AREAS OF INQUIRY
Communication • Philosophy • Systems
Documentation & Information Sciences
Science, Tech, Engineering, Art, & Math
STEAM+ Medicine & Environment
RESEARCH
Curation; Document Analysis; Pattern Recognition; Radial Category Analysis
PUBLICATIONS
• Life is Communication: A Review of Life…. Environmental Communication (2025).
• Life from the edge of synthetic biology. ETH Zürich Research Collection, 2024.
• ‘Dirtying’ ecocinema studies. The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College, 2024.
• LIFE: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry. Intellect/University of Chicago Press, 2023/2024.
• System dynamics, machine learning and structural validation. In LIFE. Intellect, 2023.
• Metaliving. In LIFE: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry. Intellect, 2023.
• Exhibition • Experience • Nature. In LIFE: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry. Intellect, 2023.
• Building more robust system dynamics models through validation. System Dynamics Society (2022).
• MEDIA: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry. Intellect/University of Chicago Press, 2021.
• Metamedia. In MEDIA: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry. Intellect, 2021.
• Exhibition • Experience • Music. In MEDIA: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry. Intellect, 2021.
• Philosophy of technology: Who is in the saddle?. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (2019).
• Interview with Mark L. Johnson. Figure/Ground (2011).
• Introduction: From medium to metamedia. HASTAC (2011).
• How does internetworking work? (Talk at metaphi.) requiem for certainty (2010).
PRESENTATIONS
• Confluences of Systemic Design. Oslo School of Architecture and Design, October 13, 2024
• Networking for environmental communication. IECA Virtual Expo, May 2, 2024.
• Metabolisms of communication and nature. IAMCR, July 11, 2023.
• A philosophy of systems futures. ISSS at Kruger National Park, June 20, 2023.
• Information and communication. IAMCR @ ICA, Online, May 27, 2021.
• Macroscale transcriptional network. University of Oxford, September 23, 2019.
• Towards a philosophy of language and machine learning. ISSS at OSU, June 30, 2019.
• Civic media repair: Participation, collaboration, cooperation. Euricom, June 2, 2018.
• Tom Wheeler research presentation. School of Journalism and Communication, 2017.
• Mark Johnson: Language and embodied mind. School of Journalism and Communication, 2016.
• Communication and Pragmatism: 100 years later returning to Chicago. NCA, November 22, 2014.
• Scanning, mapping, modeling, and feedback. iLRN, November 21, 2014.
• Reconfiguring and extending the constitutive metamodel, ICA, June 21, 2013.
• The neuroscience of thought and language. UO Philosophy Colloquium, May 27, 2011.
WHAT IS…? SERIES CONFERENCES AND EXHIBITIONS
• Experience (2022 – 2023 – 2024)
• Communication Speaker Series & Virtual Screening (2021)
• Information Cyberconference & NETWORKS Exhibiton (2020)
• Technology Conference & PATTERNS Exhibition (2019)
• Universe Conference & MULTIVERSE Exhibition (2018)
• Life Conference & LIFEWORLDS Exhibition (2017)
• Media Conference & HABITATS Exhibition (2016)
IAMCR | International Association for Media and Communication Research
• Reimagining Sustainability: Communication & Media Research in a Changing World (2018)
• ECOMEDIA Arts Festival (2018)
• Reimagining Environmental Sustainability for the Academic Conference panel (2018)
NEWS
• SOJC Research Newsletter: Winter 2025 (March 21, 2025)
• SOJC PDX Winter ’25 Newsletter: Upcoming Projects & Events (February 5, 2025)
• The Systemic Designer — Confluences of Systemic Design (October 11, 2024)
• See the latest books, University of Oregon Libraries (July 8, 2024)
• Spotlight Books: Intellect & IAMCR 2024 (June 30, 2024)
• The Faculty Notebook. (2024). The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College.
