The Cavalry Isn't Coming, Folks. We Were In The Cavalry.
We saw 2025 coming for two decades. This is a fire drill for us. And we planned ahead.
Which is why (as expected) our 20 year Manhattan Project for AI, disinformation, free, speech and privacy
is now likely the only proven, bipartisan, and nationally-scalable solution left standing.
Two decades of dozens of top world experts -- and thousands of volunteer students, artists, lawyers, and teachers
Grinding it out to fix this mess -- all of it, at once -- the correct way and in time to win the 2st century
You can teach it to a kindergartener, use it to align AI, scale it as a disinformation fighting network, or argue it in the Supreme Court.
And to keep the IP and brand pure, we didn't take any money (or agendas) from either side: DNC, RNC, MAGA, DEI, or feds.
Two decades of dozens of top world experts -- and thousands of volunteer students, artists, lawyers, and teachers
Grinding it out to fix this mess -- all of it, at once -- the correct way and in time to win the 2st century
You can teach it to a kindergartener, use it to align AI, scale it as a disinformation fighting network, or argue it in the Supreme Court.
And to keep the IP and brand pure, we didn't take any money (or agendas) from either side: DNC, RNC, MAGA, DEI, or feds.
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For twenty years, I've been leading teams of interdisciplinary (misfit) Oppenheimers
-- dozens of top world experts (plus hundreds of volunteer lawyers, students, advocates, lawmakers, artists, and citizens) --
on a very particular AI, Disinformation Privacy, and Free SpeechManhattan project that is now proven to do five necessary and difficult things that no one else seems able to do.
The IDH is the last phase. And the final pieces of evidence that it works.
We are survivors of the post-digital civic collapse of our city. See Chapter One for details.
But after hosting the Floyd memorial, the IDH had to establish an emergency food bank (raising almost $30k for a partner in a food desert), dealt with militias (both sides), the evacuation of our school during the Chauvin verdict, and continued all of our other work while under military occupation.
That's why this is the story America desperately needs to hear right now.
I'm what happens when this dude grows up, gets a PhD, and has a Forrest Gump existence in weird 21st century digital America.
PART ONE:
WHAT'S UNDER THE HOOD
THE RESEARCH / "FLUX CAPACITOR"
This is an entangled knot of code, culture, and Constitutional law.
Easily scalable: Useable across all industries/academic disciplines
#5:
Able to reconnect companies, governments, schools, and citizens by getting them all back on the same page.
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With super gnarly backend epistemological and ontological consequences if you get it wrong (since AI affects everything).
Our essential argument since 2005 -- which no one denies, everyone just (wrongly) thought it was impossible --
is that to fix this mess (and win the 21st century) your solution has to be/do five tricky things:
The plot twist? We're using a 2,000 year old solution that is dead neutral, all the nerds already agreed on in the 2000s, and is the DNA of the Constitution and what constitutes the human.
The punchline? We were 20 years ahead -- I started this work on 9/11) -- because we initially used comedians for our models.
And to keep the IP/brand pure, we kept all the tainted money and agendas (both sides) out of it.
I think that's checkmate, folks. Even if there were solutions that met all those criteria -- highly unlikely (again, we're just using the pre-existing solution and there is some super tricky backend nerd stuff re: postmodernism) but we hope there are other humanist Oppenheimers out there --
we had a 20 year head start, didn't get cancelled in the DEI mess, are not part of MAGA/PROJECT 2025, and the there is no one (left) in the traditional First Amendment space with a handle on AI. Period.
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#1 ONE SIMPLE, CONSTITUTIONAL, and HOLISTIC META-METHOD
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.
*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. HeiderBusiness 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.
*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. HeiderBusiness 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.
All of Dr. M's "IDH IP" was embargoed from publication from January 2020-November 2024. Journals and literary agents are interested
*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 ThomasFreeman 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).” 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.
ACADEMIC / INDUSTRY / FOR THE PUBLIC
Note: All of Dr. M's AI frameworks also handle free speech, privacy, and disinformation.
All of Dr. M's "IDH IP" was embargoed from publication from January 2020-November 2024. Journals and literary agents are interested
*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 ThomasFreeman 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).” 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.
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. HeiderBusiness 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 Theory Can Teach Us About Social Media Privacy And Big Data Reasoning.” Hamline University. Saint Paul, MN. April 2017. Invited.
Note: All of Dr. M's disinformation frameworks also handle free speech, privacy, and disinformation.
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. HeiderBusiness 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 Theory Can Teach Us About Social Media Privacy And 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.
All of Dr. M's "IDH IP" was embargoed from publication from January 2020-November 2024.
Journals and literary agents are interested
“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.
