preface: who i am and what i do

For twenty years, I've been leading a team Oppenheimers

dozens of top world experts (plus hundreds of volunteer lawyers, students, advocates, lawmakers, artists, and citizens)

on a very particular Manhattan project that can do five critical things that no one else seems to know how to do.

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    #1 One simple, holistic method for AI, disinformation, privacy, and free speech

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    #2 Bipartisan, non-ideological, Constitutional, innovation-friendly

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    #3 Teachable to anyone and useable across all industiries/academic disciplines

  • #4 Easily scalable

  • #5: Able to reconnect companies, governments, schools, and citizens by getting them all back on the same page.

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To understand why the the Manhattan Project works,

you have to understand my professional/academic background (and vice versa).

MANHATTAN PROJECT SPECS

the quick version is:

I have had one of the weirdest careers in my industries.

MY STORY / ELEVATOR PITCH

I've launched three start-ups to prove my students could fix higher ed, AI, and post-digital
America.

And the last crew almost pulled it off, except we live in Minneapolis, some jerk tried to shoot me, and all hell broke loose.

I have an interdisciplinary phd (and law degree) in putting out the dumpster fire collision of

technology, Constitutional law,
American democracy, postmodernism,
and post-AI education.

PR and FIXING OUR POLITICAL DIVISIONS

I was the speechwriter for Time's University President of the Year.

And, as a grad student,
co-built the first nationally scalable multi-campus disinformation fighting platform (w/ a Fortune 500).

I started an internationally-recognized free speech art collective at one of the "wokest" schools in the country

and then became an "echo chamber diversity hire"
at a Bible College to teach kids on the other side of reality.

I have a unique/rare combination of academic specializations
and professional experience that let's me quickly build:

  • interdisciplinary and cross-functional frameworks (and nationally-scalable, inter-industry platforms)

  • to network, coordinate, and "align" researchers, students, lawyers, and advocates, schools, companies, journalists, and governments

  • on AI, disiniformation, free speech, and privacy (all at the same time).

So far, I've built three of them.

THE INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITY

CO-FOUNDER/EXEC. DIRECTOR
2018-PRESENT

Started when I became an echo-chamber diversity hre at a Bible college to prove my methods could get conservatives, liberals, Christians, Muslims, and Jewish-Americans to work together on sane and pragmatic technology solutions.


www.theidh.org


INSTITUTE FOR AESTHETIC ADVOCACY

CO-FOUNDER / CREATIVE DIRECTOR
2017-PRESENT

click here.

COMMONPLACE

CO-FOUNDER/DESIGNER
2007-2012

IDH TV / CIVIC INFORMATION DEFENSE NETWORKS

EMERGENCY SUPERVISOR
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
(NORTH CENTRAL U)
2020-2022

While a public success story, the behind the scenes of the Manhattan Project's "last phase" was spicy.

So we're waiting to see how the story will end.

chapter one: the problem

this is a crisis of code, culture, and law

I started graduate school on 9/11 to study what happens when emerging technology, postmodern political culture, and pre-digital Constitutional law and civic norms collide.

  • Ph.D. and M.S.L. (Masters in the Study of Law)

    The Ohio State University 2012

    Digital Culture, Law,  & Politics
    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"

  • I'm Not a Genius. I Was Trained By A Bunch of Them.

    My mentor was the #1 narrative theorist at the #1 school in the world.

    My law prof was the old school ACLU lawyer/executive diector who defended the Nazis in Skokie.

    My other mentor "invented"
    (as a diagnosis) postmodernism.

    My other profs were top in the world for my side hustles. I I'm lucky.

  • M.A. English
    The Ohio State University 2005

    Critical Theory: Law & Politics


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

    Minors: Conflict Resolution, History, International Affairs

    Graduated w/Distinction
    Phi Beta Kappa

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No one understood WTF I was worried about,
so I started using pop culture and comedians
to explain it to my students, law professors, and political scientists.

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PRIMEAUX AWARD BEST PAPER (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.

AI: INVITED TALKS / ACADEMIC CONFERENCES

INVITED ACADEMIC TALKS / AWARD-WINNING PRESENTATIONS / COMPETITIVE CONFERENCS


Note: All of Dr. M's AI frameworks also handle free speech, privacy, and disinformation. These are only key works. See full CV here.

