Thank you to professor mark berkson (namesake of FIRE's "courageous colleague" award) for the shout out at the hamline-mitchell law school academic freedom conference (w/ former ACLU leader nadine strossen)
“Let Them All Eat Cake: Rhetorically Mapping
Religious Freedom, LGBTQIA Discrimination,
and The First Amendment After
Janus and Masterpiece.”
With Tom Freeman and Daniel Schneider
WILLIAM & MARY LAW REVIEW
GEORGETOWN JOURNAL OF LAW & PUBLIC POLICY
NEBRASKA LAWYER
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE
MCGRAW HILL
INTIMA: A JOURNAL OF NARRATIVE MEDICINE
HAMPTON PRESS
CICA PRESS
LEXINGTON PRESS
COMPETITION POLICY INTERNATIONAL
WILEY-BLACKWELL
OMAHA WORLD-HEARLD
POP MATTERS / DAILY NEBRASKAN MISSOURI REVIEW
(2ND PLACE: MILLER AUDIO)
***WINNER: Primeaux Award for Best Paper
(First Runner-Up)
"Using the Lens of Narrative Theory to Rethink Digital Ethics"
International Vincentian
Business Ethics Conference.
Proceedings. (Forthcoming)
With Marci Exted and Thomas Freeman
"The Roberts Court and Compulsory Collective Bargaining: Reading the Tea Leaves After Janus and Masterpiece."
Georgetown Journal of Law
and Public Policy.
Spring 2023.
w/ Thomas Freeman
“In Two Voices: A Neuroscientist and Patient
Tell Their Story.”
Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine.
August 2020
With Amanda Aherns and Stephen Pederson.
***WINNER: Best Paper Award
“Let Them All Eat Cake: Rhetorically Mapping Religious Freedom, LGBTQIA Discrimination, and The First Amendment After Janus and Masterpiece.”
Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business
Proceedings. 2020
With Thomas Freeman
“Rhetorically Predicting a First Amendment Right to Negotiation After Janus.”
William and Mary Business Law Review.
11: 609 (2020).
With Thomas Freeman and Destiyne Sewell
“The Art of EMF Science: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Post-Digital Health Advocacy.”
PostHuman: New Media Art 2020.
CICA Press: 2020
With Steven Pederson and The Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.
“The Future of Collective Bargaining: Rhetorically Predicting a First Amendment Right to Negotiation.”
Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business.
Proceedings 2019
With Thomas Freeman and Destynie Sewell.
“What About Cynthia: A Case Study Exploring Corporate Fiduciary Duties and Social Responsibility.”
Journal of the International Academy for Case Studies.
Vol. 25, Issue 4 (2019).
With Thomas Freeman
"A Legal And Ethical Audit of Continental Bank and Trust."
Journal of the International Academy for Case Studies
Vol. 25, Issue 2 (2019)
With Thomas Freeman
“I Want to Party With You Cowboy: Stephen Colbert and Campaign 2016’s Aesthetic Logic of Truthiness.”
The Joke is On Us: Political Comedy in (Late) Neoliberal Times.
Julie Watson, Ed.
Lexington Press, 2019
With Thomas Lawson
Fear and Loathing in the New Media Era : How to Realign our Rhetorical Judgmentsfor the Post-Postmodern, Digital Media Age.
Dissertation.
Ohio State University, 2012.
“The Rhetoric of Narrative: What the Law as Narrative Movement Can Teach the Rest of the Narrative Turn.”
Narrative Acts: Rhetoric, Race, Identity, Knowledge.
Deborah Journet, Ed.
Hampton Press, 2011
“Rhetoric.”
Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Novel.
Peter Logan, Ed.
Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
“New Media, New English.”
Reading and Writing New Media.
Eds. Cheryl E. Ball and James Kalmbach.
Hampton Press, 2009
w/ Jason Palmeri, Cormac Slevin, and Scott Lloyd DeWitt.
Commonplace: A User’s Guide to Persuasion(for an Age that Desperately Needs One).
McGraw-Hill, 2009
w/ Michael Harker and Scott Lloyd DeWitt.
Textbook and ed tech platform
“Foreword.”
The Business of Higher Education:Marketing and Consumer Interests.
Eds. John C. Knapp and David J. Siegel.
Praeger, 2009.
With E. Gordon Gee.
