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 also teach in the New York Times Knowledge Network as part of Ball State University’s Emerging Media Journalism Certificate.
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.
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; Emerging Media Initiative Fellow, Ball State University
Academic highlights:
For too many years: Advisory Board for South by Southwest Interactive and (less many years) South by Southwest Music
2006-9: Coordinator, NKU’s Media Informatics Program
2007-: Advisory Board for Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center Press
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
2009: Presented the paper “The Distributed Story Stream” at the International Digital Media Arts Association
2009-ongoing: Emcee, South by Southwest Microsoft BizSpark Accelerator
2010: The Soho Theater Transmedia Facilitator
2010: “Social Networks, Survival, and Healing.” Looking Out, Looking In.
2010: Presented the paper “The Living Educational Environment” at The New Media Consortium Summer Conference
2010: Co-presented the paper “Remix Writing, Storytelling, Open Commons and Digital Publishing” at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association.
2010: Presented the co-authored paper “The Search for Meaning in Distributed Story Streams” at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association.
2011: program director, Digital Media Minor
2011: Advisory Board member for F+W’s StoryWorld Conference 2011: Provost Immersive Learning grant for Transmedia Indiana
2011: Published the book If I Leave Here Tomorrow with The Invictus Writers project
2011: Published “Social Media Story Streams and the University Classroom” chapter in the Ubiquitous Learning: Strategies for Pedagogy, Design, and Technology textbook.
2012: South by Southwest Accelerator
2012: Future of the Book
2012: Pop Culture Association