*WINNER (RUNNER UP)
PRIMEAUX AWARD FOR BEST PAPER*
“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.


“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to Forgive, Forget, and Re-Program Digital Dignity.” 
Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium.
Organizers: Indiana University, Virginia Tech, and University of Pennsylvania. 
With Thomas Freeman. 
Online.  April 2022. 


“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.


“Redefining Digital Literary:
Algorithms and You.” 
SXSW EDU
With Thomas Freeman, Ayin Morales-Monge, and Shea Sullivan. 
March 2022.

“Privacy 3.0: Forgiveness
and Student Data After
Mahoney.”
International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference

With Thomas Freeman, Simon Truatman, and Amanda Aherns. 
Chicago: DePaul University.  October 2021.


“Algorithmic Bias: How Cross-Functional Networks Can Fight Digitized Discrimination.”
Creighton University. 
Heider Business Symposium.
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 Association of Legal Studies in Business/Midwest Business Administration Association Annual Conference
With Thomas Freeman.  Chicago: March 2021.

“Digital Ethics: What’s Next?” 
OSTROM Workshop

Indiana University School of Business. Bloomington, IN.  With Julius Hernandez and Shea Sullivan.
February 2021.

“A Taxonomy of Algorithmic Unreliability: Using Facial Recognition to Map Constitutional Issues.” Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium
Indiana University and Virginia Tech University. Online (COVID): May 2020


“What Would Jesus Program?” 
Rhetoric Society of America.
Portland, OR. 
May 2020.  (COVID).


“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 II: The Ethics of Algorithmic Unreliability.” 
International Society for the Study of Narrative. 
With Weston Cregut and Rebekah Winkel. 
New Orleans, LA.  March 2020. 


“Rhetoric Versus the Robots: Mapping the Legal and Ethical Dimensions of Algorithmic Discrimination.”  
Consortium for the Study of Religion, Ethics and Society at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. 
Bloomington, IN.  November 2019.


“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.


“Why Digital Rights Is The New Civil Rights Movement.” 
North Carolina A & T State University. 
Greensboro, NC: May 2018.


"Social Media Privacy Big Data Reasoning.” 
Hamline University. 
Saint Paul, MN.  April 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 Aesthetics of Narrative As Rhetoric.”
International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Boston, MA: March 2014.


Rogue Publics.
Competitive Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute
.
Lawrence, KS: June 2013.


21st Century Presidential Rhetoric.
Competitive Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of America Summer 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.”
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.


“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.

AI: PUBLICATIONS

ACADEMIC / INDUSTRY / FOR THE PUBLIC


Note: All of Dr. M's AI frameworks also handle free speech, privacy, and disinformation.
These are only key works. See
full CV here.

All of Dr. M's "IDH IP" was embargoed from publication from January 2020-November 2024.
Journals and literary agents are interested in quick releases.


Donations
will help expedite this processs.


*WINNER (RUNNER-UP): PRIMEAUX AWARD BEST PAPER
"Using the Lens of Narrative Theory to Rethink Digital Ethics”
International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference. 
Proceedings. (Forthcoming.)
With Marci Exted and Thomas Freeman.

“Advising Companies on Data Collection and the Use
of Automated Decision Making.”
 
Nebraska Lawyer
May/June 2023. 
With Thomas Freeman.

“Principles of Digital Law and Ethics.” 
Competition Policy International: Special Issue on Machine Learning. 
February 2023.
With Thomas Freeman and Samson Hall.

"The Roberts Court and Compulsory Collective Bargaining:
Reading the Tea Leaves After Janus and Masterpiece."

Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy
Vol. 21, Issue 1 (2023).
With Thomas Freeman, Amy Parrish, and Christopher Cochon.

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


“Rhetorically Predicting a First Amendment Right to Negotiation After Janus.” 
William and Mary Business Law Review
1 Wm. & Mary Bus. L. Rev. 609 (2020).
With Thomas Freeman and Destynie Sewell.

“Criminal Conviction By Algorithms are Ruining Innocent Lives.”
Omaha World-Herald
August 29, 2021.
With Thomas Freeman and Elizabeth Otto.


