Curriculum Vitae
Jeremy Hunsinger
Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
Virginia Tech
531 Major Williams Hall
Blacksburg, VA, 24061
jhuns@vt.edu
ph. 01-(605) 868-8580
Primary Employment
2011-Present. Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University
2008-Present. Co-Director of Center for Digital Discourse and Culture, Virginia Tech
2008-2011. Instructor of Political Science, Virginia Tech
2007-2008. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago
2006-2007. Assistant Professor, School of Information and Library Science, Pratt Institute
2005-2006. Co- Director of Center for Digital Discourse and Culture, Virginia Tech
1998-2006. Instructor of Political Science, Virginia Tech
1998-2005. Manager of Center for Digital Discourse and Culture, Virginia Tech
1999-2001. Director, Cyber-Assistants Program, Virginia Tech
1998-2000. Director, VTOnline, Virginia Tech
1997-1999. Course Developer/Instructional Designer, On-Line Masters of Arts in Political Science (OLMA), Virginia Tech
Secondary Appointments
2011-Present. Senior Researcher in Virtual Worlds, EDGE Lab, Ryerson University.
2008. Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
2007-2010. Junior Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2005-2009. Visiting Research Scholar, Australian Creative Resources Online, Queensland University of Technology
Education
2009. Ph.D. Science and Technology Studies. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia
Dissertation Title: Constructing a politics of knowledge in the age of the internet
Examination Areas: Politics and Policy of Science and Technology, Internet Studies, Social and Cultural Studies of Science and Technology, Philosophy of Science and Technology
2000. Graduate Certificate. Internet Studies. Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia.
1998. Master of Arts. Political Science. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia
Thesis Title: Disciplinary themes in aristotle’s political and ethical theories
1996. Bachelor of Arts. Philosophy and Political Science, Dual Major. Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia
Peer Reviewed Publications
2011. Hunsinger, Jeremy. The social workshop as PLE: Lessons from hacklabs. pp. 1-10. In: Proceedings of the The PLE Conference 2011, 10th – 12th July 2011, Southampton, UK.
2009. Hunsinger, Jeremy. “Where did the users go: a case study of an event-driven memory bank”. Proceedings of Cultural Heritage Online 2009. Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale Firenze. Florence, Italy
2005. Hunsinger, Jeremy. “Broadening possibilities by expanding the theoretical richness of the social construction of technology ”. Social Epistemology. 19(2-3). Routledge.
2005. Hunsinger, Jeremy. “Towards a transdisciplinary understanding of internet research”. Information Society. 21(4)
2003. Hunsinger, Jeremy. “Academic logo: the paralogics of higher education”. M/C. Brisbane, AU.
Edited Special Issues
2011. (Forthcoming) Cultures of Virtual Worlds. Jeremy Hunsinger and Adrienne Massanari (Eds). New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia. Taylor & Francis, London, U.k.
2010. (Forthcoming) Next Generations. FastCapitalism. Lorie Jacobs, Wilton Wright, and Jeremy Hunsinger (Eds), Open Humanities Press.
2010. Learning and researching in Virtual Worlds. in Learning, Media & Technology. Jeremy Hunsinger and Aleks Krotoski (Eds). Taylor & Francis, London, UK.
2009. Learning Infrastructures in the Social Sciences. in Learning Inquiry. Jeremy Hunsinger (Ed). Springer, The Netherlands.
2005. Less of You, More of Us: The Political Economy of Power in Virtual Communities. Jason Nolan and Jeremy Hunsinger (Eds.). ACM SIGGROUP Bulletin.
Other Journal Articles
2010. Hunsinger, Jeremy and Aleks Krotoski. “Learning and researching in virtual worlds”. in Learning, Media, & Technology. Taylor & Francis, London, UK.
2009. Hunsinger, Jeremy. “Introducing learning infrastructures: invisibility, context, and governance”. in Learning Infrastructures in the Social Sciences. Learning Inquiry. Jeremy Hunsinger (Ed.) Springer, The Netherlands.
2008. Hunsinger, Jeremy. “Knowledge and cultural production in the context of contemporary capitalism: a response to Wittkower”. Fast Capitalism, 4(1). Open Humanities Press.
