Month August 2014

About Gregory T. Donovan, Ph.D.

GTDGTD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies and an affiliate faculty member of the New Media and Digital Design Program at Fordham University. He is also a founding coordinator of the Fordham Digital Scholarship Consortium and co-chair of the Mapping (In)Justice Symposium: Digital Theory and Praxis for Critical Scholarship.

Donovan’s research explores the mutual shaping of people, place, and proprietary media, and how to reorient such shaping toward more just and meaningful publics. He is the author of Canaries in the Data Mine: Understanding the Proprietary Design of Youth Environments, co-editor of Issue 5 of The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy: Media and Methods for Opening Education, and a founder of the OpenCUNY Academic Medium. He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Psychology with a doctoral certification in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy from the CUNY Graduate Center.

Current Projects

  • NMDD3880 NMDD3880

    NMDD3880: Designing Smart Cities for Social Justice

    Service-Learning Partnership between Fordham University and the Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center.
  • #JITP5: Media and Methods for Opening Education #JITP5: Media and Methods for Opening Education

    #JITP5: Media and Methods for Opening Education

    A special issue of The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy co-edited with Suzanne Tamang.
  • PPS Reader: People, Place, and Digital Media in the Contemporary City PPS Reader: People, Place, and Digital Media in the Contemporary City

    PPS Reader: People, Place, and Digital Media in the Contemporary City

    A short essay with thirty recommended readings put together for the online companion to the People, Place, and Space Reader (Routledge, 2014).
  • Rights to Knowledge and Space in the Smart City Rights to Knowledge and Space in the Smart City

    Rights to Knowledge and Space in the Smart City

    This project critically interrogates the production entailed in people's everyday engagements with proprietary media and urban privatization.
  • Youth, Social (Re)Production, and New Media Youth, Social (Re)Production, and New Media

    Youth, Social (Re)Production, and 'New' Media

    This project considers the social and material production of new media while situating 'newness' as a social context and intimate experience rather than an ahistorical ontology for contemporary media.
  • MyDF-Slide MyDF-Slide

    The MyDigitalFootprint.ORG Project

    This participatory action design research (PADR) project aims to understand and engage young New Yorkers' everyday experiences growing up with proprietary media.