Education • Positions • Publications • Presentations • Service

Joseph M. Reagle Jr.
Department of Communication Studies
Northeastern University
204 Lake Hall
Boston, MA 02115
Work: + 1 (617) 373-4855
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Research and Teaching Interests: collaboration and collaborative culture, knowledge production and its legitimation, new media, and the history of each.

Education

Ph.D. (May 2008), Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University. Dissertation: “*In good faith: Wikipedia collaboration and the pursuit of the universal encyclopedia.”* Committee: Helen Nissenbaum (Chairperson), Gabriella Coleman, Natalia Levina.

S.M. (June 1996), Technology and Policy Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Thesis (E.E. 1996): “*Trust in a cryptographic economy and digital security deposits: protocols and policies“* [PDF]. Supervisor: Lee McKnight, Research Program on Communications Policy.

B.S. (June 1994), Computer Science (History minor), University of Maryland Baltimore County, magna cum laude. Major Areas: Cryptography, computer security, and the history of science, computing, and telecommunication. Honors and Activities: Fellow of the Honors College, numerous scholarships, chair of the university chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Positions

Research

Assistant Professor, Communication Studies, Northeastern University (August 2011 -). Major Activities: teaching and research on collaboration, free culture, gender, infocide, and feedback.

Faculty Associate, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University (August 2011 - ).

Academic Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University (August 2010 - May 2011). Major Activities: research, writing, and lecturing on Wikipedia and collaborative culture.

Doctoral Fellow, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University (September 2003 - May 2006). Major Activities: course work and research on online content communities.

Policy Analyst, World Wide Web Consortium and Research Engineer, Laboratory for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (October 1996 - August 2003). Major Activities: Co-Chair and Editor of IETF/W3C XML Signature Working Group; Chair and Editor of the W3C XML Encryption Working Group; policy analysis with respect to content control, privacy, and intellectual property; development of privacy and intellectual property policies and analysis (copyright, trademark and patents) for W3C; Chair of the P3P Harmonization Group (developing a OECD guideline like implementation language for the Web) and interim P3P Project manager.

Resident Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School (September 1998 - January 1999) Major Activities: Research on social protocols, and writing and lecturing.

Research Associate, Research Program on Communication Policy, MIT Center for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development (1994-1996). Major Activities: research related to information security, electronic commerce and cryptographic policy.

Teaching

Instructor, Media Culture & Society, NEU (Fall 2012).

Instructor, Principles of Organizational Communication, NEU (Fall 2012).

Instructor, Media Culture & Society, NEU (Spring 2012).

Instructor, New Media Culture, NEU (Fall 2011).

Instructor, Media, Technology, Society, NYU (Fall 2009/2008).

Instructor, Conflict Management, NYU (Spring 2010, Spring/Fall 2009, Spring/Fall 2008, Fall 2007).

Instructor, Impacts of Technology, NYU (Spring 2007, Fall 2006).

Adviser, The E-Commerce Architecture Project, MIT (Spring 2001).

Adviser, The Law of Cyberspace – Social Protocols, Harvard (Fall 1998).

Publications

(Available as a BibTex file)

Books

Reagle, J. (2008, may). In Good Faith: Wikipedia Collaboration and the Pursuit of the Universal Encyclopedia. New York University, New York, NY. Retrieved from http://reagle.org/joseph/2008/03/dsrtn-in-good-faith.pdf

Book chapters

Reagle, J. (2011). The Argument Engine. In G. Lovink & N. Tkacz (Eds.), Critical point of view: A Wikipedia reader (pp. 14–33). Amsterdam: Waag Society. Retrieved from http://www.networkcultures.org/_uploads/%237reader_Wikipedia.pdf

Reagle, J. (2006). Open Communities and Closed Law. In L. Bansal, P. Keller, & G. Lovink (Eds.), In the Shade of the Commons -Towards a Culture of Open Networks (pp. 165–167). Waag Society Amsterdam. Retrieved from http://reagle.org/joseph/2006/10/10-open-community-closed-law

Refereed publications

Loveland, J., & Reagle, J. (2013). Wikipedia and Encyclopedic Production. New Media & Society. (Impact Factor 1.394; ranked 16 out of 72 in Communication Source.) Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444812470428

Reagle, J. (2013). ’Free as in Sexist?’: Free Culture and the Gender Gap. First Monday, 18(1). (Acceptance rate 15%.) Retrieved from http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4291/3381

Reagle, J. (2012). 410 Gone - Infocide in Open Content Communities. In F. Attwod (Ed.), Selected Papers of Internet Research AoIR13. Salford University: Association of Internet Researchers. (Acceptance rate 46% of 371.) Retrieved from http://spir.aoir.org/index.php/spir/article/view/5

Reagle, J., & Rhue, L. (2011). Gender Bias in Wikipedia and Britannica. International Journal of Communication, 5. (Acceptance rate 11%.) Retrieved from http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/article/view/777