2007. Nolan, Jason and Jeremy Hunsinger. “Editorial: introducing Learning Inquiry”. Learning Inquiry. 1(1). Springer.
2005. Nolan, Jason and Jeremy Hunsinger. “Editors introduction”. SIGGROUP Bulletin, ACM
2005. Hunsinger, Jeremy. “Reflexivity in e-science: virtual communities and research institutions”. SIGGROUP Bulletin, ACM
Edited Books
2012. (under contract) The Unconnected: Social Justice, Participation and Engagement in the Information Society. Jarice Hanson, Paul M.A. Baker, and Jeremy Hunsinger (Eds.) Peter Lang Publishing
2011. (under contract) The Routledge Handbook of Social Media. Jeremy Hunsinger and Theresa Senft (Eds.). Routledge, NYC, NY.
2011. (under contract) Learning and Researching in Virtual Worlds. Jeremy Hunsinger and Aleks Krotoski (Eds.). Taylor & Francis, London, UK.
2010. International Handbook of Internet Research. Jeremy Hunsinger, Lisbeth Klastrup, Matthew Allen (Eds.) Springer, the Netherlands.
2009. Putting Knowledge to Work and Letting Information Play: The Center for Digital Discourse and Culture. Jeremy Hunsinger and Timothy W. Luke (Eds.) CDDC E-dition, digital book.
2005. International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments. Joel Weiss, Jason Nolan, Jeremy Hunsinger, Peter Trifonas (Eds.) Vera Nincic (Asst. Eds). Springer, The Netherlands.
2003. Internet Research Annual Volume 1: Selected Papers from the Association of Internet Researchers Conferences 2000-2002. Mia Consalvo, Nancy Baym, Jeremy Hunsinger, Klaus Bruhn Jensen, John Logie, Monica Murero, & Leslie Regan Shade (Eds.), Peter Lang, New York.
Articles in Books
2011. Hunsinger, Jeremy and Aleks Krotoski. “Introduction” in Learning and Research in Virtual Worlds,. Taylor & Francis, London, UK.
2009. Hunsinger, Jeremy. “A short history of the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture” in Putting Knowledge to Work and Letting Information Play. Jeremy Hunsinger and Timothy W. Luke (Eds.)
2009. Hunsinger, Jeremy and Timothy W. Luke. “Info-citizens” in Putting Knowledge to Work and Letting Information Play. Jeremy Hunsinger and Timothy W. Luke (Eds.)
2009. Hunsinger, Jeremy and Brent Jesiek. (equal coauthors) “April 16 Archive”. in Web Histories. edited by Niels Brügger. New York: Peter Lang.
2009. Hunsinger, Jeremy and Matthew Allen. “Introduction” in International Handbook of Internet Research edited by Jeremy Hunsinger, Lisbeth Klastrup, Matthew Allen. The Netherlands: Springer.
2009. Hunsinger, Jeremy. Toward nomadological cyberinfrastructures. in Handbook of Internet Research. Edited by Jeremy Hunsinger, Lisbeth Klastrup, and Matthew Allen. The Netherlands: Springer.
2008. Hunsinger, Jeremy. “Series Introduction” in Towards Humane Technologies: Biotechnology, New Media, and Ethics. edited by Naomi Sutherland, Peter Isaacs, Phil Graham, and Bernard McKenna. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers.
2008. Hunsinger, Jeremy and Brent Jesiek (equal coauthors). “The April 16 Archive: Collecting and Preserving Memories of the Virginia Tech Tragedy”. in Tragedy and Terror at Virginia Tech. edited by Ben Agger and Timothy W. Luke. New York: Rowman and Littlefield.
2007. Hunsinger, Jeremy. “The Virtual and Virtuality: Toward Dialogues of Transdisciplinarity” in Exploring Virtuality. edited by Niki Pantelli and Mike Chiasson. New York: Palgrave.
2006. Duque, R., Dutton, W., and Hunsinger, J.”Global Internet Research” in Past, Present and Future o of Research in the Information Society edited by Wesley Shrum, Keith R. Benson, Wiebe E. Bijker, Klaus Brunnstein. The Netherlands: Springer.
