publications:

Master's thesis in Anthropology
Advisor: Elizabeth Traube
The Virtual Campfire: An Ethnography of Online Social Networking explores
the increasingly blurred boundaries between human and machine, public
and private, voyeurism and exhibitionism, the history of media and our
digitized future. Woven throughout are the stories and experiences of
those who engage with these sites regularly and ritualistically, the
generation of "digital natives" whose tales attest to the often strange
and uncomfortable ways online social networking sites have come to be
embedded in the everyday lives of American youth.
recent essays:
- Winter 2011. "Re-Imagining the 'Global Village' in an Age of Networked Materiality: Designing Online Spaces for Group Coordination, Participation, and Collaboration"
¬ cogsci 220: information visualization - course wiki page
¬ project progress
- Spring 2010. "Reimagining Community in an Age of Networked Materiality (or: after the apocalypse: the undergrowth and the thrivival of the neotribes)"
¬ Conducted field research on engagement with new media at the Fifth Dimension site in Solana Beach, an afterschool program for informal learning for predominantly Mexican-American children.
- Spring 2010. "Toward a Spirit of Experimentation: Virtual Ethnography and the Technomadic Anthropologist"
- Spring 2010. "Development, Cognition, and the Role of Objects"
- Winter 2010. "The Evolution of Online Communities: A Critique and Possible Future"
- Winter 2010. "Border-Crossing: Structure and Agency in the Formation of Nations, Publics, Citizens and Markets"
- Fall 2010. "A Genealogy of Literacy From Plato to Twitter"
undergraduate research:
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