Duke Podcasting Symposium :: September 27

Presenter Biographies

The Duke Podcasting Symposium features a hands-on podcasting workshop, as well as panel discussions of the economic/business, legal, political, journalistic, and cultural impacts of podcasting by bringing together prominent members of the podcasting community with policymakers, scholars, and media experts.

Symposium participants include:

Jason Adams

Jason Adams is the host of the Random Signal podcast, a free-form discussion on topics from sci-fi and comics to independent music. A long time resident of North Carolina and the Triangle, Jason currently lives in Durham and works for Lulu, a print-on-demand publishing company in Morrisville.

Anne Allison

Anne Allison (Ph.D. University of Chicago 1986) is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. Anne researches the ways in which desire seeps into, reconfirms, or reimagines socio-economic relations in various contexts in postwar Japan. Her first book, Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club (University of Chicago Press 1994) is a study of the Japanese corporate practice of entertaining white collar, male workers in the sexualized atmosphere of hostess clubs. Her second book, Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan (Westview-HarperCollins 1996, re-released by University of California Press 2000) examines the intersection of motherhood, productivity, and mass-produced fantasies in contemporary Japan through essays on lunch-boxes, comics, censorship, and stories of mother-son incest. Her current research is on the recent popularization of Japanese children's goods on the global marketplace and how its trends in cuteness, character merchandise, and high-tech play pals are remaking Japan's place in today's world of millennial capitalism.

Casey Alt

Casey Alt is the Administrative Director of the Information Science + Information Studies program at Duke University. Casey's research focuses primarily on the history of media and information design, especially digital media interfaces and their relationship to cultural production. Casey has written on media as diverse as bioinformatics to comic books, 3D modeling applications to videogames. In addition to his academic research on the subject, Casey has also been actively engaged in the design and development of digital media software intended to extend the possibilities for research collaboration. Towards this end, Casey co-founded the Stanford University hpsCollaboratory in 2001 with Professor Tim Lenoir as an independent group of humanities scholars, designers, teachers, artists, and programmers devoted to designing experimental prototypes for new and innovative approaches to collaborative, digitally mediated, academic research.

Kelly A. Amienne (a.k.a. Anne Bramley)

Kelly A. Amienne (Anne Bramley) is an English literature Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago and a visiting lecturer in the English Department at Duke. Her dissertation, "Eating Disorder: Food and Class in Early Modern England" explores how people at various economic levels negotiated their identity and even reinvented themselves through food. She’s the recipient of the Jane Grigson Trust bursary for food studies and several other travel grants that support her archival research in England. In January she decided to combine her scholarly work on food with her more practical food background in baking and cooking to create the podcast, Eat Feed, which she hosts as Anne Bramley. Along with the podcast, she works with food in other mediums as the creator of "The Groaning Board" food column in Renaissance Magazine and a chocolate reviewer for Seventy Percent.

Marc "MisterMarc" Asturias

Marc Asturias is a technology evangelist and has been heavily involved in computing and leading edge technologies since the 1980s. Asturias and Douthett are founders and hosts of the highly acclaimed show, "The Wizards of Technology" (WoT), one of the first podcasts. The show was recently featured as a "must listen to" on NPR. A partial guest list from their show reads like a Who's Who to the Technology world, and includes such personalities as Wil Wheaton, Amanda Congdon, Laura Burstein, Leo LaPorte, Rick Yaeger, August Trommetter, Chris Hoar, David Pogue, Andy Ihnatko, Chris Breen, Jon Gales, Nitrozac and Snaggy, Rob Griffiths, Steve Wozniak, and Phil Schiller. The Wizards of Technology also features the "Duke University Campus Report with Richard Lucic."

