Judith Donath

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Professor Judith Donath on June 22, 2009

Judith Donath (born May 7, 1962 ) is an American computer scientist. She is the founder of the Sociable Media Group at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge and a consultant at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard . She examines how new technologies are changing the social world.

life and work

Donath studied history at Yale University in New Haven with the Bachelor as a conclusion. She then received her Masters in Media Arts and Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she did her PhD with Andrew B. Lippman . In 1995, while still a doctoral student, she conceived an online collaboration project for the tenth anniversary of the MIT Media Lab, in which a large website was created by employees around the world. The event has been dubbed “A Day in the Life of Cyberspace” and is an early example of mass collaboration on the Internet. Her work includes the design and development of educational software and experimental media. It combines concepts from evolutionary biology , ethnography , architecture , cognitive science and various other disciplines to develop methods for optimizing the design of virtual cities on the Internet and virtual online identities. She explores the use of artificial emotions in avatars and their possible use in online advertising.

Publications (selection)

  • Donath, Judith: Identity and Deception in the Virtual Community. In M. Smith and P. Kollock (eds.) Communities in Cyberspace. London: Routledge, 1998
  • Fernanda Viégas, Judith Donath: Chat Circles. ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI), 1999
  • Judith Donath, Karrie Karahalios, Fernanda Viégas: Persistent Conversations. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication 4 (4), 1999
  • Donath, Judith: Being Real. In (K. Goldberg, ed.) The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000
  • Donath, Judith: 1964 Ford Falcon. In (Turkle, S., Ed) Evocative Objects: Things We Think With. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007
  • The Social Machine: Designs for Living Online (The MIT Press), 2014, ISBN 978-0262027014

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SURNAME Donath, Judith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Donath, Judith Stefania
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1962