Bio
Jason Farman is an Assistant Professor at University of Maryland, College Park in the Department of American Studies and a Distinguished Faculty Fellow in the Digital Cultures and Creativity Program. He is author of the book Mobile Interface Theory: Embodied Space and Locative Media (Routledge, 2012 — winner of the 2012 Book of the Year Award from the Association of Internet Researchers), which focuses on how the worldwide adoption of mobile technologies is causing a reexamination of the core ideas about what it means to live our everyday lives: the practice of embodied space. His second book is an edited collection titled The Mobile Story: Narrative Practices with Locative Technologies, due out July 2013 from Routledge Press. He is currently working on a book project called The Myth of the Disconnected Life: How Mobile Technologies Have Transformed Social Connections. He has published scholarly articles on such topics as mobile technologies, Google maps, social media, videogames, digital storytelling, digital performance art, and surveillance. Farman has been a contributing author for The Atlantic and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He has also been interviewed on NPR’s Marketplace Tech Report, the Christian Science Monitor, the Baltimore Sun, the Denver Post, among others. He received his Ph.D. in Digital Media and Performance Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles.