DISINFORMATION and
POLITICAL DIVISION

20 years of actual solutions to rebuild reality, bring divided communities back together (via civil conversations),
and network citizens to combat disinformation.

And probably the only prof who crossed the filter bubble and became a disinformation prof at a Bible college (2018-2023)

to prove my IP could
train MAGA-adjacent Evangelical kids to get conservatives, liberals, Christians, Muslisms, and Jewish-folks to fight together for a just, free, and sane digital world.


It worked.

SERVICES and SOLUTIONS

CONSULTING / EDUCATION & TRAININGS / GOVERNANCE PLATFORMS / ADVOCACY

For teachers, lawyers, programmers, policymakers, journalists, citizens,
advocates, and AI.

CBS: MINNEAPOLIS / FORBES
NBC: MINNEAPOLIS
(SACREMENTO, TOLEDO, HOUSTON)
HUMAN LAWYER
OMAHA-WORLD HERALD
PIONEER PRESS
NEBRASKA PUBLIC TELEVISION
NEXT GENERATION POLITICS
AI AND YOU / OUR BLACK NEWS

PRESS and MEDIA

CURRENT INITIATIVES / MY STORY

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITY

REPORTED IN FORBES
TRANSATLANTIC DIALOGUE
ON HUMANITY AND AI
REGULATION
(2022)

RUNNER-UP: BEST PAPER
INTERNATIONAL VINCENTIAN
BUSINESS ETHICS
CONFERENCE
(2022)

WINNER: BEST PAPER AWARD
MIDWEST ACADEMY
FOR LEGAL STUDIES IN BUSINESS
(2020)

WILLIAM & MARY LAW REVIEW
GEORGETOWN JOURNAL OF LAW & PUBLIC POLICY 
NEBRASKA LAWYER
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE


MCGRAW HILL
INTIMA: A JOURNAL OF NARRATIVE MEDICINE
HAMPTON PRESS

CICA PRESS
LEXINGTON PRESS
COMPETITION POLICY INTERNATIONAL
WILEY-BLACKWELL

OMAHA WORLD-HEARLD
POP MATTERS / DAILY NEBRASKAN MISSOURI REVIEW
(2ND PLACE: MILLER RAUDIO)

ACADEMIC

***WINNER: Primeaux Award for Best Paper
(First Runner-Up)

"Using the Lens of Narrative Theory to Rethink Digital Ethics"
International Vincentian
Business Ethics Conference.
 
Proceedings.  (Forthcoming)
With Marci Exted and Thomas Freeman

"The Roberts Court and Compulsory Collective Bargaining: Reading the Tea Leaves After Janus and Masterpiece."  
Georgetown Journal of Law
and Public Policy.
 
Spring 2023.
w/ Thomas Freeman

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

***WINNER: Best Paper Award

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

“Rhetorically Predicting a First Amendment Right to Negotiation After Janus.” 
William and Mary Business Law Review. 
11: 609 (2020).
With Thomas Freeman and Destiyne Sewell 

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

“The Future of Collective Bargaining: Rhetorically Predicting a First Amendment Right to Negotiation.”   
Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business. 
Proceedings 2019
With Thomas Freeman and Destynie Sewell.  

“What About Cynthia: A Case Study Exploring Corporate Fiduciary Duties and Social Responsibility.” 
Journal of the International Academy for Case Studies.  
Vol. 25, Issue 4 (2019).
With Thomas Freeman

"A Legal And Ethical Audit of Continental Bank and Trust."

Journal of the International Academy for Case Studies
 Vol. 25, Issue 2 (2019)
With Thomas Freeman 

“I Want to Party With You Cowboy: Stephen Colbert and Campaign 2016’s Aesthetic Logic of Truthiness.” 
The Joke is On Us: Political Comedy in (Late) Neoliberal Times. 
Julie Watson, Ed. 
Lexington Press, 2019
With Thomas Lawson

Fear and Loathing in the New Media Era : How to Realign our Rhetorical Judgmentsfor the Post-Postmodern, Digital Media Age.
Dissertation. 
Ohio State University, 2012.