“Re-Learning How to Argue.”
Multimodal Composition: Resources for Teachers.
Ed. Cynthia L. Selfe.
Hampton Press, 2007
Audio essay.
“Made Actual Through Pain: A Literacy Narrative.”
Multimodal Composition: Resources for Teachers.
Ed. Cynthia L. Selfe.
Hampton Press, 2007
Documentary.
With Michael Harker and Cormac Slevin.
“Not Necessarily Not the News: Remediation, Gatekeeping, and The Daily Show.”
Journal of American Culture
28.4 (Dec 2005): 415-430
"Principles of Digital Law and Ethics."
CPI TechREG Chronicle.
Special Issue on Machine Learning.
Feb 2023
w/ Thomas Freeman, Samson Hall
"A Primer on Digital and Data Science Ethics."
Nebraska Lawyer.
Sept/Oct 2022
w/ Thomas Freeman, Samson Hall
“Criminal Conviction By Algorithms Are Ruining Innocent Lives.”
Omaha World Herald.
August 29, 2021
w/ Thomas Freeman and Elizabeth Otto.
“The Legal Implications ofAlgorithmic Decision-Making.”
Nebraska Lawyer.
May/June 2020
w/ Thomas Freeman and Samson Hall.
"As Technology Evolves,So Will the Law, and So Must Attorneys"
Nebraska Lawyer.
July/August 2019
w/ Thomas Freeman
“Free Speech in Post-Digital America.”
Hennepin County Library.
Permanent Collection.
September 2019
w/ The Institute for Digital Humanity and The Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.
“Are We the RockstarsWe’ve Been Waiting For?”
PopMatters.
3 Nov. 2008
“Mike Huckabee’s Family Guy Values.”
Alternet
21 Jan. 2008
“A Hypothetical Problem.”
PopMatters.
17 Sept. 2006
TRANSATLANTIC DIALOGUE
ON HUMANITY AND AI
REGULATION
DATA, LAW & ETHICS RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION
MIDWEST ACADEMY OF LEGAL STUDIES IN BUSINESS
HEIDER BUSINESS SYMPOSIUM
INDIANA UNIVERSITY
NORTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY
NORTH CAROLINA AT & T
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
DREW UNIVERSITY
HAMLINE UNIVERSITY CENTER
FOR JUSTICE & LAW
INVITED ACADEMIC TALKS / AWARD-WINNING PRESENTATIONS / COMPETITIVE CONFERENCES
Note: All of Dr. M's AI frameworks also handle free speech, privacy, and disinformation. These are only key works. See full CV here.
“Triangulating Hate Speech and Free Speech in Algorithmic Environments.”
Indiana University.
Bloomington, IN: April 2022. (Online.)
*WINNER: BEST PAPER AWARD*
“Make
Them Bake Cake? In the Wake of Masterpiece Cakeshop, Which Religious
Activities Are Protected Expression Under the First Amendment and
Protected from Discrimination Laws?”
Midwest Business Administrative Association/Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business Joint Conference.
With Tom Freeman and Daniel Schneider.
Chicago, IL. March 2020.
“The Right to Speak, Bake, or Film…or Not…Which Activities are Protected Expression Under the First Amendment?”.
Huber Hurst Research Seminar in Business Law and Ethics.
With Thomas Freeman.
Gainsville, FL. January 2020.
“Janus and the Future of Collective Bargaining,
Rhetorically Predicting a First Amendment Right to Negotiation.”
Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business Joint Conference.
With Thomas Freeman.
Chicago, March 2019.
EARLY RESEARCH / KEY PRESENTATIONS
“The Pillowman and Free Speech: A Post-Performance Discussion.”
Hamline University.
Saint Paul, MN. 22 February 2016.
Invited.
“Shouting Fire: Originalism and Antonin Scalia.”
Jiggery-Pokery and Applesauce? The Impact and Legacy of Justice Antonin Scalia.
Hamline University Center for Justice and Law.
Saint Paul, MN: February 2016.
Invited.
“Shouting ‘Fire’ in the Writing Classroom:
Rhetoric, Law, and Composition.”
Conference on College Composition and Communication.
New York, NY: March 2007.
“‘Alive and well and living in Washington’:
Narrativity, Casebook Logic, and Legal Pedagogy.”
International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Washington, D.C.: March 2007.
