Joseph Reagle

How “Divorce him!” became the internet’s de facto relationship advice

Messy and mean-spirited internet comments sections are nothing new, of course: Joseph Reagle, an associate professor of communications at Northeastern University and author of Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web, uses the metaphor of the “rotten barrel.”

Mashable

Online reviews shaped the internet as we know it. Now they might be in danger.

Vetting products online was a genuine concern for consumers as e-commerce picked up steam, according to Dr. Joseph Reagle, a Northeastern University communication studies professor who studied online reviews in past work about online comment sections. “Back in the ’90s, most of the people selling things [online] were certain niche merchants, so even Amazon was a bookseller,” he explains.

Slate

Jimmy Wales Is Auctioning the “Birth of Wikipedia” as an NFT

Joseph Reagle, a professor at Northeastern University and Wikipedia historian, used this data to reconstruct the first 10,000 contributions to Wikipedia.

Ars Technica

H.G. Wells’ “World Brain” is now here—what have we learned since?

The collection also includes a foreword by the science fiction writer Bruce Sterling and an introduction by Joseph Reagle, an associate professor of communication studies at Northeastern who writes and teaches about popular culture , digital communication, and online communities.

The National

Online bullying: what can Instagram teach us about being abusive on the Internet?

“Over the years, there have been lots of little experiments with trying to slow the pace of conversation,” says Joseph Reagle, associate professor of communication studies at Northeastern University in Boston in the US.

Asia Times

Hacking your way to love

Joseph Reagle is an associate professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University.

FiveThirtyEight

We Asked 8,500 Internet Commenters Why They Do What They Do

Comments often serve as identity badges, said Joseph Reagle, the author of “Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web” and a professor of communication studies at Northeastern University. “You see this particularly on social media,” he told me. The comment is meant to tell the world, “This is who […]

Why do so few women edit Wikipedia?

When Joseph Reagle, an assistant professor at Northeastern University and author of Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia, and his colleague compared biographies from the English-language Wikipedia and the online Encyclopaedia Britannica, they found that Wikipedia dominates Britannica in biographical coverage (largely due to the fact that it’s just much bigger), but more so […]

Want to save the comments from trolls? Do it yourself

Having to jump through hoops also initially worried Joseph Reagle, an assistant professor of communications studies at Northeastern University and author of the book Reading the Comments. Reagle says he was initially skeptical of Civil’s ideas. But he says that after using it and talking to the founders, he’s excited about the experiment. And he […]

The covert world of people trying to edit Wikipedia—for pay

Joseph Reagle, a professor of communication studies at Northeastern University and the author of Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia, tends to agree with Maher’s assessment. “If we were to enumerate the list of the things that would cause people to be skeptical of the quality of Wikipedia … I suspect paid contribution would […]