“The Rhetoric of Narrative: What the Law as Narrative Movement Can Teach the Rest of the Narrative Turn.”
Narrative Acts: Rhetoric, Race, Identity, Knowledge. 
Deborah Journet, Ed. 
Hampton Press, 2011 

“Rhetoric.”
Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Novel.  
Peter Logan, Ed.
Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 

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

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

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

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

“Made Actual Through Pain: A Literacy Narrative.” 
Multimodal Composition: Resources for Teachers.
Ed. Cynthia L. Selfe. 
Hampton Press, 2007 

Documentary. 
With Michael Harker and Cormac Slevin. ​​

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

TRANSATLANTIC DIALOGUE
ON HUMANITY AND AI
REGULATION


DATA, LAW & ETHICS RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM


AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION
MIDWEST ACADEMY OF LEGAL STUDIES IN BUSINESS
HEIDER BUSINESS SYMPOSIUM


INDIANA UNIVERSITY
NORTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY
NORTH CAROLINA AT & T
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
DREW UNIVERSITY
HAMLINE UNIVERSITY CENTER
FOR JUSTICE & LAW

INVITED TALKS

***WINNER: Primeaux Best Paper Award.  (Runner-up)
“Using the Lens of Narrative Theory to Rethink Digital Ethics." 
International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference. 
With Marci Exted and Thomas Freeman.  
October 2022

“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to Reframe Health Data Sanctity.” 
 
Inaugural Transatlantic Dialogue on Humanity and AI Regulation.
Hosted by HEC Paris.
Paris, France. May 2022
***FEATURED IN: "Regulating Global Intelligence: Is Global Consensus Possible?"
Forbes. September 9, 2022

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

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

“Algorithmic Unreliability: Narrative Theory, Digital Ethics, and The Constitutionality of Employment AI.” 
Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business.
With Thomas Freeman and Marci Exted. 
Chicago, IL and Online:  
March 2022

***WINNER: Online Voting Competition
“Redefining Digital Literary: Algorithms and You.”
SXSW EDU.
With Thomas Freeman,Ayin Morales-Monge, and Shea Sullivan
Austin, TX: March 2022 

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

 “Algorithmic Bias: How Cross-Functional Networks Can Fight Digitized Discrimination.”
Heider Business Symposium: 
Creighton University. 
With Thomas Freeman, Elizabeth Otto, Ayin Monge, and Julius Hernandez. 
Omaha, NE.  October 2021

 “Reckoning With Robots; The Constitutional Implications of Using Algorithms to Make Human Decisions.”
Midwest Associate of Legal Studies in Business/Midwest Business Administration Association Annual Conference.
With Thomas Freeman. 
Chicago, IL: March 2021 

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

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

“Racist Robots?  A Visual Primer on Understanding Algorithmic Bias.” 
Midwest Associate of Legal Studies in Business/Midwest Business Administration Association Annual Conference.
With Thomas Freeman, Ayin Monge-Morales, and Moises Morales. 
March 2020

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

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

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

“What Norm MacDonald and Narrative Theory Can Teach Us About Social Media Privacy Big Data Reasoning.”
Hamline University.
Saint Paul, MN.  April 2017
In conjunction w/ exhibition for World Press Freedom Day. 

“Shouting Fire: Originalism and Antonin Scalia.” Jiggery-Pokery and Applesauce?
The Impact and Legacy of Justice Antonin Scalia
Hamline University Center for Justice and Law.
Saint Paul, MN: February 2016

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

“Finding Bias in New York Times Reporting on Israel and Palestine.”
Yeshiva University.
New York, NY: February 2010

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

“OurSpace: Resituating Civic Literacy in the University Curriculum.”
LiteracyStudies@OSU. 
The Ohio State University.
With Michael Harker and Scott Lloyd DeWitt. 
Columbus, OH: March 30, 2007

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY
FOR THE STUDY OF NARRATIVE

RHETORIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA


AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION
ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF LAW, CULTURE, AND THE HUMANITIES
HUBER HURST RESEARCH SEMINAR
RHETORIC OF HEALTH
AND MEDICINE CONFERENCE

COLLEGE COMPOSITION AND COMMUNICATION
THOMAS R. WATSON CONFERENCE
ON RHETORIC
EDWARD G. HAYES RESEARCH
FORUM
US. NAVAL ACADEMY

ACADEMIC CONFERENCES

“The Art of EMF Science: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Post-Digital Health Advocacy.” 
Rhetoric of Health And Medicine Conference.
With Stephen Pedersen and Allison Baker.
Online: October 2020

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

“Cellular Home Invasion: Public Art As Rhetorical Intervention in Scientific Debates On EMF Health Effects.”
Rhetoric Society of America.
With Allison Baker and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.
Portland, OR.  May 2020. (COVID).

