Author, speaker, and Goth babe of the week. Fan of the Oxford comma.

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I have a BA in English, and I've held more jobs than you have, including (but not limited to) actress, nanny, film P.A., waitress, copywriter, secretary, boat-builder's assistant, film extra, evil telemarketer, personal driver, film caterer, Web designer, Administrative Director for a non-profit media arts center, and 'Special Forces' for a small regional magazine. Thanks to my weblog, Rebecca's Pocket (currently inactive), I can add author and speaker to that list. I'm still interested in acting and filmmaking, so get in touch if you have a project you'd like me to consider.

I'm interested in lots of things. Some of them are film and film making, genre, gender, food and culture, literature, sustainability, urban farming, and domestic life. I'm a 10-year participant at Burning Man, but I don't consider myself a "Burner." I'm keenly interested in video games as an emerging narrative form.

In thinking about technology, I tend to be a pragmatist, not a promoter. My interest is in the intersection between technology and human behavior: how people use technologies and how technologies influence what they do. Contradictions intrigue me. I am fascinated with unintended consequences. I create the occasional recipe.

Professional highlights include keynoting conferences on four continents; being featured in the New York Times, Newsweek, Fast Company, the BBC, and National Public Radio; being profiled by Time magazine; invitations to write for prestigious academic journals the Nieman Reports and Communications of the ACM; citations in over 300 academic papers; and being named one of the Web's "Hot Faces" (right between Beck and Bowie) by "Web User" magazine in 2003.