The Legal Implications of Algorithmic Decision-Making.” 
Nebraska Lawyer.
May/June 2020. 
With Thomas Freeman and Samson Hall.

*WINNER: BEST PAPER*
"Let Them All Eat Cake: Rhetorically Mapping Religious Freedom,
LGBTQIA Discrimination, and The First Amendment After Janus and Masterpiece.” 
2020 Proceedings of the Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business. 
With Thomas Freeman.


“As Technology Evolves, So Does the Practice of Law (and So Must Attorneys).
July/August 2019.
Nebraska Lawyer Magazine.
 
With Thomas Freeman. 
July/August 2019.

“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. 
In Julie Webber-Collins, Ed. 
Lexington Press, 2019.
With Thomas Lawson.


Fear and Loathing in the New Media Era:
How to Realign Our Rhetorical Judgments for 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.


*EMBARGOED RESEARCH
Thesea re award-winning conference presentations and proven solutions ready for publlication:


“Using Narrative Theory to Categorize the Legality and Ethics of Employment AI.” 
With Thomas Freeman and Marci Exted. 

“Using Narrative Theory to Categorize the Constitutionality of Predictive Policing Algorithms.” 
With Thomas Freeman and Annie Sallee.


“Using Narrative Theory to Categorize the Constitutionality of Facial Recognition in Criminal Contexts.” 
With Thomas Freeman and Daniel Schneider.


“Using Narrative Theory to Triangulate First Amendment Aesthetics
and Algorithmic Hate Speech After Masterpiece.”
 
With Thomas Freeman and Steven Pedersen.

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EARLY/INFLUENTIAL SCHOLARSHIP and SOLUTIONS

“Not Necessarily Not the News: Remediation, Gatekeeping, and The Daily Show.”

Journal of American Culture
28.4 (Dec 2005): 415-430.

DISINFO: INVITED TALKS / ACADEMIC CONFERENCES

Note: All of Dr. M's disinformation frameworks also handle free speech, privacy, and disinformation. These are only key works. See full CV here.

More importantly: All of Dr. M’s solutions are designed to catalyze new, bipartisan coalitions and heal digital political divisions.

KEY / EARLY RESEARCH


“The New New Journalism: The Post-Postmodern Aesthetics of Narrative As Rhetoric.”
International Society for Narrative.
Boston, MA:March 2014.

“2008: The Year We Re-Made Contact (or, Why Did Postmodernism End?)" 
Project Narrative Presents: Prophets in Their Own Century
Columbus, OH: January 2009.  
Invited.


“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.  
Invited

“The ‘Dean Scream’ Didn’t Happen
(And How it Did).”

American Popular Culture Association.
Atlanta, GA: April 2006.



 DISINFORMATION: POST-FACT SCIENCE and PUBLIC HEALTH

“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.  

“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). 

“EMF Science and the Post-Fact Society:Models to Stop Disinformation.”
Drew University.
New Jersey: June 2018.
Invited.

“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. 



DISINFORMATION:
POST-DIGITAL AMERICAN POLITICS
AND CULTURE

“#Objectivity: Unlikable Narrative Justice.”
Beyond Ferguson: Critical Conversations.
Hamline University.
Saint Paul, MN:  January 2015.
Invited.


“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
Aesthetics of Narrative As Rhetoric.”
International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Boston, MA:March 2014.


Rogue Publics.
Competitive Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute.
Lawrence, KS: June 2013.


21st Century Presidential Rhetoric.
Competitive Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of America Summer 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.”
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).”
International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Birmingham, UK:  June 2009. 
Invited.

“2008: The Year We Re-Made Contact
(or, Why Did Postmodernism End?)" 
Project Narrative Presents: Prophets in Their Own Century
Columbus, OH: January 2009.  
Invited.

“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.
Competitive 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.

“The Rhetoric of ‘Rhetoric’ in Rhetoric and Political Science.” 
Rhetoric Society of America
Memphis, TN: May 2006.

“The Rhetoric of Narrative--or, maybe, ‘The Narrative of Narrative.’”
Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition.
Louisville, KY,  October 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.

“’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.

“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.

