Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
4505 Maryland Pkwy.
Las Vegas, NV 89154-5007, USA
Office + 1 (702) 895 3729
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kilker at unlv.nevada.edu

Lifecycle stages of Digital Media Technologies. I'm interested in key stages of information and communication technologies, specifically development, marketing, modification, and obsolescence. It links my dissertation research,  Networking identity: A case study examining social identity in communication technology development (1999), my “meta-control” analysis published in Convergence (2003), my collaborative “Swarm” tradeshow project that examined large-scale technology tradeshows such as the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) (2006), my initial research on technology-modifying communities (published in 2007), and work on deterioration and loss of photochemical and digital media artifacts (one published in 2007, and another presented in 2006 and under submission) and digital archive development (published in 1997).

Privacy, Surveillance, and Media. This project examines social and ethical aspects of information technologies. This research began with my graduate research project on   Dimensions of communication privacy and international computer network design (1995) and continues with more recent research on surveillance practices on counter-institutional websites (article published in 2006, with another under review). This research is emphasized in my popular UNLV Honors College course Who’s Watching? Privacy, Surveillance, and Media, which is discussed in an IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society article.

See my research and presentation abstracts.

Zkeyn was created in my Advanced Interactive Media Design course. The challenge was to create a maze-like game based on the classic Myst but use web design techniques and our maze-like humanities building for visual content. Project details were left intentionally open to encourage students to negotiate challenges in both social collaboration and game development.

Because reflection on the development process is an essential part of the course, we teamed up with UNLV-TV production students to create a short documentary.