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Janna Anderson

Professor of Journalism

Department: Journalism

Office and address: No Building Available 2850 Campus Box Elon, NC 27244

Phone number: (336) 278-2978

Professional Expertise

Expert on digital futures, Internet issues, digital journalism.

Brief Biography

Janna Anderson is co-founder and senior researcher at Elon University's Imagining the Digital Future Center. Recent publications include "Being Human in the Age of AI," "The Impact of AI by 2040," “The Metaverse in 2040" and "The Future of Human Agency." She is also a full professor and director of the Imagining the Internet Center at Elon University and served for 20 years as a senior contract researcher for Pew Research, co-leading Pew and Elon’s 23-year series of reports outlining thousands of experts’ predictions for the most likely future of digital life in coming decades. She is the lead author of the "Future of the Internet" book series published by Cambria Press and author of the book "Imagining the Internet: Personalities, Predictions, Perspectives." She has appeared as a speaker and expert on the future of information technologies at numerous international conferences, including World Future conferences, South By Southwest Interactive, Webcom, NextGov, MobilityShifts, Institute for the Future symposiums, the UN-facilitated Internet Governance Forum and the Metaverse Roadmap Project. 

Longer bio: Janna Anderson is co-founder and senior researcher at Elon University's Imagining the Digital Future Center, which evolved out of an earlier digital futures research site that got its start in 2000: the Imagining the Internet Center, an international communications research unit that published the website "Imagining the Internet: A History and Forecast." The site is a massive archive of people's predictions about the future of the Internet from the early 1990s through 2023. It is a Webby Awards Honoree. She previously also served as a senior contract researcher with the Pew Research Center's Internet and Technology Project for nearly 20 years. She has investigated the future of more than 50 Internet-related topics since 2000. She is frequently quoted in media reports and sought out by those in government and business to share her expertise. She has been active in the processes of the UN-facilitated Internet Governance Forum and World Summit on the Information Society. She is the lead author of the "Future of the Internet" book series published by Cambria Press and the book "Imagining the Internet" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), designated as a 2006 American Library Association "Choice" book - a must-have book for library reference collections. Her expertise is concentrated in: emerging media; the future of the Internet and communications; Internet history; futures studies; and journalism. She has appeared as a speaker and participant in numerous international conferences on the future of information technologies, including the World Future conference, South By Southwest Interactive, Webcom, NextGov, MobilityShifts, Institute for the Future symposiums, the UN-facilitated Internet Governance Forum and the Metaverse Roadmap Project, investigating the future of social networks and the 3D Internet. She has also served as a contributor to the "State of the Future" reports published by the Millennium Project. She was on the steering committee of the WWW2010 international conference and directed the co-located FutureWeb conference, which featured Vint Cerf, Tim Berners-Lee, danah boyd and Doc Searls. An award-winning professor of emerging media and digital journalism, she is known for 25 years of excellence in teaching and research at Elon, the university U.S. News & World Report has ranked #1 in teaching among all U.S. National universities for five consecutive years. She has been nationally recognized as a Scripps-AEJMC U.S. Teacher of the Year top-three finalist; has been nominated twice for Carnegie U.S. Professor of Year; was awarded AEJMC News Division U.S. Professor of the Year; and was honored with the Daniels-Daniely Award - Elon University’s top teaching honor. She has served as a judge for the Webby Awards and as a reviewer for New Media & Society and Newspaper Research Journal and as a reviewer of NSF grant applications. She enjoyed a 20-year career as an award-winning professional journalist prior to joining the faculty at Elon in 1999 and beginning her research and teaching career. 

