Humanities student, journalist, and new media folklorist who packs a PCM-D50 in her purse. That's a Sony.

I'm currently working on a project that looks at community and place with an eye towards exploring real lived experience and nuance of opinion. That means I'm talking to families about why they live where they live, while showcasing their thoughts in a digital exhibition that muddles the line between the public and the private sphere.

My proposal was based on my experiences using tag clouds to represent spoken language obtained in interview. As we tend to repeat what we give emphasis to when speaking, it is a very interesting use of word clouds. It just presents certain liabilities.

I'm interested in working with others from a conceptual and philosophical angle that sees technology as a means to an end instead of the thing itself. I'm fascinated by the idea that we first create tools for a given purpose, but then the tools come to change how we do what we do.

I'm generally into visualization, qualitative research methods, phenomenology, collective identity and self representation, and using open source technologies to aid explorations of realness. I would love to break into GIS tools for trans-historical or hyper-local social philosophy.