My experience with computers began in 1985 as I learned the beauty of Logo on a Packard Bell computer at the vocation school and the ability of a turtle to move through an electronic field by giving the turtle directions. I’ve enjoyed writing programs for computers in BASIC, simple JAVA and ActionScript for years. The connection to the world of cyberstudies came from my first experience on a bulletin board system (BBS) during my middle school years. I got to see virtual interactions on a textual level. Little did I know that I would be studying those interactions for my doctorate later in life.
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. This mixed-method study used a …
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 copyright law in augmented reality …
Facebook is one of the more popular online social networks that took advantage of the computer-mediated communication (CMC) services such as instant messaging, forums and direct messaging with publication services such as blogging and sharing of content to form a service that connected the members within the system to each other. This ability to connect …
This weekend, I was asked to moderate a panel at the Theorizing the Web conference (#TtW13) in New York City. During this time, I had to write down the key points of the panel and post them on Twitter. In addition, I wanted to respond to the panelists’ points and add some analysis to the work. Like …
Dmitry Sklyarov, a 27-year-old programmer for ElcomSoft Co. Ltd., was arrested after giving a speech at DEFCon, a major annual technical conference. He was arrested for trafficking software, which could circumvent the technological protection on eBooks in Adobe’s eBook format. He was charged with five criminal offensives. With his arrest came the first criminal challenge …
The third method that I used in my dissertation was the guided ethnography. The purpose of the post is to describe in some detail the process I used and the rationale why I followed this process. This section began at the end of the interview stage. The ethnography was designed to be discussed with the …
After finishing my dissertation, I wanted to archive some of my previous presentations. During the course of looking through old submissions, I came across the first presentation I did as a grad student and academic professional. Ohio University hosted Global Fusion 2005. My masters’ cohort at the time figured that conference would be a reasonable …
The SxSW 2012 Panelpicker has finally opened up and our panel is listed. The battleplan for our panel “Festivals in the Age of Instant Access” will be to answer these questions in the first half of the panel: How do presenters communicate with connected conference community? How do attendees transition information from the conference to …
During the first half of 2010, I decided to study the impact that social media was playing on traditional media channels. The feud between Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien about the Tonight Show was happening during the same time. The original plan was to conduct a multi-method study looking at the online artifacts related to …
(Writer’s note: I would like to apologize for the next series of posts, as they are going to deal with my dissertation and may be slightly technical. I’ll mark this post as a dissertation in the tags. Thanks in advance.) The development of a profile on an online social network begins with simple access to …