{"id":148,"date":"2008-05-31T16:11:25","date_gmt":"2008-05-31T21:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jedbrubaker.com\/?page_id=148"},"modified":"2009-11-19T01:44:02","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T09:44:02","slug":"profile","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>A friend recently summed me up nicely: \u201cIn a single conversation you might be talking about the latest Java widget but turn around and explain it with some philosopher like Foucault.\u201d That is what you get when you blend professional and academic work across social sciences, cultural studies, marketing, technology, and the arts. In this way my academic and professional work draw from each other. Theory becomes grounded with the demands of applicability, and practice remains forward thinking.<\/p>\n<p>My interests typical revolve around the various ways in which people interact with each other and technology. I am particularly interested in how users collaborate with technology and how technology is socially constructed.  My blog and current projects are the best way to get a sense of the way I currently see the world. The rest of the background information here includes things about which I am particularly proud.<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding-left: 10px;\" width=\"160\">\n<ul style=\"list-style:none;\">\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\"><a href=\"#appointments\">Current Appointments<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"#interests\">Current Interests<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"#projects\">Current Projects<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"#education\">Education<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"#technical\">Technical Knowledge<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jedbrubaker.com\/index.php\/academic-experience\/\">Academic Experience<br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jedbrubaker.com\/index.php\/work-experience\/\">Work Experience<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jedbrubaker.com\/index.php\/publications\/\">Publications, Presentations, &amp; Conferences<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><a name=\"appointments\">Current Diggs<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><strong>PhD Student (Starting Fall 2009)<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ics.uci.edu\/informatics\/\" target=\"_blank\">Informatics<\/a> @ the <a href=\"http:\/\/cct.georgetown.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a title=\"http:\/\/www.ics.uci.edu\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ics.uci.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uci.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of California, Irvine<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\"><a name=\"interests\">Current Interests<\/a><\/h4>\n<table style=\"margin-left: 10px;\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Theoretical\/Research<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Applied<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Human Computer Interface<\/td>\n<td>User Experience and Front-end Design<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Digital Identity and Persistence<\/td>\n<td>Digital Identity Standards &amp; Infrastructures<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Computer Mediated Communication<\/td>\n<td>Usability and Web-analytics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ubiquitous Computing<\/td>\n<td>Componetization of front-ends via AJAX and SOA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><a name=\"projects\">Current Projects<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Identity Infrastructures<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My thesis resulted in a broad set of theoretical perspectives on the role of identity as a social infrastructure. This summer I am carving my thesis into articles, while also working at the AAMC on enterprise technical standards, and most recently on the Medbiquitous standards (think digital identity for medicine).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>craigslist Missed Connections: Practices of anonymity and identification in digital and non-digital spaces<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This chapter has finished up, and is off to the press. Keep an eye on my blog for an announcement of \u201cNew Technologies of the Self\u201d &#8212; coming soon!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><a name=\"education\">Education<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><strong>M.A., Communication, Culture &amp; Technology<\/strong><br \/>\nMay 2009<a href=\"http:\/\/cct.georgetown.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a>Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.<br \/>\n<strong>Thesis<\/strong>: &#8220;I am an ID: Non\/persisting our sociotechnical digital identities&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>B.S., Psychology<\/strong><br \/>\nMay 2004<br \/>\nUniversity of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT<br \/>\nSumma Cum Laude<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thesis<\/strong>: \u201cComing Out with Stories: Macrocontextual effects on the coming out stories of young gay men\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>Senior Project<\/strong>: \u201cElectronic Research Application (ERA): Improving observational research methodology through the use of online multimedia integration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>A.S., Psychology<\/strong><br \/>\nHonors<br \/>\n<strong>A.A., Dance, Theatre, Music<\/strong><br \/>\nHonors, Distinction in Dance<br \/>\n<strong>A.F.A., Musical Theatre<\/strong><br \/>\nHonors, Distinction<br \/>\nWestern Wyoming College, Rock Springs, WY<br \/>\nMay 2001<\/p>\n<p><strong>H.S. Diploma<\/strong><br \/>\nJune 1999<br \/>\nOlympus High School, Salt Lake City, UT<\/p>\n<h4><a name=\"technical\">Technical Knowledge<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>I have worked in technical capacities for over a decade. During this time I have learned many programming languages and skills, the best of which are typically indicated by some funny acronym. Here are some of my favorites:<\/p>\n<p>Java, Spring Framework, JSP<\/p>\n<p>PHP 4-5, Zend Framework, Zend Platform, Smarty<\/p>\n<p>Flash, Actionscript 1-3, Flash Remoting Server<\/p>\n<p>JavaScript\/DHTML, AJAX, Dojo, YUI, ExtJS, GMaps2, and the obligatory HTML suite (i.e., X\/HTML, XML, CSS, etc.)<\/p>\n<p>Apache 1.3-2.x,  MySQL 4-5, Oracle 9i-10g<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend recently summed me up nicely: \u201cIn a single conversation you might be talking about the latest Java widget but turn around and explain it with some philosopher like Foucault.\u201d That is what you get when you blend professional and academic work across social sciences, cultural studies, marketing, technology, and the arts. 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