“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 ThomasFreeman 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.
ACADEMIC / INDUSTRY / FOR THE PUBLIC
Note: All of Dr. M's disinformation frameworks also handle free speech, privacy, and AI.
All of Dr. M's "IDH IP" was embargoed from publication from January 2020-November 2024.
Journals and literary agents are interested
“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.
“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 ThomasFreeman 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.
*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. HeiderBusiness 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.
*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. HeiderBusiness 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 privacy frameworks also handle free speech, AI, arts criticism, and disinformation.
All of Dr. M's "IDH IP" was embargoed from publication from January 2020-November 2024. Journals and literary agents are interested.
*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 ThomasFreeman 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.
ACADEMIC / INDUSTRY / FOR THE PUBLIC
Note: All of Dr. M's privacy frameworks also handle free speech, AI, arts criticism, and disinformation.
All of Dr. M's "IDH IP" was embargoed from publication from January 2020-November 2024. Journals and literary agents are interested.
*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 ThomasFreeman 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.
“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: PUBS, INVITED TALKS, AND ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
Note: Dr. M is primarily -- since Day one -- an interdisciplinary First Amendment scholar.
It's virtually impossible to separate out this work.
All of his frameworks also handle AI, privacy, and disinformation. These are only key works.
RECENT / AWARD-WINNING
"The Roberts Court and Compulsory Collective Bargaining: Reading the Tea Leaves After Janus and Masterpiece." Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy 21.1 (Spring 2023). With Thomas Freeman, Amy Parrish, and Christopher Cochon.
“Triangulating Hate Speech and Free Speech in Algorithmic Environments.” Indiana University. Bloomington, IN: April 2022. (Online.)
“Rhetorically Predicting a First Amendment Right to Negotiation After Janus.” William and Mary Business Law Review 11. 609. With Thomas Freeman and Destynie Sewell (2020).
*WINNER: BEST PAPER AWARD* “Let Them All Eat 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).
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.
“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.
“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. With Thomas Lawson Lexington Press, 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. HeiderBusiness 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.
Note: Dr. M is primarily -- since Day one -- an interdisciplinary First Amendment scholar.
It's virtually impossible to separate out this work.
All of his frameworks also handle AI, privacy, and disinformation. These are only key works.
RECENT / AWARD-WINNING
"The Roberts Court and Compulsory Collective Bargaining: Reading the Tea Leaves After Janus and Masterpiece." Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy 21.1 (Spring 2023). With Thomas Freeman, Amy Parrish, and Christopher Cochon.
“Triangulating Hate Speech and Free Speech in Algorithmic Environments.” Indiana University. Bloomington, IN: April 2022. (Online.)
“Rhetorically Predicting a First Amendment Right to Negotiation After Janus.” William and Mary Business Law Review 11. 609. With Thomas Freeman and Destynie Sewell (2020).
*WINNER: BEST PAPER AWARD* “Let Them All Eat 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).
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.
“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.
“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. With Thomas Lawson Lexington Press, 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. HeiderBusiness 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.
“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.
BECAUSE OTHERWISE YOUR "SOLUTION" IS PART OF THE PROBLEM
Because (A) GET REAL and (B) THE CONSTITUTION and (C) HUMANITY and (D) THE FABRIC OF REALITY
So we're just using the dead neutral 2,000 year old "ground wire" that all the nerds already agreed to before our colleges and country lost their minds.
THANK YOU TO MY PARTNERS FROM ACROSS THE POLITICAL, CULTURAL, AND ALGORITHMIC DIVIDE
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BYTES MEDIA RECLAIM THE BLOCK SAFETY NOT SURVEILLANCE ACLU NE MN SECOND CHANCE COALITION CIVIC NEBRASKA URBAN EDUCATORS MN HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER MN EQUAL JUSTICE CENTER DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF LITERACY NARRATIVES MN DEPT. OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
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SEN. SCOTT LUCERO (R-MN) COUNCILMAN SIMON TRAUTMANN (D-RICHFIELD) COUNCILWOMAN LATRISHA VETAW (D-MINNEAPOLIS) COUNCILWOMAN NANCY YANG (D-ST. PAUL) COUNCILMAN STEVE FLETCHER (D-MINNEAPOLIS) SEN. PEGGY SCOTT (R-MN)
COUNCILMAN WARSAME (D -MINNEAPOLIS) SEN. SCOTT JENSEN (R-MN)
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PART TWO:
WHAT'S UNDER THE HOOD
THE NETWORKING/"SHOWRUNNING" SYSTEMS ("BATMOBILES")
This is a multi-industry crisis of code, culture, and Constitutional law. So your solution has to be.
This is not our first (or second or third) rodeo.