“[Something about postmodernism, American media culture, and  Chinese hegemony]” 
China Rising? 
US Naval Academy.   Spring 1998. 
Nominated by University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s  Dept. of Political Science.

ARTISTIC and ACADEMIC FREE SPEECH


*WINNER: BEST PAPER AWARD*
“Make Them Bake Cake?  In the Wake of Masterpiece Cakeshop, Which Religious Activities Are Protected Expression Under 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.

“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.


“The Pillowman and Free Speech: A Post-Performance Discussion.”
Hamline University.
Saint Paul, MN. 22 February 2016.
Invited.

“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.
Invited.

“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. 


“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.  
Invited

“New Media, New Curricula.” 

Conference on College Composition and Communication. 

Chicago, IL: 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.

AI and PRIVACY

*WINNER (RUNNER UP)
PRIMEAUX AWARD FOR BEST PAPER*
“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.


“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to
Forgive, Forget, and Re-Program Digital Dignity.”
Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium.
Organizers: Indiana University, Virginia Tech, and University of Pennsylvania.
With Thomas Freeman.
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.



“Redefining Digital Literary:
Algorithms and You.”
SXSW EDU.
With Thomas Freeman, Ayin Morales-Monge, and Shea Sullivan.
March 2022.

“Privacy 3.0: Forgiveness
and Student Data After
Mahoney.”
International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference.
With Thomas Freeman, Simon Truatman, and Amanda Aherns.
Chicago: DePaul University.  October 2021.


“Algorithmic Bias: How Cross-Functional Networks
Can Fight Digitized Discrimination.”
Creighton University.
Heider Business Symposium.
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 Association of Legal Studies in Business /
Midwest Business Administration Association Annual Conference
.
With Thomas Freeman.
Chicago: March 2021.

“Digital Ethics: What’s Next?”
OSTROM Workshop.
Indiana University School of Business.
Bloomington, IN.
With Julius Hernandez and Shea Sullivan.
February 2021.
Invited.

“A Taxonomy of Algorithmic Unreliability:
Using Facial Recognition to Map Constitutional Issues.”
Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium.
Indiana University and Virginia Tech University.
Online (COVID): May 2020


“What Would Jesus Program?”
Rhetoric Society of America.
Portland, OR.
May 2020.  (COVID).

“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 II: The Ethics of Algorithmic Unreliability.”
International Society for the Study of Narrative.
With Weston Cregut and Rebekah Winkel.
New Orleans, LA.  March 2020. 

“Rhetoric Versus the Robots: Mapping the Legal
and Ethical Dimensions of Algorithmic Discrimination.”

Consortium for the Study of Religion, Ethics and Society at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.
Bloomington, IN.  November 2019.

“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.

“Why Digital Rights Is The New Civil Rights Movement.”
North Carolina A & T State University.
Greensboro, NC: May 2018.

“What Norm MacDonald and Narrative TheoryCan Teach Us About Social Media PrivacyAnd  Big Data Reasoning.”  Hamline University. Saint Paul, MN.  April 2017.  Invited.

DISINFO PUBLICATIONS

ACADEMIC / INDUSTRY / FOR THE PUBLIC


Note: All of Dr. M's disinformation frameworks also handle free speech, privacy, and AI.
These are only key works. See
full CV here.

All of Dr. M's "IDH IP" was embargoed from publication from January 2020-November 2024.
Journals and literary agents are interested in quick releases.

Donations
will help expedite this process.


In Two Voices: A Neuroscientist and Patient Tell Their Story.” 
Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine.
With Amanda Aherns and Stephen Pederson. 
August 2020.


“The Art of EMF Science: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Post-Digital Health Advocacy.” 
PostHuman: New Media Art 2020
With Steven Pederson and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy. 
CICA Press:
Seoul, South Korea: 2020.

Free Speech in Post-Digital America.
Cross-cultural Zine Exchange.
Editor. Hennepin County Library: Permanent Collection. 
With The Institute for Digital Humanity and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.
September 2019.  


“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.
In Julie Webber-Collins, Ed.
Lexington Press, 2019.
With Thomas Lawson.


Fear and Loathing in the New Media Era:
How to Realign Our Rhetorical Judgments for 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.”B
lackwell Encyclopedia of the Novel.

