Joseph M. Reagle Jr.

Joseph Michael Reagle Jr. (born 1972^[1]) is an American academic and writer focused on digital technology and culture, including Wikipedia, online comments, geek feminism, and life hacking.^[3] He is an associate professor of communication studies at Northeastern University.^[4] He was an early member of the World Wide Web Consortium, based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,^[5] and in 1998 and 2010 he was a fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.^[6]

Joseph M. Reagle Jr.
Reagle in 2019
Born	Joseph Michael Reagle Jr. 1972 (age 51–52)[1]
Nationality	American
Education	University of Maryland, Baltimore County (BS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS) New York University (PhD)
Occupation(s)	Professor, writer
Years active	1996–present
Known for	Internet studies
Notable work	Good Faith Collaboration (2010)
Awards	TR35 (2002)[2]
Scientific career
Institutions	Northeastern University
Thesis	In good faith: Wikipedia collaboration and the pursuit of the universal encyclopedia (2008)
Doctoral advisor	Helen Nissenbaum
Website	reagle.org/joseph/

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.^[7] 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.^[5][6] He returned to schooling at New York University, where he taught,^[8] and earned a PhD in 2008 with a thesis about the history and collaborative culture of Wikipedia,^[9] supervised by Helen Nissenbaum.

Career and research

Reagle in 2008

Reagle was a member of the World Wide Web Consortium from 1996 to 2003.^[5] There he worked on issues such as intellectual property and privacy.^[5][10]

In 2002, he was listed as one of MIT Technology Review's TR35, a list of the world's top innovators under the age of 35.^[2]

In 2010, he reconstructed the first ten thousand contributions to Wikipedia from a previously lost data dump as a simple website.^[11][12] According to Reagle, the early years of Wikipedia involved instances of antisemitic misconduct by Wikipedia contributors. Reagle highlights a broader 2005 episode when neo-Nazis apparently mobilized to preserve an article on "Jewish ethnocentrism," based on the writings of antisemitic professor Kevin MacDonald.^[13]

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.^[14][15] 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".^[15]

Reagle is a supporter of open access^[16] and all of his books are available online.^[17]

Selected publications

Books

• Reagle, Joseph (2010). Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia. History and Foundations of Information Science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262518208. JSTOR j.ctt5hhhnf. OCLC 496282188.^[18]
• Reagle, Joseph (2015). Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. doi:10.7551/mitpress/10116.001.0001. ISBN 9780262028936. JSTOR j.ctt17kkb2f. OCLC 891941812.^[19]
• Reagle, Joseph (2019). Hacking Life: Systematized Living and Its Discontents. <strong> ideas series. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. doi:10.7551/mitpress/11582.001.0001. ISBN 9780262038157. OCLC 1043303830. S2CID 239141163.^[20]
• Reagle, Joseph; Koerner, Jackie, eds. (2020). Wikipedia @ 20: Stories of an Incomplete Revolution. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262538176. OCLC 1150825819. See also: meta:Wikipedia@20

Articles

About Wikipedia

• Reagle, Joseph (2009). "Wikipedia: The happy accident". Interactions. 16 (3). New York: Association for Computing Machinery: 42–45n. doi:10.1145/1516016.1516026. S2CID 12973235.
• Reagle, Joseph (2010). "'Be nice': Wikipedia norms for supportive communication". New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia. 16 (1): 161–180. Bibcode:2010NRvHM..16..161R. doi:10.1080/13614568.2010.498528. S2CID 26267356.
• Reagle, Joseph; Rhue, Lauren (2011). "Gender Bias in Wikipedia and Britannica". International Journal of Communication. 5.
• Loveland, Jeff; Reagle, Joseph (2013). "Wikipedia and encyclopedic production". New Media & Society. 15 (8): 1294–1311. doi:10.1177/1461444812470428. S2CID 27886998.

About culture

• Reagle, Joseph (January 2013). ""Free as in sexist?": Free culture and the gender gap". First Monday. 18 (1). doi:10.5210/fm.v18i1.4291. hdl:2047/d20002875.
• Reagle, Joseph (2014). "The obligation to know: From FAQ to Feminism 101". New Media & Society. 18 (5): 691–707. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.996.3089. doi:10.1177/1461444814545840. S2CID 28516383.
• Reagle, Joseph (5 October 2015). "Following the Joneses: FOMO and conspicuous sociality". First Monday. 20 (10). doi:10.5210/fm.v20i10.6064.
• Reagle, Joseph (2015). "Geek policing: "Fake geek girls" and contested attention". International Journal of Communication. 9: 2862–2880.
• Reagle, Joseph (January 2018). "Nerd vs. bro: Geek privilege, idiosyncrasy, and triumphalism". First Monday. 23 (1). doi:10.5210/fm.v23i1.7879.
• Reagle, Joseph (13 June 2019). "For some, self-tracking means more than self-help". The Conversation. Retrieved 2 August 2020.

Policy and technical specifications

• Reagle, Joseph; Weitzner, Daniel (June 1998). Statement on the intent and use of PICS: Using PICS well (Note). W3C.
• Reagle, Joseph M.; Weitzner, Daniel J.; Rein, Barry D.; Stephens, Garland T.; Lebowitz, Henry C. (October 1999). Analysis of P3P and US Patent 5,862,325 (Note). W3C.
• Cranor, Lorrie; Langheinrich, Marc; Marchiori, Massimo; Presler-Marshall, Martin; Reagle, Joseph (16 April 2002). The platform for privacy preferences 1.0 (P3P1.0) (Recommendation). W3C.
• Eastlake, Donald; Reagle, Joseph; Solo, David (12 February 2002). XML-Signature syntax and processing (Recommendation). W3C.
• Eastlake, Donald; Reagle, Joseph (10 December 2002). XML encryption syntax and processing (Recommendation). W3C.

