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AI Ethics, Policy, Advocacy,
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Everyone is doing AI ethics backwards.
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And we've been piloting a simple, holistic, non-partisan AI policy, law, and governance system for 20 years.
REPORTED IN FORBES
TRANSATLANTIC DIALOGUE
ON HUMANITY AND AI
REGULATION
(2022)
RUNNER-UP: BEST PAPER
INTERNATIONAL VINCENTIAN
BUSINESS ETHICS
CONFERENCE
(2022)
WINNER: BEST PAPER AWARD
MIDWEST ACADEMY
FOR LEGAL STUDIES IN BUSINESS
(2020)
WILLIAM & MARY LAW REVIEW
GEORGETOWN JOURNAL OF LAW & PUBLIC POLICY
NEBRASKA LAWYER
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE
MCGRAW HILL
INTIMA: A JOURNAL OF NARRATIVE MEDICINE
HAMPTON PRESS
CICA PRESS
LEXINGTON PRESS
COMPETITION POLICY INTERNATIONAL
WILEY-BLACKWELL
OMAHA WORLD-HEARLD
POP MATTERS / DAILY NEBRASKAN MISSOURI REVIEW
(2ND PLACE: MILLER RAUDIO)
ACADEMIC
***WINNER: Primeaux Award for Best Paper
(First Runner-Up)
"Using the Lens of Narrative Theory to Rethink Digital Ethics"
International Vincentian
Business Ethics Conference.
Proceedings. (Forthcoming)
With Marci Exted and Thomas Freeman
"The Roberts Court and Compulsory Collective Bargaining: Reading the Tea Leaves After Janus and Masterpiece."
Georgetown Journal of Law
and Public Policy.
Spring 2023.
w/ Thomas Freeman
“In Two Voices: A Neuroscientist and Patient
Tell Their Story.”
Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine.
August 2020
With Amanda Aherns and Stephen Pederson.
***WINNER: Best Paper Award
“Let Them All Eat Cake: Rhetorically Mapping Religious Freedom, LGBTQIA Discrimination, and The First Amendment After Janus and Masterpiece.”
Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business
Proceedings. 2020
With Thomas Freeman
“Rhetorically Predicting a First Amendment Right to Negotiation After Janus.”
William and Mary Business Law Review.
11: 609 (2020).
With Thomas Freeman and Destiyne Sewell
“The Art of EMF Science: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Post-Digital Health Advocacy.”
PostHuman: New Media Art 2020.
CICA Press: 2020
With Steven Pederson and The Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.
“The Future of Collective Bargaining: Rhetorically Predicting a First Amendment Right to Negotiation.”
Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business.
Proceedings 2019
With Thomas Freeman and Destynie Sewell.
“What About Cynthia: A Case Study Exploring Corporate Fiduciary Duties and Social Responsibility.”
Journal of the International Academy for Case Studies.
Vol. 25, Issue 4 (2019).
With Thomas Freeman
"A Legal And Ethical Audit of Continental Bank and Trust."
Journal of the International Academy for Case Studies
Vol. 25, Issue 2 (2019)
With Thomas Freeman
“I Want to Party With You Cowboy: Stephen Colbert and Campaign 2016’s Aesthetic Logic of Truthiness.”
The Joke is On Us: Political Comedy in (Late) Neoliberal Times.
Julie Watson, Ed.
Lexington Press, 2019
With Thomas Lawson
Fear and Loathing in the New Media Era : How to Realign our Rhetorical Judgmentsfor the Post-Postmodern, Digital Media Age.
Dissertation.
Ohio State University, 2012.
“The Rhetoric of Narrative: What the Law as Narrative Movement Can Teach the Rest of the Narrative Turn.”
Narrative Acts: Rhetoric, Race, Identity, Knowledge.
Deborah Journet, Ed.
Hampton Press, 2011
“Rhetoric.”
Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Novel.
Peter Logan, Ed.
Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
“New Media, New English.”
Reading and Writing New Media.
Eds. Cheryl E. Ball and James Kalmbach.
Hampton Press, 2009
w/ Jason Palmeri, Cormac Slevin, and Scott Lloyd DeWitt.
Commonplace: A User’s Guide to Persuasion(for an Age that Desperately Needs One).
McGraw-Hill, 2009
w/ Michael Harker and Scott Lloyd DeWitt.
Textbook and ed tech platform
“Foreword.”
The Business of Higher Education:Marketing and Consumer Interests.
Eds. John C. Knapp and David J. Siegel.
Praeger, 2009.
With E. Gordon Gee.
“Re-Learning How to Argue.”
Multimodal Composition: Resources for Teachers.
Ed. Cynthia L. Selfe.
Hampton Press, 2007
Audio essay.