Peter Logan, Ed.
Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.


Commonplace: A User’s Guide to Persuasion
(for an Age that Desperately Needs One
).  
McGraw-Hill, 2009.  
With Michael Harker and Scott Lloyd DeWitt.  


“New Media, New English.”
Reading and Writing New Media
Eds. Cheryl E. Ball and James Kalmbach.  
With Jason Palmeri, Cormac Slevin, andvScott Lloyd DeWitt. 
Hampton Press, 2009.


“Foreword.” 
The Business of Higher Education: Marketing and Consumer Interests.  
Eds. John C. Knapp and David J. Siegel.  
Praeger, 2009. 


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


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


“Re-Learning How to Argue.” 
Audio essay.  
Multimodal Composition: Resources for Teachers.  
Ed. Cynthia L. Selfe. 
Hampton Press, 2007. 

“Made Actual Through Pain: A Literacy Narrative.” 
Video essay. 
Multimodal Composition: Resources for Teachers. 
Ed. Cynthia L. Selfe.  
With Michael Harker and Cormac Slevin.  
Hampton Press, 2007.  


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


“Not Necessarily Not the News: 
Remediation, Gatekeeping, and
The Daily Show.”
Journal of American Culture
28.4 (Dec 2005): 415-430.


DISINFORMATION and POLITICAL DIVISION:
AI, PRIVACY, AND FREE SPEECH RESEARCH


*WINNER (RUNNER-UP): PRIMEAUX AWARD BEST PAPER
"Using the Lens of Narrative Theory to Rethink Digital Ethics”
International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference.
Proceedings. (Forthcoming.)
With Marci Exted and Thomas Freeman.

“Advising Companies on Data Collection and the Use
of Automated Decision Making.”
 
Nebraska Lawyer.
May/June 2023.
With Thomas Freeman.

“Principles of Digital Law and Ethics.”
Competition Policy International: Special Issue on Machine Learning.
February 2023.
With Thomas Freeman and Samson Hall.

"The Roberts Court and Compulsory Collective Bargaining:
Reading the Tea Leaves After Janus and Masterpiece."
Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy
Vol. 21, Issue 1 (2023).
With Thomas Freeman, Amy Parrish, and Christopher Cochon.

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


“Rhetorically Predicting a First Amendment Right to Negotiation After Janus.”
William and Mary Business Law Review
1 Wm. & Mary Bus. L. Rev. 609 (2020).
With Thomas Freeman and Destynie Sewell.

“Criminal Conviction By Algorithms are Ruining Innocent Lives.”
Omaha World-Herald.
August 29, 2021.
With Thomas Freeman and Elizabeth Otto.

The Legal Implications of Algorithmic Decision-Making.”
Nebraska Lawyer.
May/June 2020.
With Thomas Freeman and Samson Hall.

*WINNER: BEST PAPER*
"Let Them All Eat Cake: Rhetorically Mapping Religious Freedom,
LGBTQIA Discrimination, and The First Amendment After Janus and Masterpiece.”
2020 Proceedings of the Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business.
With Thomas Freeman.


“As Technology Evolves, So Does the Practice of Law (and So Must Attorneys).
July/August 2019.
Nebraska Lawyer Magazine.
With Thomas Freeman.
July/August 2019.

EMBARGOED RESEARCH
These are award-winning conference presentations and proven solutions ready for publication:

“Using Narrative Theory to Categorize the Legality and Ethics of Employment AI.”
With Thomas Freeman and Marci Exted.

“Using Narrative Theory to Categorize the Constitutionality of Predictive Policing Algorithms.”
With Thomas Freeman and Annie Sallee.

“Using Narrative Theory to Categorize the Constitutionality of Facial Recognition in Criminal Contexts.”
With Thomas Freeman and Daniel Schneider.

“Using Narrative Theory to Triangulate First Amendment Aesthetics
and Algorithmic Hate Speech After Masterpiece.”

With Thomas Freeman and Steven Pedersen.

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REPORTED IN FORBES

“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theoryto Reframe Health Data Sanctity.” 


