I am Dr. John F. Barber. I teach in the Digital Technology and Culture Program at Washington State University Vancouver. My teaching, research, and scholarship focus on theory and practice promoted by now digital media and how it shifts relationships between technology, art, science, and the humanities across two broad areas: Information, Usability, and Interface Design; and Technology Studies.
Example scholarship and publications in Technology Studies include New Worlds, New Words: Exploring Pathways for Writing about and in Electronic Environments, a volume edited with Dene Grigar, that focuses on the future of writing resulting from its move to inhabit electronic spaces. I have contributed invited chapters to High Wired, Electronic Networks, The Online Writing Classroom, Texts and Technology, Technical Communication and the World Wide Web, Technology and English Studies, and Going Wireless. My work is included in print journals like Works & Days, Studies in Technical Communication, Pre/Text, and Readerly Writerly Text; and electronic journals like Leonardo Digital Reviews, and Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments.
My work in Information, Usability, and Interface Design includes the the development and curation of Brautigan Bibliography and Archive, an online, interactive information structure known as the preeminent resource on the life and work of Richard Brautigan. I wrote Richard Brautigan: An Annotated Bibliography and edited Richard Brautigan: Essays on the Writings and Life, an anthology of essays about Brautigan, his work, and his place in American literature. Additional publications include chapters in Transdisciplinary Digital Art: Sound, Vision and the New Screen, Encyclopedia of Beat Literature, Resource Guide to American Literature, and Fine Art Forum; and articles in electronic journals like Hyperriz: New Media New Cultures.
I am also the creator of Dr. John's Eazy-Peazy Guides, web-based, award-winning tutorials for improving skills in writing, research, HTML, public speaking, and creative thinking.
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