Joan Donovan

Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies, College of Communication

Title Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies, College of Communication
Email DonovanX@bu.edu
Education EDUCATION

September 2008 – May 2015

Doctor of Philosophy, Sociology and Science Studies, University of California San Diego

Dissertation Research Project: Technologies of Social Change: Mapping the infrastructure of the Occupy Movement from #OccupyWallStreet to #OccupySandy
Dissertation Committee: Martha Lampland (UCSD – Chair), Geoffrey Bowker (UCI – Informatics), Manual Castells (USC – Communication), Kelly Gates (UCSD – Communication), Isaac Martin (UCSD – Sociology), Charles Thorpe (UCSD – Sociology)

September 2006 – May 2008

Master of Arts, Sociology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC

Thesis: A History of Stigma: Towards a Sociology of Mental Illness and American Psychiatry

September 2004 – May 2006

Bachelor of Arts, Sociology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC

Degree Conferred with Great Distinction

Jan- Dec 2001

Business Major, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA

September 1997 – May 1999
Liberal Arts Major, Northeastern University, Boston, MA

Joan Donovan, PhD, is an award-winning sociologist and Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies at Boston University. She is coauthor of Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America. Dr. Donovan’s research focuses on media manipulation and democracy. Her work has been showcased in various outlets such as NPR, The New York Times, MIT Technology Review and more. She is the former Research Director of Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on Media Politics and Public Policy.

She also co-created the beaver emoji. 🦫

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