Joseph M. Reagle Jr.


Joseph Michael Reagle Jr. is an American academic and author focused on technology and Wikipedia. He is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University, and a faculty associate at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

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. After working briefly, 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. He enrolled in studies at New York University, where he taught, and earned a PhD in 2008 with a thesis about the history and collaborative culture of Wikipedia, supervised by Helen Nissenbaum.

Career and research

Reagle was a member of the World Wide Web Consortium from 1996 to 2003. In 2011 he 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.

Books published

In 2002, he was listed as one of Technology Review's TR35.