1993-1997 Ph.D. candidate, Communications Technology and Policy, Department of Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas, Austin (expected date of graduation: May 1998)
Dissertation topic: "Strategies of Self Presentation on the World Wide Web"
Dissertation advisor: Allucquere Rosanne Stone

1987-1989 M.A., Communal Service: Education, Brandeis University.

1983-1986 B.A., Psychology (Dean's Honors), University of California, Berkeley.

1982-1983 University of California, Santa Barbara. (Regent's Scholar)

1996-1997 University Fellowship, Graduate School of the University of Texas at Austin

1994 Research Assistant to Professor August Grant, University of Texas at Austin
Summer session project analyzing Nielsen television audience data

1987-1989 Research Assistant, Center for Modern Jewish Studies, Brandeis University
Various projects analyzing community demographic and census data

1995-1996 Assistant Instructor, University of Texas at Austin

1994-1995 Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at Austin

"Reconceptualizing the role of habit: a new model of television audience activity." Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media 41, 1997. Pp. 323-343.

"Interactive television." In (A. Grant, Ed.) Communication Technology Update (3rd Ed.), Newton, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1994. Pp. 45-54.

Entries in (H. Newcomb, Ed.) Museum of Broadcast Communications Encyclopedia of Television: Chicago, IL: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997. "Teletext" pp.1640-1641; ""Videodisc" pp.1760-1761; "Videotext/online services " pp.1763-1764.

"The Ultimate Frank Lloyd Wright CD-ROM." GSLIS Multimedia Product Reviews Project, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Texas at Austin. Available at http://volvo.gslis.utexas.edu/~reviews/.

"Media addiction and anomia: exploring the etiology of three media dependencies." 46th annual conference of the International Communication Association, Chicago, IL; May, 1996

"An Internet interactive technology course strategy." Panel presentation, Broadcast Education Association 41st annual convention, Las Vegas, NV; April 1996.

"Reconceptualizing the role of habit: a new model of television audience activity." Broadcast Education Association 40th annual convention, Las Vegas, NV; April, 1995.

1996 Shell Grant (travel grant, College of Communication of the U. Texas at Austin)

1995 BEA Research Division Paper Competition (2^nd place, Debut Category)

1988 Benjamin Hornstein Scholarship (academic achievement, Brandeis University)

Communication Technology and Society (introductory course; original design)

Challenge of Multimedia: HTML design (upper division, theory and lab: original design)

Volunteer staff, Sixth International World Wide Web Conference, Santa Clara, CA, April 6-11, 1997.

John Downing, University of Texas at Austin

Allucquere Rosanne Stone, University of Texas at Austin

August Grant, University of South Carolina