Reagle, J. (2010). ’Be Nice’: Wikipedia Norms for Supportive Communication. New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (Special Issue on Web Science), 16(1 & 2), 161–180. (JCR 2010 Impact Factor of 0.650.) Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13614568.2010.498528

Reagle, J. (2007). Bug Tracking Systems as Public Spheres. Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, 11(Fall). Retrieved from http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/v11n1/reagle.html

Reagle, J. (2007). Do as I Do: Authorial Leadership in Wikipedia. In Proceedings of WikiSym ’07: The 2007 International Symposium on Wikis. New York: ACM Press. Retrieved from http://reagle.org/joseph/2007/10/Wikipedia-Authorial-Leadership.pdf

Reagle, J. (2006). Is the Wikipedia Neutral?. Wikimedia. Retrieved August 01, 2006, from http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Presenters/Joseph_Reagle

Reagle, J. (2004). Open Content Communities. M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture, 7(3). (A sketch the characteristics of an open content community with a distinction drawn between the concepts of open and voluntary implicit in most usages of the term, and a definition in which the much maligned possibility of “forking” is actually an integral aspect of openness.) Retrieved from http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0406/06_Reagle.rft.php

Ackerman, M. S., Cranor, L. F., & Reagle, J. (1999). Privacy in E-Commerce: Examining User Scenarios and Privacy Preferences. In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC’99) (pp. 1–8). New York: ACM Press. Retrieved from http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~ackerm/pub/99b28/ecommerce.final.pdf

Cranor, L. F., Reagle, J., & Ackerman, M. S. (1999). Beyond Concern: Understanding Net Users’ Attitudes about Online Privacy. In I. Vogelsang & B. M. Compaine (Eds.), Proceedings of Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC99): The Internet Upheaval: Raising Questions, Seeking Answers in Communications Policy (p. 47). New York: ACM Press. (Also as AT&T Labs-Research Technical Report TR 99.4.4.) Retrieved from http://arxiv.org/html/cs/9904010/report.htm

Cranor, L., & Reagle, J. (1999). The Platform for Privacy Preferences. Communications of the ACM, 4(2), 48–55. (Also in Japanese at IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan) Magazine. Vol.40 No.7 July 1999; also as W3C NOTE. 31-July-1998.) Retrieved from http://www.acm.org/pubs/citations/journals/cacm/1999-42-2/p48-reagle/

Cranor, L., & Reagle, J. (1997). Designing a Social Protocol: Lessons Learned from the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project. In Proceedings of Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC97). New York: ACM Press. Retrieved from http://www.w3.org/People/Reagle/papers/tprc97/tprc-f2m3.html

Martin, C. D., & Reagle, J. M. (1997). A Technical Alternative to Government Regulation and Censorship: Content Advisory Systems for the Internet. Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, 15(2), 409–427. Retrieved from http://penta2.ufrgs.br/gereseg/censura/rsac/dianne1.htm

Non-refereed publications

Reagle, J. (2009). Wikipedia: the Happy Accident. Interactions, 16(3), 42–45. Retrieved from http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1516016.1516026

Reagle, J. (2007). Equality, Gender, and Speech in Open Communities. Re-public. Retrieved from http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=131

Reagle, J. (2006). Notions of Openness. In FM10 Openness: Code, Science, and Content: Selected Papers from the First Monday Conference. First Monday. Retrieved from http://reagle.org/joseph/2006/02/fm10-openness

Reagle, J. (2005). Trust in Electronic Markets. First Monday, Special Issue 3: Internet banking, e-money, and Internet gift economies. Retrieved from http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1509/1424

Reagle, J. (2005). A Case of Mutual Aid: Wikipedia, Politeness, and Perspective Taking. In Proceedings of Wikimania 2005. Frankfurt, Germany. Retrieved from http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Transwiki:Wikimania05/Paper-JR1

Cranor, L., & Reagle, J. (1999). P3P in a Nutshell. Web Techniques, 4, 68–70. (Brief overview of P3P for the Agents@Work issue as updated from ACM article.)

Reagle, J. (1999). Agent: I Don’t Think It Means, What You Think It Means. In Proceedings of The International Conference on Law and Technology. Honolulu, HI. Retrieved from http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/reagle/agents-19990524.html

Reagle, J. (1999). Eskimo Snow and Scottish Rain: Legal Considerations of Schema Design. (Also as DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.167448 SSRN Electronic Paper Collection, August 9, 1999.) Retrieved from http://www.w3.org/TR/md-policy-design

Reagle, J. (1999). Why the Internet Is Good: Community Governance That Works Well. Retrieved from http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/reagle/regulation-19990326.html

Reagle, J. (1996). Trust in Electronic Markets. First Monday, 1(2). Retrieved from http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/475/396

McKnight, L., Solomon, R., Reagle, J., Carver, D., Johnson, C., Gerovac, B., & Gingold, D. (1995). Information Security for Electronic Commerce on the Internet: the Need for a New Policy and New Research. Journal of Electronic Publishing. (Also in Lee W. McKnight and Joseph P. Bailey (ed.), “Internet Economics.” MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1996.) Retrieved from http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/works/McKniSecur.html

Other: Commentary

Reagle, J. (1998). The Web as a Global Forum. Open Systems Standards Tracking Report: Newsletter on Information Technology and Telecommunications Standardization, 7(1).

