[2] Her research work includes issues centered on "identity and deception in online communities" and the creation of multiple virtual personae.

[12] In her 2000 book Being Real, Donath explores the problems of cognition arising from the online behavioral dynamics of the interaction between human and possibly automated avatars in a virtual world.

[16] On the subject of telerobotics, Donath argues that the remote manipulation afforded by the discipline may act as a desensitizing agent because the identity and human characteristics of the remote subjects of the telerobotic operation remain unseen by the human teleoperator of the robot.

[18] Her work includes the application of architectural principles to the design of the social interaction environment of online communities in a kind of virtual city.

[19] She has investigated best practices for online communication and their relation to issues of embodiment, gender, sexuality and identity.