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EDUCATION / PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE / PRESS & MEDIA / PUBLICATIONS / INVITED ACADEMIC TALKS / HOSTED WORKSHOPS / ART EXHIBITIONS & CIVIC EVENTS / ADVOCACY & PR / ART INSTALLATIONS / ACADEMIC CONFERENCES/ CURRICULUM / START UPS AND PLATFORMS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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CO-FOUNDER and
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

The Institute for Digital Humanity
2019-PRESENT


VISITING SCHOLAR
OSTROM WORKSHOP

Indiana University
2019-PRESENT

CO-FOUNDER and CREATIVE DIRECTOR

The Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy
2017-PRESENT

CO-FOUNDER
COMMONPLACE

MCGRAW-HILL
2007-2011

DIRECTOR and ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

North Central University
2018-2023
School of English, Communications,
and Digital Media

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Hamline University
Division of Rhetoric and Digital Media

SPEECHWRITER

The Ohio State University
Office of the President
2007-2009

CONSULTANT /
CURRICULUM DESIGNER
Anti-Defamation League

2019-2022




PROGRAM ASSOCIATE

Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law
in the Public Interest
1997-2001


PAC COORDINATOR
Nebraskans For Peace

1998


GEN X DREAM JOB
Homer's Records
1997-1999

EXPERTISE / EDUCATION

TECHNOLOGY AND POLICY
AI / DISINFORMATION / PRIVACY

FIRST AMENDMENT / FREE SPEECH

POST-DIGITAL AMERICAN POLITICS and CULTURE
DEPROGRAMMING POSTMODERNISM

PUBLIC HEALTH / MENTAL HEALTH
CHRONIC ILLNESS / TRAUMA / POST-FACT SCIENCE

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Biased and incorrect AI and algorithms are destroying lives. The IDH knows how to help AI regulators without hurting innovation. 

Click here for the IDH's
AI Ethics victories and solutions.

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We fix the root cause, by re-finding common values across ideological, religious, and cultural “filter bubbles." 

Click here for the IDH's
disinformation victories and services.

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The privacy crisis is scaring the hell out of IDH students
on both sides of the aisle.

Click here for the IDH's
privacy victories and solutions.

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It's easy to be for free speech
and against hate and online violence:

Just remember that context
is a civil rights issue. 
And stop thinking like a robot

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free speech victories and solutions.

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PHD: ENGLISH/RHETORIC

The Ohio State University 

Digital Culture, Law,  & Politics
2012


Interdisciplinary joint program between the Dept. of English and Moritz College of Law


Dissertation:
"Fear and Loathing in the New Media Era: How to Realign our Rhetorical Judgments for the Post-Postmodern, Digital Media Age"

MASTER'S IN THE STUDY OF LAW

The Ohio State University 

Digital Culture, Law,  & Politics
2012


Interdisciplinary joint program between the Dept. of English and Moritz College of Law


Focus:
First Amendment (my prof is the old school ACLU guy who defended the Nazis in Skokie), Constitutional Law, Technology Law

M.A.

M.A. English
The Ohio State University
Critical Theory: Law & Politics
2005


My mentor was the #1 narrative theorist at the #1 school in the world. My other mentor "invented" (as a diagnosis) postmodernism. My other mentors were top in the world for my side hustles. I'm not a genius, I'm lucky.

B.A. / B.A.

M.A. English
The Ohio State University
Critical Theory: Law & Politics
2005


Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln
B.A. Political Science
B.A. English
1998


Minors: Conflict Resolution, History, International Affairs

Graduated w/Distinction
Phi Beta Kappa

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

Collapsible content

PUBLICATIONS: FOR THE PUBLIC & INDUSTRY

"Principles of Digital Law and Ethics."
CPI TechREG Chronicle.
Special Issue on Machine Learning
. 
Feb 2023
w/ Thomas Freeman, Samson Hall

"A Primer on Digital and Data Science Ethics.
Nebraska Lawyer. 
Sept/Oct 2022
w/ Thomas Freeman, Samson Hall

“Criminal Conviction By Algorithms  Are Ruining Innocent Lives.” 
Omaha World Herald.  

August 29, 2021
w/ Thomas Freeman and Elizabeth Otto.    

“The Legal Implications ofAlgorithmic Decision-Making.” 
Nebraska Lawyer.  
May/June 2020
w/ Thomas Freeman and Samson Hall.

