Research
My work centers on understanding the complex cultural transformations brought about by the change from an analog archive to one whose substructure is a digital network. Particularly I am interested in how traditional institutions-libraries, higher education, even democracy itself-will be altered in a post print society. I write on, give talks about, and help create emerging media projects.
Since I firmly believe in, and advocate for "open source" knowledge production, I make as much of my work as possible freely available here. Please feel free to use/borrow/steal whatever you find useful. (Unless noted otherwise, everything here is licensed under a Creative Commons license.)
Teaching
I teach both undergraduate and graduate classes in Emerging Media here at UT-Dallas. Most of the classes I teach deal with media theory and network theory. I also teach project based courses where the goal is not only to critique the current digital media landscape, but to learn by producing objects for it as well (from Transmedia Narratives to Political Blogs).
Since I firmly believe in, and advocate for "open source" knowledge production, I make as much information as possible available to the wider public. Information on both current and past courses I have taught can be found on the teaching page, along with links to all of the syllabi. Please feel free to use/borrow/steal whatever you find useful. (Everything here is licensed under a Creative Commons license.)
Academhack
- Burn the Boats/BooksThe following is a summary of my talk, or more accurately, the short written version of my talk, “Burn the Boats,” which I gave a little over a month ago at the DWRL in Austin. You can read the post, or skip to the end and watch the videos (which last about 40 minutes) and ..... […]
- Apple and Censoring EducationYesterday, Dan Cohen’s tweet about the iPad and censorship, got me thinking about a drawback to the iPad for education argument. What Dan made me wonder/realize is that by using iPads for educational purposes schools, both higher ed and secondary/primary ed, would be opening themselves up to censorship by Apple. In other words as I tweeted ..... […]