“Make Them Bake Cake? In the Wake of Masterpiece Cakeshop, Which Religious Activities Are Protected ExpressionUnder the First Amendment and Protected from Discrimination Laws?”
Midwest Business Administrative Association / Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business Joint Conference.
With Tom Freeman and Daniel Schneider.
Chicago, IL.  March 2020

 “Racist Robots: A Visual Primer on Understanding Algorithmic Bias.” 
Midwest Business Administrative Association / Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business Joint Conference.
With Tom Freeman and Dan Schneider.
Chicago, IL.  March 2020

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

 “The Right to Speak, Bake, or Film…or Not…Which Activities are Protected Expression Under the First Amendment?”
Huber Hurst Research Seminar in Business Law and Ethics.
With Thomas Freeman.
Gainsville, FL.  January 2020

 “Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to Navigate Legal, Corporate, and Community Debates on Algorithmic Ethics.”
Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium.
Washington and Lee School of Law.
With Thomas Freeman.
Lexington, VA.  April 2019

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

Sound Studies.  Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of America
Summer Institute.
Bloomington, IN. May 2017

“Campaign Narrative, The End: A New Story for the Narrative Model of Rhetorical Agency,”
Rhetoric Society of America.
San Antonio, TX. May 2014 

“The New New Journalism:The Post-Postmodern Aestheticsof Narrative As Rhetoric.”
The International Societyfor the Study of Narrative.
Boston, MA. March 2014

Rogue Publics. Workshop.

Rhetoric Society of AmericaSummer Institute.

Lawrence, KS. June 2013

21st Century Presidential Rhetoric. Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of AmericaSummer Institute.
Lawrence KS: June 2013.

 “Audience 3.0: A New Rhetorical Ethics (and Aesthetics) for a Post-Remix Era.”
Rhetoric Society of America.
Philadelphia, PA. May 2012

 “The Gentle Art of Accepting Enemies: New Media and the Rhetorical Aesthetics of Audience Exclusion.”
The International Society for the Study of Narrative.
St. Louis, MO. April 2011 

“Playing Out Remix,”
Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Louisville, KY. March 2010

“End the Gaffe (And How Narrative Theory Let’s Us Do It).”
The International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Birmingham, UK. June 2009

“I’m Not There Anymore: The Return of Identity in the Post-Remix Age.”
Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition.
Louisville, KY. October 2008

“Ethos in a Remediated Age: Context, Character, and Community.”
Rhetoric Society of America.
Seattle, WA. May 2008

Digital Rhetoric. Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute.
Troy, NY. June 2007 

“Evaluating the ‘Narrative Turn."
Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum.
Columbus, OH. April 2007

“Shouting ‘Fire’ in the Writing Classroom: Rhetoric, Law, and Composition.”
Conference on College Composition and Communication.
New York, NY. March 2007 

“Alive and well and living in Washington’: Narrativity, Casebook Logic, and Legal Pedagogy.”
The International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Washington, D.C. March 2007 

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

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

“New Media, New Curricula.”
Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Chicago, IL. April 2006

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

“Narrative Temporality in News Stories.”
The International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Ottawa, Canada April 2006 

“Finding Authorization to ‘lance the boil’: Context, Content, and Free Speech Zones.”
Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities.
Syracuse, NY. March 2006 

“Is It Something or Nothing?  Narratologically Situating the Music of John Zorn’s Naked City.”
Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum.
Columbus, OH. April 2004

“’But…This is a Good Graph’: What a Political Science Classroom (and the Spanish-American War) Can Tell us About Interdisciplinarity, Grad
Students, and the Rhetoric of Rhetoric (and Vice Versa).”
The Ohio State University.  EGO Spring Graduate Colloquium
Columbus, OH. May 2005

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INFLUENTIAL EARLY SCHOLARSHIP ON POST-DIGITAL NEWS AND POLITICS

But since I was way early -- started graduate school on 9/11 to study post-digital American politics & journalism -- most of my early work uses comedy to explain it.


CO-BUILT A NATIONALLY-SCALABLE
DISINFORMATION FIGHTING PLATFORM

With a Fortune 500: Networking 15,000 students, hundreds of classrooms, across multiple universities.

CO-FOUNDED AN INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED ART COLLECTIVE

To catalyze allegedly 'impossible' cross-cultural dialogues on our post-digital reality.



THE IDH STORY: #BURSTTHEBUBBLE

SERVICES and SOLUTIONS

CONSULTING / EDUCATION & TRAININGS / GOVERNANCE PLATFORMS / ADVOCACY

Nothing encapsulates the IDH's capabilities in disinformation war
better than the pandemic.


