Dr Jenny L. Davis
Research interests
Dr. Davis's work follows two broad and overlapping trajectories in social psychology and technology studies. She focuses on role-taking, status, stigma, and identity, along with technological affordances and the politics of digital design.
Biography
Jenny Davis received her PhD in Sociology from Texas A&M University in 2012. Her work intersects technology studies and sociological social psychology. After 3 years as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at James Madison University (Virginia, USA), she joined The School of Sociology at ANU in 2017.
Jenny is building a research program in collaboration with Dr. Tony Love to systematically study role-taking processes. The work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the American Sociological Association. In 2018, the project received an ANU Futures Scheme grant ($449,000) to design new measures and test interventions such as reading, writing, and virtual reality simulation. The laboratory at ANU is the sole site of experimental methods in Australian Sociology (https://www.role-taking.com/).
Along with laboratory study, Jenny is interested in the real world implications of emergent technologies. She received an ARC DECRA grant in 2019 ($359,000) to study ethics in the Australian digital startup industry and she is part of the Humanizing Machine Intelligence (HMI) project at the ANU. HMI is an interdisciplinary endeavor to integrate human values with AI/ML technologies (https://hmi.anu.edu.au/).
She co-edits the Cyborgology Blog (https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/), a theoretical and interdisciplinary publication that fuses social theory and technology.
Jenny is on Twitter @Jenny_L_Davis (https://twitter.com/Jenny_L_Davis)
Publications
- Orr, W & Davis, J 2020, 'Attributions of ethical responsibility by Artificial Intelligence practitioners.' 23(5):719-735, Information Communication and Society https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2020.1713842
- Davis, J, Love, T & Fares, P 2019, 'Collective Social Identity: Synthesizing Identity Theory and Social Identity Theory Using Digital Data', Social Psychology Quarterly, vol. 82, no. 3, pp. 254-273.
- Davis, J & Love, T 2019, 'Generalizing from social media data: a formal theory approach', Information Communication and Society, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 637-647.
- Rohlinger, D, Davis, J, Dignam, P et al., eds, 2019, Dynamic Perspectives on Media and Information Technologies.
- Davis, J, Love, T & Killen, G 2018, 'Seriously funny: The political work of humor on social media', New Media and Society, vol. 20, no. 10, pp. 3898-3916pp.
- Love, T, Davis, J & Calvert, J 2018, 'A Mixed-Methods Examination of Morality Work Through Sentiment Analysis and Qualitative Coding of Twitter Data'.
- Davis, J, Smith, J & Wellman, B 2018, 'CITAMS as a transfield: introduction to the special issue', Information, Communication and Society, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 643-646pp.
- Davis, J, Goar, C, Manago, B et al 2018, 'Distribution and disavowal: Managing the parental stigma of Children's weight and weight loss', Social Science and Medicine, vol. 219, pp. 61-69pp.
- Davis, J & Love, T 2018, 'Women Who Stay: A Morality Work Perspective', Social Problems, vol. 65, pp. 251-265.
- Goar, C, Davis, J & Manago, B 2017, 'Discursive Entwinement: How White Transracially Adoptive Parents Navigate Race', Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 338-354.
- Davis, J & Love, T 2017, 'The Effect of Status on Identity Stability', Sociological Perspectives, vol. 60, no. 3, pp. 497-509.
- Manago, B, Davis, J & Goar, C 2017, 'Discourse in Action: Parents Use of Medical and Social Models to Resist Disability Stigma', Social Science and Medicine, vol. 184, pp. 169-177.
- Davis, J & Love, T 2017, 'Self-in-Self, Mind-in-Mind, Heart-in-Heart: The Future of Role-taking, Perspective Taking and Empathy', in Shane R Thye and Edward Lawler (ed.), Advances in Group Processes, Emerald Publishing, UK, pp. 151-174pp.
- Davis, J 2017, 'Curation: A Theoretical Treatment', Information, Communication and Society, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 770-783.
- Davis, J & Chouinard, J 2016, 'Theorizing Affordances: From Request to Refuse', Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 241-248.
- Davis, J & Manago, B 2016, 'Motherhood and Associative Moral Stigma: The Moral Double Bind', Stigma and Health, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 72-86.
- Davis, J 2016, 'Identity Theory in a Digital Age', in Jan E. Stets and Richard T. Serpe (ed.), New Directions in Identity Theory and Research, Oxford Scholarship Online, New York, NY, ANU, pp. 137-164.
- Davis, J 2016, 'Moral Stigma Management Among the Transabled', in P Adler and P Alder (ed.), Constructions of Deviance, Wadsworth Publishing, USA, pp. 348-360pp.
- Davis, J, Compton, D, Farris, N et al. 2015, 'Implementing and Analyzing Social Media in Higher Education', The Journal of Faculty Development, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 9-16.
- Davis, J 2014, 'Morality Work among the Transabled', Deviant Behavior, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 433-455pp.
- Davis, J 2014, 'Triangulating the Self: Identity Processes in a Connected Era', Symbolic Interaction, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 500-523pp.
- Davis, J & Jurgenson, N 2014, 'Context Collapse: Theorizing Context Collusions and Collisions', Information, Communication and Society, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 476-485.
- Davis, J 2014, 'Blogging my Academic Self', in N Farris, MA Davis, D Compton (ed.), Illuminating How Identities, Stereotypes and Inequalities Matter through Gender Studies, Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 3-8pp.
- Love, T & Davis, J 2014, 'The Effect of Status on Role-Taking Accuracy', American Sociological Review, vol. 79, no. 5, pp. 848-865pp.
- Davis, J 2012, 'Prosuming Identity: The Production and Consumption of Transableism on Transabled.org', American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 596-617pp.
- Davis, J 2012, 'Accomplishing authenticity in a labor-exposing space', Computers in Human Behavior, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 1966-1973pp.
- Davis, J 2012, 'Social Media and Experiential Ambivalence', Future Internet, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 955-970.
- Davis, J 2012, 'Narrative Construction of a Ruptured Self: Stories of Transability on Transabled.org', Sociological Perspectives, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 319-340pp.
- Davis, J & Spates, K 2010, 'Hegemonic Female Spaces: An Analysis of the Covert Meanings within Ladies Home Journal and Ebony Magazines� Advertisements s', MP: An online Feminist Journal, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 1-33.
- Davis, J 2010, 'Architecture of the Personal Interactive Homepage: Constructing the Self through MySpace', New Media and Society, vol. 12, no. 7, pp. 1103-1119.
- Mekolichick, J, Davis, J & Chouinard, J 2008, 'Transitional Supportive Housing in a Rural Location: A Preliminary Case Study and Lessons Learned', Journal of Applied Social Science, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 36-46.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Moral Skill and Artificial Intelligence (Secondary Investigator)
- The social dynamics of digital design: Building an ethics-based industry (Primary Investigator)