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Education

MA in journalism concentrating on emerging media, University of Memphis, 1999
BA, Minnesota State University Moorhead, 1978

Courses Taught

Communications 1000 Communications in a Global Age
Communications 1100 Media Writing
Journalism 3100 Reporting for the Public Good
Communications 3390 The Future of the Internet
Communications 4910 Independent Study (various topics)
Communications 4950 Great Ideas - Senior Capstone Seminar
Communications 4990 Independent Research (various topics)
Communications 5300 Interactive Theory and Audience (Interactive Media graduate program)
Communications 5620 Citizen and Participatory News (Interactive Media graduate program)
General Studies: Elon Core 3070 The Future, Now; Elon Core 4710 The Future of the Internet

Leadership Positions

  • Co-founder and senior researcher at the Imagining the Digital Future Center, 2024-present
  • Founding director of the Imagining the Internet Center, 2003-2024
  • Lead author of Pew Research report series on The Future of Digital Life (20 years)
  • Lifeboat Foundation Futurists Board, 2010-Present.
  • IGF-USA Steering Committee, 2009-2017.
  • Judge for the Webby Awards, premier global website competition, 2013-2016
  • Open WSIS 10 Internet Governance Policy Process, 2015
  • World Wide Web 2010 Steering Committee, 2009-2010.
  • Associate in the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences
  • Reviewer for New Media & Society, 2005-2015.
  • Editorial Board member for Newspaper Research Journal, 2007-2015.
  • Reviewer for Media History Monographs, 2008-2009.
  • Metaverse Roadmap Project, 2007-2010.
  • Millennium Project (World Federation of United Nations Associations) State of the Future reports (http://millennium-project.org/millennium/overview.html) contributing editor/author.
  • DiploFoundation Expert Advisory Board 2007-2010.

Research

(2025) "Public Views on Being Human in 2035: Many Americans Expect AI to Have Significant Negative Impact on Human Capacities and Behaviors Such as Social and Emotional Intelligence, Analytical Thinking and Agency. Imagining the Digital Future Center. September 17. https://imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/LLM-survey-public-views-on-being-human-in-2035-9-17-25.pdf

(2025) "Being Human in 2035: Experts Predict Significant Change in People's Ways of Thinking, Being and Doing as they Adapt to the Age of AI." With L. Rainie. Imagining the Digital Future Center. 286 pages. April 2. https://imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Being-Human-in-2035-ITDF-report.pdf

(2024) “A New Age of Enlightenment? A New Threat to Humanity?: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence by 2040.” With L. Rainie. Imagining the Digital Future Center. 158 pages. February 29. https://imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/reports-and-publications/the-impact-of-artificial-intelligence-by-2040/

(2023) "As AI Spreads, Experts Predict the Best and Worst Changes in Digital Life By 2035." With L. Rainie. Pew Internet and Technology Project of Pew Research Center. 232 pages. June 21. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2023/06/21/as-ai-spreads-experts-predict-the-best-and-worst-changes-in-digital-life-by-2035/ and https://www.elon.edu/u/imagining/surveys/xvi2023/the-best-worst-digital-future-2035/

(2023) "The Future of Human Agency: Experts split as to how much control people will retain over essential decision-making by 2035 as digital systems and AI spread; many worry these systems are diminishing individuals’ control over their choices." With L. Rainie. Pew Internet and Technology Project of Pew Research Center. 173 pages. February 24. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2023/02/24/the-future-of-human-agency/, https://www.elon.edu/u/imagining/surveys/xv2023/the-future-of-human-agency-2035/ and https://eloncdn.blob.core.windows.net/eu3/sites/964/2023/02/Future-of-Human-Agency-ElonU-Pew-2-24-2023.pdf

(2022) “The Metaverse in 2040: Hype? Hope? Hell? Maybe All Three. Experts Are Split on the Likely Evolution of a Truly Immersive Metaverse. They Expect AR and MR Will Become More Useful and Worry That Current Online Problems will be Magnified.” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet and Technology Project of Pew Research Center. 208 pages. June 30. https://www.elon.edu/u/imagining/surveys/xiv-2022/future-of-metaverse-web3-2040/ and https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2022/06/30/the-metaverse-in-2040/

(2022) “Visions of the Internet in 2035: Asked to Imagine a Better World Online, Experts Say They Hope for a Digital Environment that Promotes Fact-Based Knowledge and Defense of Individuals’ Rights and Helps Solve the World’s Wicked Problems.” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet and Technology Project of Pew Research Center. 108 pages. February 7. https://www.elon.edu/u/imagining/surveys/xiii-2021/hopes-for-digital-life-2035/ and https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2022/02/07/visions-of-the-internet-in-2035/