"As Technology Evolves,So Will the Law, and So Must Attorneys"
Nebraska Lawyer. 
July/August 2019
w/ Thomas Freeman 

“Free Speech in Post-Digital America.”
Hennepin County Library.
Permanent Collection. 

September 2019
w/ The Institute for Digital Humanity and The Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.  

“Are We the RockstarsWe’ve Been Waiting For?”
PopMatters. 
3 Nov. 2008

“Mike Huckabee’s Family Guy Values.”
Alternet
21 Jan. 2008

“A Hypothetical Problem.”
 PopMatters.
17 Sept. 2006

PUBLICATIONS: 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

A QUICK NOTE ON DR. MCKAIN'S EMBARGOED RESEARCH/IP: 2020-2024

INVITED ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

***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

COMPETITIVE 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

ED TECH PLATFORMS / MANHATTAN PROJECTS

EDUCATION INITIATIVES

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR / DIRECTOR
North Central University
School of English, Communications, and Digital Media

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Hamline University
Division of Rhetoric and Digital Media

CONSULTANT / CURRICULUM DESIGNER
McGraw-Hill / Anti-Defamation League

SPEECHWRITER
The Ohio State University
Office of the President

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
across the political and cultural divide.

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PROFESSIONAL TRAININGS

“Algorithmic Bias in the Criminal Justice System: Cheat Codes for Defense  Attorneys.” 
Minnesota Legal Rights Center. 
Workshop.
With Marci Exted and Tom Freeman.
Fall 2022

“Technology Inclusivity in Online Dispute Resolution.”
American Bar AssociationDispute Resolution Technology Expo.
With Angie Raymond and Isak NitAsare.
Online.  July 2021

“Social Justice Through Artistic Expression.”  
Creative Impact Series:
Tualitan Valley Creates.
Workshop.
With Allison Baker and Steven Pedersen.
September 20, 2021 Online.  

“Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy:Curating Change.”  
Lewis and Clark University
Workshop.
With Stephen Pedersen and Allison Baker. 
Portland, OR and Online:  
October 2021 

***FUNDED BY: Minnesota Health and Human Services.

“Internet Security and CyberbullyingPrevention Workshop.” 
Little Earth Native Community.
Minneapolis, MN.  
April 2019 

ADVOCACY and CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

CO-FOUNDER / EXEC DIRECTOR
The Institute for Digital Humanity
2019-PRESENT

CO-FOUNDER / CREATIVE DIRECTOR
The Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy
2017-PRESENT

CO-FOUNDER
Commonplace

Ohio State University and McGraw-Hill
2007-2011

PROGRAM ASSOCIATE
Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law
in the Public Interest
1997-2001

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.

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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.

ARTS ADVOCACY

THANK YOU TO OUR PARTNERS AND THE HUNDREDS OF ARTISTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD WHO SUPPORTED THESE CRITICAL PROJECTS

ACLU MINNESOTA
SAFETY NOT SURVEILLANCE COALITION
RECLAIM THE BLOCK
GUNS DOWN, LOVE UP
LITTLE EARTH NATIVE HUD COMMUNITY
LITTLE EARTH NATIVE YOUTH ARTS CENTER
PROTECT MINNESOTA
SECOND CHANCE COALITION
NORTH SUBURBAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
URBAN EDUCATORS
NORTHEAST SCULPTURE FACTORY
DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF LITERACY NARRATIVES
NORTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY
HAMLINE UNIVERSITY

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ART INSTALLATIONS


CZONG INSTITUTE
FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
WHEATON BIENNIAL
NE SCULPTURE GALLERY FACTORY
ZVEREV CENTRE OF CONTEMPORY ART
BAD VIDEO ART FESTIVAL
RHETORIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA
ST. CLOUD ZINE FEST
TWIN CITIES ZINE FEST

ART INSTALLATIONS


ELY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
934 GALLERY
TUGBOAT GALLERY
SHELTER IN PLACE GALLERY
WYOMING CREATIVE ARTS CENTER
DREAMSONG GALLERY
FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK

AS ARTIST OR PERFORMER


NORTHERN SPARK ARTS FESTIVAL


UNIV. OF MINNESOTA INSTITUTE ON THE ENVIRONMENT


ITALIAN FILM SOCIETY OF MINNEAPOLIS


HAMLINE-MIDWAY ARTS FESTIVAL

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ART INSTALLATIONS

“Cellular Home Invasion II.”
Solo Museum Exhibition.
Gallery 610. 
With Allison Baker and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy 
Menomonie, WI.  
April 2020 