• Faculty Notebook: Provost’s Office, Gettysburg College (April 2024)
• Oregon Quarterly: Faculty Books (March 25, 2024)
• SOJC Research Newsletter: Winter 2024 (March 20, 2024)
• Intellect News – LIFE: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry (Worldwide) (February 16, 2024)
• Intellect News – LIFE: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry (UK and Europe) (January 16, 2024)
• SOJC Research Newsletter: Fall 2023 (November 30, 2023)
• Years of Disney Research Takes on the Media Giant’s Impact (October 31, 2023)
• International Communication Association Fellows Class of 2023 (May 27, 2023)
• 2021 Yearbook School of Journalism and Communication: SOJC Community (Dec. 2021)
• Rethinking Borders & Boundaries: Beyond the Global/Local Dichotomy in Comm Studies (May 27, 2021)
• People Notes: Fordham News (May 12, 2021)
• Intellect is attending the International Communication Association 2021 virtual conference (May 2021)
• UOWGS: What is Communication? Seminar (April 20, 2021)
• IAMCR is co-sponsoring the eleventh annual “What is…?” (April 2021)
• Join us in celebrating the publication of Media (Jan. 29, 2021)
• Teorías de la Comunicación y Metodología (Jan. 19, 2021)
• 2020 Yearbook School of Journalism and Communication: SOJC Events (Dec. 2020)
• Arguments are Tied to our Embodiment in the World and Metaphors Shape our Perspectives (Oct. 29, 2020)
• Medientheorie: Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien: Coming up next (Sept. 29, 2020)
• Adapting to the Times (May 28, 2020)
• SOJC’s “What Is Information?” Conference (April 30, 2020)
• Annual ‘What Is’ conference explores information (April 28, 2020)
• Employee awards, honors and accolades for summer term 2019 (September 2, 2019)
• Oregon Reality Lab at UO Portland (August 4, 2019)
• Professor Janet Wasko wins Convention Leadership Award (July 18, 2019)
• IAMCR – 2019 Eugene, Cascades & Coast Convention Leadership Award (June 5, 2019)
• The Ecomedia/sphere: Technology as Ecomedia (May 2, 2019)
• Science & Technology Outreach: What is Technology? (April 16, 2019)
• SOLD OUT – Experience: What is Technology? (April 13, 2019)
• ‘What is Technology?’ conference examines interaction between practical arts and tools (April 9, 2019)
• What Is? Conference Explores Technology (March 2019)
• Pattern Recognition as Bridge Building across Disciplinary Boundaries (Jan. 5, 2019)
• SOJC Hosts International Communication Research Conference (Dec. 2018)
• UO School of Journalism and Communication Yearbook: Events at the SOJC: IAMCR 2018 (2018)
• Thanks from the LOC [Local Organizing Committee] of IAMCR 2018 (2018)
• Major Research Conference Bringing 1,000 to Campus (June 11, 2018)
• Portland Conference Delves into Communication Networks (April 13, 2018)
• What is Media? – Royal College of Art Research Online (Dec. 18, 2017)
• UCLA Streisand Center: The Ubiquitous Jane Addams: Women and Gender (Nov. 20, 2017)
• SOJC faculty, students and alumni take ICA conference by storm (May 25, 2017)
• Conference Delves into How Media Permeates Everyday Life (March 20, 2017)
• SOJC Faculty’s Tips for Spotting Fake News (Feb. 15, 2017)
• SOJC panel weighs Freedom of Information Act’s Legacy on its 50th Anniversary (May 13, 2016)
• John Markoff Tackles Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Journalism (May 3, 2016)
• ‘What Is Media?’ Conference Goes International and Interdisciplinary (April 25, 2016)
• Futurist Amber Case Advocates for ‘Calm Technology’ and Less Interruptions (April 20, 2016)
• Habitats 2016 at the U of O Portland (April 9, 2016)
• Portland Conference Explores the Changing Role of Media (April 8, 2016)
• Robots Among Us (February 1, 2016)