(2021) “Experts Doubt Ethical AI Design Will Be Broadly Adopted As the Norm Within the Next Decade: A Majority Worries That AI Evolution Will Continue to Be Focused On Profits and Social Control.” With L. Rainie, E. Vogels. Pew Internet and Technology Project of Pew Research Center. 127 pages. June 16. https://www.elon.edu/u/imagining/surveys/xii-2021/ethical-ai-design-2030/ and https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2021/06/16/experts-doubt-ethical-ai-design-will-be-broadly-adopted-as-the-norm-within-the-next-decade/  

(2021) “Experts Say the ‘New Normal’ in 2025 Will Be More Tech-Driven, With More Big Challenges: Sweeping Changes Will Make Life Worse for Most People in the Wake of the Covid-19 Outbreak.” With L. Rainie, E. Vogels. Pew Internet and Technology Project of Pew Research Center. 194 pages. February 18. https://www.elon.edu/u/imagining/surveys/xii-2021/post-covid-new-normal-2025/ and https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2021/02/18/experts-say-the-new-normal-in-2025-will-be-far-more-tech-driven-presenting-more-big-challenges/

(2020) “Earlier 2020 Digital Life Predictions in Retrospect: Many Forecasts Were on the Mark; the Impact on Humans’ Intelligence and Emotional Condition Was Vastly Underappreciated.” With E. Vogels, L. Rainie. Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center and Pew Research Internet and Technology Project. December 28. https://www.elon.edu/u/imagining/digital-life-2020-looking-back-looking-forward/

(2020) “The Future of Social and Civic Innovation: Experts Predict More Digital Innovation by 2030 Aimed at Enhancing Democracy; Many Say This Will Result in Positive Outcomes for the Public Good, Others Are Less Convinced.” With E. Vogels, L. Rainie. Pew Internet and Technology Project of Pew Research Center. June 30. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2020/06/30/experts-predict-more-digital-innovation-by-2030-aimed-at-enhancing-democracy/ and https://www.elon.edu/u/imagining/surveys/future-of-civic-innovation-2020/

(2020) “The Future of Democracy in the Digital Age: Experts Expect People’s Uses of Technology to be Mostly Harmful to Democracy, List Leading Threats as the Speed and Scope of Reality Distortion, the Decline of Journalism and the Impact of Surveillance Capitalism.” With L. Rainie, E. Vogels. Pew Internet and Technology Project of Pew Research Center. February 21. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2020/02/21/many-tech-experts-say-digital-disruption-will-hurt-democracy/ and https://www.elon.edu/u/imagining/surveys/future-of-democracy-2020/

(2019) “The Next 50 Years of Digital Life: Fifty Years After the First Computer Network Was Connected Most Experts Say Digital Future Will Be Mostly Positive, But Urge Better Cooperation Toward Security, Basic Rights, and Economic Fairness.” With K. Stansberry, L. Rainie. Pew Internet and Technology Project of Pew Research Center. October 28. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/10/28/experts-optimistic-about-the-next-50-years-of-digital-life/ and https://www.elon.edu/u/imagining/surveys/x-2-internet-50th-2019/

(2018) “AI and the Future of Humans: Experts Have Concerns About How Advances in AI Will Affect What It Means to Be Human.” With L. Rainie, A. Luchsinger. Pew Internet and Technology Project of Pew Research Center. December 10. http://www.pewinternet.org/2018/12/10/artificial-intelligence-and-the-future-of-humans/ and http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2018_survey/AI_and_the_Future_of_Humans.xhtml (122-page report).


(2018) “Stories About the Impact of Digital Life: Most Technology Experts and Scholars Report That Their Own Experience Has Been Mostly Positive.” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet & Technology Project of Pew Research Center. July 3. http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2018_survey/Digital_Life_and_Well-Being_Anecdotes.xhtml and http://www.pewinternet.org/2018/07/03/stories-from-experts-about-the-impact-of-digital-life/.