“Finding Authorization to ‘lance the boil’:
Context, Content, and Free Speech Zones.”
Association for the Study of Law,
Culture, and the Humanities.
Syracuse, NY: March 2006.
FIRST AMENDMENT: AI and PRIVACY
*WINNER (RUNNER UP)
PRIMEAUX AWARD FOR BEST PAPER*
“Using the Lens of Narrative Theory
to Rethink Digital Ethics.”
International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference.
With Marci Exted and Thomas Freeman.
October 2022.
“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory
to Reframe Health Data Sanctity.”
Inaugural Transatlantic Dialogue on Humanity and AI Regulation.
Hosted by HEC Paris.
Paris, France. May 2022.
“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to
Forgive, Forget, and Re-Program Digital Dignity.”
Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium.
Organizers: Indiana University, Virginia Tech, and University of Pennsylvania.
With Thomas Freeman.
Online. April 2022.
“Algorithmic Unreliability: Narrative Theory,
Digital Ethics, and The Constitutionality of Employment AI.”
Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business.
With Thomas Freeman and Marci Exted.
Chicago, IL and Online: March 2022.
“Redefining Digital Literary:
Algorithms and You.”
SXSW EDU.
With Thomas Freeman, Ayin Morales-Monge, and Shea Sullivan.
March 2022.
“Privacy 3.0: Forgiveness
and Student Data After Mahoney.”
International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference.
With Thomas Freeman, Simon Truatman, and Amanda Aherns.
Chicago: DePaul University. October 2021.
“Algorithmic Bias: How Cross-Functional Networks
Can Fight Digitized Discrimination.”
Creighton University.
Heider Business Symposium.
With Thomas Freeman, Elizabeth Otto, Ayin Monge, and Julius Hernandez.
Omaha, NE. October 2021.
“Reckoning With Robots:The Constitutional Implications of Using Algorithms to Make
Human Decisions.”
Midwest Association of Legal Studies in Business /
Midwest Business Administration Association Annual Conference.
With Thomas Freeman.
Chicago: March 2021.
“Digital Ethics: What’s Next?”
OSTROM Workshop.
Indiana University School of Business.
Bloomington, IN.
With Julius Hernandez and Shea Sullivan.
February 2021.
Invited.
“A Taxonomy of Algorithmic Unreliability:
Using Facial Recognition to Map Constitutional Issues.”
Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium.
Indiana University and Virginia Tech University.
Online (COVID): May 2020
“What Would Jesus Program?”
Rhetoric Society of America.
Portland, OR.
May 2020. (COVID).
“Racist Robots? A Visual Primer on Understanding Algorithmic Bias.”
Midwest Associate of Legal Studies in Business /
Midwest Business Administration Association Annual Conference.
With Thomas Freeman, Ayin Monge-Morales,
and Moises Morales.
March 2020.
“Rhetoric Versus the Robots II: The Ethics of Algorithmic Unreliability.”
International Society for the Study of Narrative.
With Weston Cregut and Rebekah Winkel.
New Orleans, LA. March 2020.
“Rhetoric Versus the Robots: Mapping the Legal
and Ethical Dimensions of Algorithmic Discrimination.”
Consortium for the Study of Religion, Ethics and Society at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.
Bloomington, IN. November 2019.
“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to Navigate
Legal, Corporate, and Community Debates on Algorithmic Ethics.”
Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium.
Washington and Lee School of Law.
With Thomas Freeman.
Lexington, VA. April 2019.
“Why Digital Rights Is The New Civil Rights Movement.”
North Carolina A & T State University.
Greensboro, NC: May 2018.
“What Norm MacDonald and Narrative TheoryCan Teach Us About Social Media Privacy
And Big Data Reasoning.”
Hamline University.
Saint Paul, MN. April 2017.
Invited.
FIRST AMENDMENT RE:
DISINFORMATION, POST-FACT SCIENCE,
and POST-DIGITAL AMERICAN POLITICS
“The Art of EMF Science: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Post-Digital Health Advocacy.”
Rhetoric of Health And Medicine Conference.
With Stephen Pedersen and Allison Baker.
Online: October 2020.
“Cellular Home Invasion: Public Art As Rhetorical Intervention in Scientific Debates On EMF Health Effects.”
Rhetoric Society of America.
With Allison Baker and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.
