Curriculum Vitae PJ Rey .: Education University of Maryland 2010–Current Working Toward a PhD in Sociology 2008–2010 MA in Sociology MA Paper: "Alienation, Exploitation, and Social Media" Advisor: George Ritzer Reader: Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz Duquesne University 2006–2008 MA in Philosophy University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg 2002–2006 BA in Political Science and Humanities, Summa Cum Laude Moon Area High School 1998-2002 Diploma, Honors .: Research Interests I study how new forms of communication (e.g., the Web, social media, and smartphones) shape and are shaped by America's cultural and economic landscape. A great deal of descriptive data has been collected about the use of these technologies—indeed, they often collect this data themselves. However, there is much work to be done in working out how classical sociological theories apply (or fail to apply) to these new technologies. My current work examines the economic relations of social media in various ways to determine if use of these new technologies fits into critical theory's most powerful grand narratives: alienation, exploitation, and rationalization. .: Refereed Articles Primary or Co-Author "Alienation, Exploitation, and Social Media." American Behavioral Scientist. April 2012. With Nathan Jurgenson. "Comment on Sarah Michele Ford's 'Reconceptualizing the Public/Private Distinction in the Age of Information Technology.'" Information, Communication and Society. March 2012. “Defining and Measuring Success for Online Crime-Prevention Communities” AMCIS 2011 Proceedings (Paper 253). August 2011. “The Brazilian Treatment Model: A New Course for Global AIDS Policy.” Journal of Third World Studies. Volume XXV, Number 1: Spring 2008. Secondary Author Shopan, A., Rey, P. Butler, B., and Shneiderman, B. "Monitoring Academic Conferences: Real-time Visualization and Retrospective Analysis of Backchannel Conversations." Proceedings from the 2012 International Conference on Social Informatics. 2012. Violi, N., Shneiderman, B., Hansen, A., Rey, P. "Motivation for Participation in Online Neighborhood Watch Communities: An Empirical Study Involving Invitation Letters." Third IEEE International Conference on Social Computing. 2011. .: Invited Articles Secondary Author Sopan, A., Rey, P., and Shneiderman, B., “The dynamics of web-based community safety groups: Lessons learned from the Nation of Neighbors.” IEEE Signal Processing. Forthcoming. .: Book Chapters With Whitney Erin Boesel. "Digital Media and the Augmented Subject." Routledge Handbook of Science, Technology and Society. Eds. Daniel Lee Kleinman and Kelly Moore. Routledge. Forthcoming. "Gamification, Exploitation, and Post-Fordist Ideology." The Gameful World: Approaches, Issues, Applications. Eds. Steffen P. Walz and Sebastian Deterding. MIT Press. Forthcoming. With Nathan Jurgenson. "The Fan Dance: How Privacy Thrives in an Age of Hyper?Publicity." Unlike Us Reader: Understanding Social Media Monopolies and their Alternatives. Eds. Geert Lovink and Miriam Rasch. 2013. Excerpted and translated into Dutch: Unlike Us Magazine: 10 artikelen over social media. Eds. Marc Stumpel and Miriam Rasch. Institute of Network Cultures. 2013. http://unlikeus.dmci.hva.nl/ "From “Solid” Producers and Consumers to “Liquid” Prosumers." with George Ritzer. The Globalization of Liquidity. 2013. "Economy: Consumption." with George Ritzer. The New Blackwell Companion to Sociology. 2011. "Conceptualizing Globalization in Terms of Flows." with George Ritzer. Current Perspectives in Social Theory. 2010. .: Under Review Co-authored with Nathan Jurgenson. "Liquid Information Leaks." WikiLeaks Reader. .: Working Papers With Nathan Jurgenson. "Competing Models of Privacy and Publicity: Continua vs. Dialectics" .: Edited Volumes With Nathan Jurgenson and Zeynep Tufekci. "Special Issue: Theorizing the Web 2012." Future Internet. .: Conferences and Presentations: Invited Lecture With Nathan Jurgenson. “Why We Document: Economics and Existence in the Age of Social Media” Digital Capital Symposium. John Hopkins University. March, 14th, 2012. Organizer Theorizing the Web 2013. CUNY Graduate Center, NYC. March 2nd & 3rd, 2013. Theorizing the Web 2012. University of Maryland. April 14th, 2012. With Christopher Donoghue and Nathan Jurgenson"Revolutions, Riots and Flash Mobs: Social Media and Social Movements" and "Social Media and the Arts of Digital Existence: Being for Others Online" Regular Paper Sessions. Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, 2012. With Tamara Peyton. "Sociology of Online Gaming" Regular Paper Sessions. Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, 2012. Theorizing the Web 2011. University of Maryland. April 9th, 2011. Presenter With Nathan Jurgenson. "The Facebook Fan Dance: Against Measuring Privacy and Publicity as Zero-Sum." American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. New York, NY. August 2013. "Gamification and Post-Fordist Labor." American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. New York, NY. 13 August 2013. With Nathan Jurgenson. "Virtual Communities Don’t Exist: Avoiding Digital Dualism in Studying Collaboration." Collaborative Organizations and Social Media (COSM) 2013. Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME. 12 April 2013. "The Influence of Leadership on Activity Levels in an Online Crime Watch Community." American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Denver, CO. 20 August 2012. "Academic Marginalization in the Age of Social Media." Public Sociology Graduate Conference. George Mason University. October 2011. "The Changing Demographic Profile of Online Daters - Digital Natives vs. Digital Immigrants." American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Las Vegas, NV. 22 August 2011. "Social Media and the Implosion of Work, Play, and Socialization." American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Las Vegas, NV. 20 August 2011. "Defining and Measuring Success for Online Crime-Prevention Communities" AMCIS 2011. Detroit. 