Joan Donovan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3620450 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Joan Donovan |
| PRENOMES | Joan |
| SOBRENOME | Donovan |
| ASSINATURA | DONOVAN J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8381-9585 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 89 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2016 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Goffman against DNA
How do white nationalists use genetic ancestry tests?This article provides a qualitative analysis of posts from Stormfront, a white nationalist message board, to understand how white nationalists use genetic ancestry tests to advance ideological claims about the threat of genetic admixture.Starting in 2004, members of this message board began discussing the promises and pitfalls of using genetic ancestry tests to prove their whiteness.Using Goffm…
Cloaked science
This paper describes a 2020 disinformation campaign promoting the unsubstantiated claim that the novel coronavirus is the product of a Chinese bioweapons program. Exploiting a vulnerability in open-access scientific publishing, the campaign was based on papers posted to an online preprint repository designed to accelerate the diffusion of scientific knowledge. This provided the campaign with an air of scientific legitimacy, helped it reach millio…
Drafted into the Meme Wars
Visual Mis- and Disinformation, Social Media, and Democracy
Recomendaciones concretas para contrarrestar la información errónea durante la pandemia de Covid-19
La pandemia de COVID-19 plantea retos multifaceticos para el sistema de salud estadounidense. Uno de esos retos consiste en dar informacion vital sobre salud al publico, tarea que se ha hecho mas dificil por el flagelo de la informacion erronea sobre la salud en todo el ecosistema de la informacion. Aqui se formulan algunas recomendaciones concretas para los oficiales de la informacion de salud publica y los profesionales de la comunicacion que p…
The Future of Platform Power
Amid the roiling debate over the impact of the internet on democracy, we reflect on a recent contribution to this topic in these pages by Francis Fukuyama, who proposes that internet companies open their platforms to outside content-moderation services. We support exploring new approaches that promote greater user control and autonomy on social media platforms but take issue with his narrow definition of the problem. While the core issues of agen…
Stop the Presses? Moving From Strategic Silence to Strategic Amplification in a Networked Media Ecosystem
In a media ecosystem besieged with misinformation and polarizing rhetoric, what the news media chooses not to cover can be as significant as what they do cover. In this article, we examine the historical production of silence in journalism to better understand the role amplification plays in the editorial and content moderation practices of current news media and social media platforms. Through the lens of strategic silence (i.e., the use of edit…
Concrete Recommendations for Cutting Through Misinformation During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Unlike political disinformation, or fake news, health misinformation can quickly lead to changes in behaviors, which is why health communicators can't wait for tech companies to solve the problem 2 For example, research on antivaccination movements shows how celebrities, activists, and discredited physicians gain influence over vaccination policies, while also promoting quackery, misinformation, and conspiracies on social media 3 Although it is d…
Disinformation by Design
Disinformation campaigns such as those perpetrated by far-right groups in the United States seek to erode democratic social institutions. Looking to understand these phenomena, previous models of disinformation have emphasized identity-confirmation and misleading presentation of facts to explain why such disinformation is shared. A risk of these accounts, which conjure images of echo chambers and filter bubbles, is portraying people who accept di…
Data craft
Disinformation campaigns continue to thrive online, despite social media companies’ efforts at identifying and culling manipulation on their platforms. Framing these manipulation tactics as ‘coordinated inauthentic behavior,’ major platforms have banned culprits and deleted the evidence of their actions from social activity streams, making independent assessment and auditing impossible. While researchers, journalists, and civil society groups use…
Genetic ancestry testing among white nationalists
White nationalists have a genetic essentialist understanding of racial identity, so what happens when using genetic ancestry tests (GATs) to explore personal identities, they receive upsetting results they consider evidence of non-white or non-European ancestry? Our answer draws on qualitative analysis of posts on the white nationalist website Stormfront, interpreted by synthesizing the literatures on white nationalism and GATs and identity. We s…
Toward a Militant Ethnography of Infrastructure
Taking networked social movements as a fieldsite, I chart how the Occupy Movement transformed as activists turned to building infrastructure as a mode of political participation. Critically, infrastructure is not simply a feature of networked social movements, but forms its core capacities. Integrating insights from militant ethnography with STS research on infrastructure studies, I illustrate how to use these methods to render visible the infras…
