For many years I was a researcher at the MIT Lab for Computer Science where I worked as a W3C/IETF Working Group chair and editor. I then returned to graduate school — after being away for seven years! — to articulate and contextualize my experience with new media and collaborative communities. In 2008 I concluded my work at NYU with a dissertation on the collaborative culture of Wikipedia. At the start of the previous decade I was a Computer Science student at UMBC. I then moved to Boston and completed the two year Masters program in Technology and Policy at MIT. In between graduating and returning to MIT, I did Internet and interactive media consulting with McCann-Erickson, and Internet gambling consulting for go-Digital in NYC. I've also been a Resident Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at the Harvard Law School.
I live in Brooklyn, but like to visit Cambridge, Sydney, Seattle, Tokyo, and London as often as possible. I have the standard nerdy interests: photography, design, zines, and clever toys. If you want to send an email you can even use my PGP key.
In addition to the professional publications in my CV, my work from Harvard, Wikipedia drafts, research blog, old ecommerce writings, and nearly a decade's worth of rantings on the Web, here are some other historical bits for which I have no other home:
Reagle, Joseph, "Parting of the Mist: Analysis of Blade-Runner." UMBC: Film History.
(Translated into Italian by Santoni Danilo and published at SFW.)Reagle, Joseph, "At The Fulcrum of Time: Newton's Alchemy ." UMBC: History of Science.
Reagle, Joseph, "Democracy in the Digital World" Media Lab: The Political Economy of the Digital Infrastructure.
Reagle, Joseph, "Market Demand in the Digital World" Media Lab: The Political Economy of the Digital Infrastructure.
Crypto-Basics is some crypto code I wrote in undergrad days that did simple things such as solving transposition ciphers, getting a frequency list of characters, breaking small knapsack ciphers and such.
Copyright (1997-2006) Joseph M. Reagle Jr.