Marc began his initial foray into broadcast journalism at WZBT. He continued both on-air and off, at Jones Intercable, Paragon/Time-Warner, Fox, and Florida Sports Network. He is a long-standing member of Tampa Bay Community Network Television. Marc directed the first implementations of Final Cut Pro based, non-linear video editing and on-air solutions at CBS, Warner Bros Television, and the Discovery Channel in South Florida. Additionally a linguist and writer, Marc is a member of the Northern California Translators Association (ATA), TransMug, and MacLingua. Marc has authored technical manuals, user documentation, and online materials for several organizations.

Marc currently works as a consultant in Silicon Valley, in project management, multi-platform software development, and in globalization and localization. He has worked on behalf of such companies as Apple Computer, Symantec, Veritas, Simultrans, and others. Marc has served on several corporate advisory boards, mentored start-ups, and worked with several charitable organizations and community groups.

Philip Auslander

Philip Auslander's primary discipline is Performance Studies. He has written on aesthetic and cultural performances as diverse as theatre, performance art, music, stand-up comedy, and courtroom procedures. His research interests include performance theory, the relationship of performance to media and technology, popular music, and intellectual property. He is the author of five books, including Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture, and editor or co-editor of two collections. His forthcoming book, Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music, will be published by the University of Michigan Press early in 2006. His current book project is a handbook, Theory for Performance Studies.

In addition to his work on performance, Auslander contributes art criticism regularly to Art Forum, Art Papers, and PAJ.

John Biewen

John Biewen is a Correspondent/Producer with American RadioWorks, the documentary unit of American Public Media, and an instructor and Audio Programs Director at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Since the 1980's, Biewen has produced documentaries and news reports for NPR and other public radio audiences, and for the Internet. His work on economic and social issues has taken him across the United States, and to Europe, Japan, and India. His historical documentaries include pieces on Freedom Summer, the Korean War, and the founding of the modern hospice movement. In recent projects he has followed ex-inmates, and military families, in North Carolina. He's received two Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Awards, the Third Coast International Audio Festival's Public Service Award, and the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award, among other honors. Biewen graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, with a degree in philosophy. In 1985-87 he lived and taught in Osaka, Japan.

Tim Bourquin

Tim Bourquin owns TNC New Media, a tradeshow and online media company, and has been involved in streaming media since 1999 and podcasting since the fall of 2004. He has launched several podcasting sites as businesses including EnduranceRadio.com, featuring audio interviews with triathletes, adventure racers and trail runners which has attracted sponsors such as Gatorade and Fleet Feet Sports. His second podcasting site, SmallBusinessExpo.com, features audio programs for small business owners and interviews with successful and start-up entrepreneurs. Taking his passion for podcasting a step further, his company is launching Podcast & Portable Media Expo this November near Los Angeles.

danah boyd

danah boyd is a Ph.D student in the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California - Berkeley. danah studies how people negotiate their presentation of self in mediated social contexts to an unknown audience. Recently, her work has focused on Friendster, blogging, mobile technologies and youth culture. Having grown up online, danah has a native understanding of how her generation uses technology to manage their social world. She uses this privileged position to engage in ethnography to further understand the varied behaviors that have emerged in digital culture. With this knowledge, danah works with technology developers so that they may further empower youth and marginalized populations.

James Boyle

James Boyle is William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law and co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke University Law School. Professor Boyle joined the faculty in July 2000 and has also taught at American University, Yale, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is the editor of Critical Legal Studies (Dartmouth/NYU Press 1994), special editor of Collected Papers on the Public Domain (Duke: L&CP 2003) and author of Shamans, Software and Spleens: Law and Construction of the Information Society (Harvard University Press 1996). He is the winner of the 2003 World Technology Award for Law for his work on the "intellectual ecology" of the public domain, and on the "second enclosure movement" that threatens it; (a disappointing amount of which was foretold in his 1996 New York Times article on the subject.) Professor Boyle writes on legal and social theory, on issues ranging from political correctness to constitutional interpretation and from the social contract to the authorship debate in law and literature. Most recently his work has focused on the information age. He is currently working on a book about the Public Domain. His recent essays include discussion of the "Opposite of Property," First Amendment implications of Clinton-era intellectual property policy as it affects the Internet, the economic rhetoric of price discrimination in digital commerce, and the administrative and constitutional restraints on Internet governance. Professor Boyle teaches Intellectual Property, the Constitution in Cyberspace, Law and Literature, Jurisprudence and Torts. He is one of the founding Board Members of both Creative Commons and of Science Commons. He is also a member of the academic advisory boards of the Electronic Privacy and Information Center, the Connexions open-source courseware project, and of Public Knowledge. He writes as an online columnist for the Financial Times' New Economy Policy Forum.

