Assistant Professor of American Studies
2107B Holzapfel Hall
Jason Farman is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and also works closely with the Digital Cultures & Creativity undergraduate honors program and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). Jason’s primary area of research is the study of embodied space in the digital age. His recent publications include “Mapping the Digital Empire,” which looks at the impacts of social media on the status and representation of global borders, and “Hypermediating the Game Interface,” which analyzes the role immersive interfaces play in the performance of racial stereotypes in violent videogames. He has also published on the topics of location-aware technologies, surveillance, digital documentation, and embodied contagion in the era of the computer virus. His most recent work is his book manuscript, Mobile Interface Theory (Routledge Press, 2011). He has presented his research at over 25 conferences, including grants to present on social media and information visualization at Oxford University and MIT. Jason comes to the University of Maryland from Washington State University, where he was the Director of the Digital Technology & Culture Program from 2007-2010. He received his Ph.D. in Performance Studies and Digital Media from UCLA under the advisement of N. Katherine Hayles, Mark Poster, and Sue-Ellen Case. His dissertation earned the Chancellor’s Fellowship for Dissertation Year Research and a research grant through the University of California Santa Barbara's Transliteracies Project. While completing his dissertation, he was Editor-in-Chief of Extensions: The Online Journal of Embodiment and Technology, published through UCLA’s Center for Performance Studies.
Degrees:
Ph.D., Performance Studies and Digital Media (UCLA, 2006)
M.A., English (Claremont Graduate University, 2002)
B.A., English and Communication Studies (Westmont College, 2000)
Courses Taught:
Embodiment and Space in the Digital Age (graduate)
Digital Diversity (undergraduate)
Publications:
Mobile Interface Theory. New York: Routledge Press, 2011.
“Mapping the Digital Empire: Google Earth and the Process of Postmodern Cartography.” New Media & Society 12.6 (2010).
“Hypermediating the Game Interface: The Alienation Effect in Violent Videogames and the Problem of Serious Play.” Communication Quarterly 58.1 (2010).
“Gertrude Stein in QuickTime: Documenting Performance in the Digital Age.” Complex Worlds: Digital Culture, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication. Eds. Adrienne Lamberti and Anne R. Richards. Amityville, NY: Baywood, 2010.
“Surveillance Spectacles: The Big Art Group’s Flicker and the Screened Body in Performance.” Contemporary Theatre Review 19.2 (2009).
“Locative Life: Geocaching, Mobile Gaming, and Embodiment.” Proceedings of the Digital Arts and Culture Conference, 2009.
“The Virtual Artaud: Computer Virus as Performance Art.” TechKnowledgies: New Imaginaries in the Humanities, Arts, and TechnoSciences. Ed. Mary Valentis. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.
“Navigation Simulation: Gaming Across the Topology of the Screen.” Extensions: The Online Journal of Embodiment and Technology 3.1 (2007).
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