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PhD, Modern Thought, Centre for Modern Thought, University of Aberdeen: 2009
MA, Communications Theory, European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland: 2006
BA, Interdisciplinary Studies, UC Berkeley: 2002
NYU, New York. Postdoctoral research fellowship in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication. Working on the history and politics of computing, digital media, and information systems, with a special focus on research in privacy, security, and social dimensions of networking.
“Spam in Action: Social Technology and the History of Unintended Consequences.” Advisors: Prof. Christopher Fynsk, Prof. Mario Biagioli. Examiners: Prof. James Leach, Prof. Timothy Lenoir.
2010: Teaching “Dead Media Studio,” Department of Media, Culture & Communication, Steinhardt, NYU
2010: Taught E59.1003, “Introduction to Digital Media,” Department of Media, Culture & Communication, Steinhardt, NYU
2008-9: Co-taught FS5007, “Digital Humanities: Contexts and Platforms,” with Dr. Kriss Ravetto, School of Language & Literature, University of Aberdeen
2010: The Spew: A History of Spam being prepared for publication with Duke University Press
2010: “Constitutive Interference: Spam and Networked Communities” submitted to Representations
2010: Presenting “Vernacular Resistance to Data Collection and Surveillance: A
Political Theory of Obfuscation” at EASST 2010, September 2-4, Trento, Italy
2010: Presenting “An Infinite Continuum of Spewage: Bayesian filtering and the reinvention of spam” at the International Symposium on Electronic Art, August 20-29, Ruhr, Germany
2010: Presented “The Unbook” (site) at the Computers and Writing Conference, May 20-23, Purdue
2010: Presented “The Pleasure of Spam: Metagaming and Misuse in Early Computer Culture” (mp3) at the Cultural Studies Association, March 18-20, UC Berkeley
2010: Presented “Creating and violating anonymity in online communities: the case of 4chan, Anon, and Dusty the Cat” (mp3) at the Privacy Research Group, February 24, New York University
2009: Attended Multi-University Research Initiative (MURI) meeting, Stanford, as representative of NYU, September 17-18
2008: Assisted in the organization, publicity and design elements of the “Recoded: Landscapes and Politics for New Media” conference, April 24-25, University of Aberdeen
2008: Produced and installed “Happy Feet,” networked art installation for Skúta Helgasson, University of Aberdeen
2008: Accepted to the “Instability and Decomposition” conference at the Harvard Humanities Center, 26-25 April (unable to attend)
Member of the Society for the Social Studies of Science and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology
2010: Creating and managing website and administration for the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Security and Privacy
2009-10: Collaborating with Processing artists to create an experimental website for Laura Marks’ Enfoldment and Infinity (MIT, 2010)
2008-9: Creating a website for engagement with Sande Cohen’s The Work of Art and Culture in an Age of Stupidity
2008: Consulting with the Centre for Teaching and Learning at the University of Aberdeen on website development to aid international students
2008: Designed materials and created website for the “Recoded” conference at the University of Aberdeen
2007: Built a Drupal-based social platform for the Centre for Modern Thought
2006: Redesigned the Centre for Modern Thought website
2010: New York Times: on the Diaspora project
2010: CBC Spark: “Lightweight identity theft”
2009: CBC Spark: “The unintended consequences of spam”
2009: NYU Steinhardt: “On the social history of technology”
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