Paul Conway

Paul Conway is the Director of Information Technology Services for Duke University Libraries. Paul provides leadership for all of the libraries' technology programs and services and represents library technology interests on the Duke campus and in regional, national, and international organizations. Prior to coming to Duke, Paul headed the Preservation Department at Yale University Library for nine years. Among his responsibilities at Yale, he chaired the Library Management Council, twice served as interim head of the Acquisitions Department, and provided staff support for university facilities planning committees. At Yale, Paul managed several digital research and development projects, including (1) Project Open Book; (2) a planning project exploring the complexities of guaranteeing long-term access to e-journal content produced by commercial publishers; and (3) an exploration of the potential value of e-book content to library course reserve programs. Paul Conway began his professional career in 1977 as an archivist on the staff of the Gerald R. Ford Library. From 1988 to 1992 served successively as the Preservation Program Officer for the Society of American Archivists and as an Archives Specialist at the National Archives and Records Administration, where he conducted a study of research use of archives and a review of how government agencies implement digital imaging technology. He has a Masters Degree in History and a Ph.D. in Information and Library Studies, both from the University of Michigan. Paul is widely published on preservation and archives administration. Most recently, his writing has focused on the challenges of preserving library resources in digital form.

Bill "DigitalBill" Douthett

Bill Douthett started into technology by teaching himself computer programming, without a computer. Years later, while a student at The Art Institute, “Digital Bill” began his foray into broadcasting at WLRN TV in Miami where he was part of the technical and field production crews. In the years that followed, he honed his production skills, and combined them with his love computers, to become an early adopter of digital video editing. Along with Marc Asturias, he is co-host and co-founder of wizardsoftechnology.com, a technical forum for advanced and new technology users. The Wizards of Technology, in conjunction with MacCenter, hosted many technology forums, including South Florida's first “virtual” booksigning and “Meet and Geek” in 2004 with Wil Wheaton, Snaggy and Nitrozac from the Joy of Tech, and Chris Hoar of textamerica.com. “Digital Bill’s” love for all things technological has prompted friends to say he’s forgotten more about technology than many people will ever know.

John Federico

John Federico is a Director of Business Development and general manager of the podcasting business unit for audible.com. Audible has enabled the delivery of downloadable digital audio for nearly 8 years having created a proprietary compressed file format that allowed delivery of long-form audio content over dial-up Internet connections. To enable on-the-go listening, the Company produced a companion device for its file format: the world's first portable digital audio player. (The device is now a relic in the Smithsonian.)

Since that time, Audible has adopted and employed industry standard improvements in quality and service by introducing higher fidelity file formats and enabling playback of its content on over 140 portable devices, including the iPod. In June 2005, Audible took the next step in its employment of standards for digital audio and began delivering its periodic content via RSS. The Company will release its platform to enable the delivery of specifically measurable and commerce-enabled podcasting later this year.

Prior to Audible, part of John's fourteen years as a marketer has focused on developing new media properties and businesses for companies like Advance Internet, NJ.com, NetCreations (now ReturnPath), and MaMaMedia. In addition to his marketing, product & business development responsibilities at Audible, John is co-host of EarBuds: The Audible Podcast and contributes to a weblog of the same name.