(2018) “The Future of Well-Being in a Tech-Saturated World: A Third of Experts Think Digital Life Will be More Harmful Than Helpful in the Coming Decade.” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet & Technology Project of Pew Research Center. April 17. http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2018_survey/Digital_Life_And_Well-Being_Home.xhtml and http://www.pewinternet.org/2018/04/17/the-future-of-well-being-in-a-tech-saturated-world/ (272-page report). 

(2017) “Life in 2030: What Experts Can’t Predict.” With L. Rainie. World Economic Forum Agenda 2017. November 6. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/11/life-in-2030-what-experts-cant-predict/.

(2017) “This is What Experts Think Will Happen to Fake News.” With L. Rainie. World Economic Forum Agenda 2017. November 1. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/11/this-is-what-experts-think-will-happen-to-fake-news. 

(2017) “The Future of Truth and Misinformation Online: Experts Are Evenly Split On Whether the Coming Decade Will See a Reduction in False and Misleading Narratives Online.” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet, Science and Technology Project of Pew Research Center. October 19. http://www.pewinternet.org/2017/10/19/the-future-of-truth-and-misinformation-online/ and http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2017_survey/future_of_the_information_environment.xhtml  (224-page report).

(2017) “The Fate of Online Trust in the Next Decade: Many Say a Lack of Trust Will Not Be a Barrier to Increased Public Reliance On the Internet.” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet, Science and Technology Project of the Pew Research Center. August 10. http://www.pewinternet.org/2017/08/10/the-fate-of-online-trust-in-the-next-decade/ and http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2016_survey/Trust_in_Internet_Activities.xhtml (90-page report).

(2017) “The Internet of Things Connectivity Binge: What Are the Implications? Despite Wide Concerns About Cyberattacks, Outages and Privacy Violations, Experts Believe the IoT Will Expand Successfully.” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet, Science and Technology Project of the Pew Research Center. June 6. http://www.pewinternet.org/2017/06/06/the-internet-of-things-connectivity-binge-what-are-the-implications/ and http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2016_survey/Internet_of_Things_Infrastructure.xhtml (93-page report).

(2017) “The Future of Jobs and Jobs Training: Will Well-Prepared Workers be Able to Keep Up in the Race With AI and Will Market Capitalism Survive?” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet, Science and Technology Project of the Pew Research Center. May 3. http://www.pewinternet.org/2017/05/03/the-future-of-jobs-and-jobs-training/ and http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2016_survey/future_jobs_training.xhtml (94-page report).

(2017) “The Future of Free Speech, Trolls, Anonymity and Fake News Online: Experts Fear Uncivil and Manipulative Behaviors on the Internet Will Persist – and May Get Worse.” With L. Rainie and J. Albright. Pew Internet, Science and Technology Project of the Pew Research Center. March 29. http://www.pewinternet.org/2017/03/29/the-future-of-free-speech-trolls-anonymity-and-fake-news-online/ and http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2016_survey/social_future_of_the_internet.xhtml  (82-page report).

(2017) “Code-Dependent: Pros and Cons of the Algorithm Age – Will Impacts of the Networked, Automated World be Mostly Positive?” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet, Science and Technology Project of the Pew Research Center. February 8. http://www.pewinternet.org/2017/02/08/code-dependent-pros-and-cons-of-the-algorithm-age/ and http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2016_survey/algorithm_impacts.xhtml (87-page report).

(2015) “The Robot Takeover is Already Here; The Machines That Replace Us Do Not Have to Have Superintelligence to Execute a Takeover With Overwhelming Impacts.” Medium. August 12. http://bit.ly/1J4eVgC.

(2015) “Individualization of Higher Education: How Technology Evolution Can Revolutionize Opportunities for Teaching and Learning.” International Social Science Journal, United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. April-June. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/issj.12046/full.

(2014) “The Future of Privacy: Experts believe there will be a sustained struggle to define and create privacy and tracking policies in the next decade and are deeply divided about whether it will work or not.” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. December 18. http://www.pewInternet.org/2014/12/18/future-of-privacy/ and http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2014_survey/2025_Internet_Security_Privacy.xhtml.