Written in Blood
After the #Keyword
Networked social movements (NSMs) are hybrid forms of social organization that rely on the platforms of the Internet to connect multiple individuals and groups to address a social justice issue. I mapped the communication infrastructure of the Occupy Movement from July 2011 to June 2013 to demonstrate how changes in protesters' forms of communication reflected transformations in the organization of the movement and its capacity to mobilize partic…
‘Can you hear me now?' Phreaking the party line from operators to occupy
Contemporary networked social movements are characterized by their innovative use of mobile phones, the Internet, and social media to coordinate collective action. From 2011 to 2012, I conducted an ethnographic study of a group of Occupy protesters called InterOccupy, who scheduled and moderated 2000 movement-wide conference calls. Drawing on the history of telephones, I clarify why the Occupy movement utilized conference calls to organize mobili…
Disinformation by Design
Disinformation campaigns such as those perpetrated by far-right groups in the United States seek to erode democratic social institutions. Looking to understand these phenomena, previous models of disinformation have emphasized identity-confirmation and misleading presentation of facts to explain why such disinformation is shared. A risk of these accounts, which conjure images of echo chambers and filter bubbles, is portraying people who accept di…
Genetic ancestry testing among white nationalists
White nationalists have a genetic essentialist understanding of racial identity, so what happens when using genetic ancestry tests (GATs) to explore personal identities, they receive upsetting results they consider evidence of non-white or non-European ancestry? Our answer draws on qualitative analysis of posts on the white nationalist website Stormfront, interpreted by synthesizing the literatures on white nationalism and GATs and identity. We s…
Stop the Presses? Moving From Strategic Silence to Strategic Amplification in a Networked Media Ecosystem
In a media ecosystem besieged with misinformation and polarizing rhetoric, what the news media chooses not to cover can be as significant as what they do cover. In this article, we examine the historical production of silence in journalism to better understand the role amplification plays in the editorial and content moderation practices of current news media and social media platforms. Through the lens of strategic silence (i.e., the use of edit…
After the #Keyword
Networked social movements (NSMs) are hybrid forms of social organization that rely on the platforms of the Internet to connect multiple individuals and groups to address a social justice issue. I mapped the communication infrastructure of the Occupy Movement from July 2011 to June 2013 to demonstrate how changes in protesters' forms of communication reflected transformations in the organization of the movement and its capacity to mobilize partic…
Toward a Militant Ethnography of Infrastructure
Taking networked social movements as a fieldsite, I chart how the Occupy Movement transformed as activists turned to building infrastructure as a mode of political participation. Critically, infrastructure is not simply a feature of networked social movements, but forms its core capacities. Integrating insights from militant ethnography with STS research on infrastructure studies, I illustrate how to use these methods to render visible the infras…
The Future of Platform Power
Amid the roiling debate over the impact of the internet on democracy, we reflect on a recent contribution to this topic in these pages by Francis Fukuyama, who proposes that internet companies open their platforms to outside content-moderation services. We support exploring new approaches that promote greater user control and autonomy on social media platforms but take issue with his narrow definition of the problem. While the core issues of agen…
Concrete Recommendations for Cutting Through Misinformation During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Unlike political disinformation, or fake news, health misinformation can quickly lead to changes in behaviors, which is why health communicators can't wait for tech companies to solve the problem 2 For example, research on antivaccination movements shows how celebrities, activists, and discredited physicians gain influence over vaccination policies, while also promoting quackery, misinformation, and conspiracies on social media 3 Although it is d…
‘Can you hear me now?' Phreaking the party line from operators to occupy
Contemporary networked social movements are characterized by their innovative use of mobile phones, the Internet, and social media to coordinate collective action. From 2011 to 2012, I conducted an ethnographic study of a group of Occupy protesters called InterOccupy, who scheduled and moderated 2000 movement-wide conference calls. Drawing on the history of telephones, I clarify why the Occupy movement utilized conference calls to organize mobili…
Written in Blood
After the #Keyword
