Joseph Michael Reagle Jr. (born 1972[1]) is an American academic and writer focused on digital technology and culture, including Wikipedia, online comments, geek feminism, and life hacking.

[4] He was an early member of the World Wide Web Consortium, based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,[5] and in 1998 and 2010 he was a fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.

[7] He returned to MIT as a research engineer, and also served as a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

[5][6] He returned to schooling at New York University, where he taught,[8] and earned a PhD in 2008 with a thesis about the history and collaborative culture of Wikipedia,[9] supervised by Helen Nissenbaum.

Reagle highlights a broader 2005 episode when neo-Nazis apparently mobilized to preserve an article on "Jewish ethnocentrism," based on the writings of antisemitic professor Kevin MacDonald.