Inaugural Transatlantic Dialogue
on Humanity and AI Regulation.
Hosted by HEC Paris. 
Paris, France.  May 2022. Invited.

PRIVACY: INVITED TALKS / ACADEMIC CONFERENCES

INVITED ACADEMIC TALKS / AWARD-WINNING PRESENTATIONS / COMPETITIVE CONFERENCS


Note: All of Dr. M's AI frameworks also handle free speech, privacy, and disinformation. These are only key works. See full CV here.

*WINNER (RUNNER UP)
PRIMEAUX AWARD FOR BEST PAPER*
“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.


“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to Forgive, Forget, and Re-Program Digital Dignity.” 
Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium.
Organizers: Indiana University, Virginia Tech, and University of Pennsylvania. 
With Thomas Freeman. 
Online.  April 2022. 


“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.


“Redefining Digital Literary:
Algorithms and You.” 
SXSW EDU
With Thomas Freeman, Ayin Morales-Monge, and Shea Sullivan. 
March 2022.

“Privacy 3.0: Forgiveness
and Student Data After
Mahoney.”
International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference

With Thomas Freeman, Simon Truatman, and Amanda Aherns. 
Chicago: DePaul University.  October 2021.


“Algorithmic Bias: How Cross-Functional Networks Can Fight Digitized Discrimination.”
Creighton University. 
Heider Business Symposium.
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 Association of Legal Studies in Business/Midwest Business Administration Association Annual Conference
With Thomas Freeman.  Chicago: March 2021.

“Digital Ethics: What’s Next?” 
OSTROM Workshop

Indiana University School of Business. Bloomington, IN.  With Julius Hernandez and Shea Sullivan.
February 2021.

“A Taxonomy of Algorithmic Unreliability: Using Facial Recognition to Map Constitutional Issues.” Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium
Indiana University and Virginia Tech University. Online (COVID): May 2020


“What Would Jesus Program?” 
Rhetoric Society of America.
Portland, OR. 
May 2020.  (COVID).


“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 II: The Ethics of Algorithmic Unreliability.” 
International Society for the Study of Narrative. 
With Weston Cregut and Rebekah Winkel. 
New Orleans, LA.  March 2020. 


“Rhetoric Versus the Robots: Mapping the Legal and Ethical Dimensions of Algorithmic Discrimination.”  
Consortium for the Study of Religion, Ethics and Society at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. 
Bloomington, IN.  November 2019.


“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.


“Why Digital Rights Is The New Civil Rights Movement.” 
North Carolina A & T State University. 
Greensboro, NC: May 2018.


"Social Media Privacy Big Data Reasoning.” 
Hamline University. 
Saint Paul, MN.  April 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 Aesthetics of Narrative As Rhetoric.”
International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Boston, MA: March 2014.


Rogue Publics.
Competitive Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute
.
Lawrence, KS: June 2013.


21st Century Presidential Rhetoric.
Competitive Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of America Summer 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.”
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.


“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.

PRIVACY PUBLICATIONS

ACADEMIC / INDUSTRY / FOR THE PUBLIC


Note: All of Dr. M's pricacy frameworks also handle free speech, AI, and disinformation.
These are only key works. See
full CV here.

All of Dr. M's "IDH IP" was embargoed from publication from January 2020-November 2024.
Journals and literary agents are interested in quick releases.


Donations
will help expedite this processs.


*WINNER (RUNNER-UP): PRIMEAUX AWARD BEST PAPER
"Using the Lens of Narrative Theory to Rethink Digital Ethics”
International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference. 
Proceedings. (Forthcoming.)
With Marci Exted and Thomas Freeman.

“Advising Companies on Data Collection and the Use
of Automated Decision Making.”
 
Nebraska Lawyer
May/June 2023. 
With Thomas Freeman.

“Principles of Digital Law and Ethics.” 
Competition Policy International: Special Issue on Machine Learning. 
February 2023.
With Thomas Freeman and Samson Hall.

"The Roberts Court and Compulsory Collective Bargaining:
Reading the Tea Leaves After Janus and Masterpiece."

Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy
Vol. 21, Issue 1 (2023).
With Thomas Freeman, Amy Parrish, and Christopher Cochon.

