| selected writing | 
	    
	    
	    
	    
	      | See the full collection of Sociable Media Group papers | 
	    
	    
	    | about identity, signaling, and social
	      analysis |  | 
	    
	    
	    
	      | Signals, Truth and Design Judith Donath.  Forthcoming.
 MIT Press
 | book-in-progress on human signaling in
		mediated and face-to-face communication. | 
| Essays on
brain basis of lie detection,
honesty among avatars,
personal appearance and justice.  2010. | Based on a series of talks I hosted on The Psychology and Economics of Trust and Honesty | 
	
	
	    
	      | Is reputation obsolete? Judith Donath, Oct  2008.
 Harvard Berkman Center Publius Project
 | Should we rely on gossip or the ever encroaching
		  surveillant eye? | 
	      
		| Giving avatars emote control
		  Judith Donath, Feb 2008. Harvard Business Review, Breakthrough ideas for 2008
 | About the continuum of veracity. | 
	      
	      
	      
		| Virtually trustworthy
		  Judith Donath, July 6, 2007. Science
 | Today I'll wear my most persuasive avatar. | 
	      
	      
	      
	      
	      
		| Signals
		  in social supernets Judith Donath, Oct 2007
 In The Journal of
		  Computer-Mediated Communication, vol 13, no 1.
 | the evolutionary line that goes from
		  apes grooming, to people gossiping, to future humans linking their
		  profiles together | 
		
		
		
		
		  | Public displays of connection. Judith Donath and danah boyd. 2004.
 In BT Technology Journal Vol 22 No 4 October 2004, pp 71-82.
 | how listing all your
		    acquaintances can make you more credible - or
		    less. | 
		  
		  
		    | Mediated Faces Judith Donath. 2001.
 In M. Beynon, C.L. Nehaniv, K. Dautenhahn (Eds.). Cognitive Technology: Instruments of Mind 
		      
		      Proceedings of the 4th International Conference
 | making sure
		      that the face that represents you does not have a
		      mind of its own. | 
		  
		  
		  
		  
		    | Identity and Deception in the Virtual Community (or .pdf) Judith Donath. 1998. In Communities in
		      Cyberspace. (M. Smith and P. Kollock, eds.)
		      London: Routledge.
 | how cheap identifiers led to an onslaught of trolls | 
		  
		  
		  
		  
		  | about interface
		    design, art, etc. |  | 
        
		  
		    | Data Portraits Judith Donath, Alex Dragulescu, Aaron Zinman, Fernanda Viegas, Rebecca Xiong, Yannick Assogba.
 Oct 2008
 SIGGRAPH 2010 Art Papers
 | depicting people as they live online | 
        
		  
		    | Technological interventions in everyday interaction Judith Donath, Oct 2008
 Act/React, Milwaukee Art Museum
 | the mechanical gaze in art and public
			space | 
			
		  
		  
		    | The Rhythms of Salience: A Conversation Map Judith Donath
 | an impressionistic picture of a
			conversation | 
		    
		    
		      | Words as landscape Judith Donath. 2005.  CHI 2005 Workshop: Beyond threaded conversation
 | imagine words piling up, like lexical anthills | 
		    
		    
		    
		      | Sociable Media. Judith Donath. 2004. In The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, William Sims Bainbridge (ed), Berkshire Publishing Group
 | if you majored in sociable media, what would you know. | 
		    
		    
		      | A semantic approach to visualizing online conversations Judith Donath. 2002. 
			In Communications of the ACM Volume 45 , Issue 4
 | incorporating
			subtle editorializing into social visualizations. | 
		      
		      
			| Talking in Circles Roy Rodenstein, Judith Donath.
			  In Proceedings of CHI 2000 .
 | a visual
			  interface for audioconferencing that lets you
			  tell secrets | 
			
			
			  | Visiphone Judith Donath, Karrie Karahalios, Fernanda Viegas.
			    In Proceedings of ICAD 2000.
 | a
			    mesmerizing interface object for speakerphone
			      calls | 
			    
			    
			      
			      | Chat Circles. Fernanda Viegas and Judith Donath. 1999.
 In Proceedings of CHI 99.
 | the
				
				
				abstract graphical chat interface. | 
			    
			    
			      | Visualizing the crowds at a web site Nelson Minar and Judith Donath. In Proceedings of CHI 99.
 | a bird's-eye animation of
				visits to a website | 
			    
			      | Visualizing Conversation (or  .pdf) Judith Donath, Karrie Karahalios, and Fernanda
				Viegas. 1999. In Proceedings of HICSS-32,
				reprinted in the Journal of Computer Mediated
				Communication, vol 4, issue 4.
 | showing the social
				patterns in online conversations | 
			    
			    
			    
			      | Inhabiting the Virtual City: The Design of Social Environments for Electronic Communities J. Donath
 | My doctoral dissertation. | 
			    
			    
			      | Visual Who J. Donath
				Proceedings of ACM Multimedia '95 Nov 5-9, San Francisco, CA.
 | visualizing a community with mailing lists and springs | 
			    
			    
			    
			      | Sociable Information Spaces J. Donath. 1995.
				Presented at the Second IEEE International Workshop on Community Networking, Princeton, NJ.
 | when this was written, the web as a social space was a radically new idea | 
			    
			    
			    
			      | The Illustrated Conversation J. Donath.
				Multimedia Tools and Applications. Vol. 1, March 1995.
 | turning heads in virtual conversations | 
			    
			    
			    
			      | Structured Video and the Construction of Space J. Donath.
				Proceedings of the IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging, San Jose, CA, February 1995.
 | video compositing with the perspective of the Renaissance | 
			    
			    
			    
			      | The Sociable Web J. Donath and N. Robertson.
				Proceedings of the Second International WWW Conference. Chicago, IL, October 1994.
 | the first implementation of presence on the web | 
			    
			    
			      | Casual Collaboration J. Donath
				Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, pp. 490-496, Boston, MA. May 1994.
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			    | about knowing the not-quite-human other |  | 
	      
			    | The Imperfect Observer Judith Donath
 forthcoming 2010, In Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge: Dualism a Symposium  SUNY Press.
 | neuroscience, robotics, and the illusion of thinking we can know everything | 
			  
			  
			    | Artificial pets: Simple behaviors elicit complex attachments. Judith Donath
 The Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, Marc Bekoff (ed.), Greenwood Press.
 | why machines will evolve to misbehave. | 
			  
			  
			    | Being Real J. Donath.
 In The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and
			      Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet, K. Goldberg (ed.) 
			      Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (Also in pdf. In French, Être réel)
 | as
			      chatbots get smarter, what will it take to
			      prove you are human? | 
			    
			    
			    
			    
			    
			    
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