BIOGRAPHY
Why a Tech Power Player?
For contributions to disinformation research, media, and policy discussions.
Joan Donovan is the research director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and the director of the Technology and Social Change project, where she studies disinformation and online extremism. Additionally, she cofounded the Kennedy School’s Misinformation Review and serves as a columnist at MIT Technology Review.
Donovan received her PhD in sociology and science studies from the University of California San Diego, and a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Sociology from Concordia University.
CAREER MILESTONES
2018
Named research director at Harvard Shorenstein Center
2016
Served as the lead of media manipulation and platform accountability research initiative at Data and Society Research Institute
2015
Worked as postdoctoral fellow at the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics
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BIOGRAPHY
Why a Tech Power Player?
For contributions to disinformation research, media, and policy discussions.
Joan Donovan is the research director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and the director of the Technology and Social Change project, where she studies disinformation and online extremism. Additionally, she cofounded the Kennedy School’s Misinformation Review and serves as a columnist at MIT Technology Review.
Donovan received her PhD in sociology and science studies from the University of California San Diego, and a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Sociology from Concordia University.
CAREER MILESTONES
2018
Named research director at Harvard Shorenstein Center
2016
Served as the lead of media manipulation and platform accountability research initiative at Data and Society Research Institute
2015
Worked as postdoctoral fellow at the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics