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Jonathan Corpus Ong is Professor and Founding Director of Global Technology for Social Justice Lab in the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA. His 2018 study “Architects of Networked Disinformation” applies a production studies approach in studying the social identities and moral justifications of clandestine digital operators in the Philippines. This study was ranked among “the most valuable” pieces of disinformation research in a Poynter poll of journalists around the world–(unfortunately) the only ethnographic and Global South-focused study in the list.
He is formerly Schuster Technology Fellow (2023-24) at the Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School. He is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow (2022-25) and currently Co-Editor of the International Journal of Cultural Studies.
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