Join us for a talk with Joan Donovan, founder of non-profit The Critical Internet Studies Institute.
About the Speaker
Dr Joan Donovan is an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies in the College of Communications at Boston University and founder of The Critical Internet Studies Institute, a non-profit that develops cutting-edge research and educational programs advancing public knowledge of emerging technologies and the paradoxes of innovation.
In 2023, she blew the whistle on corporate influence over her research program at Harvard Kennedy School, for which she also served as the Research Director. Dr Donovan leads the field in examining internet and technology studies, online extremism, media manipulation, and disinformation campaigns.
About the CGHR Practitioner Series
THE CGHR Practitioner Series runs each year at the University of Cambrige in Lent term, which often features rights activists, aid practitioners and journalists etc. Our speakers relate stories about their own experience — how they came to work in the field that they are in — with details about what the work itself involves. The session thus offers a combination of substantive discussion of the speaker’s work and critical views on the challenges of working in their area, as well as personal and practical insights into how they ended up doing what they do and how they would advise others thinking about practice/policy as a possible future after studies/research.