2005. Hunsinger, Jeremy. “The Political Economy of the Internet”. International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments. Joel Weiss, Jason Nolan, Jeremy Hunsinger, Peter Trifonas,(Eds). The Netherlands:Springer.
2005. Wellman, B., Koku, E., and Hunsinger, J. “Networked Scholars”. International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments. Joel Weiss, Jason Nolan, Jeremy Hunsinger, Peter Trifonas,(Eds). The Netherlands:Springer.
2003. Baym, Nancy and Jeremy Hunsinger. “Places, Politics, and Policies of the Internet” Annual of Internet Research: Vol 1. New York:Peter Lang Publishers.
2003. Baym, Nancy and Jeremy Hunsinger. “Creating Internet Research 1.0: The State of the Interdiscipline in Lawrence,” “ Annual of Internet Research: Vol 1. New York: Peter Lang.
2002. Hunsinger, Jeremy. “Linux”. Encyclopedia of New Media : An Essential Reference to Communication and Technology. Ed. Steve Jones. Thousand Oaks:Sage Publications.
Book Reviews
2006. Hunsinger, Jeremy. “Globalisation, Information And Libraries”. SCONUL Focus
2005. Hunsinger, Jeremy. “Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information”. New Media & Society
2004. Hunsinger, Jeremy. “Digital Play”. Information for Social Change
2003. Hunsinger, Jeremy. “Four Fold Guattari”. Ephemera: Critical Dialogues on Organization (An extended review of four books)
2003. Hunsinger, Jeremy. “New Media Reader”. Managing Information
2003. Hunsinger, Jeremy. “Philosophy in the Age of Science and Capital”. Post-Structuralism and Radical Politics Reviews. (http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/psrpsg/reviews/2004.html)
2003. Hunsinger, Jeremy. “Building Virtual Communities: Learning and Change in Cyberspace”. Managing Information.
2002. Hunsinger, Jeremy. “Intensive Science, Virtual Philosophy”. Post-Structuralism and Radical Politics Reviews. (http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/psrpsg/reviews/2003.html)
2002. Hunsinger, Jeremy. “Science Studies Reader”. Journal of Information Technology and People
2002. Hunsinger, Jeremy. “Visions of STS”. Journal of Information Technology and People
Workshops Organized
2010. Cultures in Game/Worlds with Adrienne Massanari at Cultural Studies Association, Chicago, IL.
2009. Critical Internet Theory with Wolfgang Hofkirchner at Internet Research 10.0, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Sponsored by Joi Lab
2009. Hack Labs: Collaborative design in the global economy at Swinburne University of Technology. Sponsored by DesignVictoria and Swinburne University of Technology
2009. Learning and research in Second Life, Brisbane with Ross Brown at Queensland University of Technology, Sponsored by the Center for Creative Industries and Innovation at QUT
2008. Learning and research in Second Life with Aleks Krotoski at Internet Research 9.0. Copenhagen, Denmark .Sponsored by Games for Change and Linden Lab
2007. Learning and research in Second Life with Aleks Krotoski at Internet Research 8.0 Vancouver, Canada. Sponsored by Joi Lab and Linden Lab
Invited Lectures, Colloquia, and Keynote Presentations
2011. Locating Internet Studies, Disciplinary or Multi-Discplinary Field. with Bill Dutton. Oxford
Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme 2011, Oxford University
2011. Jobs, Books, and Journals: Perspectives on Starting. Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral
Programme 2011, Oxford University
2011. Managing Digital Overload. IDDL Speakers Series. Virginia Tech.
2011. Applying COTS in class: the twice hidden curriculum of computer games. TAG, Concordia
University. Montreal, CA.