“Cellular Home Invasion.”
Solo International Museum Exhibition. 
Czong Institute for Contemporary Art
Seoul, South Korea. 
With the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.
May 2019

 “Feminist Aesthetic Criticism.”
Video Installation. 
Bad Video Art Festival
With Allison Baker and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy
Moscow, Russia.  
July 2018 

“The Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.”
Video Installation. 
Pop’s Movie Night. 
Detroit, MI.  August 2018

“Scientific Home Invasion.”
Installation. Pop’s Packing.
With Allison Baker. 
Detroit, MI.  June 2018 

“Unsound Methods?”
Panel and Multimedia Performance
Rhetoric Society of America
With Cory Holding, Matt Sumera, Josh Gumiela, and Allison Baker.
Minneapolis, MN, May 2018

***Runner-Up: Miller Audio Prize for Humor      
“How to Write a Poem that
Costs You $175k Plus the Lady.”
Missouri Review. 2017

“Sonance: An Interdisciplinary Discussion Concerning the Affects of Human Noise on Other Animals.”
Sound Performance and Art Residency. 
University of Minnesota
Institute on the Environment.
With Josh Gumiela and Matt Sumera.  
Minneapolis, MN. 
November 2017

“Love Everlasting.”
Invited Multimedia Performance. 
Italian Film Society of Minneapolis.
With Michael Gallope, Jason McGrath, Matt Sumera, and Travis Workman.
Minneapolis, MN.  
February 2016

“dronesTruck: Operation Scarewaves.”
Grant Funded Art Installation.
Saint Paul, MN.  October 2015

“Endlessly Repeating Endlessly.”
Juried Multimedia Performance.
Northern Sparks Arts Festival.
With Michael Gallope, Josh Gumiela,Jason McGrath, Matt Sumera, and Travis Workman.
Minneapolis, MN. June 2015 

“dronesTruck.” 
Juried Multimedia Installation.
Hamline-Midway Arts Festival. 
With Josh Gumiela.
St. Paul, MN.  June 2015

ART EXHIBITIONS: FULL LIST

“All Bullets Shatter: Untold Stories of Gun Violence and Trauma.”
Living Art Exhibition and Civic Forum
Minneapolis, MN and Online: May 2022  
With the Institute for Digital Humanity, Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy; Guns Down, Love Up; Project Minnesota; The Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (Ohio State, Portland State, George State); and the Pittsburgh University Prison Writing Project.   

“Plugging In: Race, Technology, and Surveillance Workshop for Advocates and Educators.”
Northeast Sculpture Gallery.
Minneapolis, MN.  
October 2021  
With ACLU MN, Safety Not Surveillance, Reclaim the Block, Councilman Simon Trautmann (Richfield, MN), and Councilman Steve Fletcher (Minneapolis, MN). 

“Digital Rights Are Civil Rights: Race and Technology.”
Juried International Art Exhibition and Community Education Event
Minneapolis MN and Online: 
February 2021
With the Institute for Digital Humanity, Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy, ACLU MN, Native Youth Arts Collective, and Councilman Steve Fletcher.  

“Contaminated.”
International Juried Art Exhibition and Civic Forum
Minneapolis, MN and Online: 
May 2020 
With the Institute for Digital Humanity and Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy. 

“Medical Unreliability and Sick Girl Theory.”
Curated Cross-Cultural Art Exchange
St. Cloud Zine Fest.
St. Cloud, MN. February 2020 
With Allison Baker, the Institute for Digital Humanity, and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.  

“Sad Girls and Hopeful Women.”
Curated Cross-Cultural Art Exchange
Twin Cities Zine Fest.  Minneapolis, MN. 
September 2020
With Allison Baker, the Institute for Digital Humanity,and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.  

“Hopeful Women.”
Student Art Installation on Christian Feminism
Hamline University. 
Saint Paul, MN.  Dec 2018

“World Press Freedom Day:What Do You Have to Say,”
Student Art Installation on Free Speech
Hamline University. 
Saint Paul, MN.  April 2017

“Y2K16.”
Student Art Installation on Digital Ethics
Hamline University.
Saint Paul, MN. December 2016

 “dronesTruck: Operation Como.”
Student-Curated International Sound Art Exhibition
Saint Paul, MN. May 2016

“School Violence:An Interdisciplinary Approach.”
Student Art Installation on School Shootings
Hamline University.
Saint Paul, MN.
December 2015