Jack Jamieson
Distinguished Researcher at NTT
Kyoto, Japan
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Top SchoolJack Jamieson is a Distinguished Researcher at NTT Social Informatics Laboratories with nine years of experience studying how people and technologies co-evolve, holding a PhD from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information. He applies mixed methods—from large-scale NLP and network analysis to ethnographic interviews and user studies—to examine decentralized web infrastructures, open source collaboration, and the human impacts of emerging systems like digital contact tracing and data portability. Based in Kyoto, he has led international, interdisciplinary projects and published in top venues such as ACM CHI, CSCW, and Social Media + Society. Jack’s work uniquely blends building software artifacts with theory-driven design recommendations that surface values and inclusion in distributed systems.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (MA), Communication and Culture, Master of Arts (MA), Communication and Culture at Ryerson University and York UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Information, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Information at University of TorontoGraduate Certificate, Asian Studies, Graduate Certificate, Asian Studies at York UniversityToronto Metropolitan University
Japanese
Github Skills (33)
wordpress9
wordpress-plugin9
indieweb9
coders5
plugin5
monocle5
flask-sqlalchemy4
location4
reader4
parse4
python3
poster3
parsing3
syndication3
endpoint3
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jackjamieson2/yarns-indie-reader
Nov 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:71 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 1 month
jackjamieson2/yarns-microsub-server
Jul 2018 - Mar 2021
Yarns is a Microsub server that runs as a plugin on your WordPress site.
Contributions:10 releases, 342 commits, 26 PRs in 2 years 9 months
wordpressrunswordpress-sitemicrosubwordpress-plugin
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