2010. Frames and fields: An overview of the field and the im/possibilities of innovation. Making sense of virtual worlds and user-driven innovation. Roskilde University. Magleaas, Denmark. (Keynote)
2009. Critical technical practice: praxis and knowledge production in Hacklabs. ARC Center for Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation Cultural Science Seminar Series. Queensland University of Technology
2009. Interpretive methods, actor-network theory/ies, and science. ARC Center for Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation Cultural Science Seminar Series. Queensland University of Technology
2009. Cultural environmentalism: Control contra creativity in internet research. Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme 2009, Queensland University of Technology
2009. Science in virtual worlds: the Interplay of interactivity and information. Infoscape Research Lab. Ryerson University
2008. Workshop on emerging norms, laws, and ethics in virtual worlds, Sponsored by AAAS, ABA Science and Technology Law, and the Sandra Day O’Connor School of Law
2008. Perspectives on the future of Second Life and other virtual spaces for education. Vbusiness Expo. In Second Life.
2007. Policy appliances: pushing the politics and political economy of globalization in the information age. Department of Communication Colloquium, University of Illinois at Chicago.
2007. Knowledge and political economy for Professor Danowski’s Introduction to Communication (Undergraduate Course).
2007. e-Teaching Symposium. University of Illinois at Chicago
2007. The Policy appliance as a globalizing influence in the information political economy. Faculty of Information Studies Colloquium, University of Toronto.
2003. Ethical implications of three advanced research technologies. Digital Aesthetics and Communications, Information Technology University of Copenhagen
2002. Big brother technologies for Prof. Eileen Christ’s Issues in Science Technology, and Medicine (Undergraduate Course).
2001. Pierre Bourdieu for Prof. Martha McCaughey’s Social Theory and the Body (Graduate Course).
2000. Cyberpower for Prof. Barbara Reeves’ Cyberculture Course (Graduate course)
1998. Plato’s Republic for Prof. Mark Gifford’s Ancient Philosophy (Undergraduate Course).
Conference Presentations
2011. “The social workshop as PLE: lessons from hacklabs”. Personal Learning Environments. Southampton University, Southampton, UK
2011. “From hacklabs to hacker markets: becoming complicit in self exploitation”. Moral Economies of Creative Labour, Leeds University, Leeds, UK
2011. “Interpeting the in/visibilities of ACTA and the past-futures of the internet”. Interpretive Policy Analysis. Cardiff, UK
2011. “Our knowledge is our market: commerciality and materiality in hackerspace and hacklabs”. Cultural Studies Association. Chicago, Illinois
2011. “Information excess in the age of cyberinfrastructures and our governance. International Studies Association. Montreal, Canada
2010. “Pragmatic politics of dis/engagement in hacklab and hackerspace website”. DIY Citizenships. University of Toronto. Toronto, Canada.
2010. “Analyzing Hacklabs as sites of sustainable innovation and critical technical practice. Internet 11.0. Goteborg, Sweden
2010. “CMS Futures: the way ahead for course management systems. Internet Research 11.0. Goteborg, Sweden
2010. “Mobility, corporate funding, and the capitalist policies of academic research”. Risky Entanglements: Contemporary Research Cultures Imagined and Practiced. Vienna, Austria
2010. “Crabgrass: a technical study”. Values in Design Workshop. NYC.
2010. “Explode the university”. Digital Media and Learning. UCSD, La Jolla, California.
2009. “Where did the user’s _ go: a case study of an event-driven memory bank”. Cultural Heritage Online 2009. Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale Firenze. Florence, Italy
2009. “McLuhan’s ecologies: knowledge, communication and change”. National Communication Association. Chicago.