6 August 2011. "Nation of Neighbors: Understanding Users and their Motivations" (with Alan Neustadtl, Nick Violi, Awalin Sopan, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant, and Art Hanson) 28th Annual Computer Human Interaction Symposium. University of Maryland. 26 May 2011. "Nation of Neighbors: Design and Network Evolution for Internet Community Safety Systems" (with Ben Shneiderman, Alan Neustadtl, Catherine Plaisant, Jae-wook Ahn, and Nick Violi). Technology-Mediated Social Participation Lecture Series. University of Maryland. 14 February 2011. "Internet Use, Gaming, and Well-Being," with Zeynep Tufekci. American Sociology Association Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA. August 2010. "Marcuse, the Web, and the New Means of Ambient Production." with Nathan Jurgenson. VII Annual Social Theory Forum on Critical Social Theory: Freud & Lacan for 21st Century. Boston, MA. April 2010. "Prosumption and the Internet: a New Epoch of Capitalism," Eastern Sociology Society Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. March 2010. “Virtuality within Globalization Literature: the Genealogy of a Concept.” American Sociology Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. August 2009. “Resistance in Fields of Scientific Knowledge: A Foucauldian Analysis.” Eastern Sociology Society Annual Meeting. Baltimore, MD March 2009. “The Minoritarian Mass: A Deleuzian Perspective on Immigration.” Symbiosis: Political Ontology and a New Metaphysics. Duquesne University. March 2007. “The Prize of Learning: Habits of Critical Evaluation.” Commencement Address. University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. April 2006. “Freedom and Social Environment in Dewey: Absolutist versus Progressive Community.” Senior Philosophy Capstone. University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. April 2006. “The Brazilian Treatment Model: A New Course for Global AIDS Policy.” Pennsylvania Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Harrisburg, PA. April 2006. “The Brazilian Treatment Model.” Senior Political Science Capstone. University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. Dec. 2005. Discussant "Internet Technology and Social Capital: How the Internet Affects Seniors' Social Capital and Wellbeing" by Shima Sum, Mark. R. Mathews, Mohsen Pourghasem, Ian Hughes. Wellbeing: A Cure-All for the Social Sciences. Organized online by Blackwell Compass. Nov. 2011. Presider "Theorizing Boundaries." CITASA Roundtable Session. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. New York, NY. 13 August 2013. "Revolutions, Riots and Flash Mobs: Social Media and Social Movements" Regular Paper Session. Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, 2012. "Poets and Scribes – Constructing Fact and Fiction on Social Media." Theorizing the Web 2011. April 9th, 2011. .: Encyclopedia Entries "Machinic Assemblages." The Encyclopedia of Globalization. 2011. "Open-Sourcing." The Encyclopedia of Globalization. 2011. "Foucauldian Archaeology and Genealogy." The Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology. 2010. “Carnivals.” The Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture. 2010. “Marcuse, Herbert.” The Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture. 2010. .: Popular Media Publications "The Myth of Cyberspace." The New Inquiry. 2 April 2012. "Why We Disrupt." Inside Higher Ed. 3 January 2012. .: Media Appearances Monthly Social Media Contributor with Nathan Jurgenson on WYPR's Maryland Morning with Shelia Kast. June 2010 - Present. "Nathan Jurgenson and PJ Rey on Theorizing the Web." Office Hours Podcast. 2 April 2011. .: Creative Publications Poetry “to the man on the tightrope.” River Oak Review. Nov. 2006 “Studying Hegel after a summer traveling Europe.” Lexicon. Sept. 2006. “’Dude, Hamlet’s a pussy.’” Nerve Cowboy. Sept. 2006. .: Courses Taught University of Maryland Introduction to Sociology: Summer 2010, Summer 2012, Fall 2012 Social Problems: Spring 2013 The University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg Undergraduate TA for Introduction to Sociology: Spring 2005 .: Professional Experience University of Maryland Fall 2010–present: Managing Editor of the Cyborgology Blog, hosted by The Society Pages May 2011–August 2011: Research Assistant to Ben Shneiderman & Alan Neustadtl (NSF Grant) Sept. 2010–May 2012: Research Assistant to Alan Neustadtl (NSF Grant # IIS - 0968521) Spring 2010–Spring 2013: Principle Organizer of "Theorizing the Web" Sept. 2009–May 2010: Research Assistant to George Ritzer Sept. 2008–May 2009: Research Assistant to Jeff Lucas, Group Processes Lab The University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg Summer 2004: Research Assistant to On-Campus Juvenile Delinquent Mentoring Pilot Study .: Awards and Honors Excellence in Service Award. ASA Global and Transnational Sociology Section. August 2010. C.W. Mills Fellowship. University of Maryland. Dec. 2008–May 2010. UMD Department of Sociology Summer Research Fellowship. University of Maryland. Summer 2009. Da Vinci Society (Top University Honor for Service, Leadership, International Study, and Academic Excellence [1-3 inductees/year]). The University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. Fall 2004. Commencement Speaker and Class Representative. The University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. Spring 2006. .: Languages English: Native French: Reading Proficient .: Computer Skills Extensive use of Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Dreamweaver, Excel, NodeXL, Power Point, Publisher, SPSS, STATA, Quark, Word .: References Zeynep Tufekci Assistant Professor University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 919-962-0599 zeynep@unc.edu George Ritzer Distinguished University Professor University of Maryland 301-405-6418 gritzer@umd.edu