Still not cool.

Bryan G. Behrenshausen is an instructor in the department of Communication and Theatre at Millersville University of Pennsylvania who studies the philosophy of communication, the political economy of algorithmic culture, and the performativity of video gaming. Here is his curriculm vitae.

Recent presentations

2008. Ways of knowing, modes of being: Video games and the ontological work of critical pedagogy. Paper presented at the National Communication Association Convention, San Diego, CA.

2004. Re-imagining the experience of mass media: A semiotic phenomenology of the issue-attention cycle. Paper presented at the National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, IL.

Recent publications

2009. Review of Mia Consalvo's Cheating: Gaining Advantage in Video Games (MIT Press). In Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies book review (July). #

2009. Diplomacy. In Encyclopedia of Play in Today's Society (Sage). #

2007. Toward a (kin)aesthetic of video gaming: The case of Dance Dance Revolution. In Games and Culture (Volume 2, Issue 4). #

Forthcoming publications

2010. Serious games and the ontological call of education: A communication perspective on the radical binarisation of everyday life. With Thomas J. Yannuzzi in Interdisciplinary Models and Tools for Serious Games: Emerging Concepts and Future Directions (IGI Global).

Teaching

I teach courses in communication studies, including Communication Theory, Communication Research, Media Criticism, and Persuasion.

Education

M.A., Communication, The University of Maine, Orono, 2007.
Thesis: "Touching is Good: An Eidetic Phenomenology of Interface, Interobjectivity, and Interaction in Nintendo's Animal Crossing: Wild World" (directed by Eric E. Peterson). #

B.S., Speech Communication, Millersville University, 2005.
Thesis: "Re-imagining the Experience of Mass Media: A Semiotic Phenomenology of the Issue-Attention Cycle" (directed by Isaac E. Catt).

Contact

Correspondence to:

Hash Building
Room 160
Department of Communication and Theatre
Millersville University
Millersville, PA 17601

bryan [at] stillnotcool [dot] com