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Joan Donovan
  • Industry

    Education

  • Location

    Greater Boston

  • Social Media
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Joan Donovan

Tech Power Players 50 | 2022 | Ranked #40

Research Director, Harvard Shorenstein Center

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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Tech Power Players 50 | 2022 | Ranked #40

Joan Donovan

Research Director, Harvard Shorenstein Center

Joan Donovan
  • Industry

    Education

  • Location

    Greater Boston

  • Social Media

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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After rocky departure from Harvard, prominent disinformation expert Joan Donovan heads to BU

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Introducing Globe Opinion podcast ‘Say More with Shirley Leung’

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