“Made Actual Through Pain: A Literacy Narrative.”
Multimodal Composition: Resources for Teachers.
Ed. Cynthia L. Selfe.
Hampton Press, 2007
Documentary.
With Michael Harker and Cormac Slevin.
“Not Necessarily Not the News: Remediation, Gatekeeping, and The Daily Show.”
Journal of American Culture
28.4 (Dec 2005): 415-430
TRANSATLANTIC DIALOGUE
ON HUMANITY AND AI
REGULATION
DATA, LAW & ETHICS RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION
MIDWEST ACADEMY OF LEGAL STUDIES IN BUSINESS
HEIDER BUSINESS SYMPOSIUM
INDIANA UNIVERSITY
NORTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY
NORTH CAROLINA AT & T
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
DREW UNIVERSITY
HAMLINE UNIVERSITY CENTER
FOR JUSTICE & LAW
INVITED TALKS
***WINNER: Primeaux Best Paper Award. (Runner-up)
“Using the Lens of Narrative Theory to Rethink Digital Ethics."
International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference.
With Marci Exted and Thomas Freeman.
October 2022
“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to Reframe Health Data Sanctity.”
Inaugural Transatlantic Dialogue on Humanity and AI Regulation.
Hosted by HEC Paris.
Paris, France. May 2022
***FEATURED IN: "Regulating Global Intelligence: Is Global Consensus Possible?"
Forbes. September 9, 2022
“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to Forgive, Forget, and Re-Program Digital Dignity.”
Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium.
With Thomas Freeman.
Organizers: Indiana University, Virginia Tech, and University of Pennsylvania.
Online. April 2022
“Triangulating Hate Speech and Free Speech in Algorithmic Environments.”
Indiana University.
Bloomington, IN:
April 2022 (Online.)
“Algorithmic Unreliability: Narrative Theory, Digital Ethics, and The Constitutionality of Employment AI.”
Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business.
With Thomas Freeman and Marci Exted.
Chicago, IL and Online:
March 2022
***WINNER: Online Voting Competition
“Redefining Digital Literary: Algorithms and You.”
SXSW EDU.
With Thomas Freeman,Ayin Morales-Monge, and Shea Sullivan
Austin, TX: March 2022
“Privacy 3.0: Forgiveness and Student Data After Mahoney.”
International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference:
DePaul University.
With Thomas Freeman, Simon Truatman,and Amanda Aherns.
Chicago, IL: October 2021
“Algorithmic Bias: How Cross-Functional Networks Can Fight Digitized Discrimination.”
Heider Business Symposium:
Creighton University.
With Thomas Freeman, Elizabeth Otto, Ayin Monge, and Julius Hernandez.
Omaha, NE. October 2021
“Reckoning With Robots; The Constitutional Implications of Using Algorithms to Make Human Decisions.”
Midwest Associate of Legal Studies in Business/Midwest Business Administration Association Annual Conference.
With Thomas Freeman.
Chicago, IL: March 2021
“Digital Ethics: What’s Next?”
OSTROM Workshop.
Indiana University School of Business.
With Julius Hernandez and Shea Sullivan.
Bloomington, IN: February 2021
“A Taxonomy of Algorithmic Unreliability: Using Facial Recognition to Map Constitutional Issues.”
Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium.
Indiana University & Virginia Tech University.
Online (COVID): May 2020
“Racist Robots? A Visual Primer on Understanding Algorithmic Bias.”
Midwest Associate of Legal Studies in Business/Midwest Business Administration Association Annual Conference.
With Thomas Freeman, Ayin Monge-Morales, and Moises Morales.
March 2020
“Rhetoric Versus the Robots: Mapping the Legal and Ethical Dimensions of Algorithmic Discrimination.”
Consortium for the Study of Religion, Ethics and Society
Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.
Bloomington, IN. November 2019
“Why Digital Rights IsThe New Civil Rights Movement.”
North Carolina A & T State University.
Greensboro, NC: May 2018
"EMF Science and the Post-Fact Society: Models to Stop Disinformation.”
Drew University.
New Jersey: June 2018
“What Norm MacDonald and Narrative Theory Can Teach Us About Social Media Privacy Big Data Reasoning.”
Hamline University.
Saint Paul, MN. April 2017
In conjunction w/ exhibition for World Press Freedom Day.
“Shouting Fire: Originalism and Antonin Scalia.” Jiggery-Pokery and Applesauce?
The Impact and Legacy of Justice Antonin Scalia
Hamline University Center for Justice and Law.
Saint Paul, MN: February 2016
“#Objectivity: Unlikable Narrative Justice.”
Beyond Ferguson:
Critical Conversations.
Hamline University.
Saint Paul, MN: January 2015
“Finding Bias in New York Times Reporting on Israel and Palestine.”
