PhD en Comunicaciones, Rutgers University (Estados Unidos). Magíster en Ciencia Política, mención Relaciones Internacionales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Licenciado en Información Social y Periodista, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Áreas de investigación
Comunicación estratégica, medios sociales, medios digitales, e-government, tecnologías de información en organizaciones, métodos cuantitativos.
Cargo que desempeña en la Facultad
Director del Magíster en Comunicación Estratégica, del Diplomado en Redes Sociales online y Comunicaciones, y del Diplomado en Herramientas para la gestión de Comunicación Interna en organizaciones.
Director del think tank Tren Digital, y profesor del curso “Estrategias Comunicacionales 2.0: el uso de redes en organizaciones”.
Publicaciones
Halpern, D. Katz, J.E. & Carril, C. (2016). The online ideal persona vs. the jealousy effect: Two explanations of why selfies are associated with lower-quality romantic relationships. Telematics and Informatics, 34,1,114-123.
Halpern, D., Valenzuela, S., & Katz, J. E. (2016). “Selfie-ists” or “narci-selfiers”?: A cross-lagged panel analysis of selfie taking and narcissism. Personality and Individual Differences.
Halpern, D., Quintas-Froufe, N., & Fernández-Medina, F. (2016). Interacciones entre la televisión y su audiencia social: hacia una conceptualización comunicacional. Profesional de la información, 25(3), 1699-2407.
Caron, A.H & Halpern, D. (2016). To Glass or Not to Glass: A Study on Attitudes towards a Wearable Device. The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Communication, 11,2, 1-17.
Halpern, D., Oh, K. E., Tremaine, M., Chiang, J., Bemis, K., & Silver, D. (2015). Learning Visualization Strategies: A qualitative investigation. International Journal of Science Education, 37(18), 3038-3065.
Katz, J. E., & Halpern, D. (2015). Can Virtual Museums Motivate Students? Toward a Constructivist Learning Approach, Journal of Science Education and Technology, 1-13.
Oh, K., Halpern, D., Tremaine, M., Chiang, J., Silver, D. & Bemis, K. (2015). Blocked: When the information is hidden by the visualization, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology.
Halpern, D., Pena-y-Lillo, M., Goic, F., Reinoso-Aguilo, A., Figueroa-Zepeda, C., & Troncoso-Leiva, A. (2015). Self-diagnosis and online health information seekers: the Chilean case. Profesional de la información, 24(5), 621-629.
Valenzuela, S., Halpern, D., & Katz, J. E. (2014). Social network sites, marriage well-being and divorce: Survey and state-level evidence from the United States. Computers in Human Behavior, 36, 94-101.
Katz, J.E. & Halpern, D. (2013). Attitudes toward robots suitability for various jobs as affected robot appearance. Behaviour & Information Technology.
Halpern, D., Rosenberg, A., & Arriagada, E. (2013). Who are those Green Guys?: Understanding Online Activism in Chile from a Communicational Perspective. Palabra Clave, 16(3), 729-759.
Halpern, D. & Katz, J.E (2013). Close but not stuck: Understanding social distance in human-robot interaction through a computer mediation approach. Intervalla: Platform for intellectual exchange.
Halpern, D. & Gibbs, J. (2013). Social media as a catalyst for online deliberation? Exploring the affordances of Facebook and YouTube for political expression. Computers in Human Behavior, 29; 3, 1159–1168.
Katz, J.E. & Halpern, D. (2013). Political and Developmental Correlates of Social Media Participation in Government: A Global Survey of National Leadership Websites. International Journal of Public Administration, 36, 1, 1-15.
Halpern, D., Rashid, N. & Ki, S. (2012). Towards a Social Network e-Government Agenda? Measuring Participation 2.0 in the Arab World. In Proceedings of the ACM 13th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2012)
Halpern, D. & Katz, J.E. (2012). From e-government to social network government: Towards a transition model. In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Web Science Conference (Websci’12).
Halpern, D. & Katz, J. (2012). Unveiling Robotophobia and Cyber-dystopianism: The role of gender, technology and religion on attitudes towards robots. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI’12).
Halpern, D. Oh, K., Chiang, J., Tremaine, M., Bemis, K., and Silver, D. (2011). The Paradox of Visualizations: Making Information Comprehensible. In Proceedings of IEEE Information Visualization (VizWeek’11).
Oh, K., Halpern, D., Chiang, J., Tremaine, M., Bemis, K., and Silver, D. (2011). Which properties in 3D visualizations cause comprehension difficulties? In Proceedings of The American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T’11).
Halpern, D. (2009). Efectos de los comentarios generados por usuarios [Online newspaper: The influence of user comments]. Cuadernos de Información, (24), 29-40.
Libros y capítulos de libros
Katz, J.E, Halpern, D. & Crocker, ET. (2015). In the Company of Robots: Views of Acceptability of Robots in Social Settings. In Taipale, S., Luca, F. D., Sarrica, M., & Fortunati, L (Eds). Social Robots from a Human Perspective. Springer International Publishing.
Halpern, D. (2014). Mass Media. In: Michael T. Gibbons (Editor-in-Chief), Diana Coole (Associate Ed.), Elisabeth Ellis (Associate Ed.), editors. The Encyclopedia of Political Thought. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 2220-2221.
Katz, J.E & Halpern, D. (2014). An Eye towards the Future: A Binational Survey of Attitudes toward Google Glass. András Benedek & Kristóf Nyíri (Eds.). The Power of the Image: Emotion, Expression, Explanation. Frankfurt / New York: Peter Lang.
Katz, J.E & Halpern, D. (2013). Is a tour worth a 1,000 clicks? Skill, practice and performance in visualizing and enjoying a virtual museum visit. In András Benedek & Kristóf Nyíri (Eds.) Visual Learning, vol. 3. Bern: Peter Lang Verlagsgruppe.
Katz, J.E & Halpern, D. (2012). Time and biography: Folk visual metaphors. In András Benedek & Kristóf Nyíri (Eds.) Visual Learning, vol. 2: The Iconic Turn in Education. Bern: Peter Lang Verlagsgruppe.
Halpern, D. (2010) Gestión de crisis: Teoría y práctica de un modelo comunicacional. Ed. Ril, Chile.
Halpern, D., Gonzalez, J., Unda, P. (2009). El Pecado de El Rucio. Ed. Catalonia, Chile.
Presentaciones en conferencias
Halpern, D., Valenzuela, S., Katz, S. (2013). Does Facebook harm marriage and reduce marital satisfaction? Evidence from the United States. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National and Communication Association (NCA), Washington.
Halpern, D., Katz, J.E., Campbell, S. (2012). Social Media as a Platform for Civic Participation: Towards a 2.0 O-S-R-O-R Model of Communication. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National and Communication Association (NCA), Orlando.
Halpern, D. Katz, J.E, Ki, S. & Rashid, N. (2012). From e-government to social network government: A global survey of national leadership websites. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Information and Communication Association (ICA), Phoenix.
Bemis, K., Silver, D., Chiang, J. Halpern, D. Oh, K.E., & Tremaine, M. (2011). Separating the representation from the science: Training students in comprehending 3D diagrams. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of Annual Geographical Union (AGU).
Halpern D. & Lee, S. (2011). Civic Participation and Social Media: Are They Bowling Together? Paper presented at the Annual Convention of American Political Science Association (APSA). The paper was in the SSRN’s Top Ten download list for Political Behavior: Cognition, Psychology, & Behavior e Journal.
Halpern, D & Gibbs, J. (2011). Social Media as a Catalyst for Online Deliberation: When Does the Medium Matter?, Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Information and Communication Association (ICA), Boston.
Halpern, D. (2011). Social Media and Civic Participation: Analyzing the web 2.0 as a political platform. Paper presentado en Eastern Association Communication, Baltimore.
Halpern, D. (2010). Becoming invisible through IM: A third order effect. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Association of Communication, Baltimore.
Hettinga, K. E., Ash, E. M. & Halpern, D. (2009). Effects of a trend: The influence of user comments on readers’ perceptions of online newspapers. Paper presentado en Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication National Conference, Boston, MA. Top Student Paper, Newspaper Division.
Becas
Rutgers. School of Communication and Information Fellowship para estudios en el programa de Ph.D. program, 2012, $10,000 y full remission of tuition.
Rutgers, University Continuing Fellowship entregado por la Graduate School, full remission of tuition 2009-2011.
Fulbright fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, Institute of International Education awarded for pursuing graduate studies, 2008‐2011,$26,500.
Mecesup fellowship, Ministerio de Educación, 2008‐2011,$78,000
Penn State, University Continuing Fellowship entregado por la Graduate School, full remission of tuition 2008-2009.
Premios y honores
School of Communication and Information Travel Award, $300, 2012.
Summer Scholarship for outstanding scholarly, 2012.
Part-Time Lecturer Professional Activities Fund Award, Rutgers 2011.
School of Communication and Information Travel Award, 2011.
Journalism & Mass Communication National Conference, Top Student Paper, Newspaper Division, 2009.
Top Research Paper Award, College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST), Penn State, Graduate Symposium, 2009.
Fondos de investigación
(PI) Riesgos y oportunidades del uso de TIC en escolares: Hacia una agenda de alfabetización digital para el alumno 2020. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Políticas Públicas UC.
(PI) Conectados: Cómo los medios sociales cambiaron lo que pensamos y hacemos. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Fondo de Desarrollo de la Docencia (FONDEDOC).
(PI) Cyberbullying en Chile. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, VRI de Inicio, 2013.
(PI) How senators are using Twitter? A comparison between Chile and US. Fulbright, summer grant, 2010.
(PI) Investigating Crisis 2.0. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, FONDEDOC, 2008.
