Or stop trying to “save” emergency management by coating it in Technology — Starting in 2013, I began to work in and around information communication technology being used during emergency response scenarios. I think my first paper was called, “Run Amok: Group Crowd Participation in Identifying the Bomb and Bomber from the Boston Marathon Bombing.” The folks I worked with did and still…

Syllabus Next! — This article outlines readings, multimedia content, and resources of interest for a course called, “Technology and Disaster.” In the previous articles attached to this project, I explore the philosophical underpinnings of why this course is necessary. Those articles can be found here: A Course on Emergency Management and Technology: Getting…

How can or maybe how should we differentiate between ICS and Emergency Management (EM) in order to grow EM? — In the previous articles: A Course on Emergency Management and Technology: Getting Started A Course on Emergency Management and Technology: Foundations to Consider I started to consider how to create a course that centers on emergency management (EM). Specifically, I am concerns about creating incompatible students trying to do things…

And the Future of Emergency Management — In the last article, I tried to describe the tension surrounding technology and emergency management. …

Parameters, Goals, and Outcomes — I’m finally digging in to developing a course around emergency management and technology. It factors in to some work i’ve been doing over the pandemic about science and technology integration but is additionally something that has been part and parcel of my research life since I graduated in 2018. …

The Missing Mass of Games Doesn’t Have to Be Impermeable — In my formative years as a student in sociology (2004–12), I was pushed into the study of games by my mentors. They felt that because of books like Barbie to Mortal Kombat, My Life as a Night Elf Priest, and My Tiny Life that the study of games, of internet…

Why Emergency Management Should Be a Leader in Technology — I am a researcher of the socio-technical that has made the jump from the social sciences, the socio, to the technical. This form of the jump is arguably more difficult because the social sciences are not as strict, literal, or frustrating as a computer, compiler, or interpreter. As my work…

Logging back into the Virtual World after 10 Years AFK. — Blogs, Virtual Worlds, and the Great Online Experiment With the Coronavirus coming around, so many of us are forced indoors for a time, forced into isolation where digital tools will be forced to become the norm. We’re already seeing things like Netflix Party gain immediate popularity or exercise programs like Ring Fit Adventure sell out suddenly. I was…

A CSCW Workshop Report — On Sunday, November 10th, 2019, I attended a workshop that seemed so outside the ordinary for the space that I work in that it almost felt like a mistake. …