2009. “The ‘Objects’ of internet research: towards a cosmopolitical approach”. Internet Research 10.0 . Milwaukee, Wisconsion
2009. “Silence for the bits: A critical discourse analysis of cyberinfrastructure discourse”. Internet Research 10.0 . Milwaukee, Wisconsion
2009. “Technology, culture, and learning: towards a transdisciplinary topic”. Landscapes of Learning conference. WLU Brantford, et. al. Brantford, Ontario, Canada
2009. “Material mediations in policy discourse”. 4th Interpretation and Policy Analysis. Kassel, Germany
2008. “Constructing science: mapping the range of information and interactivity in SciLands”. Internet Research 9.0. Copenhagen, Denmark
2008. “Collecting and preserving webbed memories from the Virginia Tech tragedy”. Web Site Histories. Ärhus, Denmark
2008. “Interactivity and information: designing in SL for knowledge production”. Designing for learning in Virtual Worlds, Roskilde, Denmark
2008. “Web 2.0″. Taking it to the web: political participation in the internet age. Choices and Challenges, Virginia Tech, USA
2008. “Information and conflict”. Taking it to the web: political participation in the internet age. Choices and Challenges, Virginia Tech, USA
2008. “Policy Appliances: pushing the politics and political economy of globalization in the information age”. Thinking Critically: Alternative Perspectives and Methods in Information Studies. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Milkwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
2007. “Constituting digital institutions for learning: A comparative study of information institutionalization in Second Life”. Internet Research 8.0. Vancouver, B.C. CA
2007. “The economic sociology of objects on the internet”. Internet Research 8.0. 2007. Vancouver, B.C. CA
2007. “Globalizing information policy through policy appliances”. Interpretation and Policy Analysis: Research and Practice. Amsterdam, Netherlands
2007. “April16archive.org”. in Collecting Contemporary Events. 48th Annual Rare Books and Manuscripts Division of the ALA. (prepared with Brent Jesiek)
2006. “Open source as constitutively productive democracy”. Society for the Social Study of Science. Vancouver, B.C. CA
2005. “Internet research: a view from AoIR”. Past, Present, and Future of Research in the Information Society. Tunis, Tunisia
2005. “Capital policy: the systemic subpolitics of global internet policy”. Internet Research 6.0. Chicago, Il.
2005. “Privacy, information technology, and research”. Workshop on Internet Research Ethics. Internet Research 6.0. Chicago, Il.
2005. “Info-citizens: democracy and corporate production in the transformation of European universities and funding structures”. Triple Helix 5. Torino, IT.
2004. With Timothy W. Luke “The Virginia Tech Cybershcool: critical reflections on a decade of distance learning on the web with eTexts, on-line courses, and virtual faculties. The Second International Conference on the Future of the Book. Beijing, China.
2003. “Ethical implications of three advanced research technologies”. Internet/Research/Ethics Preconference Workshop. Internet Research 4.0. Toronto, Canada
2003. “Internet environment as work environment”. Internet Research 4.0. Toronto, Canada.
2003. “The technics of big brother”. Choices and Challenges. Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
2002. “Internet research in context: reading the internet research conference through usenet responses”. Internet Researcher 3.0, Maastricht, Netherlands.
2002. “Comparing fields of democratic action on the internet”. Euricomm Colloquium, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
2002. “Technopolitics, discourse, capital: Understanding the history of the philosophy of biotechnology”. Toward Humane Technologies: Biotechnology, New Media and Citizenship, Brisbane, Australia.
2002. “The praxis of internet studies and policy: organizations, reflexivity, and activism”. Mephistos, Blacksburg, Virginia.
2002. “The praxis of cyberculture”. Cyberculture working group, College Park, Maryland.
2002. “The politics of information security”. Rubi-con 3.0, Romulus, Michigan.
2001. “Uncovering security: an ethnographic exploration of internet security professionals”. Internet Researcher 2.0, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
2000. “Distributing manifestos: ideological dissemination through software”. Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia.
2000. “Markets and anti-markets in the software industry”. Internet Researcher 1.0.University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.
2000. “The CDDC as digital library: alternatives for the future”. Learning 2000: Reassessing the Virtual University, Roanoke, Virginia,
2000. “The OLMA program”. with Timothy Luke. E-Learning Design, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas,
2000. “The CDDC: supporting online education”. SURA Committee on OpenCourseware, Washington, D.C.
Other Conferences Attended
2007. Second Life Community Convention. Chicago, Illinois.
2006. World Summit of the Information Society. Tunis, Tunisia.
2003. Open Source Game Development Symposium. Information Technology University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2001. Digital Arts and Culture. Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
1999. Virtual Y2k. Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
1998. Learning On-Line. Roanoke, Virginia
International Proposals, Standards, and Recommendations
2002. (Co-authored as member of the AoIR ethics working committee). Ethical decision-making and internet research: recommendations from the aoir ethics working committee. Available online: http://www.aoir.org/reports/ethics.pdf.