For 20 years, I have been networking
(and building plug-and-play frameworks to train, coordinate, and lead)
teams of students, teachers, advocates, artists, citizens, and policymakers (across campuses, cultures, political divides, and filter bubbles).
into cutting-edge curricula, strategic civic engagement initiatives, multi-media community education, art exhibitions, and publications;
Creating backend information networks for interdisciplinary , cross-functional, multi-industry, inter-classroom, and client-based collaborations on "third-rail" issues with partners programmed to hate each other.
And inspiring and sustaining authentic civic engagement for everyone by teaching undergrads and grad students how to build -- and run -- revenue-generating think tanks; advocacy/PR organizations; ed tech start-ups; media/news production companies; and art collectives.
SIMPLE ENOUGH FOR A KINDERGARTNER, SMART ENOUGH FOR BAR ASSOCIATIONS (OR THE SUPREME COURT)
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE CODED BIAS (NETFLIX) CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY INDIANA UNIVERSITY OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY MCGRAW-HILL
NORTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY HAMLINE UNIVERSITY UNIV OF WISCONSIN: LA CROSSE HAIFA UNIVERSITY
BYTES MEDIA RECLAIM THE BLOCK SAFETY NOT SURVEILLANCE ACLU NE MN SECOND CHANCE COALITION CIVIC NEBRASKA URBAN EDUCATORS MN HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER MN EQUAL JUSTICE CENTER DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF LITERACY NARRATIVES MN DEPT. OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION IOWA BAR ASSOCIATION NEBRASKA BAR ASSOCIATION SXSW EDU
ACLU MINNESOTA TUALATIN VALLEY CREATES LEWIS AND CLARK UNIVERSITY LITTLE EARTH NATIVE HUD COMMUNITY MN EQUAL JUSTICE CENTER MN LEGAL RIGHTS CENTER
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#4 SCALABLE and USABLE ACROSS INDUSTRIES
CONNECTING CITIZENS, COMPANIES, COLLEGES, AND GOVERNMENTS
Manhattan Project components: Collect 'em all!
One platform. Everything you need.
A "universal remote" -- and interchangeable plug and play components -- that let you hit the ground running or coordinate the solutions you already tried.
Governance Systems
One 'source of truth" for AI, disinformation, free speech, and privacy.
To get everyone on the same page and win the 21st century fast.
Backend research database – and networking architecture – that allows interdisciplinary and cross-functional teams from across the world to work together on digital ethics scholarship, advocacy, and education.
Proven for interpersonal conflict, nationally-scalable disinformation fighting networks, triangulating points of agreement on AI and privacy policy, and -- our personal favorite -- civic deliberation systems for free speech.
CIVIL CIVIC FORUMS, COMMUNITY EDUCATION, AND DISINFORMATION FIGHTING NETWORKS
ON ALLEGEDLY 'IMPOSSIBLE' THIRD RAIL ISSUES RANGING FROM COVID, AI, ABORTION, LGTBQIA, PRIVACY, DEI, DISINFORMATION, AND FREE SPEECH
CURATING COMMUNITY VOICES
BECAUSE EVERYONE DESERVES A SAY IN THE FIGHT FOR A JUST, FREE, AND SANE POST-DIGITAL WORLD
p.s. it also handles the "culture'" and "encoded postmodernism" mess correctly and for everyone.
CREATIVE DIRECTOR / CO-FOUNDER
THE INSTITUTE FOR AESTHETIC ADVOCACY 2017-PRESENT
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR / DIRECTOR
SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, DIGITAL MEDIA, AND COMMUNICATION ARTS 2018-2023
FOUNDER / ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DIVISION OF RHETORIC AND DIGITAL MEDIA ARTS 2011-2017
ARTS and CULTURAL CRITICISM
KARE-11 MINNEAPOLIS CBS NEWS MINNEAPOLIS PIONEER PRESS POP MATTERS ALTERNET POP CULTURE & THEOLOGY BLERG JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE MY DISSERTATION LEXINGTON PRESS HAMPTON UNIVERSITY PRES MCGRAW-HILL
CREATIVE DIRECTOR / CURATOR / AESTHETIC ENGINEER / MC / RESEARCHER / SHOWRUNNER
ACLU MN RECLAIM THE BLOCK URBAN EDUCATORS LITTLE EARTH NATIVE HUD COMMUNITY NATIVE YOUTH ARTS CENTER INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITY PROTECT MN SECOND CHANCE MN GUNS DOWN, LOVE UP INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITY NORTH SURBURBAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS NORTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY HAMLINE UNIVERSITY THE DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF LITERACY
thank you to my IAA exhibition partners (and hundreds of artists from around the world)
