Research Areas

Cultural studies of new media technologies,qualitative research methods, and user interaction design; policy implications of new  media  technologies including universal access, privacy, and intellectual property; the use of advanced computer/communication technologies as contexts for urban culture, planning and decision making.

I have recently published work in The Information Society, The Journal of Technology Studies, Explorations in Media Ecology,The Southern Journal of Communication, ebr, Convergence, Communication Theory, and other communication, philosophy, and anthropology journals.

 

I blog on the Urban Communication Foundation Blog.

Curriculum Vitae

Bookmarks

Online Bibliography: Interactive Social Spaces

Courses Taught

WRA 110 Writing Science and Technology

WRA 415 Digital Rhetoric

COMS 460 Communication, Technology and Globalization

COMS 620 Communication and New Technology

COMS 930 Seminar on Theories of the Information Society

COMS 930 Seminar on Critical and Cultural Theories of Communication

Education

• Ph.D. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Science and Technology Studies, 1998
  
• M.A.  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Science and Technology Studies, 1992
  
• B.B.A. University of Notre Dame, Finance, 1985

Calumet Region Project

Social Worlds Article in the Electronic Book Review

The Calumet Region of Northwest Indiana and Southeast Chicago holds both the most diverse concentration of species in the United States and the largest concentration of industry in the United States.  The transformation of this area from empty frontier to dense metropolis holds many lessons for technological transformation.  A Web Powerpoint explains what happens when corporate imperatives are unchecked by community pressures.

Quicktime of Machines of Social Inequality

Quicktime of Small European Cars