2001. Hunsinger, Jeremy. Development of Internet Societal Task Force Bylaws, Procedures, and Guidelines
2000. Hunsinger, Jeremy. with Jonathan Robin, et. al. ISTF Practical Application of Privacy and Security Working Group
Notable Websites and Archives Hosted and/or Maintained
2009-Present STSwiki.org (Science and Technology Studies wiki)
2007-2011 April16archive.org
2003-2011 Marxists.org
2003-2011 SiOnline (Situationists International Online)
2000-2011New River Journal of Digital Writing and Art
2000-2005 Aoir.org (Association of Internet Researchers)
1998-2011 Feminist Theory Website
Software Designed/Authored
2006. Mediawiki as Courseware modifications
2004. Drupal implementation for academic departments
2004. VLE based on Drupal-Ed CMS
2004. OLMA Chat system
2002. Recursive Database API for Data-gathering in Research Projects
2001. Web-based Research Tool with Rafael Arancibia
2001. Textual Analysis Tool and Search Engine with Rafael Arancibia
2001. Application Framework for Web Systems with Rafael Arancibia
2001. Advanced Conference Management System with Rafael Arancibia
2001. Group Authoring and Publishing System for Community Arts Network with Rafael Arancibia
2001. Knowledge Management/Community System with Rafael Arancibia
2000. Roommate Listing Service
2000. Expertise Portal System with Rafael Arancibia
2000. Eprint Exchange System
1999. Peer Review System
1999. Web Link Management System
1999. Conference Listing Service System
1999. Circular Encyclopedia with Kim Gausepol
1999. Academic Conference Organizing System with Kim Gausepol
Classes Taught
2011. Public Policy Analysis (Graduate)
2010. Collaborative Governance and Civil Society (Graduate)
2010. E-governance (Graduate)
2009, 2005, 2003, 2001, 2000, 1999. Ancient and Medieval Political Theory: From the Pre-socratics to Machiavelli.
2008. Information Technology Ethics.
2008. Scholarly Communication in a Digital Age II: Ethnography of Communications
2008, 2007. Introduction to Media
2007. History of Television (focus on Global TV and Convergence)
2007. Senior Seminar in Communication and Culture (focus on Political Economy and Culture)
2006, 2007. Projects in Digital Archives. (Graduate)
2006, 2007. Internet Resources for the Information Professional (Library/Web 2.0). (Graduate)
2006, 2005, 2004, 2002. Contemporary Democratic Theory.
2006, 1999. Modern Political Theory: From Machiavelli to Today.
2005, 2000. Political Communications: Politics on the Internet.
2004. The Internet: Power, Politics, and Policy.
2003, 2002, 2001. Comparative Political Economy: Political Economy of the Internet.
Professional Service
Book Series Co-Editor with Jason Nolan: Transdisciplinary Studies, Sense Publishers
Editorial Boards: FastCapitalism, International Journal of Internet Research Ethics, International Journal of Illich Studies, Triple-C: Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society
Association of Internet Researchers:
2010. AoIR, Internet Research 11.0. Reviewer
2009. Critical Internet Theory workshop with Wolfgang Hofkirchner
2009. AoIR, Internet Research 10.0. Reviewer
2008. AoIR. Internet Research 9.0. Reviewer
2008. Learning and Research in Second Life at Internet Research 9.0
2007. Technology Review for membership management system
2007. Learning and Research in Second Life at Internet Research 8.0
2006-2007. AoIR. Internet Research 8.0 Advisory Board
2006. AoIR. Ethics Working Group Discussion in Secondlife
2006. AoIR. Internet Research 7.0. Reviewer
2000-2005. AoIR. Ethics Working Group.
1999-2005. AoIR. Executive Committee. Publication Officer.
2005. AoIR. Internet Research 5.0. Program Committee.
2003-2004. AoIR Journal Working Group.
2003. AoIR. Internet Research 4.0. Program Committee.
2002. AoIR. Internet Research 3.0. Program Committee.
2001. AoIR. Internet Research 2.0. Program Committee.
2000. AoIR. Internet Research 1.0. Program Committee.
2000. AoIR. Internet Research 1.0. Program Chair.
Other:
2010-Present Vice Chair IAMCR Media and Communication Policy Task Force
2009-Present. Organizing Committee. Critical Policy Studies Network
2007-Present. International Member, Research Centre for Media History, Theory and Technology, Swansea University.