Daniel Foster

Daniel H. Foster is an Assistant Professor of Dramatic History and Literature in Duke University's Department of Theater Studies. He focuses on classical, modern, and contemporary theater history, literature, and criticism, with a particular interest in dramaturgy and the intersection of drama, literature, and music. In 2001 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago's Comparative Literature Department, where he was awarded honors for his dissertation on Richard Wagner's use of classical Greek drama and poetry as models for his operatic treatment of German myth and national identity. For further research on drama, performance studies, and music, in 2001-2002 he was awarded a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship by the University Pennsylvania Humanities Forum and taught in Penn's Music Department. He is currently rewriting his dissertation for publication as a book entitled The Hellenization of Politics: Wagner's Ring Cycle and the Greeks. This manuscript is currently under review by the Cambridge University Press. His most recent essays explore the performance of identity through song and the transatlantic phenomenon of minstrels and minstrel shows.

Tracy Futhey

Tracy Futhey was appointed Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer at Duke University in February 2002. She is responsible for the strategic evolution of the university's information technology infrastructure and directs the allocation and effective use of computing resources in support of university programs. In its 2001 strategic plan, Duke identified information technology as one of its major goals. Futhey provides the leadership for achieving that goal, which seeks to intensify the use of information technology throughout the university's various endeavors. Prior to her position at Duke, Futhey spent 17 years at Carnegie Mellon University in a variety of information technology positions, ranging from computer consultant in the early years to CIO in the later years. Futhey is an active member of numerous regional and national higher education organizations and serves on several industry advisory councils. She holds a B.S. in mathematics with a computer science concentration and a M.S. in industrial administration, both from Carnegie Mellon.

Jane M. Gaines

Jane M. Gaines is a Professor of Literature and English at Duke University, founder of the Program in Film/Video/Digital, and founder of the Duke in Los Angeles Program. Most recently, Professor Gaines won the Katherine Singer Kovacs prize for Fire and Desire: Mixed- Blood Movies in the Silent Era (University of Chicago Press, 2001). This is the second time she has won, receiving the award for Contested Culture: The Image, the Voice, and the Law (University of North Carolina Press, 1991). In November, 2001, she received the coveted Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scholarly Award for her forthcoming book on early cinema, Fictioning Histories: Women Film Pioneers (University of Illinois Press, forthcoming). She is currently co-editing an issue of American Literature on new technologies: "The Three Rs of Critical Theory: Repetition, Reproduction, Representation." For 2003-04 Professor Gaines was on leave at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Michael Geoghegan

Michael Geoghegan, co-author of the new book Podcast Solutions -- The Complete Guide to Podcasting, has been involved in podcasting since its earliest days. His first podcast is Reel Reviews - Films Worth Watching. With the success of Reel Reviews and building on Michael's enthusiasm for podcasting, he began helping others get involved. His second production, Grape Radio, is the top rated podcast about wine. Through his company Willnick Productions Inc., Michael produced some of the first corporate podcasts including his work with Disney where he hosted and produced The 50th Anniversary, Disneyland Podcasts. Michael has just launched his newest venture, PrivaCast, a first-of-its-kind enterprise-level solution for secure corporate and educational communications among organizations and their employees and constituents

David Gilbert

David Gilbert has been a geek since he purchased his first computer in 1981--a Commodore VIC-20. Gilbert studies technologies of communication in relation to Classical Greek rhetoric, public sphere theory, and contemporary Continental social theory. Gilbert holds his doctorate in Communication Studies from the University of Texas - Austin. He is currently an adjunct professor at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City, where he conducts Art Mobs, a museum audio guide podcasting project for students in Communication Arts and Fine Art.

Michele Hilmes

Michele Hilmes is Professor and Associate Chair of Media & Cultural Studies at the Unversity of Wisconsin - Madison and Director of the Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research. Professor Hilmes specializes in the history of broadcasting, with a strong emphasis on public sphere theory and issues of historiographical theory and method. Professor Hilmes' favorite area of research is on radio, both old-time radio before television, and current radio especially as it becomes the one truly global medium. Recently she has been working on a comparative study of British and American broadcasting, looking at how each country influenced the other and how the two nations counterposed their own systems - commercial vs. public service - in a way that affected broadcasting structures and concepts around the world. Hilmes also very interested in issues of race, ethnicity, and gender in the media, and has written on radio as a medium of national identity and definition.

