Thomas Swiss's collaborative new media poems appear online in such journals as Postmodern Culture and Electronic Book Review, as well as in museum exhibits and art shows. He is Professor of English and Rhetoric of Inquiry at the University of Iowa and the editor of the Iowa Review Web --a journal of new media writing and art.  The author of two collections of poems, Rough Cut and Measure, his latest books include Unspun (New York University Press), The World Wide Web: Magic, Metaphor, and Power (Routledge) and  New Media Poetics: Texts, Technotexts, Theories, an edited anthology on poetry in a digital age (The MIT Press, 2006). Swiss is President of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Literature Organization. Swiss is currently visiting professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at UMN. You can view Swiss's powerpoint presentation here.

http://www.thomasswiss.com  

Kim Johnson is a senior at the University of Minnesota double majoring in
Broadcast Journalism and Women's Studies with a minor in Political Science

At Emerging Digerati, Johnson will present three 2-minute stories she has
reported on this fall. As a student journalist, Johnson researches,writes,
shoots and edits her stories. Also, Johnson has created and produces a
student-run newscast called "A Closer Look" which airs on Minneapolis
Television Network.

Nora Paul is the director of the Institute for New Media Studies at the University of Minnesota, School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Nora was with the Poynter Institute from 1991 to 2000, a mid-career journalism training program in St. Petersburg, FL. She held seminars in news library management, computer-assisted research, and new media leadership. She was editor for information services at the Miami Herald from 1979-1991. Nora is the author of Computer Assisted Research: A guide to tapping online information, and co-author of Great Scouts:  Cyber-guides for subject searching on the web and Behind the Message: Information Strategies for Communicators. Her work at the Institute focuses on the impact of the new media environment on content, new story-telling forms, and convergence of media operations.

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