Philosophy

Research Interests

Cognition, Teaching/Learning, Appropriate Technology

Research Projects

Current

Modeling pattern matching processes that occur in deductive inferences

Individualizing instruction for deductive proof construction (co-investigators include Dr. Tiffany Barnes (NC State) and Dr. John Stamper (Carnegie Mellon University)

Past

Investigating Incrementalism as a normative theory of technology development and seeing the development of instructional technology through this framework.

Teaching Projects

Current

Developing web based materials for teaching cognitive science

Past

Designing interface and pedagogical dimensions for java applets used in teaching deductive, propositional logic

Research Interests

Feminism, race, queer theory, music, sound studies, aesthetics, tech & society, afrofuturism

I am interested in the critical-theoretical study and creative use of digital sound technologies. I am also a contributor to Cyborgology, a blog on technology and society.

Research Projects

Current

• Music For Drones
• Make It Rain (Steve Reich’s “It’s Gonna Rain” updated for social media & contemporary hip hop)
• A yet untitled manuscript on sound and neoliberalism (incl big data).
• Ongoing contributions to the tech & society blog Cyborgology.

Past

• Sound Semiotics of the Kitchen
• Robo-Diva R&B

Teaching Projects

Current

Past

Media Technology & Society (COMM3052 undergraduate course): Topics cover media ecology, mass media, new/social media, media culture, and Internet governance (multiple semesters)

Research Interests

Moral and political philosophy (emphasis on questions raised by the intersection of technology and law, which I usually approach from “continental” theory – thinkers such as Deleuze, Foucault, etc.  My main subject area here is intellectual property, though I’ve also done some work on privacy)

History of philosophy (esp. 17th century: Hobbes, Spinoza, etc.)

Research Projects

(Most of my papers are up either on my webpage or my ssrn page or both)

Current

I am working on a book-length manuscript that will use Foucault’s conceptualization of biopower as a way to think critically about intellectual property.

Past

Articles in my research areas and a book on Hobbes (2009)

Teaching Projects

Current

I’m developing my version of ethics and public policy for Spring 2014

Past