Jonathan Corpus Ong

Associate Professor of Global Digital Media, Director, GloTech Lab, Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Jonathan Corpus Ong (PhD, Cambridge) is Associate Professor of Global Digital Media and inaugural Director of the GloTech Lab at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst. He is also one of 28 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship Awardees (2022-2024). From 2020-2023, he was Research Fellow at Harvard University's Shorenstein Center.

Jonathan has published 3 books and over 25 journal articles in his research areas of global media ethics, digital politics, and the anthropology of humanitarianism. In his recent interventions in critical disinformation studies, Jonathan uses ethnography to understand the social identities, work arrangements and moral justifications of "paid trolls" and political public relations strategists to explore the transnational political economy of disinformation production.