Michael J. Huppe

Michael J. Huppe is currently Senior Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs and Deputy General Counsel with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) where he is involved in protecting the rights of the RIAA's member recording labels and their artists, in both digital and physical media. He has participated in various copyright litigations undertaken by the RIAA, including everything from large suits involving cases of first impression to smaller "demands" made against more traditional pirate targets. He is also involved with certain industry business issues such as licensing, product labeling, and new technological developments. He has assisted with legislative and international issues facing the recording industry, thereby helping to develop RIAA's legal response to an ever-changing technological landscape.

Mr. Huppe graduated from Harvard Law School in 1995. He went on to clerk for The Hon. Leonie M. Brinkema in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (Alexandria Division) where he was involved in numerous intellectual property cases, including a watershed case relating to copyrights on the Internet (Religious Technology Center v. Lerma). Prior to joining the RIAA, he was a litigation attorney at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P. in Washington, D.C. He has guest lectured on a variety of issues at Georgetown Law School, George Washington School of Law, and George Mason Law School. He is a certified instructor with the IACP teaching a course on Intellectual Property Crimes.

Mimi Ito

Mimi Ito is a cultural anthropologist who studies new media use, particularly among young people in Japan and the US. Her research group at Keio University studies mobile phone use, and she is just launching (with Peter Lyman and Michael Carter) a multi-year project on digital kids and informal learning, with support from the MacArthur Foundation. Mizuko recently edited a book for MIT Press with Daisuke Okabe and Misa Matsuda entitled, Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life. Dr. Ito has worked at the Institute for Research on Learning Technologies, Xerox PARC, Tokyo University, the National Institute for Educational Research in Japan, and Apple Computer.

Jennifer Jenkins

Jennifer Jenkins is Director of Duke University's Center for the Study of the Public Domain, where she heads its "Arts Project" - a project analyzing the effects of intellectual property on cultural production. She also teaches a seminar on Intellectual Property, Free Speech and the Public Domain. As a lawyer, she was a member of the team that defended the copyright infringement suit against the publisher of the novel "The Wind Done Gone" (a parodic rejoinder to "Gone With the Wind"). As an artist, she co-authored "Nuestra Hernandez," a fictional documentary addressing copyright and appropriation, and has also authored several short stories.

Tony Kahn

Tony Kahn brings many award-winning talents to his duties on BBC World Service, Public Radio International, and WGBH's The World. Kahn serves as alternate host for Lisa Mullins and writes, produces and hosts "Tony Kahn's Journal." A regular feature of The World, "Tony Kahn's Journal" looks beyond the headlines to explore cultural, political and scientific topics of importance, often using as a focal point remarkable individuals whose stories offer a unique perspective on the issue. Kahn has written, produced, narrated and hosted more than 50 radio and television programs and series for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), National Public Radio (NPR), Nickelodeon, A&E, Monitor Radio, and Boston television stations WGBH and WCVB. He was most recently acclaimed for his public radio series Blacklisted, which chronicled the Hollywood blacklisting of his screenwriter father Gordon Kahn during the McCarthy era. In addition to his work with The World, Kahn is a regular panelist on WGBH/NPR's weekly witty word game show, Says You! He has been a regular commentator for Public Radio International's Marketplace and NPR's Morning Edition. Kahn's broadcast work has received numerous honors, including 12 New England Emma National Emmy nomination, six Gold Medals of the New York International Festival, an Ohio State Award, the Edward R. Murrow Award for Feature Reporting, the A.I.R. Radio Award for Radio Interviewing, and the Grand Award for Radio Drama from the New York International Festival. Several of his documentaries have been screened at film festivals throughout the US; other works, including three plays and five screenplays, have received notable recognition. In addition, Kahn has received a Writer's Guild of America Screenwriting Fellowship.

