Conference Papers

• “Quieting the Monads: Comparing the Aesthetics and Social Struggles of Italian Neorealists and Video Bloggers ” presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, March 19, 2010, in Los Angeles, California.

• “Typing Your Way to Technical Identity: Negotiating Ideologies of Online Interaction” presented at the American Anthropological Association Conference, December 5, 2009, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

• “How Bad Videos are Actually Good: Exploring Parodic Displays of Technical Competence on Youtube” presented at the International Communication Association Conference, May 22, 2009, in Chicago, Illinois.

• “When Do-It-Yourself Video Isn’t” presented at the American Anthropological Association Conference, November 21, 2008, in San Francisco, California.

• “Video Reciprocity: Conversations with YouTubers” presented at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Visual Research Conference , November 18, 2008, in San Francisco, California.

• “The Role of Er in Self-Correction in Online Conversation” presented at the North American Workshop on Pragmatics, October 4, 2008, in Toronto, Canada.

• “Beyond Viral Video: Using Youtube to Maintain Social Networks” presented at the International Communication Association Conference, May 24, 2008, in Montreal, Canada.

• “Pure and Dangerous Cyberspaces: When Semiotic Ideologies Collide Online” presented at the Society for Cultural Anthropology Conference, May 10, 2008, aboard the Queen Mary, Long Beach, California.

• “Living in YouTubia: Bordering on Civility,” presented at the Southwestern Anthropological Association Conference, April 11, 2008, Fullerton, California.

• “The Return of the Unruly Active Audience: Structuring Feedback on YouTube” presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, March 8, 2008, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

• “‘Microsoft is Jesus’: An Analysis of Moral Performances of Technical Affiliation” presented at the American Anthropological Association Conference, November 29, 2007, in Washington, D.C.

• “Collecting Data and Losing Control: How Studying Video Blogging Challenges Human Subjects Frameworks” presented at the Association of Internet Researchers’ Conference, October 20, 2007, in Vancouver, Canada.

• “How ‘Tubers Teach Themselves: Narratives of Self-Teaching as Technical Identity Performance on YouTube” presented at the Society for the Social Studies of Science Conference, October 11, 2007, in Montreal, Canada.

• “Searching for the “You” in “YouTube”: An Analysis of Online Response Ability” presented at the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry (EPIC) Conference, October 4, 2007, in Keystone, Colorado.

• “What Constitutes Data? Combining Conversation Analysis and Ethnography to Observe the Unobservable” presented at the 10th Annual International Pragmatics Association Conference, July 10, 2007, in Göteborg, Sweden.

• “Fostering Friendship through Video Production: How Youth Use Youtube to Enrich Local Interaction” presented at the International Communication Association Conference, May 27, 2007, in San Francisco, California.

• “Commenting on Comments: Investigating Responses to Antagonism on YouTube” presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology, Annual Conference, March 31, 2007 in Tampa, Florida.

• “An Implicature for Um-Initiated Repair: Signaling Relative Expertise” presented at the Linguistic Society of America, Annual Conference, January 5, 2007 in Anaheim, California.

• “Finding a Room of One’s Own: Explorations in Conducting Distributed Knowledge Work” presented at the American Anthropological Association Meeting, November 16, 2006 in San Jose, California.

• “Learning Real Life Lessons from Online Games” presented at the Society for Social Studies of Science Conference, November 2, 2006 in Vancouver, Canada.

• “Bazaar Conversations: Analyzing the Dialogic Consequences of Open Source Tech Talk” presented at the 2nd Annual Conference on Open Source Systems, June 10, 2006 in Lake Como, Italy.

• “Conversational Morality and Information Circulation: How Tacit Notions About Good and Evil Influence Knowledge Exchange” presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology Conference, March 30, 2006 in Vancouver, Canada.

• “Um-Prefaced Responses to Assessments: A Method of Amplifying Disagreement” presented at the International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Conference, August 6-9, 2005 in Waltham, Massachusetts.

• “Interpellating Identity through the Use of Indexicals: When Peirce Meets Althusser” presented at the 9th International Pragmatics Conference, July 14, 2005 in Riva del Garda, Italy.

• “Getting to Know You: Using Hostility to Reduce Anonymity in Online Communication” presented at the XIIIth Symposium about Language and Society—Austin (SALSA) Conference, April 15-17, 2005 in Austin, Texas.

• “Globalization, the Internet, and Diversity: An Orthogonal View” presented at the International Conference on Technology, Knowledge & Society, February 19, 2005 in Berkeley, California.

• “Internet Anonymity Reconsidered: A Linguistic Case Study” presented at the 3rd Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, January 14, 2005 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

• “Constructing New Meaning for the Particle Um in Computer-Mediated Communication” presented at the 5th Annual Semantics Fest on Semantics and Pragmatics, March 12, 2004 in Stanford, California.

• “Covert Mentoring on the Internet: Methods for Confirming Status in Imagined Technical Communities” presented at the American Anthropological Association Meeting, November 19, 2003 in Chicago, Illinois.

• “The Case is Closed: How Talk about Open Source Technologies Complicates Freedom of Expression on the Internet” presented at the Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Conference October 18, 2003 in Atlanta, Georgia.

• “Identity Performance and Disruption on the Internet” presented at the University of Michigan/University of Chicago Conference in Linguistic Anthropology, May 9, 2003 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

• “Performing Technical Affiliation: How Tech Talk is Shaping Communication” presented at the University of Michigan/University of Chicago Conference in Linguistic Anthropology, May 11, 2002 in Chicago, Illinois.

• “Inequality Begins at Home: Investigating Normative Conventions on Web Home Pages” presented at the American Anthropological Association Meeting, December 5, 1998 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

• “The Cyborg Within: Comparing Cyborg Visions from Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell” presented at the Community of Anthropologists in Science, Technology, and Computers Conference, June 29, 1997 in Troy, New York.

• “To Play or Not to Play: Experiencing a Game in a Virtual Environment” (co-author with Dr. Charline Poirier) presented at the American Anthropological Association Meeting in November 18, 1995 in Washington D.C.