Portland, OR. May 2020. (COVID).
“EMF Science and the Post-Fact Society:
Models to Stop Disinformation.”
Drew University.
New Jersey: June 2018.
Invited.
“Unsound Methods?”
Panel and Multimedia Performance.
Rhetoric Society of America.
With Cory Holding, Matt Sumera, Josh Gumiela, Allison Baker, and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.
Minneapolis, MN, May 2018.
“#Objectivity: Unlikable Narrative Justice.”
Beyond Ferguson: Critical Conversations.
Hamline University.
Saint Paul, MN: January 2015.
Invited.
“Campaign Narrative, The End:
A New Story for the Narrative Model of Rhetorical Agency,”
Rhetoric Society of America.
San Antonio, TX: May 2014.
“The New New Journalism: The Post-Postmodern
Aesthetics of Narrative As Rhetoric.”
International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Boston, MA:March 2014.
Rogue Publics.
Competitive Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute.
Lawrence, KS: June 2013.
21st Century Presidential Rhetoric.
Competitive Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute.
Lawrence, KS: June 2013.
“Audience 3.0: A New Rhetorical Ethics
(and Aesthetics) for a Post-Remix Era.”
Rhetoric Society of America.
Philadelphia, PA: May 2012.
“The Gentle Art of Accepting Enemies:
New Media and the Rhetorical Aesthetics of Audience Exclusion.”
International Society for the Study of Narrative.
St. Louis, MO: April 2011.
“Playing Out Remix,”
Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Louisville, KY: March 2010.
End the Gaffe (And How Narrative Theory Let’s Us Do It).”
International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Birmingham, UK: June 2009.
Invited.
“I’m Not There Anymore: The Return of Identity in the Post-Remix Age.”
Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition.
Louisville, KY: October 2008.
“Ethos in a Remediated Age: Context, Character, and Community.”
Rhetoric Society of America.
Seattle, WA: May 2008.
Digital Rhetoric.
Competitive Workshop
Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute.
Troy, NY: June 2007.
“Evaluating the ‘Narrative Turn.’”
Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum.
Columbus, OH: April 2007.
“OurSpace: Resituating Civic Literacy
in the University Curriculum.”
LiteracyStudies@OSU.
The Ohio State University.
With Michael Harker and Scott Lloyd DeWitt.
Columbus, OH: March 30, 2007.
Invited
“The Rhetoric of Narrative--or, maybe, ‘The Narrative of Narrative.’”
Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition.
Louisville, KY, October 2006.
“The ‘Dean Scream’ Didn’t Happen
(And How it Did).”
American Popular Culture Association.
Atlanta, GA: April 2006.
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY
FOR THE STUDY OF NARRATIVE
RHETORIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA
AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION
ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF LAW, CULTURE, AND THE HUMANITIES
HUBER HURST RESEARCH SEMINAR
RHETORIC OF HEALTH
AND MEDICINE CONFERENCE
COLLEGE COMPOSITION AND COMMUNICATION
THOMAS R. WATSON CONFERENCE
ON RHETORIC
EDWARD G. HAYES RESEARCH
FORUM
US. NAVAL ACADEMY
FREE SPEECH: INVITED TALKS AND ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
INVITED ACADEMIC TALKS / AWARD-WINNING PRESENTATIONS / COMPETITIVE CONFERENCS
Note: All of Dr. M's AI frameworks also handle free speech, privacy, and disinformation. These are only key works. See full CV here.
“Triangulating Hate Speech and Free Speech in Algorithmic Environments.”
Indiana University.
Bloomington, IN: April 2022. (Online.)
*WINNER: BEST PAPER AWARD*
“Make
Them Bake Cake? In the Wake of Masterpiece Cakeshop, Which Religious
Activities Are Protected Expression Under the First Amendment and
Protected from Discrimination Laws?”
Midwest Business Administrative Association/Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business Joint Conference.
With Tom Freeman and Daniel Schneider.
Chicago, IL. March 2020.
“The Right to Speak, Bake, or Film…or Not…Which Activities are Protected Expression Under the First Amendment?”.
Huber Hurst Research Seminar in Business Law and Ethics.
With Thomas Freeman.
Gainsville, FL. January 2020.
“Janus and the Future of Collective Bargaining,
Rhetorically Predicting a First Amendment Right to Negotiation.”
Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business Joint Conference.
With Thomas Freeman.
Chicago, March 2019.
EARLY RESEARCH / KEY PRESENTATIONS
“The Pillowman and Free Speech: A Post-Performance Discussion.”
Hamline University.
Saint Paul, MN. 22 February 2016.
Invited.
“Shouting Fire: Originalism and Antonin Scalia.”
Jiggery-Pokery and Applesauce? The Impact and Legacy of Justice Antonin Scalia.
Hamline University Center for Justice and Law.
Saint Paul, MN: February 2016.
Invited.
“Shouting ‘Fire’ in the Writing Classroom:
Rhetoric, Law, and Composition.”
Conference on College Composition and Communication.
New York, NY: March 2007.
“‘Alive and well and living in Washington’:
Narrativity, Casebook Logic, and Legal Pedagogy.”
International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Washington, D.C.: March 2007.
“Finding Authorization to ‘lance the boil’:
Context, Content, and Free Speech Zones.”
Association for the Study of Law,
Culture, and the Humanities.
Syracuse, NY: March 2006.
FIRST AMENDMENT: AI and PRIVACY
*WINNER (RUNNER UP)
PRIMEAUX AWARD FOR BEST PAPER*
“Using the Lens of Narrative Theory
to Rethink Digital Ethics.”
International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference.
With Marci Exted and Thomas Freeman.
October 2022.
“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory
to Reframe Health Data Sanctity.”
Inaugural Transatlantic Dialogue on Humanity and AI Regulation.
Hosted by HEC Paris.
Paris, France. May 2022.
“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to
Forgive, Forget, and Re-Program Digital Dignity.”
Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium.
Organizers: Indiana University, Virginia Tech, and University of Pennsylvania.
With Thomas Freeman.
Online. April 2022.
“Algorithmic Unreliability: Narrative Theory,
Digital Ethics, and The Constitutionality of Employment AI.”
Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business.
With Thomas Freeman and Marci Exted.
Chicago, IL and Online: March 2022.
“Redefining Digital Literary:
Algorithms and You.”
SXSW EDU.
With Thomas Freeman, Ayin Morales-Monge, and Shea Sullivan.
March 2022.
“Privacy 3.0: Forgiveness
and Student Data After Mahoney.”
International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference.
With Thomas Freeman, Simon Truatman, and Amanda Aherns.
Chicago: DePaul University. October 2021.
“Algorithmic Bias: How Cross-Functional Networks
Can Fight Digitized Discrimination.”
Creighton University.
Heider Business Symposium.
With Thomas Freeman, Elizabeth Otto, Ayin Monge, and Julius Hernandez.
Omaha, NE. October 2021.
“Reckoning With Robots:The Constitutional Implications of Using Algorithms to Make
Human Decisions.”
Midwest Association of Legal Studies in Business /
Midwest Business Administration Association Annual Conference.
With Thomas Freeman.
Chicago: March 2021.
“Digital Ethics: What’s Next?”
OSTROM Workshop.
Indiana University School of Business.
Bloomington, IN.
With Julius Hernandez and Shea Sullivan.
February 2021.
Invited.
“A Taxonomy of Algorithmic Unreliability:
Using Facial Recognition to Map Constitutional Issues.”
Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium.
Indiana University and Virginia Tech University.
Online (COVID): May 2020
“What Would Jesus Program?”
Rhetoric Society of America.
Portland, OR.
May 2020. (COVID).
“Racist Robots? A Visual Primer on Understanding Algorithmic Bias.”
Midwest Associate of Legal Studies in Business /
Midwest Business Administration Association Annual Conference.
With Thomas Freeman, Ayin Monge-Morales,
and Moises Morales.
March 2020.
“Rhetoric Versus the Robots II: The Ethics of Algorithmic Unreliability.”
International Society for the Study of Narrative.
With Weston Cregut and Rebekah Winkel.
New Orleans, LA. March 2020.
“Rhetoric Versus the Robots: Mapping the Legal
and Ethical Dimensions of Algorithmic Discrimination.”
Consortium for the Study of Religion, Ethics and Society at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.
Bloomington, IN. November 2019.
“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to Navigate
Legal, Corporate, and Community Debates on Algorithmic Ethics.”
Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium.
Washington and Lee School of Law.
With Thomas Freeman.