(2014) “Cyber Attacks Likely to Increase: Experts believe nations, rogue groups, and malicious individuals will step up their assaults on communications networks over the next decade.” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. October 29. http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/10/29/cyber-attacks-likely-to-increase/ and http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2014_survey/2025_Internet_Cyber_Attacks.xhtml.

(2014) “Killer Apps In the Gigabit Age: Experts predict hyper-personalized interactions with information and our surroundings, teleconferencing, and immersive virtual-reality environments.” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. October 8. http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/10/09/killer-apps-in-the-gigabit-age/ and http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2014_survey/2025_Internet_Killer_Apps.xhtml.

(2014) “The Future of Powerful Technology Companies: Experts envision automation and intelligent digital agents permeating work and personal lives by 2025.” With L. Rainie, M. Duggan. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. September 17. http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2014_survey/2025_Internet_Corporate_Powers.xhtml.

(2014) “AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs: Experts expect non-US firms to gain more power over online life by 2025.” With A. Smith. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. August 6. http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/08/06/future-of-jobs/ and http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2014_survey/2025_Internet_AI_Robotics.xhtml.

(2014) “Net Threats.” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. July 3. http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/07/03/net-threats/ and http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2014_survey/2025_Internet_Looming_Threats.xhtml.

(2014) “Key Insights: Expert Views on Threats to the Internet: Among the fears are crackdowns by nations; intense surveillance; loss of Net Neutrality; the flood of information.” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. May 14. http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/07/03/key-insights-expert-views-on-threats-to-the-internet/.

(2014) “The Internet of Things Will Thrive By 2025: The rise of embedded and wearable computing will bring the next revolution in digital technology.” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. May 14. http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/05/14/internet-of-things/ and http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2014_survey/2025_Internet_of_Things.xhtml.

(2014) “Digital Life In 2025: Experts predict the Internet will become ‘like electricity,’ less visible yet more deeply embedded in people lives, for good and ill.” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. March 11. http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/03/11/digital-life-in-2025/ and http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2014_survey/2025_Internet_Impact.xhtml.

(2013) “Future Information Seekers—Savvy Or Shallow? Experts Expect ‘Born-Digital’ Generation AO Youth to Benefit and Suffer Due to Their Always-On Lives.” Tabula: Journal of Archivists (Spain). June.

(2013) “The Impact of Internet on the Future of Higher Education.” With L. Rainie, Jan Boyles. Research in Higher Education of Engineering (China-based journal for professors of engineering). Serial No. 140, No.3.

(2012) “The Future Impact of the Internet on Higher Education: Experts Expect More-Efficient Collaborative Environments and New Grading Schemes; They Worry About Massive Online Courses, the Shift Away from Campus Life.” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. July 27. http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Future-of-Higher-Education.aspx.

(2012) “Big Data: Experts Say New Forms Are Helping Us Be More Nimble and Adaptive, But They Worry Over Humans’ Capacity to Understand and Use New Tools Well.” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. July 20. http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Future-of-Big-Data.aspx.

(2012) “Corporate Responsibility and the Internet: How Far Will Tech Firms Go in Helping Repressive Regimes?” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. July 5. http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Future-of-Corporate-Responsibility.aspx.

(2012) “Smart Systems: Experts Think Tech-Enhanced Homes, Appliances, and Utilities Will Spread, But, They Advise, Don’t Expect to See the Home of the Future By 2020.” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. June 29. http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Future-of-Smart-Systems.aspx.

(2012) “Gamification and the Internet: Experts Expect ‘Game Layers’ to Expand in the Future, with Positive, Negative Results.” With L. Rainie. Games for Health Journal: Research, Development, And Clinical Applications. Vol. 1, No. 4. http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/g4h.2012.0027.

(2012) “Getting Into the Gamification? Expect ‘Game Layers’ to Expand, With Positive and Negative Impacts." With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. May 18. http://www.pewinternet.org/~/media/Files/Reports/2012/PIP_Future_of_Internet_2012_Gamification.pdf.

(2012) “What IS Your Wallet? By 2020 Most Smartphones Could Be E-wallets, But Only If Industry Supports It." With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. April 17. http://www.pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2012/PIP_Future_of_Money.pdf.