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


“Rhetorically Predicting a First Amendment Right to Negotiation After Janus.” 
William and Mary Business Law Review
1 Wm. & Mary Bus. L. Rev. 609 (2020).
With Thomas Freeman and Destynie Sewell.

“Criminal Conviction By Algorithms are Ruining Innocent Lives.”
Omaha World-Herald
August 29, 2021.
With Thomas Freeman and Elizabeth Otto.


The Legal Implications of Algorithmic Decision-Making.” 
Nebraska Lawyer.
May/June 2020. 
With Thomas Freeman and Samson Hall.

*WINNER: BEST PAPER*
"Let Them All Eat Cake: Rhetorically Mapping Religious Freedom,
LGBTQIA Discrimination, and The First Amendment After Janus and Masterpiece.” 
2020 Proceedings of the Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business. 
With Thomas Freeman.


“As Technology Evolves, So Does the Practice of Law (and So Must Attorneys).
July/August 2019.
Nebraska Lawyer Magazine.
 
With Thomas Freeman. 
July/August 2019.

“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. 
In Julie Webber-Collins, Ed. 
Lexington Press, 2019.
With Thomas Lawson.


Fear and Loathing in the New Media Era:
How to Realign Our Rhetorical Judgments for 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.


*EMBARGOED RESEARCH
Thesea re award-winning conference presentations and proven solutions ready for publlication:


“Using Narrative Theory to Categorize the Legality and Ethics of Employment AI.” 
With Thomas Freeman and Marci Exted. 

“Using Narrative Theory to Categorize the Constitutionality of Predictive Policing Algorithms.” 
With Thomas Freeman and Annie Sallee.


“Using Narrative Theory to Categorize the Constitutionality of Facial Recognition in Criminal Contexts.” 
With Thomas Freeman and Daniel Schneider.


“Using Narrative Theory to Triangulate First Amendment Aesthetics
and Algorithmic Hate Speech After Masterpiece.”
 
With Thomas Freeman and Steven Pedersen.

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WINNER: BEST PAPER AWARD

“Let Them All Eat Cake: Rhetorically Mapping Religious Freedom, LGBTQIA Discrimination, and The First Amendment After Janus and Masterpiece.” 

Midwest Business Administrative Association/Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business Conference. 
With Tom Freeman and Daniel Schneider.
Chicago, IL.  March 2020.

FREE SPEECH: INVITED TALKS AND ACADEMIC CONFERENCES

INVITED ACADEMIC TALKS / AWARD-WINNING PRESENTATIONS / COMPETITIVE CONFERENCS


Note: All of Dr. M's AI frameworks also handle free speech, privacy, and disinformation. These are only key works. See full CV here.


“Triangulating Hate Speech and Free Speech in Algorithmic Environments.”
Indiana University.
Bloomington, IN: April 2022.  (Online.)


*WINNER: BEST PAPER AWARD*
“Make Them Bake Cake?  In the Wake of Masterpiece Cakeshop, Which Religious Activities Are Protected Expression Under 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.

“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.


Janus and the Future of Collective Bargaining,
Rhetorically Predicting a First Amendment Right to Negotiation.”
Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business Joint Conference
With Thomas Freeman. 
Chicago, March 2019.


EARLY RESEARCH / KEY PRESENTATIONS


“The Pillowman and Free Speech: A Post-Performance Discussion.”
Hamline University. 
Saint Paul, MN. 22 February 2016. 
Invited.

“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. 
Invited.

“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.”
International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Washington, D.C.: March 2007.


“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.



FIRST AMENDMENT: AI and PRIVACY


*WINNER (RUNNER UP)
PRIMEAUX AWARD FOR BEST PAPER*


“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.


“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to
Forgive, Forget, and Re-Program Digital Dignity.”

Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium.
Organizers: Indiana University, Virginia Tech, and University of Pennsylvania.
With Thomas Freeman.
Online.  April 2022.


“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.



“Redefining Digital Literary:
Algorithms and You.”
SXSW EDU.
With Thomas Freeman, Ayin Morales-Monge, and Shea Sullivan.
March 2022.


“Privacy 3.0: Forgiveness
and Student Data After
Mahoney.”
International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference.
With Thomas Freeman, Simon Truatman, and Amanda Aherns.
Chicago: DePaul University.  October 2021.