Lexington, VA. April 2019.
“Why Digital Rights Is The New Civil Rights Movement.”
North Carolina A & T State University.
Greensboro, NC: May 2018.
“What Norm MacDonald and Narrative TheoryCan Teach Us About Social Media Privacy
And Big Data Reasoning.”
Hamline University.
Saint Paul, MN. April 2017.
Invited.
FIRST AMENDMENT RE:
DISINFORMATION, POST-FACT SCIENCE,
and POST-DIGITAL AMERICAN POLITICS
“The Art of EMF Science: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Post-Digital Health Advocacy.”
Rhetoric of Health And Medicine Conference.
With Stephen Pedersen and Allison Baker.
Online: October 2020.
“Cellular Home Invasion: Public Art As Rhetorical Intervention in Scientific Debates On EMF Health Effects.”
Rhetoric Society of America.
With Allison Baker and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.
Portland, OR. May 2020. (COVID).
“EMF Science and the Post-Fact Society:
Models to Stop Disinformation.”
Drew University.
New Jersey: June 2018.
Invited.
“Unsound Methods?”
Panel and Multimedia Performance.
Rhetoric Society of America.
With Cory Holding, Matt Sumera, Josh Gumiela, Allison Baker, and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.
Minneapolis, MN, May 2018.
“#Objectivity: Unlikable Narrative Justice.”
Beyond Ferguson: Critical Conversations.
Hamline University.
Saint Paul, MN: January 2015.
Invited.
“Campaign Narrative, The End:
A New Story for the Narrative Model of Rhetorical Agency,”
Rhetoric Society of America.
San Antonio, TX: May 2014.
“The New New Journalism: The Post-Postmodern
Aesthetics of Narrative As Rhetoric.”
International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Boston, MA:March 2014.
Rogue Publics.
Competitive Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute.
Lawrence, KS: June 2013.
21st Century Presidential Rhetoric.
Competitive Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute.
Lawrence, KS: June 2013.
“Audience 3.0: A New Rhetorical Ethics
(and Aesthetics) for a Post-Remix Era.”
Rhetoric Society of America.
Philadelphia, PA: May 2012.
“The Gentle Art of Accepting Enemies:
New Media and the Rhetorical Aesthetics of Audience Exclusion.”
International Society for the Study of Narrative.
St. Louis, MO: April 2011.
“Playing Out Remix,”
Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Louisville, KY: March 2010.
End the Gaffe (And How Narrative Theory Let’s Us Do It).”
International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Birmingham, UK: June 2009.
Invited.
“I’m Not There Anymore: The Return of Identity in the Post-Remix Age.”
Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition.
Louisville, KY: October 2008.
“Ethos in a Remediated Age: Context, Character, and Community.”
Rhetoric Society of America.
Seattle, WA: May 2008.
Digital Rhetoric.
Competitive Workshop
Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute.
Troy, NY: June 2007.
“Evaluating the ‘Narrative Turn.’”
Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum.
Columbus, OH: April 2007.
“OurSpace: Resituating Civic Literacy
in the University Curriculum.”
LiteracyStudies@OSU.
The Ohio State University.
With Michael Harker and Scott Lloyd DeWitt.
Columbus, OH: March 30, 2007.
Invited
“The Rhetoric of Narrative--or, maybe, ‘The Narrative of Narrative.’”
Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition.
Louisville, KY, October 2006.
“The ‘Dean Scream’ Didn’t Happen
(And How it Did).”
American Popular Culture Association.
Atlanta, GA: April 2006.
“Let Them All Eat Cake: Rhetorically Mapping
Religious Freedom, LGBTQIA Discrimination,
and The First Amendment After
Janus and Masterpiece.”
With Tom Freeman and Daniel Schneider
"The Roberts Court and Compulsory Collective Bargaining: Reading the Tea Leaves After Janus and Masterpiece."
Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy
21.1 (Spring 2023).
With Thomas Freeman, Amy Parrish,
and Christopher Cochon.
“Rhetorically Predicting a First Amendment Right to Negotiation After Janus.”
William and Mary Business Law Review 11. 609.
With Thomas Freeman and Destynie Sewell (2020).
“The Right to Speak, Bake, or Film…or Not…Which Activities are Protected Expression Under the First Amendment?”.
Huber Hurst Research Seminar
in Business Law and Ethics.