2011. HICSS Reviewer
2011. ICA Reviewer
2011. Instructor. Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme, Oxford University, U.K.
2011. Information Science and Social Media Reviewer
2010. ICA Reviewer
2010. Reviewer SIGCHI 2011
2010. Coordinating Committee for Ada Lovelace Day
2010. Associate Editor for Virtual Worlds Special Issue, Information Systems Journal
2010. Critical Code Studies Online Working Group.
2010. Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Dissertation Fellowship Reviewer.
2010. Cultural Attitudes Toward Technology and Communications Conference Program Committee.
2009. Instructor. Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme, Queensland University of Technology
2009. Reviewer ICA annual conference
2009. Reviewer CHI 2010
2009. Reviewer CSCW2010
2008. Reviewer ICA annual conference.
2008. Reviewer SSRC Grants Competition
2008. Cultural Attitudes Toward Technology and Communications Conference Program Committee.
2007-2009. Founder and Organizer of “Lessons in Second Life” open forum on learning in Second Life.
2007. Technology Consultant, The Harrow: An online magazine of fantasy and horror
2007-2010. Research JoiLab (Joi Ito’s Independent Lab)
2005-2009. Journal Co-Editor with Jason Nolan: Learning Enquiry, Springer A+B Media
2006-2008. Metaverse Meetup (New York and Chicago).
2006. Governance and Conflict Resolution in Virtual Worlds, Linden Labs, creators of secondlife.com.
2006. September Project Talk, Pratt Manhattan Library.
2005. Conference Reviewer. Digital Arts and Culture ’05
2005. Conference Reviewer. Computers and Writing 2005
2005. Consulted and helped install the journal–New Media & Society’s web management system
2005. Consulted and helped install Wordstreet.org’s technical infrastructure
2004-2006. Advisory Board for Springer’s Encyclopedia of Learning
2004-2006. International Internet Preservation Consortium, Advisory Group for Internet Research
2004. Cultural Attitudes Toward Technology and Communications Conference Program Committee.
2003. Choices and Challenges: Big Brother Technologies. Advisory Committee.
2002. Interactive Game Developers Association Curriculum Development for Computer Game Studies.
2002. Cultural Attitudes Toward Technology and Communications Conference Program Committee.
2002. Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Intellectual Property Rights Working Group.
2001. Moo Discussion on E-Publishing with Greg Newby of Project Gutenberg. Electronic Literature Organization
2001. IETF. Responsible Use of Networks Working Group.
2001. Thinkquest: Social Science and Humanities category. Judge.
2000. Learning 2000. Conference Organization
2000. Thinkquest and Thinkquest Jr. Judge.
1999. Internet Societal Task Force. Internet Societal Steering Group. Officer.
1999. Thinkquest Competition: Social Sciences Category. Judge.
1998. Learning On-Line. Conference Organization
Institutional Service
2011. Research Committee. Department of Communications. Wilfrid Laurier University.
2011. Research Ethics Committee. Department of Communications. Wilfrid Laurier University.
2011. Social Media Committee. Department of Communications. Wilfrid Laurier University.
2008-2009. Publications Committee. Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Theory, Virginia Tech.
2008. Conference Committee. Department of Communications, University of Illinois, Chicago.
2007. Graduate Committee. Department of Communications, University of Illinois, Chicago.
2004. Faculty Advisor to Student Organization: Digital Game Development Organization
2003. Faculty Senate Computer Privacy Working Group
2002. Co-authored Proposal for Virginia Tech Computer Game Studies Center and Degree Program with Espen Aarseth and Timothy Luke
2001. Authored Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Diversity Statement
2001. Authored Institute for Social Assessment of Information Technology Diversity Statement
2001. Co-authored Proposal for Virginia Tech Digital Press with Timothy Luke
2000. Southern Universities Research Association (SURA) OpenCourseware group
1999. Developed and taught VTOnline Online Education Workshops
1999. Hiring Committee member, Institute for Distance and Distributed Learning Senior Systems Administrator position
Awards and Grants
2009. External Researcher. EDGE: Experiential Design and Gaming Environment Lab. Co-PIs D. Androutsos, A. Bal, D. Fels, A. Goodrum, M. Gorbet, R. Lachman, E. Law, J. Nolan. Funding CFI amount $1,148,000. Ryerson University
2009. $500, Joi Lab Sponsorship, Critical Internet Theory Workshop. Internet Research 10.0
2008. $1000, Games for Change Sponsorship, Learning and Research in Second Life Workshop
2008. $2000, Linden Lab Sponsorship, Learning and Research in Second Life Workshop
2007. $1800, Linden Lab Sponsorship, Learning and Research in Second Life Workshop
