Disciplinary Interests: Cultural Studies

David Bogen
David Bogen received his B.A. in philosophy from Macalester College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from Boston University. Since 1997, he has been the Director of the Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson College. He is the author of Order Without Rules: Critical Theory and the Logic of Conversation(SUNY Press: 1999) and, with Michael Lynch, The Spectacle of History: Speech, Text, and Memory at the Iran-Contra Hearings (Duke University Press, 1996) as well as numerous articles, book chapters, and reviews that explore the intersection of language, technology, and everyday orders of social practice. His most recent work focuses on social, organizational, and perceptual issues in the design of computer mediated interactive environments.
ryan m moeller
ryan moeller is an assistant professor of rhetoric and technology in the english department at utah state university. his research interests include the role of agency within systems dominated by technique and technology.
Anne Balsamo
ANNE BALSAMO serves as the Director of Academic Programs of the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at the University of Southern California. She is also a Full Professor of Interactive Media and Gender Studies. In addition to her academic positions, Anne has been a technologist and new media designer for more than a decade. In 2002, she co-founded, Onomy Labs, Inc. a Silicon Valley technology design and fabrication company that builds cultural technologies. Previously she was a member of RED (Research on Experimental Documents), a collaborative research group at Xerox PARC who created experimental reading devices and new media genres. She held the rank of Principle Scientist, and served as project manager and new media designer for the development of RED's interactive museum exhibit, XFR: Experiments in the Future of Reading. Prior to joining the research staff at PARC, Balsamo was an associate professor in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology where she directed the graduate program in "Information Design and Technology.� Her first book, Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women (Duke UP, 1996) investigated the social and cultural implications of emergent bio-technologies. Her new book project, Designing Culture: A Work of the Technological Imagination examines the relationship between cultural theory, the design of new media, and the ethics of technology development.