Countries across the world are dealing with an unprecedented influx of immigrants and refugees, with a record 258 million people moving to new countries in 2017. In most of these countries, citizens a...
Joan Donovan
Joan Donovan is the director of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at Harvard Kennedy’s Shorenstein Center. She was until December 2018 at Data and Society as the project lead on media manipulation.
After completing her PhD in Sociology and Science Studies at the University of California San Diego, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics, where she researched white supremacists’ use of DNA ancestry tests, social movements, and technology. For several years, Joan has conducted action research with different networked social movements in order to map and improve the communication infrastructures built by protesters. In her role as a participant, she identifies information bottlenecks, decodes algorithmic behavior, and connects organizations with other like-minded networks.
Events IJF 2019
Is quality information like quality nutrition? Can we map the building blocks of useful information online without further censorship? Is building a nutrition label for credible content a feasible con...
The ethical and social impact of technology, and the role of journalists and media in it. The session will consider what the social impacts and ethical implications are of new technologies such as ar...