“Algorithmic Bias: How Cross-Functional Networks
Can Fight Digitized Discrimination.”
Creighton University.
Heider Business Symposium.
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 Association of Legal Studies in Business /
Midwest Business Administration Association Annual Conference
.
With Thomas Freeman. 
Chicago: March 2021.

“Digital Ethics: What’s Next?”
OSTROM Workshop.
Indiana University School of Business.
Bloomington, IN. 
With Julius Hernandez and Shea Sullivan.
February 2021.
Invited.

“A Taxonomy of Algorithmic Unreliability:
Using Facial Recognition to Map Constitutional Issues.”

Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium.
Indiana University and Virginia Tech University.
Online (COVID): May 2020


“What Would Jesus Program?”
Rhetoric Society of America.
Portland, OR.
May 2020.  (COVID).


“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 II: The Ethics of Algorithmic Unreliability.”
International Society for the Study of Narrative.
With Weston Cregut and Rebekah Winkel.
New Orleans, LA.  March 2020. 


“Rhetoric Versus the Robots: Mapping the Legal
and Ethical Dimensions of Algorithmic Discrimination.”
 
Consortium for the Study of Religion, Ethics and Society at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.
Bloomington, IN.  November 2019.


“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.


“Why Digital Rights Is The New Civil Rights Movement.”
North Carolina A & T State University.
Greensboro, NC: May 2018.



“What Norm MacDonald and Narrative TheoryCan Teach Us About Social Media Privacy
And  Big Data Reasoning.”  
Hamline University. 
Saint Paul, MN.  April 2017.  
Invited.



FIRST AMENDMENT RE:
DISINFORMATION, POST-FACT SCIENCE,
and POST-DIGITAL AMERICAN POLITICS


“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.  


“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). 


“EMF Science and the Post-Fact Society:
Models to Stop Disinformation.” 
Drew University. 
New Jersey: June 2018.
Invited.


“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. 


“#Objectivity: Unlikable Narrative Justice.” 
Beyond Ferguson: Critical Conversations
Hamline University. 
Saint Paul, MN:  January 2015.
Invited.



“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
Aesthetics of Narrative As Rhetoric.”
International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Boston, MA:March 2014.


Rogue Publics.
Competitive Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute.
Lawrence, KS: June 2013.


21st Century Presidential Rhetoric.
Competitive Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of America Summer 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.”
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).” 
International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Birmingham, UK:  June 2009.  
Invited.


“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.
Competitive 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.



“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.   
Invited


“The Rhetoric of Narrative--or, maybe, ‘The Narrative of Narrative.’” 
Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition
Louisville, KY,  October 2006.


“The ‘Dean Scream’ Didn’t Happen
(And How it Did).”
 
American Popular Culture Association
Atlanta, GA: April 2006.

PUBLICATIONS

“Triangulating Hate Speech and Free Speech in Algorithmic Environments.” 
Indiana University. 
Bloomington, IN: April 2022.  (Online.)


*WINNER: BEST PAPER AWARD*
“Make Them Bake Cake?  In the Wake of Masterpiece Cakeshop, Which Religious Activities Are Protected Expression Under 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. 

“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. 


“What Would Jesus Program?”
Rhetoric Society of America
Portland, OR. 
May 2020.  (COVID).


“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.


“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 Aesthetics of Narrative As Rhetoric.”
International Society for the Study of Narrative. Boston, MA:March 2014.


Rogue Publics.
Competitive Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute.
Lawrence, KS: June 2013.


21st Century Presidential Rhetoric.
Competitive Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of America Summer 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.”

International Society for the Study of Narrative.
St. Louis, MO: April 2011.


“Shouting ‘Fire’ in the Writing Classroom: Rhetoric, Law, and Composition.”

Conference on College Composition and Communication.
New York, NY: March 2007.


“The Gentle Art of Accepting Enemies: New Media and the Rhetorical Aesthetics of Audience Exclusion.”

International Society for the Study of Narrative
.
St. Louis, MO: April 2011.


“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.”
International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Washington, D.C.: March 2007. 



“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.

to be continued.....

but, as always, thank you to my students, partners, and clients