Doug Kaye

Doug Kaye is the original host, producer, developer, writer, interviewer and engineer of the IT Conversations podcast and a major new (but so far unnamed) non-profit network. Before his distinguished 28-year career as a computer-software and dot-com CEO and CTO, he cut his audio teeth as a field and studio engineer in radio and as a sound editor and post-production mixer in film and television. Somewhere along the way, Doug found time to write two books:Strategies for Web Hosting and Managed Services (John Wiley and Sons, 2002) and Loosely Coupled--The Missing Pieces of Web Services (RDS Press, 2003). Kaye's prior stints have included executive positions with Organic Online, goodcompany.com, and NextMonet.com. Previously, he was founder and CEO of Rational Data Systems, developers of networking software.

Mur Lafferty

Mur Lafferty has been podcasting since early December, 2004. She lives in Durham, NC, with another geek, a young geek-in-training, and a dog. She is obsessed with all things scifi and gaming. Her podcasts include: Geek Fu Action Grip, featuring a geeky audioblog and weekly essay//, and the new I Should Be Writing, a writing show for wanna-be fiction writers, by a wanna-be fiction writer. She works from home, taking care of her daughter and freelance writing. Her writing has been seen in Computer Games, PC Gamer, IQ Gamer and over 14 role-playing game books.

Peter Lange

Peter Lange joined the Department of Political Science at Duke University in 1981 after a previous teaching position at Harvard University. Since arriving at Duke, he has been Associate Professor (1982-1989), Full Professor (since 1989), and Chair of the Department of Political Science (1996 to 1999). He assumed his position as the Provost of Duke University in July of 1999.

As a professor, Lange focuses on the topics of comparative politics and political economy. His early work focused on Italian politics and the Italian Communist Party. He subsequently studied European trade union movements. In more recent years his research focus has turned to the economic performance of the advanced industrial democracies and the effects of globalization on these relationships. His current research is a collaborative project on the effects of globalization on perceptions of economic risk on the part of citizens in democratic settings and the ways such perceptions become translated into national policies to secure citizens against such risks.

JD Lasica

J.D. Lasica is one of the world's leading authorities on grassroots media and the personal media revolution. A writer, blogger and consultant, he is the co-founder and executive director of Ourmedia.org. His book about the personal media revolution is Darknet: Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generation (Wiley & Sons, May 2005). J.D. was an editor at the Sacramento Bee for 11 years, has written articles about technology and culture for major publications, and headed up editorial teams at three startups. He blogs at New Media Musings, Darknet and Social Media. He lives with his wife and son in the San Francisco Bay Area and is a frequent speaker and panelist at technology and media conferences.

Tim Lenoir

Tim Lenoir is the Kimberly J. Jenkins Chair in New Technologies & Society at Duke University. Lenoir is the author of The Strategy of Life: Teleology and Mechanics in Nineteenth Century German Biology, Politik im Tempel der Wissenschaft: Forschung und Machtausuebung im deutschen Kaiserreich, Instituting Science: The Cultural Production of Scientific Disciplines, and edited Inscribing Science: Scientific Texts and the Materiality of Communication. Lenoir is currently engaged in an investigation of the introduction of computers into biomedical research from the early 1960s through the 1990s, particularly the development of computer graphics, medical visualization technology, the development of virtual reality and its application in surgery. With funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Lenoir constructed two web projects on the history of human computer interaction and on the history of bioinformatics. Lenoir has been a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and twice a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin. He is the co-founder and editor of the Stanford University Press series, Writing Science. Lenoir was named Bing Fellow for Excellence in Teaching 1998-2001.

Sam Levin

Sam Levin is currently an on-air entertainment commentator for Inside Mac Radio and a consultant in the emerging technology industry. Sam is the former Co Founder of the Stanford Mac Users' Group, a key special interest [Mac] group representing one of Apple's first Consortium based Universities within the U.S.

