Gregory T. Donovan is a Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Psychology and a certificate candidate in Interactive Technology & Pedagogy at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. He is an Instructional Technology Fellow for the Macaulay Honors College and has previously held fellowships at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics and The Stanton/Heiskell Center for Telecommunication Policy. He has received a M.Phil from the CUNY Graduate Center in Environmental Psychology, a M.A. from Hunter College in Psychology and a B.A. from Marymount Manhattan College in Psychology with a minor and professional certification in Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Gregory has conducted research at the CUNY New Media Lab, the Public Space Research Group, the Youth Studies Research Group, and the Housing Environments Research Group. Additionally, he conducts research for several children's educational media groups, builds cyberspaces and currently serves as Co-Chair for Student Affairs of the Doctoral Students Council at the CUNY Graduate Center.
As a transplanted Bostonian presently located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Gregory enjoys scouting oldschool urban traditions in newschool technological environments.
T A G S :::
cyberspace, informationalism, privatization, propertization, young people and new technologies, public space, media literacy, surveillance, privacy, security, FOSS, social justice, environmental psychology, internet governance, geopolitics, citizen power
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07.25-31.08 ::: Participated in the 2008 European Summer School on Internet Governance in Meissen, Germany.
06.18-19.08 ::: Lectured and co-facilitated workshops for the Nordic Urban Design Association's Summer School 08 in Bergen, Norway. NUDA's brochure for Summer School 08 can be downloaded here, an english version can be found here.
04.16.08 ::: Presented "Passive Park: Space, communication and citizen power in Union Square Park," as part of a session titled "Space-Time II : Affect, Struggle...Everyday," at The Association of American Geographers 2008 Annual Meeting.
03.10.08 ::: Presented “Whose Safety, Whose Security? Situating young people In cyberspace” to Prof. Shaka McGlotten's Computers and Culture course at SUNY Purchase.
02.12.08 ::: Presented “Passive Park: Space, communication and citizen power in Union Square Park” to Prof. Elliot Maltby's Urban Design and Implementation course at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture.
11.30.07 ::: Participated in a Panel Session, titled "The Instructional Technology Fellowship as a Model for Teaching and Learning," at The 6th Annual CUNY IT Conference.
08.21.07 ::: Provided the welcoming remarks for the CUNY Graduate Center's Orientation Assembly for new students.
07.25.07 ::: Presented "n3w $0Ci4l rE@l1+Y: Young People, Political Engagement and The Semantic Web," for the Young People, New Technology and Political Engagement conference at the University of Surrey.
06.06.07 ::: Presented "Shoestring Democracy: Private Governance in Coops and Gated Communities in New York City," at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, for the 4th International Conference of the Private Urban Governance & Gated Communities Research Network.
04.25.07 ::: Guest Speaker for The 28th Psy-Chi National Honor Society Induction Ceremony at Marymount Manhattan College.
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