With Thomas Freeman.
Gainsville, FL. January 2020.
“What Would Jesus Program?”
Rhetoric Society of America.
Portland, OR.
May 2020. (COVID).
Free Speech in Post-Digital America.
Cross-cultural Zine Exchange.
Editor.
Hennepin County Library: Permanent Collection. With The Institute for Digital Humanity and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.
September 2019.
“Janus and the Future of Collective Bargaining,
Rhetorically Predicting a First Amendment Right to Negotiation.”
Midwest Academy of Legal Studies
in Business Joint Conference.
With Thomas Freeman.
Chicago, March 2019.
“I Want to Party With You Cowboy:
Stephen Colbert and Campaign 2016’s
Aesthetic Logic of Truthiness.”
The Joke is On Us: Political Comedy in (Late) Neoliberal Times.
In Julie Webber-Collins, Ed.
With Thomas Lawson
Lexington Press, 2019.
“The Pillowman and Free Speech: A Post-Performance Discussion.”
Hamline University.
Saint Paul, MN. 22 February 2016.
Invited.
“Shouting Fire: Originalism and Antonin Scalia.”
Jiggery-Pokery and Applesauce? The Impact and Legacy of Justice Antonin Scalia.
Hamline University Center for Justice and Law.
Saint Paul, MN: February 2016.
Invited.
“Shouting ‘Fire’ in the Writing Classroom:
Rhetoric, Law, and Composition.”
Conference on College Composition and Communication.
New York, NY: March 2007.
“‘Alive and well and living in Washington’:
Narrativity, Casebook Logic, and Legal Pedagogy.”
International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Washington, D.C.: March 2007.
“Finding Authorization to ‘lance the boil’:
Context, Content, and Free Speech Zones.”
Association for the Study of Law,
Culture, and the Humanities.
Syracuse, NY: March 2006.
“Using the Lens of Narrative Theory
to Rethink Digital Ethics.”
International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference.
With Marci Exted and Thomas Freeman.
October 2022.
“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory
to Reframe Health Data Sanctity.”
Inaugural Transatlantic Dialogue on Humanity and AI Regulation.
Hosted by HEC Paris.
Paris, France. May 2022.
“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to
Forgive, Forget, and Re-Program Digital Dignity.”
Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium.
Organizers: Indiana University, Virginia Tech, and University of Pennsylvania.
With Thomas Freeman.
Online. April 2022.
“Algorithmic Unreliability: Narrative Theory,
Digital Ethics, and The Constitutionality of Employment AI.”
Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business.
With Thomas Freeman and Marci Exted.
Chicago, IL and Online: March 2022.
“Redefining Digital Literary:
Algorithms and You.”
SXSW EDU.
With Thomas Freeman, Ayin Morales-Monge, and Shea Sullivan.
March 2022.
“Privacy 3.0: Forgiveness
and Student Data After Mahoney.”
International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference.
With Thomas Freeman, Simon Truatman, and Amanda Aherns.
Chicago: DePaul University. October 2021.
“Algorithmic Bias: How Cross-Functional Networks
Can Fight Digitized Discrimination.”
Creighton University.
Heider Business Symposium.
With Thomas Freeman, Elizabeth Otto, Ayin Monge, and Julius Hernandez.
Omaha, NE. October 2021.
“Reckoning With Robots: The Constitutional Implications of Using Algorithms to Make
Human Decisions.”
Midwest Association of Legal Studies in Business /
Midwest Business Administration Association Annual Conference.
With Thomas Freeman.
Chicago: March 2021.
“Digital Ethics: What’s Next?”
OSTROM Workshop.
Indiana University School of Business.
Bloomington, IN.
With Julius Hernandez and Shea Sullivan.
February 2021.
Invited.
“A Taxonomy of Algorithmic Unreliability:
Using Facial Recognition to Map Constitutional Issues.”
Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium.
Indiana University and Virginia Tech University.
Online (COVID): May 2020
“What Would Jesus Program?”
Rhetoric Society of America.
Portland, OR.
May 2020. (COVID).
“Racist Robots? A Visual Primer on Understanding Algorithmic Bias.”
Midwest Associate of Legal Studies in Business /
Midwest Business Administration Association Annual Conference.
With Thomas Freeman, Ayin Monge-Morales,
and Moises Morales.
