Jade E. Davis

…is finishing her PhD in the department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she studies under the direction of Ken Hillis. She holds an MA from NYU’s Institute of French Studies and a BA from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her primary research centers on how digitization and social media effect how we know and understand culture and society. She is also interested in big data, ethnomining, and their effects and potential for use in critical ethnographic work in digital environments. She has been an active HASTAC scholar since 2010 and is a member of the steering committee. She’s the regional organizer for THATCamp RTP. Additionally, in the Summer of 2013 joined Microsoft Research New England as a Summer Research Intern with the Social Media Collective. She is also a member of the first inter-institutional cohort of students in the PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge at Duke University.