Reagle, J. (1997). Bridging the Trust Gap. WIRED, 5(03). Retrieved from http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.03/idees_fortes.html

Technical Reports and Standards

Boyer, J., Eastlake, D. E., & Reagle, J. (2002). Exclusive XML Canonicalization Version 1.0. Retrieved from http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-exc-c14n/

Eastlake, D., Reagle, J., & Solo, D. (2002). XML-Signature Syntax and Processing. (Also as IETF RFC3275.) Retrieved from http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core/

Boyer, J., Eastlake, D. E., & Reagle, J. (2002). Exclusive XML Canonicalization Version 1.0. Retrieved from http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-exc-c14n/

Boyer, J., Hughes, M., & Reagle, J. (2002). XML-Signature XPath Filter 2.0. Retrieved from http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-filter2/

Cranor, L., Langheinrich, M., Marchiori, M., Presler-Marshall, M., & Reagle, J. (2002). The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 (P3P1.0). Retrieved from http://www.w3.org/TR/P3P/

Reagle, J. (2001). A P3P Assurance Signature Profile. Retrieved from http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-p3p-profile/

Reagle, J. M., Weitzner, D. J., Rein, B. D., Stephens, G. T., & Lebowitz, H. C. (1999). Analysis of P3P and US Patent 5,862,325. Retrieved from http://www.w3.org/TR/P3P-analysis

Reagle, J., & Weitzner, D. (1998). Statement on the Intent and Use of PICS: Using PICS Well. Retrieved from http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-p3p-profile/

Presentations

International

— (2013, May). “Online Cooperation: The Case of Wikipedia”. Invited keynote at the Institute for Advanced Study: Centre for Global Cooperation Research. Duisburg, Germany.

— (2012, October). “410 Gone: Infocide in Open Content Communities.” Internet Research 13.0 Session 016: Leaving; Exits and Death Online. Salford, UK.

— (2011, August). “Wikipedia And|Or? Prophecy Fulfilled, Happy Accident, Informational Apocalypse.” Invited keynote at Wikimania 2011. Haifa, Israel. (See video.)

— (2010, March). “Wikipedia and Encyclopedic Anxiety.” Invited presentation in Encyclopedic Histories panel at Critical Points of View. Amsterdam, Netherlands. (See video.)

— (2002, May). “The status/design of XML Signatures and Encryption.” Presented at Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii. Also, at Distributed Systems Technology Centre; Sydney, Australia; October 2002.

— (1999, November). “Internet NG and Its Impact on Society.” Invited presentation at The 21st Century Program, Keio University. Kanagawa, Japan.

— (1998, April). “The Other P in P3P: Global Policy and the P3P Vocabulary.” Invited presentation at the Asia Pacific Forum on Privacy and Personal Data Protection. Hong Kong.

— (1997, February). “Technical Constraints of Regulating Commercial Activity on the Internet.” Invited presentation at Regulating Commercial Activity on the Internet. Nice, France.

National

— (2010, October). “Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia.” Book talk at Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University. Cambridge, MA. (See video.)

— (1999, January). “Why the Internet is Good: The Internet as an Instrument of Policy Formation,” presented at Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Cambridge, MA.

Regional

— (2013, February). “Free as in Sexist? The Gendergap in Free Culture” Invited presentation at UMass Amherst.

— (2011, October). “Wikipedia: Friend or Foe?” Invited presentation at Northeastern University Open Access Week. Boston, MA.

— (2009, December). “Wikipedia as a Reliable Source of Health Information.” Invited presentation to NYU College of Dentistry. New York, NY.

— (2009, February). “In Good Faith: Wikipedia Collaboration and the Pursuit of the Universal Encyclopedia.” Presented at Information Law Institute ITS Colloquium, New York University Law School. New York, NY.

— (2006, March). “Encyclopedias, Copyright, and Plagiarism.” Guest lecture in Copyright, Culture, and Commerce at New York University. New York, NY.

— (2002, November). “A Personal History of Internet Policy.” Invited presentation to Technology and Policy Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, MA.

— (2001, February). “URIs and Web Architecture.” Guest lecture in E-Commerce Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, MA.

Awards and Honors

Research honorarium, Evaluating Creative Production In Digital Environments. 2012-2013.

Doctoral Summer Research Grant, Steinhardt School of Education. Summer 2007.

Technology Review: Selected as a member of TR100, “a unique gathering of today’s top young (under 35) innovators and key leaders in technology and business.” May 2002.

digitalMASScom: Selected as a Digital Master, “Profiles of local techies making news, breaking new ground, or just doing interesting stuff.” 2000.