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Joan Donovan

Philosophy

#7014

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#10155

Historical Rank

#1594

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#9893

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#12617

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#1824

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Joan Donovan's Degrees

PhD Communication University of California, San Diego
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Joan Donovan is an American social science researcher and assistant professor at the College of Communication, Boston University. She was previously a researcher and lecturer at Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, an affiliate at Data and Society, and was research director of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.

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Joan Donovan's Published Works

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Social-media companies must flatten the curve of misinformation. (2020) (60)
Genetic ancestry testing among white nationalists: From identity repair to citizen science (2019) (57)
Disinformation by Design: The Use of Evidence Collages and Platform Filtering in a Media Manipulation Campaign (2020) (57)
Dead reckoning: Navigating content moderation after "fake news" (2018) (41)
Algorithmic accountability: a primer (2018) (41)
Deepfakes and cheap fakes (2019) (34)
Visual Mis- and Disinformation, Social Media, and Democracy (2021) (29)
Stop the Presses? Moving From Strategic Silence to Strategic Amplification in a Networked Media Ecosystem (2019) (27)
Genetic Ancestry Testing among White Nationalists (2017) (25)
Parallel Ports. Sociotechnical Change from the Alt-Right to Alt-Tech (2018) (21)
Data craft: a theory/methods package for critical internet studies (2019) (20)
Weaponizing the Digital Influence Machine (2018) (19)
Source hacking: media manipulation in practice (2019) (18)
Concrete Recommendations for Cutting Through Misinformation During the COVID-19 Pandemic. (2020) (15)
On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re a Bot: Pseudoanonymous Influence Operations and Networked Social Movements (2019) (11)
‘Can you hear me now?' Phreaking the party line from operators to occupy (2016) (10)
After the #Keyword: Eliciting, Sustaining, and Coordinating Participation Across the Occupy Movement (2018) (10)
The Shape of Information Management: Fostering Collaboration across Data, Science and Technology in a Design Studio (2011) (4)
Big Data, Bigger Risks (2020) (3)
What difference do data make? Data management and social change (2019) (3)
The Future of Platform Power: Quarantining Misinformation (2021) (2)
Cracking Open the Black Box of Genetic Ancestry Testing (2018) (2)
Technologies of Social Change: Mapping the Infrastructure of the Occupy Movement from #OccupyWallStreet to #OccupySandy (2015) (2)
Toward a Militant Ethnography of Infrastructure: Cybercartographies of Order, Scale, and Scope across the Occupy Movement (2018) (2)
Vaccines stop diseases safely — why all the suspicion? (2020) (2)
A history of stigma : towards a sociology of mental illness and American psychiatry (2008) (1)
Preserving for a More Just Future: Tactics of Activist Data Archiving (2018) (1)
From social movements to social surveillance (2017) (1)
Space Invaders: The Networked Terrain of Zoom Bombing (2020) (1)
Models for Platform Governance (2019) (1)
Who Will Win the 2020 Meme War? (2020) (1)
Cloaked science: the Yan reports (2022) (1)
Making Space for Information Management: The Multiple Contexts of Data Driven Scientific Research (2011) (0)
Grand Intentions, Small Interventions: Climate Data Rescue as Counter-Data Action (2017) (0)
Detect, Document, and Debunk (2020) (0)
A descriptive study of the creation and early development of a holistic health center (DISS) (1990) (0)
Mitigating Medical Misinformation: A Whole-of-society Approach to Countering Spam, Scams, and Hoaxes (2021) (0)
Make It Trend! Setting Right-Wing Media Agendas Using Twitter Hashtags (2022) (0)

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