Disciplinary Interests: Media Studies
Bryan Alexander
Ourmedia Advisory Board, New Media Consortium Horizon Project Advisory Board member, Rheingold Associates, MLA (sporadically)
MANE IT leaders network, CET media studies initiative, CET Advanced Student Technology Program, Training workshops on multimedia narrative, project management, wireless pedagogy, Multiple blogs
Bryan Alexander is Director for Emerging Technologies at NITLE, where he researches and develops programs on the advanced uses of information technology in liberal arts colleges. His specialties include digital writing, weblogs, copyright and intellectual property, information literacy, wireless culture and teaching, project management, information design, and interdisciplinary collaboration. He maintains and contributes to a series of weblogs, including NITLE Tech News and Smartmobs, when not creating digital learning objects. A PhD graduate of the University of Michigan, he has also taught English and information technology studies at Centenary College.
Nikhila H.
I teach in the English Department in Pondicherry University, India
Anne Balsamo
Managing Director, The Institute for Multimedia Literacy, USC, "Science Mobilized" w/Onomy Labs Inc. (Menlo Park): Installation for the Liberty Science Center on the public communication of science news
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.
Tim Anderson
Tim Anderson is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Denison University.
Michelle Glaros
American Association of University Professors, University Film and Video Association, Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Michelle Glaros is an Assistant Professor of Art at Centenary College of Louisiana where she teaches video production and media studies. Her research interests include experimental film and video, new media arts, and academic labor studies and she has published in frAme: Journal of Culture and Technology, Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments, and Academe. Currently, she is conducting research for an experimental documentary about the cultural identity of Shreveport, Louisiana.
