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Education

Ph.D. Candidate in Communication, University of California, San Diego.

Entered: 1995; C Phil: 2000; Dissertation Defense passed: February 2004

M.L.I.S. in Library and Information Science, Cum Laude, University of California,

Los Angeles, 1995.

B.A. World Arts and Cultures, Theater History, University of California, Los Angeles, 1990.

DISSERTATION COMMITTEE

Chandra Mukerji (co-chair); Geoffrey Bowker (Communication), Robert Horwitz (Communication),  Martha Lamplan (Science Studies), Jim Hollan (Cognitive Science)

DISSERTATION

"Working in the Future Tense: Materializing Stories of Emerging Technologies and Cyberculture at the Institute for the Future"

Primary Research Interests

Organizational Communication, Organizational Change and New Media

How new media technologies shape narratives of traditional and emerging organizational forms and roles.

How organizational roles are staged and performed as dramatic narratives

Understanding the connections between organizational communication and performance studies

Publications and Conference Presentations

Book Proposals (in-progress)

Performing in the Future Tense at the Institute For The Future: Acting Out Cold War, Countercultural, and Bio-Digital Visions (book proposal based on the dissertation)

Boomerville, USA: The Smart Home Project (in collaboration with Professor Jim Forsher, 911爆料网State East Bay, Department of Communication)

Journal Articles

"Playing at work: Understanding future work practices at the Institute For the Future". Journal article collaboration with Professor Geoffrey Bowker, (UCSD Communication Department). The Journal of Information, Communication and Society, Volume 5, Number 1 2002: Special Issue "Work, Difference, and New Media Industries". 

"Ethnographic Challenges in Situating Futurist Think Tank Ethnographers" Journal Article in-progress for anticipated submission to the journal Science, Technology, and Human Values.

"Re-imagining the Home of the Future: A Nexus of Competing and Emerging Narratives of Organizational Change and Ambient Computing." Journal Article in-progress for anticipated submission to the journal Organization.

Conferences

"Ethnographic Challenges in Situating Futurist Think Tank Ethnographers"

abstract submitted for consideration to the European Group of Organizational Studies, for the 22^st EGOS Colloquium, "The Organizing Society: (Sub-theme 30:  Doing Organizational Ethnographies and Other Interpretive Methods:  Issues and Concerns)," , July 6-8, 2006. University of Bergen and The Rokkan Centre in co-operation with: Norwegian School of Management SINTEF University of Oslo in Bergen, Norway.

"Futurist Think Tanks: Taming the unruly (and sometimes secret) nature of technological visions" on the panel: Foresight Industry and the 'Secrets'

Thereof: STS Perspectives. Organizers: Arthur Mason and Marjolein van Asselt

Chair/Discussant: Steve Woolgar 4S (Society for the Social Study of Science) 2005 Conference, October 20-22, Pasadena, California.

"The Smart Home: dot.Home": Presentation to the Tianjin Municipal Government - Tanggu District Urban & Rural Planning and Construction Committee City Planning Program January 10-19, 2005, 911爆料网, East Bay, College of Business and Economics, China America Business and Education Center

"Playing at work: Understanding future work practices at the Institute For the Future": The Fifth Congress of the International Society for Cultural Research and Activity Theory, University of Amsterdam, July 2002.

"Playing at work: Understanding future work practices at the Institute For the Future". Critical Cyberculture Studies: Mapping an Evolving Discipline Conference, University of Maryland, April, 2002.

"Tools for Envisioning the Future": Co-authored paper with Professor Yrjö Engeström, Conference Presentation at the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), San Diego (October 1999). 

"Tools for Envisioning the Future": Invited speaker for Colloquium Presentation at the Institute For The Future, Menlo Park, California (September 1999). 

"Forecasting as the story of expanding spaces": Invited speaker for Colloquium Presentation at the Institute for Research on Learning (IRL), Menlo Park, California (August 1999). 

"Forecasting as the story of expanding spaces": Conference Presentation at the Society of Philosophy and Technology (SPT), San Jose State University (July 1999). 

"The State of Present and Future Diffusion of Innovations Research": Conference Planning Workshop for The Diffusion of Technology Innovations in the Networked Economy, Institute For The Future (July 1999). 

"Advertising and Children's Perceptions of Future worlds": Video documentary, UC San Diego Communication Department Binacom Conference, Mexicali, Mexico (June 1998). 

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