Research Interests
Below are the topics and theories I am researching — or would like to research — academically (with leading practitioners, theorists or programs listed after each). Although my interests are interdisciplinary, they all represent the intersection of humanity, technology and industry, themes relevant to the subjects I am currently teaching.
- Actor-Network Theory: Michel Callon, Bruno Latour, John Lawl
- Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness:Douglas Hofstadter, Ray Kurzweil, Hans Moravec
- Citizen Journalism:Dan Gilmor, Jay Rosen
- Collective (Symbiotic) Intelligence: Howard Bloom, Ron Dembo, Douglas Hofstadter, Douglas Engelbart, Francis Heylighen, Cliff Joslyn, Peter Russell, Pierre Lévy, Norman Lee Johnson
- Crowdsourcing:Clay Shirky, Jeff Howe, Piyush Kumar, Eugenia Ortiz, Chao Xu, Ajay Roopakalu, Peter Organisciak
- Distributed Computing: SETI@home
- Human-Computer Ineraction: Douglas Engelbart
- Media Convergence:Henry Jenkins
- Organizational Communication: Janet Fulk
- Social Media and Society: Daynah Boyd
- Transactive Memory: Daniel M. Wegner, David P. Brandon, Andrea B. Hollingshead, P. Raymond, R. Erber
Revised July 22, 2011
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