Joan Donovan, PhD

@BostonJoan

Co-creator of the Beaver emoji. Director of the Technology and Social Change Project . Affiliate and

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    Jul 16

    I'll be teaching at HKS in the fall:

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  2. 5 hours ago

    The cattitude is ready for everything.

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  3. 5 hours ago

    All my feels in one image.

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  4. 5 hours ago

    Come to Boston and work with some of the coolest folks on Charles!

    The Social Media Collective at MSR have an open spot for a postdoc, starting July 2020. Do you study social media, digital labor, platforms, influence, automation, power, inequity, society? Finishing your PhD? Click, read, apply! (This means you )
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  5. 5 hours ago

    Imagine having invented the term “gay pride?”

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  6. 16 hours ago

    Impressive panel on comparative approaches to disinformation, including studies of emotion and politics. As we continue to build a field of critical internet studies, how should we study sociotechnical systems? People are more than data traces.

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    19 hours ago

    Follow today to gain insights from cutting-edge research presentations dealing with in a variety of national contexts.

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    Oct 3

    Hot off the presses: and the Technology & Social Change Research Project's new report on disinformation campaigns around the Canadian elections and Trudeau's history of wearing black and brownface. Published in .

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  9. 17 hours ago

    Trading up the chain

    President Trump's "coup" claims—that's just how disinformation works now. It circulates through fast-moving partisan cable news and online communities, which feed into each other, making the false claim snowball.
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    18 hours ago

    Full house for the opening panel with and Young Mie Kim. Panelists emphasize the importance of mixed-methods and multidisciplinary approaches to studying issues related to .

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  11. 20 hours ago

    Facebook tried to bury this story by releasing the data report at 10pm est. I’m so proud of Jane for holding the line and getting details. This isn’t a debunk, it’s information warfare. Why do platforms allow this?

    This investigation is a winding case study in how information operations are no longer just the crude spread lies. Instead we're looking at an intricate web of actors shielding those ultimately responsible. Please, read on:
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  12. 21 hours ago

    Guys and gals, always erase them tweets!

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    Oct 3

    NEW and EXCLUSIVE: Facebook took down hundreds of accounts, pages, and groups spreading anti-Iran and Qatar propaganda. Traced to PR firms in UAE, Egypt, and Nigeria, the network we found is another arm of already known information operations

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  14. Oct 3

    Good research here!

    In January, WhatsApp limited how often messages can be forwarded—to only five groups instead of 256—in an attempt to slow the spread of disinformation. New research suggests that the change is working.
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    Oct 3

    The most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.

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    Oct 3

    The media has been manipulated by extremists but focusing on the victims offers journalists a way to redress the balance. on how the OK sign was hijacked and journalists are complicit

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  17. Oct 3

    We published! "As journalists and researchers brace for this onslaught of increasingly polarized political attack ads and deceptively framed information, no amount of preparation can defend against the reckless actions by the candidates themselves"

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    Oct 3

    Hong Kong will use an emergency ordinance for the first time in more than a half a century in order to ban face masks at public gatherings.

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  19. Oct 2

    I gotta submit to this and you should too

    CFP | Extreme Right Radicalization Online workshop | We invite submissions of abstracts that deepen and expand research on extremism online. Workshop held in New York City, May 14-15, 2020. Co-chaired by and . Deadline Nov 18, 2019.
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  20. Oct 2

    Is this you?

    ”I, Professor Minerva McGonagall of House Gryffindor, respectfully submit to you my application for tenure. For 20 years, I have taught a 12/12 teaching load w seven preps every semester since I am the only member of my department.”
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    Oct 2

    delegates, remember that tonight’s keynote session begins at 17:30 in Z Block, room Z-411. We’ll start with a Welcome to Country – as a sign of respect for the traditional owners of the lands upon which we meet, please make sure you’re on time.

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