Yeshiva University.
New York, NY: February 2010
“2008: The Year We Re-Made Contact(or, Why Did Postmodernism End?)"
Project Narrative Presents: Prophets in Their Own Century.
Columbus, OH: January 2009
“OurSpace: Resituating Civic Literacy in the University Curriculum.”
LiteracyStudies@OSU.
The Ohio State University.
With Michael Harker and Scott Lloyd DeWitt.
Columbus, OH: March 30, 2007
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY
FOR THE STUDY OF NARRATIVE
RHETORIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA
AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION
ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF LAW, CULTURE, AND THE HUMANITIES
HUBER HURST RESEARCH SEMINAR
RHETORIC OF HEALTH
AND MEDICINE CONFERENCE
COLLEGE COMPOSITION AND COMMUNICATION
THOMAS R. WATSON CONFERENCE
ON RHETORIC
EDWARD G. HAYES RESEARCH
FORUM
US. NAVAL ACADEMY
ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
“The Art of EMF Science: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Post-Digital Health Advocacy.”
Rhetoric of Health And Medicine Conference.
With Stephen Pedersen and Allison Baker.
Online: October 2020
“What Would Jesus Program?”
Rhetoric Society of America.
Portland, OR. May 2020
“Cellular Home Invasion: Public Art As Rhetorical Intervention in Scientific Debates On EMF Health Effects.”
Rhetoric Society of America.
With Allison Baker and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.
Portland, OR. May 2020. (COVID).
“Make Them Bake Cake? In the Wake of Masterpiece Cakeshop, Which Religious Activities Are Protected ExpressionUnder the First Amendment and Protected from Discrimination Laws?”
Midwest Business Administrative Association / Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business Joint Conference.
With Tom Freeman and Daniel Schneider.
Chicago, IL. March 2020
“Racist Robots: A Visual Primer on Understanding Algorithmic Bias.”
Midwest Business Administrative Association / Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business Joint Conference.
With Tom Freeman and Dan Schneider.
Chicago, IL. March 2020
“Rhetoric Versus the Robots II:The Ethics of Algorithmic Unreliability.”
International Society for the Study of Narrative.
With Weston Cregut and Rebekah Winkel.
New Orleans, LA.
March 2020
“The Right to Speak, Bake, or Film…or Not…Which Activities are Protected Expression Under the First Amendment?”
Huber Hurst Research Seminar in Business Law and Ethics.
With Thomas Freeman.
Gainsville, FL. January 2020
“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to Navigate Legal, Corporate, and Community Debates on Algorithmic Ethics.”
Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium.
Washington and Lee School of Law.
With Thomas Freeman.
Lexington, VA. April 2019
“Unsound Methods?”
Panel and Multimedia Performance.
Rhetoric Society of America.
With Cory Holding, Matt Sumera, Josh Gumiela, Allison Baker, and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.
Minneapolis, MN, May 2018
Sound Studies. Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of America
Summer Institute.
Bloomington, IN. May 2017
“Campaign Narrative, The End: A New Story for the Narrative Model of Rhetorical Agency,”
Rhetoric Society of America.
San Antonio, TX. May 2014
“The New New Journalism:The Post-Postmodern Aestheticsof Narrative As Rhetoric.”
The International Societyfor the Study of Narrative.
Boston, MA. March 2014
Rogue Publics. Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of AmericaSummer Institute.
Lawrence, KS. June 2013
21st Century Presidential Rhetoric. Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of AmericaSummer Institute.
Lawrence KS: June 2013.
“Audience 3.0: A New Rhetorical Ethics (and Aesthetics) for a Post-Remix Era.”
Rhetoric Society of America.
Philadelphia, PA. May 2012
“The Gentle Art of Accepting Enemies: New Media and the Rhetorical Aesthetics of Audience Exclusion.”
The International Society for the Study of Narrative.
St. Louis, MO. April 2011
“Playing Out Remix,”
Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Louisville, KY. March 2010
“End the Gaffe (And How Narrative Theory Let’s Us Do It).”
The International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Birmingham, UK. June 2009
“I’m Not There Anymore: The Return of Identity in the Post-Remix Age.”
Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition.
Louisville, KY. October 2008
“Ethos in a Remediated Age: Context, Character, and Community.”
Rhetoric Society of America.
Seattle, WA. May 2008
Digital Rhetoric. Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute.
Troy, NY. June 2007
“Evaluating the ‘Narrative Turn."
Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum.
Columbus, OH. April 2007
“Shouting ‘Fire’ in the Writing Classroom: Rhetoric, Law, and Composition.”
Conference on College Composition and Communication.
New York, NY. March 2007
“Alive and well and living in Washington’: Narrativity, Casebook Logic, and Legal Pedagogy.”
