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Name

Joseph Reagle (JOH-sehf REE-gehl) 🔉

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Joseph Reagle is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University. He’s been a resident fellow at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard (in 1998 and 2010), and he taught and received his Ph.D. at NYU’s Department of Media, Culture, and Communication. As a Research Engineer at MIT, he served as an author and working group chair within the IETF and W3C on topics including digital security, privacy, and Internet policy. He has written about Wikipedia, online culture, geek feminism, and life hacking. His forthcoming 2027 book is Dear Reddit, Am I the Asshole? Our New Era of Advice, from MIT Press.

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Joseph Reagle is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University where he studies online culture. Dr. Reagle been a resident fellow at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard (in 1998 and 2010), and he taught and received his Ph.D. at NYU’s Department of Media, Culture, and Communication. Before that he earned degrees in Technology Policy (MIT) and Computer Science (UMBC). As a Research Engineer at MIT’s Lab for Computer Science he served as an author and working group chair within the IETF and W3C on topics including digital security, privacy, and Internet policy. He also helped develop and maintain W3C’s privacy and intellectual rights policies (i.e., copyright/trademark licenses and patent analysis).

Dr. Reagle is the author of Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia (MIT Press, 2010), Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web (MIT Press, 2015), Hacking Life: Systematized Living and its Discontents (2019), and Wikipedia @ 20: Stories of an Incomplete Revolution (2020). His forthcoming 2027 book is Dear Reddit, Am I the Asshole? Our New Era of Advice, from MIT Press. He has been profiled, interviewed, and quoted in national media, including The Economist and The New York Times.

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