UCSD Communication

Education:

PhD Student, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego
MA in Communication, University of California, San Diego, 2008
BA in Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2002

Research Interests:

Intellectual property, informal economies, and media piracy
Political economy of virtual worlds
Online social networking and peer production
Cybernetics, informatics, and cyborg subjectivity
Playable media, procedural rhetoric, and procedural literacy

Publications:

McKinney, Carl. "Piracy and Intellectual Property." In Battlegrounds: The Media. Eds. Robin Andersen & Jonathan Gray. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008.

Media Projects:

For All? A short collaborative documentary produced with Sam Martin, James Perez, and Jessica Cordova for Professor Zeinabu Davis’s Social Media Production class. Drawing on one couple's experience with the process of naturalization, For All? seeks to interrogate a particular, privileged practice of immigration that is often overlooked within a much larger set of issues and debates. Through personal revelations of emotional conflict and imposed indignity, For All? questions the fairness of a legal "fast track" to citizenship through marriage that favors both a certain type of relationship and "desirable" immigrants or couples – those who are educated and employed or employable, and thus have the economic means and the cultural and linguistic skills to navigate the convoluted bureaucratic process by which one proves their potential "value" as a citizen.

Human Rights Web. A wiki / Flash app mashup that attempts to provide a space for the collective production of visual representations of global human rights issues.

ISPolice. A playable political cartoon in development on Areae’s Metaplace platform that argues against ISP content filtering for copyrighted materials.

Research Assistant Positions:

University of California Disability Studies Wiki. [January – September, 2007]
Working under Professor Brian Goldfarb, I designed and implemented a structured wiki for the sharing and collaborative production of knowledge among the growing community of scholars in the University of California system whose work intersects with the field of disability studies.

Convergence, Mobile Media, and Piracy. [June – Decemeber, 2007]
Working under Professor Nitin Govil, I collected data from mainstream media and academic sources relating to the global circulation of media commodities mobilized under corporate and cultural rhetorics of convergence.

Teaching Experience:

The Cultural Politics of Sport, Department of Communication, UCSD, Teaching Assistant with Professor Michael Hanson (2008).

American News Media, Department of Communication, UCSD, Teaching Assistant with Professor Michael Schudson (2008).

The Film Industry, Department of Communication, UCSD, Teaching Assistant with Professor Nitin Govil (2007).

Computer Game Studies, Department of Communication, UCSD, Teaching Assistant with Professor Noah Wardrip-Fruin (2007).

Introduction to Human Information Processing, Department of Communication, UCSD, Teaching Assistant with Professor Morana Alac (2007).

Introduction to Communication, Department of Communication, UCSD, Teaching Assistant with Professor Boatema Boateng (2006).

Introduction to Communication and Culture, Department of Communication, UCSD, Teaching Assistant with Professor Valerie Hartouni (2006).

Name:	Carl McKinney
Education:	PhD Student, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego MA in Communication, University of California, San Diego, 2008 BA in Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2002
Research Interests:	Intellectual property, informal economies, and media piracy Political economy of virtual worlds Online social networking and peer production Cybernetics, informatics, and cyborg subjectivity Playable media, procedural rhetoric, and procedural literacy
Publications:	McKinney, Carl. "Piracy and Intellectual Property." In Battlegrounds: The Media. Eds. Robin Andersen & Jonathan Gray. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008.
Media Projects:	For All? A short collaborative documentary produced with Sam Martin, James Perez, and Jessica Cordova for Professor Zeinabu Davis’s Social Media Production class. Drawing on one couple's experience with the process of naturalization, For All? seeks to interrogate a particular, privileged practice of immigration that is often overlooked within a much larger set of issues and debates. Through personal revelations of emotional conflict and imposed indignity, For All? questions the fairness of a legal "fast track" to citizenship through marriage that favors both a certain type of relationship and "desirable" immigrants or couples – those who are educated and employed or employable, and thus have the economic means and the cultural and linguistic skills to navigate the convoluted bureaucratic process by which one proves their potential "value" as a citizen. Human Rights Web. A wiki / Flash app mashup that attempts to provide a space for the collective production of visual representations of global human rights issues. ISPolice. A playable political cartoon in development on Areae’s Metaplace platform that argues against ISP content filtering for copyrighted materials.
Research Assistant Positions:	University of California Disability Studies Wiki. [January – September, 2007] Working under Professor Brian Goldfarb, I designed and implemented a structured wiki for the sharing and collaborative production of knowledge among the growing community of scholars in the University of California system whose work intersects with the field of disability studies. Convergence, Mobile Media, and Piracy. [June – Decemeber, 2007] Working under Professor Nitin Govil, I collected data from mainstream media and academic sources relating to the global circulation of media commodities mobilized under corporate and cultural rhetorics of convergence.
Teaching Experience:	The Cultural Politics of Sport, Department of Communication, UCSD, Teaching Assistant with Professor Michael Hanson (2008). American News Media, Department of Communication, UCSD, Teaching Assistant with Professor Michael Schudson (2008). The Film Industry, Department of Communication, UCSD, Teaching Assistant with Professor Nitin Govil (2007). Computer Game Studies, Department of Communication, UCSD, Teaching Assistant with Professor Noah Wardrip-Fruin (2007). Introduction to Human Information Processing, Department of Communication, UCSD, Teaching Assistant with Professor Morana Alac (2007). Introduction to Communication, Department of Communication, UCSD, Teaching Assistant with Professor Boatema Boateng (2006). Introduction to Communication and Culture, Department of Communication, UCSD, Teaching Assistant with Professor Valerie Hartouni (2006).