Jonathan Corpus Ong

Jonathan Corpus Ong is Professor of Global Digital Media and founding Director of the Global Technology for Social Justice Lab, a creative hub at UMass Amherst that advances a community-driven model for tech studies and tech justice advocacy that centers the Global Majority.
He is a public intellectual engaged in international policy debates related to disinformation, mediated public participation, and digital humanitarianism, with a consistent record of advocacy work with diverse sectors of human rights, diasporic community media, and tech workers. 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 has published 3 books, over 40 articles, and over a dozen public policy reports examining the uneven impacts of media interventions “for good” and technologies “advancing democracy”. Inspired by traditions of media ethics and media anthropology, he uses ethnographic and participatory research methods to center the voices of ordinary citizens and precarious workers when developing normative analysis of “good” and “bad” interventions and everyday practices.