2007-2010. Junior Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
2006. Scholar Fellow Program (Educational Technology Fellow @ VPI&SU)
2005-2009. Visiting Research Scholar, Australia Creative Resources Online
2005. Lifetime Membership Award. Association of Internet Researchers. (second award)
2005. Graduate Fellow of the NSF Workshop on Values in Information Systems Design.
2004. Oxford Internet Institute. Summer Doctoral Programme.
2004. $550000 ODDPAW: Open-source Design and Development of Persistent Game Worlds, Danish Science Agency at the Information Technology University of Copenhagen with Espen Aarseth, Lisbeth Klastrup, T.L. Taylor, Susana Tosca, Anker Helms Jorgensen, and Troels Degn Johansson
2002. Lifetime Membership Award. Association of Internet Researchers.
2001. $43000 Sun Microsystems Academic Equipment Grant with Len Hatfield and Dan Mosser for Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities.
2001. $32000 Sun Microsystems Academic Equipment Grant for Association of Internet Researchers.
2001. $6000 Ecrix Corporation Autopack 1st corporate grant.
2000. E-Learning Design Award for On-Line M.A. in Political Science .
2000. $53000 Sun Microsystems Academic Equipment Grant with Timothy Luke and Len Hatfield for Center for Digital Discourse and Culture.
1997. Graduate Teaching Assistantship. Political Science. Virginia Tech.
1996. Graduate Teaching Assistantship. Political Science. Virginia Tech.
Professional Memberships
Association of Internet Researchers
Association for Political Theory
IEEE/Computer Society Learning Technology Task Force
International Association for Media and Communication Research
International Communication Association
International Studies Association
Internet Engineering Task Force
Internet Governance Forum
Internet Society
Society for the Social Studies of Science
Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism
Professional Development
2010. Master Online Instructor certificate
2009. IRB: Human Subjects Compliance Issues, IRB certificate
2009. Foundations for Responsible Research Conduct
2005. Center for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Reading group
2005. VT Research Policies
2005. Web of Science 7.0 and Journal Citation Reports by Thomson Customer Training
2005. Writing Successful Grants. Faculty Development Initiative, Virginia Tech
2004. Building a Logging Infrastructure. Internet Security Training Workshop, Virginia Tech
2004. Wireless Network Security. Internet Security Training Workshop, Virginia Tech
2003. Tools and Resources for Faculty Research. Faculty Development Institute, Virginia Tech
2001. Freeware Security Tools You Need. SANS-Edu
2001. Forensics Techniques in Incident Response STEP by STEP. SANS-Edu.
1999. Macromedia Web Development Courseware
1998. Using Blackboard to Teach Online
1997. Daedelus Writing Environment Training
1996. Graduate Teaching Assistant Training
Reviewer
Australian Journal of Educational Technology; Convergence; Critical Discourse Studies; Electronic Journal of Sociology; Ethics and Information Technology; INFO; Information, Communication, & Society; Information Society; Information Systems Journal; International Journal of Internet Research Ethics; Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, Journal of International Relations and Development; Journal of Virtual Worlds Research; Learning, Media, & Technology; MIT Press; National Science Foundation; New Media & Society; New York University Press; Palgrave-MacMillan; Philosophical Psychology; Science Studies; Science, Technology and Human Values; Southern Communications Journal; Social Science and Humanities Research Council; Social Science Research Council; Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology; The Communication Review; The Handbook of Computer Networks; Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies
Media Interviews/Appearances
New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Miami Herald, L.A. Times, USA Today, The Guardian, The Australian, IEEE Spectrum, New Yorker Magazine, WVTF Radio, Make Magazine Blog, BoingBoing, and others.
