Gregory T. Donovan received his Ph.D. in Environmental Psychology and a certificate in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His research focuses on
young people’s everyday development within proprietary ecologies of information and operates at the intersection of urban studies, youth studies, and media studies.
Gregory is a Senior Instructional Technology Fellow at the William E. Macaulay Honors College, founder of the OpenCUNY Academic Medium, and Director of Digital Research for Brooklyn’s Public Scholars. MORE➧
CURRENT PROJECTS
The MyDigitalFootprint.ORG Project conducted participatory action design research (PADR) with NYC youth to understand & engage their everyday experiences growing up with proprietary media. The methods & media developed during this project serve as the empirical core of MyDigitalFootprint.ORG: Young People & the Proprietary Ecologies of Everyday Data.
ROLE: Principal Investigator
MYDIGITALFOOTPRINT.ORG ➧
OpenCUNY is a student-based, open source, and participatory academic medium at the CUNY Graduate Center. OpenCUNY has facilitated interactive environments for student organizations, courses and workshops, student-run conferences, graduate research, health initiatives, student activism, personal websites, and an array of Doctoral Students’ Council initiatives.
ROLE: Founder & Co-Coordinator
OPENCUNY.ORG ➧
Situated Informatics works with academics, artists, and activists to design open information environments and social media strategies that accommodate their situated interests and concerns.
ROLE: Founder
SITUATEDINFO.COM ➧
Brooklyn's Public Scholars is a partnership between the CUNY Graduate Center's Public Science Project and Kingsborough Community College. Through social media, collaborative online mapping tools, interactive learning modules, and participatory action research the BPS Platform supports community-based teaching and engaged scholarship around critical urban issues facing students and communities in Brooklyn.
ROLE: Director of Digital Research
BKPUBLICSCHOLARS.ORG ➧