The International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Washington, D.C. March 2007
“The Rhetoric of Narrative--or, maybe, ‘The Narrative of Narrative.’”
Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition.
Louisville, KY. October 2006
“The Rhetoric of ‘Rhetoric’ in Rhetoric and Political Science.”
Rhetoric Society of America.
Memphis, TN. May 2006
“New Media, New Curricula.”
Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Chicago, IL. April 2006
“The ‘Dean Scream’ Didn’t Happen (And How it Did).”
American Popular Culture Association.
Atlanta, GA. April 2006
“Narrative Temporality in News Stories.”
The International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Ottawa, Canada April 2006
“Finding Authorization to ‘lance the boil’: Context, Content, and Free Speech Zones.”
Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities.
Syracuse, NY. March 2006
“Is It Something or Nothing? Narratologically Situating the Music of John Zorn’s Naked City.”
Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum.
Columbus, OH. April 2004
“’But…This is a Good Graph’: What a Political Science Classroom (and the Spanish-American War) Can Tell us About Interdisciplinarity, Grad
Students, and the Rhetoric of Rhetoric (and Vice Versa).”
The Ohio State University. EGO Spring Graduate Colloquium
Columbus, OH. May 2005
“How Do We Reoccupy Shared Reality?"
Next Generation Politics
May 4, 2023
w/ Richard Leyva and Phillip Graham
SPEAKING EVENTS
SCHOOLS / COMPANIES / COMMUNITIES
Our Black Mirror meets Dead Poet's Society
story is pretty bananas.
But we know how to teach your teams to put their differences aside (and work across the digital and political divide) to heal our country and re-build reality.
WHY MY SOLUTIONS WORK
A SCALABLE BLUEPRINT TO WIN THE 21ST CENTURY.
Everyone is doing 20 years of piloting a simple, holistic, non-partisan AI policy, law, and governance system.
Now partnered with top experts and powering scalable platforms that can network companies, schools, governments, and citizens.
Because, honestly, the clock is ticking. And everyone is doing AI ethics exactly backwards. Learn why our proven, peer-reviewed, and 2,000 year old system works here.
AI and Algorithms
Disinformation and Political Division
Privacy and Surveillance
Free Speech vs. Hate Speech
AI ETHICS MANHATTAN PROJECT
One simple, holistic method for AI, disinformation, privacy, and free speech
Bipartisan, non-ideological, Constitutional, innovation-friendly
Teachable to anyone
Usable across industries
Scalable
Able to re-connect citizens, governments, schools, and companies
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CONSULTING / AUDITS:
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20 years of proven disinformation IP.
Plus the strategies to rebuild civil dialogue (or just have your teams disagree better).
PUBLICATIONS:
AWARD WINNING / PEER REVIEWED
Our proven and peer-reviewed IDH methodologies for triangulating truthful news and different perspectives are based on cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on how to both fact check news sources and catalyze/curate stories for all communities to learn from.
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EDUCATION AND TRAININGS
Interactive, experiential,
and non-ideological AI ethics
and post-digital civics education.
CURRICULUM:
K-12 / COLLEGE / GRAD / LAW
Training students how to be AI ethics and policy leaders
in the race to win the 21st century
(and fight for post-digital humanity).
PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOPS
SCHOOLS / POLICYMAKERS / ADVOCATES /
COMPANIES / STUDENTS
Training any/all professionals or citizen groups
how to be AI ethics and policy leaders.
PLUG and PLAY PLATFORMS
CONNECTING DIVERSE VOICES ACROSS CAMPUSES
AND THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
Connecting classrooms and colleges
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ADVOCACY AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
STRATEGIC PR, MEDIA CAMPAIGNS,
and CROSS-CULTURAL COALITION BUILDING
Translating digital ethics’ complexities
into a language your grandma would understand
Triangulating bipartisan multi-faith
and cross-cultural coalitions and agreements
CIVIC FORUMS and COMMUNITY EDUCATION
EVERYONE ACTUALLY WELCOME
Designed to catalyze allegedly impossible
cross-cultural conversations,
curate community voices,
and protect our most vulnerable
post-digital citizens.
ART EXHIBITIONS
LOCAL / INTERNATIONAL / JURIED
"Digital Rights Are Civil Rights"
International Juried Art Exhibition and Civic Forum
In Celebration of Minneapolis' Facial Recognition Ban
Minneapolis and Online. February 2021.
w/ ACLU MN,
Safety Not Surveillance,
Minneapolis City Councilman Steve Lucero,
The Little Earth Native Youth Art Collective,
and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy
Thank you to our partners
and hundreds of artists
from around the world for making these
critical exhibitions possible
for our communities.
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STRATEGIC ARTS ADVOCACY
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