Daren Brabham

Daren C. Brabham teaches public relations courses and conducts research into online communities and the role of new media in society. He was among the first to publish research on crowdsourcing, an online, distributed problem solving and production model that utilizes the collective intelligence of online communities. Brabham’s professional experience includes user experience design for a leading IT research firm, public relations and marketing for an arts foundation, development for a public television station, public information for state transportation projects, and crowdsourcing consulting for a leading human resources consulting and services firm.