I’m currently an Assistant Professor of Journalism at Ball State University, where I teach classes on emerging technologies and storytelling.
Along with those duties, I’m the program coordinator for the Digital Media Minor, an interdisciplinary minor that blends emerging technology and storytelling.
I’m currently one of three Online Faculty Fellows (Spring 2012), and I was one of six Emerging Media Initiative Fellows (2009-2011).
In Fall 2011, I returned to school to pursue a second Masters (Media Arts + Science with an emphasis on Human-Computer Interaction) at Indiana University-Purdue University while continuing to maintain my tenure-line position at Ball State University.
Academic highlights:
My Google Scholar page.
Papers + Presentations
2007: Presented and co-authored the paper, “The Ball State Digital Publishing Project to Develop and Distribute Multiple Media Texts: An Experimental Approach to the Future of the Book,” at the Fourth International Conference on the Book and published in the International Journal of the Book
2009: Presented the conference paper “The Distributed Story Stream” (draft) at the International Digital Media Arts Association
2010: Contributed an essay, “Social Networks, Survival, and Healing,” for the Communication textbook Looking Out, Looking In.
2010: Presented the conference paper “The Living Educational Environment” at The New Media Consortium Summer Conference
2010: Co-presented the conference paper “Remix Writing, Storytelling, Open Commons and Digital Publishing”on a video/remix project we created called “Addiction” at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association.
2010: Presented the co-authored conference paper “The Search for Meaning in Distributed Story Streams” at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association.
2011: Delivered a keynote address, “Transmedia Storytelling: Group Think Teaching in a Networked World,” at Colorado University’s 10th Annual Spring Symposium
2011: Published “Social Media Story Streams and the University Classroom” chapter in the Ubiquitous Learning: Strategies for Pedagogy, Design, and Technology textbook.
2012: Delivered the conference paper “21st Century Authors” (draft) at the Pop Culture Association in Boston, MA.
2012: Will deliver the paper “A Framework for Authoring Interactive, Tablet-based Books” at The Tenth International Conference on the Book in Barcelona, Spain.
Grants + Immersive Programs + Awards
2011: Provost Immersive Learning grant for Transmedia Indiana
2011: Finalist for the TechPoint Mira “Technology in Education Excellence & Innovation – Team, Department or Program” category for Transmedia Indiana
Teaching + Service
2006-9: Coordinator, NKU’s Media Informatics Program
2009-ongoing: Graduate Policy Committee Member; Chair (2011)
2010-2011: Taught “Social Media + the News” in the New York Times Knowledge Network
2011-ongoing: Program Director, Digital Media Minor; spearheading the move to get all classes online by Fall 2012
Courses Developed:
- ICOM 210: Introduction to Social Networks
- CCIM 210: Introduction to Social Media
- NEWS 339: Social Media and Audience Interactivity
- JOURN 611: Digital Media Bootcamp
- JOURN 655: Social + Cross-Media Storytelling
Advisory Board Work
2002-ongoing: Advisory Board for South by Southwest Interactive and (less many years) South by Southwest Music
2007-: Advisory Board for Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center Press
2009-ongoing: Emcee, South by Southwest Microsoft BizSpark Accelerator
2011-ongoing: Advisory Board member for F+W’s StoryWorld Conference
Student/Faculty Publishing
2009: ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Social Media coordinator + editor for Bunker Hill Extreme: How Seven Days in the Cold, Rain, and Mud Changed a Community
2011: Published the book If I Leave Here Tomorrow with The Invictus Writers project
2012: Will be publishing Gently Used, the second volume of The Invictus Writers
Professional + Training
2010: The Soho Theater Transmedia Facilitator
2010: Delivered the kickoff talk, “Read-Write Tales,” at the Indiana Public Relations Leadership Seminar
2011: Delivered an invited talk, “Aligning Digital with your Communication Strategy,” at the Budapest Business College in Budapest, Hungary
2011: Delivered an invited talk, ”How to be a Digital Player in Business,” at the Budapest Business College in Budapest, Hungary
Some work highlights:
1994-5: News Aide, Cincinnati Citybeat
1995-2000: lots of weird writing for weeklies, digital publications and sub-culture magazines
1999: Editorial Assistant, Wired Magazine
2000: Masters of Journalism, Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley
2000-2: Multimedia Staff Reporter, Wired.com
2003: Dungeons & Dreamers: The Rise of Computer Games from Geek to Chic (Osborne/McGraw-Hill) with John Borland
2003: Original blogger for Yahoo, Variety
2004-6: Online Producer/Senior Editor, MIT’s Technology Review
2006-7: Founding blogger, MIT’s Technology Review
2006-9: Assistant Professor, Media Informatics, Northern Kentucky University
2009-: Assistant Professor, Journalism; Director, Digital Media Minor; Online Faculty Fellow (Spring 2012); Emerging Media Initiative Fellow (2009-11), Ball State University