We were originally located a couple miles from Floyd Square. Our host school -- and IDH students -- held the Floyd memorial, making international headlines. On the ground -- until our school's evacuation a year later during the Chauvin verdict -- our city/lives were...hectic.

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SOLUTIONS TO RE-BUILD REALITY AND BRING DIVERSE COMMUNITIES BACK INTO CIVIL DIALOGUE

One simple method for disinformation and misinformation.

Also works for conflict resolution and cross-cultural conversations/coalition building.

Scaleable, programmable, teachable to anyone.

Compatible with all the IDH's AI ethics, privacy, and free speech frameworks and curriculum.

For schools, companies, programmers, governments, and advocates

Consulting

Workshops and Trainings

Speaking Events

Curriculum and Platforms

Plug and play civic disinformation fighting networks

Catalyzing and curating allegedly impossible cross-cultural conversations.

SCALEABLE SOLUTIONS

#1
CIVIC INFORMATION DEFENSE SYSTEM

Works across cultures,
reconnects digitally separated communities,
taxonomizes disinformation to rebuild common reality.

#2
CIVIL CITIZEN DELIBERATION SYSTEMS

Catalyzing and curating allegedly impossible conversations between groups on both sides of the religious, cultural, digital, and political divide.

ADVOCACY and CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

BIPARTISAN COALITION BUILDING / STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS / ART EXHIBITIONS / CIVIC FORUMS

STRATEGIC PR, MEDIA CAMPAIGNS,
and CROSS-CULTURAL COALITION BUILDING

Translating digital ethics’ complexities
into a language your grandma would understand

Triangulating bipartisan multi-faith
and cross-cultural coalitions and agreements

CIVIC FORUMS and COMMUNITY EDUCATION
EVERYONE ACTUALLY WELCOME

Designed to catalyze allegedly impossible
cross-cultural conversations,

curate community voices,

and protect our most vulnerable
post-digital citizens.

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ART EXHIBITIONS
LOCAL / INTERNATIONAL / JURIED

"Digital Rights Are Civil Rights"
International Juried Art Exhibition and Civic Forum
In Celebration of Minneapolis' Facial Recognition Ban

w/ ACLU MN,
Safety Not Surveillance,
Minneapolis City Councilman Steve Lucero,
The Little Earth Native Youth Art Collective,
and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy

Thank you to our partners
and hundreds of artists
from around the world for making these
critical exhibitions possible
for our communities.

EDUCATION & TRAININGS

CURRICULUM: K-LAW SCHOOL / PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOPS / PLUG AND PLAY PLATFORMS & THINK TANKS

Interactive, experiential,
and non-ideological disinformation
and post-digital civics education.

Connecting classrooms and colleges
across the political and cultural divide.

Training any/all students how to be leaders in the fight to rebuild common reality and reunite a broken America.

  • PLUG and PLAY PLATFORMS CONNECTING DIVERSE VOICES ACROSS CAMPUSES AND THE DIGITAL DIVIDE

    DR. M ED PLATFORM SOLUTIONS 
  • TRAININGS and WORKSHOPS SCHOOLS / POLICYMAKERS / ADVOCATES / COMPANIES / STUDENTS

    DR M TRAININGS AND WORKSHOPS 
  • PLUG and PLAY STUDENT LEADERSHIP: VICTORIES


    PRESS:
    NBC: MINNEAPOLIS
    CREIGHTON NEWS
    SXSW EDU

    RESEARCH:

    INAUGURAL TRANSATLANTIC DIALOGUE ON AI and HUMANITY (REPORTED IN FORBES)

    RUNNER UP: BEST PAPER
    INTERNATIONAL VINCENTIAN BUSINESS ETHICS CONFERENCE


    CIVIC EDUCATION:
    MINNEAPOLIS FACIAL RECOGNITION BAN
    INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITIONS
    CIVIC FORUMS

    THANK YOU TO:
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE / ACLU MN / ACLU NE / BYTES MEDIA / SAINT PAUL PUBLIC SCHOOLS / JEREMY MUNSON (R-MN) / LATRISHA VETAW (D-MINNEAPOLIS) / ROB BARRET (CANDIDATE) / SIMON TRAUTMANN (D-RICHFIELD) / STEVE FLETCHER (D-MINNEAPOLIS) / NANY YANG (D-SAINT PAUL) / SCOTT LUCERO (R-MN) / SCOTT JENSEN (R-MN) / CATHY O'NEIL (The Shame Machine) / FRANK BROWN (SECOND CHANCE COALITION)

    DR M CURRICULUM SOLUTIONS 
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