(2012) “The Web Is Dead? No, Experts Expect Apps, Web to Converge In the Cloud, Say Simplicity for Users Will Come At a Cost." With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. March 23. http://www.pewinternet.org/~/media/Files/Reports/2012/PIP_Future_of_Apps_and_Web.pdf.

(2012) “Millennials Will Benefit and Suffer Due to Their Hyperconnected Lives." With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. Feb. 29. http://www.pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2012/PIP_Future_of_Internet_2012_Young_Brains_PDF.pdf.

(2011) “Good Gizmos and Good Governance: Will New Technologies Encourage Better Political Engagement?” With J. Pahlka, G. Curtin, M. Jackson, E. Aboujaoude. Zócalo Public Square Center for Social Cohesion. Available online at http://zocalopublicsquare.org/thepublicsquare/2011/10/25/good-gizmos-and-good-governance/read/up-for-discussion/.

(2011) “Future Libraries: Return on Investment 2020. " With A. Havens and T. Story. OCLC NextSpace. Vol. 17, Winter. Also available online at http://www.oclc.org/nextspace/default.htm.

(2010) “Responses to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Request for Consultations on Improvements to the Internet Governance Forum.” UNCTAD. November 24. Also available online at http://www.unctad.info/en/CstdWG/Contributions and http://www.unctad.info/upload/CSTD-IGF/IGFsummary.pdf.

(2010) “Comments on Advancing Open Internet Policy Through Analysis Distinguishing Open Internet from Specializing Network Services.” With S. Bradner, B. Frankston, S. Johnson, D. Reed, S. Wozniak, et al. Federal Communications Commission. Comments of Various Advocates for the Open Internet GN Docket No. 09-191. November 4. Available online at http://www.scribd.com/doc/41002510/On-Advancing-the-Open-Internet-by-Distinguishing-it-from-Specialized-Services.

(2010) “Remaking Education for a New Century.” Contributed to World Future Society’s “Strategies and Technologies for a Sustainable Future,” a supplemental proceedings publication tied to the World Future 2010 conference. Pages 3-6. ISBN 9780930242671.

(2010) “Millennials Will Make Online Sharing in Networks a Lifelong Habit." With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. July 9. http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Future-of-Millennials.aspx.

(2010) “The Future of Social Relations." With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. July 2. http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/The-future-of-social-relations.aspx.

(2010) “The Future of Cloud Computing." With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. June 11. http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/The-future-of-cloud-computing.aspx.

(2010) “The Fate of the Semantic Web." With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. May 4. http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Semantic-Web.aspx.

(2010) “The Impact of the Internet on Institutions in the Future." With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. March 29. http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Impact-of-the-Internet-on-Institutions-in-the-Future.aspx.

(2010) "The Future of the Internet IV: Challenges and Opportunities." With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. February 19. http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Future-of-the-Internet-IV.aspx.

(2009) "US Control Over Internet Hotly Disputed." ITWire. November 22. Also available online at http://www.itwire.com/your-it-news/home-it/29530-us-control-over-internet-hotly-disputed.

(2009) “God Did It, Why Can’t We? ‘Net 10 Commandments." Ars Technica. November 23. Available online at http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/11/god-did-it-why-cant-we-un-ponders-net-10-commandments.ars.

(2009) "Spurring IPv6 Upgrades Through Cash for (Network) Clunkers." Ars Technica. November 19. Available online at http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/11/spurring-ipv6-upgrades-through-cash-for-network-clunkers.ars.

(2009) "IGF Attendees: America, Surrender Root Zone File." Ars Technica. November 18. Available online at http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/11/igf-2009-america-surrender-the-root-zone-file.ars.

(2009) "Tim Berners-Lee Launches WWW Foundation." Ars Technica. November 16. Available online at http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/11/tim-berners-lee-launches-www-foundation-at-igf-2009.ars.

(2009) "The Power Struggle Over Information Access and Control in a Highly Networked Age." Silicon India. March 2009, Page A25 Opinions/Editorial cover. Also available online at http://www.siliconindia.net/guestcontributor/guestarticle/135/Information_Explosion__Means_You_Wont_Own_Your_Data_Janna_Quitney_Anderson.html.

