Joan Donovan’s Website
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Please take a moment to look around. My research agenda describes the projects I’m currently working on related to mobile apps for policing, the intersections of activism and data journalism, the virtual organization of networked social movements, how racists understand genetic ancestry tests, and a history of social engineering.
SOME RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
From Social Movements to Social Surveillance: How the technology of the Occupy Movement became a mobile app for policing- Association for Computing Machinery ACM XRDS Spring Issue
Refuse and Resist! Joan Donovan dives into the dumpster of the Internet, and comes up holding some tasty ideas about what “doxing” means today and yesterday. limn.it/refuse-and-resist/
Understanding Trump’s 100-Day Plan through a White Supremacist Worldview- culturedigitally.org/2016/11/trumps_100day_plan/
Today Won’t Be Like Yesterday: Decentralizing Data to Preserve Scientific Futures- occupythesocial.com/
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Upcoming Talks, Presentations, and Collaborations
Fear of Diversity? White Nationalism and the Trump Administration
June 22, 2017
The Color of Surveillance: Government Monitoring of American Immigrants
Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C.
2017 ASA Annual Meeting (”Encoding Inclusion, Decoding Inequality” Panel for the Science Knowledge, and Technology Section)
1. “When Genetics Challenges a Racist’s Identity: Genetic Ancestry Testing among White Nationalists” Co-authored with Aaron Panofsky
2. “The Ferguson Effect: Public Sociology and the Making of an American Statistic”