Joan Donovan

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Joan Donovan
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Born1979 or 1980 (age 41–42)[1]
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of California, San Diego
University of California, Los Angeles
OccupationResearch director, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
EmployerHarvard Kennedy School of Government

Joan Donovan (born 1979/1980) is an American social scientist faculty member at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, an affiliate at Data and Society, and is research director of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.[2][1]

Donovan's expertise is in examining internet and technology studies, online extremism, media manipulation, and disinformation campaigns, and in January 2020, she was called to testify at the Hearing on "Americans at Risk: Manipulation and Deception in the Digital Age" at Congress's Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce of the Committee on Energy and Commerce.[3]

Biography[]

Donovan earned her PhD in Sociology and Science Studies from the University of California San Diego, and was a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Society and Genetics at UCLA where her expertise was social movements, technology, and white supremacist's use of DNA ancestry tests.[4][5] She later held the role of Research Lead for the Media Manipulation Initiative at Data and Society, and mapped how interest groups, governments, political operatives, corporations, and others use the internet and media to disrupt social institutions.[6] After Data and Society, Donovan went on to lead the Technology and Social Change Research Project at the Harvard Kennedy School, and teach the class Media Manipulation and Disinformation Campaigns.[7] Donovan has authored over 35 articles, paper, and books [8] including:

  • How news organizations should cover white supremacist shootings, PBS News Hour[9]
  • Big Tech Companies Are Struggling With How To Best Police Their Platforms, NPR[10]
  • Unlike Us Reader: Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives[11]
  • Navigating the Tech Stack: When, Where and How Should we Moderate Content?[12]
  • Toward a Militant Ethnography of Infrastructure: Cybercartographies of Order, Scale, and Scope across the Occupy Movement.[13]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Heim, Joe (January 19, 2021). "'Disinformation can be a very lucrative business, especially if you're good at it,' media scholar says". Washington Post. Retrieved February 11, 2021.
  2. ^ "Technology and Social Change". Shorenstein Center. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
  3. ^ "Hearing on "Americans at Risk: Manipulation and Deception in the Digital Age"". Democrats, Energy and Commerce Committee. January 8, 2020. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
  4. ^ Panofsky, Aaron; Donovan, Joan (October 1, 2019). "Genetic ancestry testing among white nationalists: From identity repair to citizen science". Social Studies of Science. 49 (5): 653–681. doi:10.1177/0306312719861434. ISSN 0306-3127. PMC 6939152. PMID 31264517.
  5. ^ Murphy, Heather (July 12, 2019). "How White Nationalists See What They Want to See in DNA Tests". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
  6. ^ "Joan Donovan – International Symposium on Online Journalism". Retrieved April 6, 2020.
  7. ^ "Media Manipulation and Disinformation Campaigns". www.hks.harvard.edu. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
  8. ^ "Joan Donovan CV" (PDF).
  9. ^ "How news organizations should cover white supremacist shootings, according to a media expert". PBS NewsHour. August 4, 2019. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
  10. ^ "Big Tech Companies Are Struggling With How To Best Police Their Platforms". NPR.org. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
  11. ^ "Unlike Us Reader" (PDF).
  12. ^ "Navigating the Tech Stack: When, Where and How Should We Moderate Content?". Centre for International Governance Innovation. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
  13. ^ Donovan, Joan (August 29, 2018). "Toward a Militant Ethnography of Infrastructure: Cybercartographies of Order, Scale, and Scope across the Occupy Movement". Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. 48 (4): 482–509. doi:10.1177/0891241618792311. ISSN 0891-2416. S2CID 149972355.

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