Networked social movements (NSMs) are hybrid forms of social organization that rely on the platforms of the Internet to connect multiple individuals and groups to address a social justice issue. I mapped the communication infrastructure of the Occupy Movement from July 2011 to June 2013 to demonstrate how changes in protesters' forms of communication reflected transformations in the organization of the movement and its capacity to mobilize partic…
Data craft
Disinformation campaigns continue to thrive online, despite social media companies’ efforts at identifying and culling manipulation on their platforms. Framing these manipulation tactics as ‘coordinated inauthentic behavior,’ major platforms have banned culprits and deleted the evidence of their actions from social activity streams, making independent assessment and auditing impossible. While researchers, journalists, and civil society groups use…
Genetic ancestry testing among white nationalists
White nationalists have a genetic essentialist understanding of racial identity, so what happens when using genetic ancestry tests (GATs) to explore personal identities, they receive upsetting results they consider evidence of non-white or non-European ancestry? Our answer draws on qualitative analysis of posts on the white nationalist website Stormfront, interpreted by synthesizing the literatures on white nationalism and GATs and identity. We s…
Toward a Militant Ethnography of Infrastructure
Taking networked social movements as a fieldsite, I chart how the Occupy Movement transformed as activists turned to building infrastructure as a mode of political participation. Critically, infrastructure is not simply a feature of networked social movements, but forms its core capacities. Integrating insights from militant ethnography with STS research on infrastructure studies, I illustrate how to use these methods to render visible the infras…
Concrete Recommendations for Cutting Through Misinformation During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Unlike political disinformation, or fake news, health misinformation can quickly lead to changes in behaviors, which is why health communicators can't wait for tech companies to solve the problem 2 For example, research on antivaccination movements shows how celebrities, activists, and discredited physicians gain influence over vaccination policies, while also promoting quackery, misinformation, and conspiracies on social media 3 Although it is d…
Disinformation by Design
Disinformation campaigns such as those perpetrated by far-right groups in the United States seek to erode democratic social institutions. Looking to understand these phenomena, previous models of disinformation have emphasized identity-confirmation and misleading presentation of facts to explain why such disinformation is shared. A risk of these accounts, which conjure images of echo chambers and filter bubbles, is portraying people who accept di…
Visual Mis- and Disinformation, Social Media, and Democracy
Recomendaciones concretas para contrarrestar la información errónea durante la pandemia de Covid-19
La pandemia de COVID-19 plantea retos multifaceticos para el sistema de salud estadounidense. Uno de esos retos consiste en dar informacion vital sobre salud al publico, tarea que se ha hecho mas dificil por el flagelo de la informacion erronea sobre la salud en todo el ecosistema de la informacion. Aqui se formulan algunas recomendaciones concretas para los oficiales de la informacion de salud publica y los profesionales de la comunicacion que p…
The Future of Platform Power
Amid the roiling debate over the impact of the internet on democracy, we reflect on a recent contribution to this topic in these pages by Francis Fukuyama, who proposes that internet companies open their platforms to outside content-moderation services. We support exploring new approaches that promote greater user control and autonomy on social media platforms but take issue with his narrow definition of the problem. While the core issues of agen…
Stop the Presses? Moving From Strategic Silence to Strategic Amplification in a Networked Media Ecosystem
In a media ecosystem besieged with misinformation and polarizing rhetoric, what the news media chooses not to cover can be as significant as what they do cover. In this article, we examine the historical production of silence in journalism to better understand the role amplification plays in the editorial and content moderation practices of current news media and social media platforms. Through the lens of strategic silence (i.e., the use of edit…
Cloaked science
This paper describes a 2020 disinformation campaign promoting the unsubstantiated claim that the novel coronavirus is the product of a Chinese bioweapons program. Exploiting a vulnerability in open-access scientific publishing, the campaign was based on papers posted to an online preprint repository designed to accelerate the diffusion of scientific knowledge. This provided the campaign with an air of scientific legitimacy, helped it reach millio…
Drafted into the Meme Wars
Goffman against DNA
How do white nationalists use genetic ancestry tests?This article provides a qualitative analysis of posts from Stormfront, a white nationalist message board, to understand how white nationalists use genetic ancestry tests to advance ideological claims about the threat of genetic admixture.Starting in 2004, members of this message board began discussing the promises and pitfalls of using genetic ancestry tests to prove their whiteness.Using Goffm…
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