Dr Jenny L. Davis
Research interests
social psychology, self and identity, status and stigma, cultural studies of the internet and emergent media, experimental research methods, qualitative research methods
Biography
Jenny Davis received her PhD in Sociology from Texas A&M University in 2012. Her work addresses identity, status and stigma through multiple projects which utilize diverse methodologies. Key projects include ethnographic and theoretical work on internet and society, experimental studies of role taking and status (in collaboration with Dr. Tony P. Love-University of Kentucky), and a large scale interview project that addresses stigma in a family context (in collaboration with Dr. Carla Goar-Kent State University and Bianca Manago-Vanderbilt).
Jenny received an ANU Futures Scheme grant in 2018 ($449,000) to conduct a series of laboratory experiments that test the effects of reading, writing, and virtual reality simulation on role taking performance. The laboratory at ANU is the sole site of experimental methods in Australian Sociology.
A strong proponent of public scholarship, she co-edits the Cyborgology Blog (https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/), a theoretical and interdisciplinary publication that intersects social theory with emergent technologies.
Jenny is on Twitter @Jenny_L_Davis (https://twitter.com/Jenny_L_Davis)
Publications
- 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 SR Thye and Edward Lawler (ed.), Advances in Group Processes, Emerald Publishing, UK, pp. pp 151 - 174.
- 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. 9-16pp.
- 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.
- 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.