organizational identities and networks of contemporary specialty coffee retailers”
Dissertation committee: Bonnie Erickson (supervisor), Clayton Childress, Josée Johnston
Publications:
- Lannigan, J. (2020). Making a space for taste: Context and discourse in the specialty coffee scene. International Journal of Information Management, 51, 101987.
- Gruzd, A., Lannigan, J., & Quigley, K. (2018). Examining government cross-platform engagement in social media: Instagram vs Twitter and the big lift project. Government Information Quarterly, 35(4), 579-587.
- Lannigan, J. (2017, July). Branding practices in the new (Er) media: a comparison of retailer twitter and web-based images. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Media & Society (pp. 1-5).
- Klein, M., Gruzd, A., & Lannigan, J. (2017). Using Deliberation-Centric Social Network Analysis to Measure Balkanization. Available at SSRN 2914554.
- Lannigan, J., & McLaughlin, N. (2017). Professors and politics: Noam Chomsky’s contested reputation in the United States and Canada. Theory and Society, 46(3), 177-199.