March 2020.
“Rhetoric Versus the Robots II: The Ethics of Algorithmic Unreliability.”
International Society for the Study of Narrative.
With Weston Cregut and Rebekah Winkel.
New Orleans, LA. March 2020.
“Rhetoric Versus the Robots: Mapping the Legal
and Ethical Dimensions of Algorithmic Discrimination.”
Consortium for the Study of Religion, Ethics and Society at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.
Bloomington, IN. November 2019.
“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to Navigate
Legal, Corporate, and Community Debates on Algorithmic Ethics.”
Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium.
Washington and Lee School of Law.
With Thomas Freeman.
Lexington, VA. April 2019.
“Why Digital Rights Is The New Civil Rights Movement.”
North Carolina A & T State University.
Greensboro, NC: May 2018.
“What Norm MacDonald and Narrative TheoryCan Teach Us About Social Media Privacy
And Big Data Reasoning.”
Hamline University.
Saint Paul, MN. April 2017.
Invited.
“The Art of EMF Science: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Post-Digital Health Advocacy.”
Rhetoric of Health And Medicine Conference.
With Stephen Pedersen and Allison Baker.
Online: October 2020.
“Cellular Home Invasion: Public Art As Rhetorical Intervention in Scientific Debates On EMF Health Effects.”
Rhetoric Society of America.
With Allison Baker and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.
Portland, OR. May 2020. (COVID).
“EMF Science and the Post-Fact Society:
Models to Stop Disinformation.”
Drew University.
New Jersey: June 2018.
Invited.
“Unsound Methods?”
Panel and Multimedia Performance.
Rhetoric Society of America.
With Cory Holding, Matt Sumera, Josh Gumiela, Allison Baker, and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.
Minneapolis, MN, May 2018.
“#Objectivity: Unlikable Narrative Justice.”
Beyond Ferguson: Critical Conversations.
Hamline University.
Saint Paul, MN: January 2015.
Invited.
“Campaign Narrative, The End:
A New Story for the Narrative Model of Rhetorical Agency,”
Rhetoric Society of America.
San Antonio, TX: May 2014.
“The New New Journalism: The Post-Postmodern
Aesthetics of Narrative As Rhetoric.”
International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Boston, MA:March 2014.
Rogue Publics.
Competitive Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute.
Lawrence, KS: June 2013.
21st Century Presidential Rhetoric.
Competitive Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute.
Lawrence, KS: June 2013.
“Audience 3.0: A New Rhetorical Ethics
(and Aesthetics) for a Post-Remix Era.”
Rhetoric Society of America.
Philadelphia, PA: May 2012.
“The Gentle Art of Accepting Enemies:
New Media and the Rhetorical Aesthetics of Audience Exclusion.”
International Society for the Study of Narrative.
St. Louis, MO: April 2011.
“Playing Out Remix,”
Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Louisville, KY: March 2010.
End the Gaffe (And How Narrative Theory Let’s Us Do It).”
International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Birmingham, UK: June 2009.
Invited.
“I’m Not There Anymore: The Return of Identity in the Post-Remix Age.”
Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition.
Louisville, KY: October 2008.
“Ethos in a Remediated Age: Context, Character, and Community.”
Rhetoric Society of America.
Seattle, WA: May 2008.
Digital Rhetoric.
Competitive Workshop
Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute.
Troy, NY: June 2007.
“Evaluating the ‘Narrative Turn.’”
Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum.
Columbus, OH: April 2007.
“OurSpace: Resituating Civic Literacy
in the University Curriculum.”
LiteracyStudies@OSU.
The Ohio State University.
With Michael Harker and Scott Lloyd DeWitt.
Columbus, OH: March 30, 2007.
Invited
“The Rhetoric of Narrative--or, maybe, ‘The Narrative of Narrative.’”
Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition.
Louisville, KY, October 2006.
“The ‘Dean Scream’ Didn’t Happen
(And How it Did).”
American Popular Culture Association.
Atlanta, GA: April 2006.
Thank you to professor mark berkson (namesake of FIRE's "courageous colleague" award) for the shout out at the hamline-mitchell law school academic freedom conference (w/ former ACLU leader nadine strossen)
AI and Algorithms
Disinformation and Political Division
Privacy and Surveillance
Free Speech vs. Hate Speech
