Research Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology University of Southern California Degree expected May, 2008 My dissertation--Communities of Innovation: Cyborganic and the Birth of Social Media--examines the way a group of San Francisco Web workers integrated new media and networked technologies into their work and lives during the first phase of the Web's development as a popular platform (1993-1999). The place and period of my fieldwork has turned out to be particularly seminal in terms of the rise of new social forms--from genres of networked media (e.g. homepages, mailing lists, intranets, blogs, open source software) to new modes of working and living associated with their development and use. Cyborganic was "an influential early Web community" whose members were on the launch teams of Wired magazine, Hotwired (the first ad-supported online magazine), c|net (a computer-focused transmedia network), and the Apache project. The genres, media, discourses, and cultural practices developed in this milieu were not only key to the initial development of Web publishing, but also prefigured the "Web 2.0" initiative for online collaboration, collective knowledge creation, and social networking (e.g. blogs, Wikipedia, Flickr, YouTube, MySpace, del.icio.us). Distinct, but hardly alone, Cyborganic is part of the larger cultural history of personal computing, computer networking, and telecommunities through which technoculture and counterculture coalesced in the Bay Area over the twentieth century. Research Analyst Emerging Technologies Group Institute for the Future Menlo Park, CA 1996-1997 Consultant to the Outlook Project on Intranets and Telecommunity -- an ongoing research project on group oriented technologies and services, including: groupware, computer-supported collaboration, computer-supported cooperative work, new media, multimedia, Internet, and intranets. Co-designed and conducted a study of intranets in Fortune 500 companies, public institutions and private online communities. Led interview team and was a contributing author on "Creating the Corporate Commons: The Intersection of Intranets and Telecommunities". Teaching Lecturer Information & Computer Science University of California, Irvine 2002 - present For the last five years, I have taught upper division ICS majors in two required courses: Technical Writing (ICS 139w), and The Social Analysis of Computerization (ICS 131). In the first, students learn to write instructions, specifications, and proposals; make oral presentations, and develop effective and analytic visualizations, charts, and graphs. In the second, I teach students to recognize and analyze the ways technical content always operates in a non-technical, social context that is central; and to articulate (in a term project) how they might apply the skills and insights of social analysis to their future work as technologists. Courses: Technical Writing, Social Analysis of Computerization Lecturer Cinema Department San Francisco State University 1994 - 1996 Instructed cinema majors in the technical, narrative, and aesthetic techniques of Super-8 and 16mm film production. Courses: Introduction to Film Production, Advanced Film Production Assistant Lecturer Freshman Writing Program University of Southern California 1990-1993 Taught expository writing for 6 semesters. Developed curriculum to build writing skills and motivate students. Participated for two years in the honors Freshman Only Program, teaching writing in conjunction with an introductory course in Social Anthropology. Courses: Composition 101, Composition 102 Teaching Assistant Anthropology Department University of Southern California 2003 - present Courses: Exploring Culture Through Film, Introduction to Anthropology, Anthropology of Religion, Ethnic Studies