One of the more consistent requests for a class from my students was a course on memes and their impact on culture and society. Most of the students would share gifs and memes via our Slack channels. There are times that I am a little lost in the visual language,...
The following was my panel pitch for the 2018 SxSW Conference for the Intelligent Future track With the recent focus on the region (thanks to books like "Hillbilly Elegy," "White Trash," and others), it is important for interactive professionals and organizations to start looking at Appalachia as an avenue of...
This research was presented at Theorizing the Web 2017 in Brooklyn, NY on the 8th of April. The focus of the presentation was to examine the narratives from Appalachian regional media sources and national media sources that describe the Appalachia region and people & their views of the national election....
I believe that an instructor’s role in a class is to lead his or her students’ through knowledge as a tour guide through the materials. To be an effective tour guide, one must be thoroughly prepared. Before each class that I teach, I want at least three hours of preparation...
The following slides were used as part of a copyright talk to a graduate student colloquium in Washington D.C. July 23, 2016. The focus of the talk was the connection between copyright law and augmented reality. Specifically, the focus was on the questions surrounding the academic and legal issues around...
One of the various ways that I tried avoiding writing in grad school was to work on Pyramid games. Pyramid games are those games that use my friend Andy Looney’s pieces and designs as the foundation for all sorts of abstract and complex games. An early lesson I got from this practice...
One of the reasons I tend to return to the Theorizing the Web conference is that it represents this cool hybrid between an academic conference, a performative space, a professional development hangout, & a grad/undergrad research workshop. It has the trappings of the traditional conference with semi-structured panels and experts in various...
April 14, 2015 District 7 8:13 Jim Crandall started the District 7 meeting and handed out the “Lucky 7” stickers 8:16 The members present introduced themselves. There were a total of 11 people in the room. 8:20 Jim brought up the idea to include small colleges into District 7. What...
In addition to working on my SxSW proposals for 2016, two conference presentations, and the various other academic pieces I written in the past six weeks, I have also been hired in by Geek Bar DLC to be a quasi “academic-in-residence” and write a series of articles. This assignment was kicked off by...
The following was my panel pitch for the 2016 SxSWEDU Conference Ohio Northern University (ONU) created a new program "Multimedia Journalism" as a response to the change the media economy. Part of this change meant folding the local campus newspaper (Northern Review) into the rest of the media at ONU and...
