Professional Activities

Keynote speaker, “Reticulated Civic Engagement: Invitations, Obstacles and Passionate Participation,” Transforming Audiences 3 Conference, University of Westminster, London, September 2, 2011. An abstract and reference list for my talk can be found here. Check out the video of the keynote speakers.

Chair and organizer of the panel, “Transformational Studies in Development, Globalization, Media, and Practice: Papers Honoring Conrad Kottak,” presented at the American Anthropological Association Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 19, 2010.

Invited speaker, “Kids on YouTube: Prospects for Civic Engagement,” presented at the Annenberg Research Seminar, The Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, October 11, 2010. An abstract and reference list for my talk can be found here.

Invited speaker, “Ranting on YouTube: Analysis of a Genre,” Department of Anthropology Discourse Lab, University of California, Los Angeles, June 2, 2010.

Invited screening, “Hey Watch This! Sharing the Self Through Media,” for Henry Jenkins’s graduate-level seminar on fandom, participatory cultures and Web 2.0, University of Southern California, January 11, 2010.

Chair and organizer of the panel, “Are the Sacred Tropes of Anthropology Worth Keeping? Lessons from Information Technology Studies,” presented at the American Anthropological Association Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 2, 2009.

Roundtable panelist, Cross Unit Theme Session on Technology. My presentation was entitled “Interactional Materiality and the Consequential Contexts of Technological (Re)Production,” presented at the International Communication Association Conference, Chicago, May 23, 2009.

Chair and organizer of the panel, “Ambivalent Alliances: Exploring Collaborative Complexities Among Digital Youth,” American Anthropological Association Meeting, San Francisco, California, November 21, 2008.

Roundtable panelist, Visual Communication Studies Panel on Analyzing YouTube: Multidisciplinary Approaches. My contribution was titled “Common Misconceptions about YouTube: An Anthropological Analysis of Video Sharing and Commenting Practices,” presented at the International Association Conference, Montreal, Canada, May 23, 2008.

Invited speaker, “Teaching Tech Talk: How Online Participants Negotiate Cultural Parameters,” Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s Research Focus Group on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization, University of California, Santa Barbara, August 18, 2008.

Invited speaker, “Illuminating Journeys: The Voyage Out and the Voyage In,” presented at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, January, 30, 2008.

Invited speaker, “Articulating Social Networks Through Video Sharing,” Digital Imaging Forum, Invited Lecture Program, Kodak Gallery, Eastman Kodak Company, Emeryville, California, July 31, 2007.

Invited curator for self-designed session, “Making the Familiar Unfamiliar: The Importance of Physical Place in the Vlogosphere,” at the 1st Pixelodeon Video Festival, American Film Institute, Los Angeles, California, June 9, 2007.

Invited speaker, “The Fractalization of the Public and Private on YouTube,” Annenberg Center for Communication, University of Southern California, April 19, 2007.

Co-organizer of the panel entitled, “It’s Only a Game: What Can Social Science Learn from the Study of Video and Computer Games?” presented at the Society for Social Studies of Science Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, November 2, 2006.

Invited speaker, “Analyzing Online Tech Talk: Implications for Design Research,” Palo Alto Research Center, May 18, 2006.

Invited speaker, “Social Effects of Tech Talk on Open Source Information Exchange,” the Institute for the Future’s lunchtime seminar series (LOTT: Lunch on the ‘Tute), February 9, 2006.

Invited speaker, “Studying Social Dynamics Online: How Tech Talk Encourages and Discourages Open Source Community Development,” Sun Microsystems’ Human Interface Technology Series, July 27, 2005.

Invited speaker, Professor Miyako Inoue’s undergraduate anthropology course on Language and Culture, Stanford University, April 19, 2004.

Invited speaker, Department of Linguistics’ weekly sociolinguistic meeting on social consequences of identity displays in conversation, Stanford University, April 15, 2004.

Invited participant, National Science Foundation workshop on Cyberspace and Anthropology, Washington, D.C., May 31-June 2 1995.

Chair and organizer of the NAPA panel (invited), AAA meeting in Washington D.C. on “New Challenges for Anthropology: Ethnography’s Contribution to Information and Communication Technology Development,” November 1995.

Invited speaker on technical evaluation and ethnographic research activities for Professor Peter Van Arsdale’s graduate course in Systems and Policy Analysis at the University of Denver, May 12, 1995.

Invited speaker, “Portable Computing and Ethnographic Methods in Medical Environments,” at the IEEE Computer Society’s Meeting, Stanford, California, June 1994.