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Tech Bro Power Play: Zuckerberg vs. Global Tech Justice

Philippine Elections 2022

The World Should Be Worried About a Dictator’s Son's Apparent Win in the Philippines

Demystifying disinformation shadow economies: fake news work models in Indonesia and the Philippines

Toward a worker-centered analysis in fighting disinformation: global south perspectives on the political economy of 'fake news'

Limits and luxuries of slow research in radical war: how should we represent perpetrators?

Jonathan Corpus Ong is engaged in international policy debates related to disinformation, mediated public participation and digital humanitarianism.

Ong's research and advocacy work is centrally concerned with the moral and political consequences of media and digital technologies, particularly technological interventions in the context of development, humanitarianism, and media and democracy in the global majority.

He is the inaugural director of the Global Technology for Social Justice Lab, a hub for interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of critical tech studies and global studies.

Elections in the Philippines

Media Ethics

Global Media Studies

Critical Disinformation Studies

Sociology of Activist Organizations

Interethnic Racism and Solidarities

Anthropology of Humanitarianism and Human Rights

Politics in the Global South

Disinformation and Misinformation

UMass Amherst Faculty Profile

Global Technology for Social Justice Lab

Google Scholar Citations

Cool heads needed as political fringe dwellers spread disinformation after Trump shooting

Solon wants stricter visa controls for Chinese applying as students, POGO workers

Proposed Philippine TikTok ban needs basis — experts

The truth about upholding “truth” in the disinformation age with Jonathan Corpus Ong

Still blaming ‘bobotantes’ for the spread of fake news?

This podcast deep-dives into the world of trolling

A Suspected Killer’s Fans Are Still Promoting Him Online

As a dictator’s son rises to power, disinformation fractures Filipino families

Research on fake news gets prestigious Carnegie grant

Professor of Communication and Director of Global Technology for Social Justice Lab

Corpus Ong lends us fascinating and surprising insights from his work interviewing members of the Philippines' burgeoning digital working class, and how we might expect the Filipino Internet to play into the country's elections in May.

For a full transcript of this interview, visit https://publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/57-jonathan-corpus-ong

Reimagining the Internet 57. Jonathan Corpus Ong, UMass Amherst

What does the “digital good” look like from the Global South? What are specific “Southern” advocacies in the areas of AI ethics, data privacy, and Big Tech accountability? What emergent practices of academic collaboration can help challenge inequities in global knowledge production? 

Hosted by the ESRC-funded Digital Good Network, this webinar invites researchers across the Global North and South to this timely conversation. Featuring three prominent scholars in global tech studies with institutional positions in the global North, the event prompts personal and collective reflections on power, privilege, risks, and responsibilities in the conduct of community partnerships, policy advocacies, and research mentoring.

Digital Good from the Global South

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