At Inside Mac Radio, Levin plays a crucial role in forging a path for airing new products and technologies and is widely credited in developing crucial relationships between entertainment and technology industries.

Prior to joining Inside Mac Radio in 2002, Levin worked with leading Macintosh, PC and mobile developers on business development, licensing, and strategic market development. Sam directed licensing initiatives for leading entertainment companies such as Virgin Interactive, Broderbund, and Mattel.

Sam has been using Macs for 20+ years, as well as tied into the world of handheld and digital imaging, providing him a special angle on personal computing and consumer electronics.

Richard Lucic

Richard Lucic is the Associate Department Chair, Director of External Relations, and Associate Professor of the Practice of Computer Science at Duke University, as well as the Curriculum Director for the program in Information Science + Information Studies (ISIS). Richard's research seeks to advance the practice and contribution of the computer science discipline. His interests include the design and development of web-based tools for the support of teaching and learning and for the effective dissemination of information. He has participated in the research, development, and implementation of new innovative technology management and transfer methodologies. In managing external relations for the Department of Computer Science, Richard ensures effective collaborations with other academic researchers, develops mutually beneficial interactions with Industrial Partners, and acquires research funding from government agencies and private foundations. These activites provide a mechanism to ensure the relevance and quality of the Department's research and teaching and generate the necessary funding for Duke Computer Science to compete effectively with other universities as a national resource for research contributions and the production of the highest quality graduates.

Ryn Nasser

Ryn Nasser currently works for Arts & Sciences Information Science and Technology at Duke University as a Web developer and Faculty Database System consultant. She received her MSIS from the School of Information and Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2002. Her masters' paper focused on the process (and pitfalls) of rolling out a university-wide events calendar. During her time in grad school, Ryn worked as the events calendar project coordinator, an IT security consultant, and a computer lab manager. Her most recent job before she came to Duke focused on programming and deploying Web surveys.

Sasha Norkin

Sasha Norkin is a professor at Boston University's College of Communication; an Internet, wireless and media consultant; and in the process of developing Podcast.com and Podcasting.com. She was part of the founding team at Infoplease.com, acquired by Pearson Education, and AnyDay.com, acquired by Palm. She managed wireless content partnerships and direct marketing for Palm and was part of the executive management team at New England Television as well as executive producer at Hearst Argyle's WCVB-TV, Boston, and stations in San Francisco, Connecticut and Florida.

Professor Norkin teaches a wide range of broadcast journalism and multimedia courses at Boston University and is focusing on the rise of citizen journalism and podcasting and how it is impacting the future of news.

Lynne O'Brien

As Director of Duke University's Center for Instructional Technology, Lynne O'Brien champions instructional technology at Duke by leading CIT's programs and consulting with faculty, campus IT planners and academic technology groups around the country. She manages CIT's resources, including its staff, grants program and Instructional Technology Lab. Lynne came to Duke from Brown University, where she was a faculty member and manager of instructional computing services. She has organized conferences on academic computing, taught courses in educational software design, planned technology-enhanced classrooms and served on accreditation teams for the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. Lynne holds a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Delaware.

Kenneth Rogerson

Kenneth S. Rogerson is Research Director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy at Duke University's Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. Dr. Rogerson has a Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of South Carolina, where his research has focused on international relations, international communications and media policy issues. In his dissertation, he examined the evolution of U.S. foreign information policy. He has a Masters of Arts degree in International Relations and a B.A. in Journalism and European Studies from Brigham Young University. During his studies at the University of South Carolina Mr. Rogerson won the Excellence in Teaching Award, and the journal which he edited, Global Governance, was named the Best New Journal in the United States in Business, Social Sciences and the Humanities by the Association of American Publishers. He worked as a Research Assistant at the Walker Institute of International Studies at the University of South Carolina, where he organized conferences and seminars and assisted in the publication of working papers, newsletters and annual reports.

