Miscellaneous

Languages

• Fluent in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and French.
• In the late 1970s, I participated in a project at Cornell University directed by Carl Sagan for NASA which involved the recording of spoken greetings to the universe in various languages for the Voyager Interstellar Outreach Program. Since then, my greetings in Portuguese have been traveling through outer space on the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecrafts. I still have a copy of the typewritten release I signed giving NASA all rights to this recording of my voice "in any and all media without limitation, throughout the world and extraterrestrially."

• Cowles Grant for Research on Literacy and Media (1994 )
• Fulbright-Hays Grant for Graduate Study Abroad, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1978-1979) 
• Cornell University Three Year Teaching Fellowship Award (1978-1979)

Professional Associations

• Media Ecology Association 
• Historian (elected to MEA Executive Committee for 2000-2002)
• Business Manager, Explorations in Media Ecology (EME), the print journal of the Media Ecology Association
• Coordinator, Second Annual Convention (New York, June 2001)
• Associate Coordinator, First Annual Convention (New York, June 2000)
• Co-Editor (with Mark Lipton) of First Annual Convention Proceedings (to be published online)

• New York State Communication Association

• Eastern Communication Association

• National Communication Association

• Association of Internet Researchers

• The Internet Society (ISOC)
• New York Metropolitan Area Chapter (ISOC-NY)
• Internet Societal Task Force (ISTF)

Professional Activities

Panelist, "Future Visions of Internet Communication," 86th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, Atlanta, Georgia

Chair, panel on "Participation in the Electronic Media Environment," 86th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, Atlanta, Georgia

Panelist, "Steps to an Ecology of Media: A Roundtable Discussion on Cybernetics, Systems Theory, and Symbolic Interactionism," 59th Annual Conference of the New York State Communication Association, Monticello, New York

Respondent, panel on "Time and the Internet," 59th Annual Conference of the New York State Communication Association, Monticello, New York

Panelist, The Media Ecology Listserv Gathering, 58th Annual Conference of the New York State Communication Association, Monticello, New York

Participant in online chat about building communities and hypertexts on the Web sponsored by the Electronic Literature Organization held in LinguaMOO (transcript)

Participant in online chat during the first face-to-face meeting of the Internet Societal Task Force held at INET 2000 in Yokohama, Japan (transcript)

Panelist, The Media Ecology Listserv Gathering, First Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association, New York, New York

Interviewed on MSNBC live cable television about Internet abuse by adolescents in relation to the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colorado

Participant in online panel discussion about chat and the psychology of cyberspace sponsored by Behavior OnLine  (transcript)

Participant in online panel discussion about managing deviant behavior in online communities held in MediaMOO (transcript)

Favorite Quotes

Writings of Others About Technology, Media, and Communication

• Dorothy Denning and Peter Denning, Internet Besieged: Countering Cyberspace Scofflaws (1998)

• Computer Ethics Institute, The Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics (1997)

• Vint Cerf, The Internet is for Everyone

• Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964)

• Neil Postman
• Teaching as a Conserving Activity (1979)
• Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985)
• Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble about Language, Technology, and Education (1988)
• Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (1992)

• James Chesebro and Donald Bonsall, Computer-Mediated Communication: Human Relationships in a Computerized World (1989)

• Ethan Katsh, The Electronic Media and the Transformation of Law (1989)

• Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1955)

• Plato, The Phaedrus

• Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its Discontents