Jordan Kraemer (she/they) is an anthropologist of technology and society whose work bridges academia, policy, and advocacy. She has directed mixed-methods research to combat online hate, harassment, and disinformation, helping to pass state-level transparency legislation and to strengthen major platform’s policies. Her ethnographic research situates tech practices in cultural context, with a focus on urban placemaking. Jordan is most recently the author of Mobile City: Emerging Media, Space, and Sociality in Contemporary Berlin (Cornell 2024), which explores digital platforms as sites of cosmopolitan aspiration, as well as conflicts over mobility and identity among Berlin’s creative class. Her SSRC-funded project “Divergent Spaces” examined how digital spaces could facilitate community care but also reinforce marginalization and displacement for neighborhood organizers, anti-gentrification activists, and mutual aid groups in pandemic Brooklyn. 

Jordan’s current efforts focus on translating empirical research into policy and design for community mobilization and tech justice. Her essays and scholarship have been published in Tech Policy Press; Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience; Anthropological Quarterly; and Fast Company, among other publications, while her advocacy research has been covered by outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Politico. She has taught feminist technology studies at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering and media anthropology at Wesleyan University as a Mellon postdoctoral fellow. Jordan holds a master’s degree from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from UC Irvine.