Brian C. Russell

Brian C. Russell is a media activist who produces a podcast and weblog called AudioActivism.org. The podcast is a mix of first-person opinion, reviews of online activism tools, interviews with activists, and radio documentary style programs. AudioActivism's tag line is "Metadata about *Media* Activism". Presently he is organizing an international conference on Podcasting called PodcasterCon, podcastercon.org. The event will be held at the beginning of the January 7, 2006, at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Brian has worked with corporate and university training teams creating multimedia to accompany distance education components. He has also taught classes in basic computer literacy, multimedia software, and Internet aesthetics. He graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Sculpture and Painting. Brian's personal mission is to increase media literacy by assisting individuals in making their own media.

Scott Saunders

Scott's CV. More coming soon...

Jason Schultz

Jason Schultz is a Staff Attorney specializing in intellectual property and reverse engineering for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). He currently leads EFF's Patent Busting Project. Prior to joining EFF, Schultz worked at the law firm of Fish & Richardson P.C., where he spent most of his time invalidating software patents and defending open source developers in law suits. While at F&R, he co-authored an amicus brief on behalf of the Internet Archive, Prelinger Archives, and Project Gutenberg in support of Eric Eldred's challenge to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. Prior to F&R, Schultz served as a law clerk to the Honorable D. Lowell Jensen and as a legal intern to the Honorable Ronald M. Whyte, both in the Northern District of California federal court system. During law school, Schultz served as Managing Editor of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal and helped found the Samuelson Clinic, the first legal clinic in the country to focus on high tech policy issues and the public interest. Schultz also has undergraduate degrees in Public Policy and Women's Studies from Duke University. Jason maintains a personal blog at lawgeek.net.

Francis Shepherd

Francis Shepherd is a senior systems engineer for Apple in North Carolina. As a member of the digital media team, his role is to evangelize OS X, Apple's pro apps--Final Cut Pro Studio, Shake, Logic, and other innovative solutions. With over 30 years experience in the communication arts field, his career has transcended advertising photography, print and web design, interactive media, software development, visual FX production, and technology consulting. Before coming to Apple, he worked as an independent advertising photographer in Dallas,TX and Cologne, Germany, founded Digital Valley Design in Chadds Ford, PA, and served as creative director and interactive media designer for DADA DATA in Cary, NC. He is the founder of the Carolina Final Cut Pro Users Group and generates an Arts & Creative News feed. Francis is a frequent technical presenter at conferences, workshops, and media events. His special areas of focus include integrating media into learning environments, supporting content innovators in digital media initiatives, and exploring new trends and emerging technologies.

Jonathan Sterne

Dr. Jonathan Sterne teaches in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. His book, The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction is available from Duke University Press. His journal articles and book chapters cover a wide range of issues in media, technology, and the politics of culture. Sterne has been online since 1982, and he has seen cyberspace evolve from a loose network of bulletin boards to the massive internet as we know it today. Since 1994, he has been involved in producing Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life, one of the longest continuously-running publication on the internet. In addition to writing for Bad Subjects and sometimes other alternative media outlets like Tape Op and Punk Planet, Sterne has occasionally been interviewed in mainstream media outlets such as The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and National Public Radio. Sterne has played bass since he was 10 years old and has performed and recorded with several rock bands, a few jazz acts, and a school orchestra. An aspiring amateur audio engineer, he runs a small not-for-profit home studio. His current band, Lo-Boy, released their first CD in spring of 2003, and is mixing their second, as yet untitled album.

David J. Warner

While attempting to get a newspaper internship in 1993, David J.Warner, then a student at Indiana University, told interviewers that the Internet was the next big thing in media. None of the interviews had a clue what he was talking about. Three years later, those newspapers all had their own web sites. Meanwhile, David got a job as a web documentation specialist and spent far too much of his spare time exploring cyberspace. David is now the host of Dave's Lounge, a weekly podcast dedicated to independent trip hop and downtempo electronic music.

Duke University Podcasting Symposium

September 27 - 28, 2005