Joseph M. Reagle Jr. Explained

Joseph M. Reagle Jr.
Birth Name:Joseph Michael Reagle Jr.
Nationality:American
Education:University of Maryland, Baltimore County (BS)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS)
New York University (PhD)
Occupation:Professor, writer
Years Active:1996–present
Known For:Internet studies
Notable Works:Good Faith Collaboration (2010)
Awards:TR35 (2002)
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Thesis Title:In good faith: Wikipedia collaboration and the pursuit of the universal encyclopedia
Thesis Url:http://search.proquest.com/docview/304527872/
Thesis Year:2008
Workplaces:Northeastern University

Joseph Michael Reagle Jr. (born 1972) is an American academic and writer focused on digital technology and culture, including Wikipedia, online comments, geek feminism, and life hacking. He is an associate professor of communication studies at Northeastern University.[1] He was an early member of the World Wide Web Consortium, based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,[2] and in 1998 and 2010 he was a fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.[3]

Education

Reagle received an undergraduate degree in computer science and a minor in history from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He then enrolled in the Technology Policy Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and wrote a masters thesis on trust and cryptographic financial instruments.[4] He returned to MIT as a research engineer, and also served as a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.[2] [3] He returned to schooling at New York University, where he taught,[5] and earned a PhD in 2008 with a thesis about the history and collaborative culture of Wikipedia,[6] supervised by Helen Nissenbaum.

Career and research

thumb|left|upright=0.7|Reagle in 2008Reagle was a member of the World Wide Web Consortium from 1996 to 2003.[2] There he worked on issues such as intellectual property and privacy.[2] [7]

In 2002, he was listed as one of MIT Technology Reviews TR35, a list of the world's top innovators under the age of 35.[8]

In 2010, he reconstructed the first ten thousand contributions to Wikipedia from a previously lost data dump as a simple website.[9] [10]

In 2011, Reagle published a journal article with Lauren Rhue that examined gender bias in Wikipedia, using gendered pronouns to detect articles about women and comparing and contrasting their findings against female coverage in other encyclopedias.[11] [12] The article concluded "that Wikipedia provides better coverage and longer articles, that Wikipedia typically has more articles on women than Britannica in absolute terms, but Wikipedia articles on women are more likely to be missing than articles on men relative to Britannica".[12]

Reagle is a supporter of open access[13] and all of his books are available online.[14]

Selected publications

Books

Articles

About Wikipedia

About culture

Policy and technical specifications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: camd.northeastern.edu . Joseph Reagle . 23 June 2020.
  2. Web site: Joseph's W3 Page . www.w3.org . https://web.archive.org/web/19980214045408/http://www.w3.org/People/Reagle/ . 14 February 1998 . 2 August 2020. Reagle's "papers" page on the W3C website indicates that he had co-authored a paper there in 1996: Web site: Joseph's W3 Page [papers] ]. www.w3.org . 2 August 2020. An archived message from January 2004 indicates that Reagle had left the W3C by that date: Web site: Re: Hi from Joseph Reagle on 2004-01-19 (w3c-translators@w3.org from January to March 2004) . lists.w3.org . 2 August 2020.
  3. Web site: cyber.harvard.edu . Joseph Reagle Berkman Klein Center . 24 March 2020 . 23 June 2020.
  4. Joseph . Reagle . 1996 . MS . Cambridge, MA . Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science . Trust in a cryptographic economy and digital security deposits: Protocols and policies . 1721.1/11016 .
  5. Web site: Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University . 2008 . Faculty Update for 2008–2009 . 23 June 2020.
  6. PhD . Joseph Michael . Reagle Jr. . In good faith: Wikipedia collaboration and the pursuit of the universal encyclopedia . New York . New York University . 2008 . 479700253.
  7. Web site: Joseph . Reagle . lists.w3.org . 6 January 2003 . New W3C Software License: Please update OSI page from Joseph Reagle on 2003-01-06 (www-archive@w3.org from January 2003) . 1 May 2020.
  8. Joseph Reagle, 29 . . 11 July 2015 . 20 May 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200520052611/http://www2.technologyreview.com/tr35/profile.aspx?trid=384%2F . dead .
  9. Web site: Cory . Doctorow . . 18 December 2010 . Wikipedia's first 10,000 edits . 23 June 2020.
  10. Web site: Joseph . Reagle . reagle.org . 16 December 2010 . Wikipedia 10K redux . 14 February 2019.
  11. Web site: Matias. J. Nathan. How to Ethically and Responsibly Identify Gender in Large Datasets. 21 November 2014 . PBS MediaShift. 11 July 2015.
  12. Joseph . Reagle . Lauren . Rhue . 2011 . . Gender Bias in Wikipedia and Britannica . 5.
  13. Web site: Hillary . Corbett . librarynews.northeastern.edu . 25 October 2011 . Open Access Week panel: "Wikipedia: Friend or Foe?" – Wednesday at 1:30 . 24 July 2020.
  14. Web site: Katharine . Dunn . libraries.mit.edu . 28 November 2018 . The MIT Press to launch print and Open Access book series with support from the MIT libraries . 24 July 2020.
  15. Reviews of Good Faith Collaboration:
  16. Reviews of Reading the Comments:
  17. Reviews of Hacking Life:

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