References

1. VIAF 106756706
2. "Joseph Reagle, 29". Technology Review. Archived from the original on 20 May 2020. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
3. Joseph M. Reagle Jr.'s publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required); Joseph M. Reagle Jr. publications indexed by Google Scholar
4. "Joseph Reagle". camd.northeastern.edu. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
5. "Joseph's W3 Page". www.w3.org. Archived from the original on 14 February 1998. Retrieved 2 August 2020. Reagle's "papers" page on the W3C website indicates that he had co-authored a paper there in 1996: "Joseph's W3 Page [papers]". www.w3.org. Retrieved 2 August 2020. An archived message from January 2004 indicates that Reagle had left the W3C by that date: "Re: Hi from Joseph Reagle on 2004-01-19 ([e-mail] from January to March 2004)". lists.w3.org. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
6. "Joseph Reagle | Berkman Klein Center". cyber.harvard.edu. 24 March 2020. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
7. Reagle, Joseph (1996). Trust in a cryptographic economy and digital security deposits: Protocols and policies (MS thesis). Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. hdl:1721.1/11016.
8. "Faculty Update for 2008–2009" (PDF). Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University. 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 November 2020. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
9. Reagle Jr., Joseph Michael (2008). In good faith: Wikipedia collaboration and the pursuit of the universal encyclopedia (PhD thesis). New York: New York University. OCLC 479700253.
10. Reagle, Joseph (6 January 2003). "New W3C Software License: Please update OSI page from Joseph Reagle on 2003-01-06 ([e-mail] from January 2003)". lists.w3.org. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
11. Doctorow, Cory (18 December 2010). "Wikipedia's first 10,000 edits". Boing Boing. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
12. Reagle, Joseph (16 December 2010). "Wikipedia 10K redux". reagle.org. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
13. Reagle, Joseph M. (2012). Good faith collaboration: the culture of Wikipedia. History and Foundations of Information Science. Cambridge, Mass. London: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-01447-2.
14. Matias, J. Nathan (21 November 2014). "How to Ethically and Responsibly Identify Gender in Large Datasets". PBS MediaShift. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
15. Reagle, Joseph; Rhue, Lauren (2011). "Gender Bias in Wikipedia and Britannica". International Journal of Communication. 5.
16. Corbett, Hillary (25 October 2011). "Open Access Week panel: "Wikipedia: Friend or Foe?" – Wednesday at 1:30". librarynews.northeastern.edu. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
17. Dunn, Katharine (28 November 2018). "The MIT Press to launch print and Open Access book series with support from the MIT libraries". libraries.mit.edu. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
18. Reviews of Good Faith Collaboration:

    • Doctorow, Cory (20 December 2010). "Good Faith Collaboration: How Wikipedia Works". Boing Boing. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
    • Madrigal, Alexis C. (19 October 2010). "In rancorous times, can Wikipedia show us how to all get along?". The Atlantic. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
    • Morell, Mayo Fuster (February 2013). "Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia". Information, Communication & Society. 16 (1). Informa UK Limited: 146–147. doi:10.1080/1369118X.2011.602092. S2CID 144537283.
    • Auxier, Olivia (2013). "Review: Joseph Michael Reagle, Jr., Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia". International Journal of Communication. 7. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
19. Reviews of Reading the Comments:

    • Aronczyk, Melissa (April 2016). "Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web". New Media & Society. 18 (4): 677–679. doi:10.1177/1461444815621893. S2CID 30754370.
    • Brabazon, Tara (27 August 2015). "Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web, by Joseph M. Reagle Jr". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
    • Erdélyi, László (1 April 2016). "La rebelión de las masas". El País. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
    • Eyestone, Dawn (21 July 2015). "If you can't say anything nice, save it for the internet". PopMatters. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
    • Lao, Mary Grace (16 July 2016). "Review: Joseph M. Reagle, Jr., Readings the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web". International Journal of Communication. 10. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
    • O'Connell, Mark (17 June 2015). "It's comments all the way down". The New Yorker. Retrieved 7 July 2015.
    • Pasquale, Frank (28 September 2015). "How to tame an Internet troll". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
    • Swan, Anna Lee (2016). "Review: Joseph M. Reagle Jr., Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web". International Journal of Communication. 10. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
    • Weisberg, Jacob (25 February 2016). "We are hopelessly hooked". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
    • Williams, Zoe (25 June 2015). "Reading the Comments by Joseph M Reagle Jr review – what do our responses below the line tell us about ourselves?". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 July 2015.
20. Reviews of Hacking Life:

    • "Nonfiction Book Review: Hacking Life: Systematized Living and Its Discontents by Joseph M. Reagle Jr". Publishers Weekly. 22 February 2019. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
    • Ajana, Btihaj (11 April 2019). "Hacking life: Systematized living and its discontents, by Joseph M. Reagle, Jr". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
    • Barekat, Houman (22 May 2019). "Life hacking: The Californian tech bro approach to self-help". New Statesman. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
    • Barekat, Houman (31 May 2019). "Lifehacking: A publishing phenomenon but does it work?". The Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
    • Greenbaum, Dov (2 April 2019). "Tips and tricks for better living abound, but are "hacks" really the key to a good life?". blogs.sciencemag.org. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
    • Miller, Laura (28 June 2019). "Why life hacking has fallen out of favor". Slate. Retrieved 28 June 2019.

External links

• Joseph Reagle personal homepage