(2008) "Internet Governance Policy and the Future of the Internet." With L. DeNardis and C. Book. Feedback, journal of the Broadcast Education Association, November. http://beaweb.org/pdfs/feedback/2008/49.6.pdf

(2008) “A Day to Celebrate the Glories of the Internet.” Greensboro News & Record. OpEd pages. August 29. Available online at http://www.news-record.com/content/2008/08/29/article/anderson_a_day_to_celebrate_glories_of_the_internet.

(2008) "Celebrating the Web Times a Trillion. " Burlington Times-News, Op-Ed pages. September 22. Also available online at http://www.thetimesnews.com/articles/web-28263-time-onewebday.html.

(2008) "Realizing the Global Promise of the Internet: The Future of Internet Governance." With C. Book. Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. Survey of participants in the UN-administrated Internet Governance Forum in Rio de Janeiro in November 2007, published August. Available online at https://www.elon.edu/u/imagining/event-coverage/global-igf/igf-2007/survey/ Also published as part of the official proceedings of the GIGANET Conference 2008.

(2007) “Shared Governance of the Web is Vital to the Greater Good.” Greensboro News & Record. OpEd Section, Page 3.

(2007) “Who Should Control the Internet?” Raleigh News & Observer. Section Q, Page 1. November 11.

(2006) "The Futures Studies Timeline." (2006) https://eloncdn.blob.core.windows.net/eu3/sites/964/2019/07/Futures-Studies-Timeline.pdf

"The Future of the Internet II." With L. Rainie. The 2006 Internet Experts Survey for the Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. A look more than 700 Internet stakeholders predictions for life in 2020. https://eloncdn.blob.core.windows.net/eu3/sites/964/2019/06/2006survey.pdf and https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2006/09/24/the-future-of-the-internet-ii/

(2005) "The Future of the Internet I." With L. Rainie. January 9. The 2006 Internet Experts Survey for the Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2005/01/09/the-future-of-the-internet-i/.

(2001) "One Neighborhood, One Week on the Internet." With L. Rainie. USA Today feature story package, July 31. This full-page package of articles I wrote about an Elon University research study also appeared in the Cincinnati Enquirer, Shreveport Times, Reno Gazette-Journal, Detroit News, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Sioux Falls Argus Leader and dozens of other Gannett papers. https://www.elon.edu/u/imagining/time-capsule/one-week/ and http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/2001-07-31-net-families-main.htm

(2001) "Ethics for Digital Information Providers." Poynter Institute for Media Studies Media Ethics Bibliography, online.

(2001) "An Analysis of Internet Adopters." Q methodology study with B. Lee. Operant Subjectivity, October 25. http://www.operantsubjectivity.org/pub/164

(2001) "Newspaper Online Editors Support Traditional Standards." With D. Arant. Newspaper Research Journal, Fall Issue. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/073953290102200406

(2000) "Why Don't People Embrace the Internet? An Analysis of Assimilators, Hoppers and Sensors." With B. Lee. Working Papers, Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center.

Grants Awarded

More than $300,000 in grants, other funding and travel support have been awarded for work, including the following projects:

(2020-2023) Pew Internet and Technology Project. Support to execute contract research for the next five Elon-Pew Research “Future of the Internet,” "Future of Digital Life" canvassings of experts, data sort, analysis and report writing.

(2019-2020) Pew Internet and Technology Project. Grant to execute contract research project, the 11th Elon-Pew Research “Future of the Internet” canvassing of experts, focused on the humans, technology and the future of democracy and social and civic innovation.

(2018) Pew Internet and Technology Project. Agreement to formulate and execute a contract research project, planning, developing and making results public in a series of reports based upon a canvassing of experts about the likely future of humans plus technology for Pew Research.

(2017) Internet Society 25th Anniversary and 2017 Hall of Fame Induction. The Internet Society funded travel expenses for team of 10 students and faculty from Elon University to complete documentary interviews and coverage of its 25th anniversary conference and the 2017 Internet Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, where the Elon team members were the only invited journalists.

(2017) IGF-USA 2017. With C. Donohue. Funding from the Internet Society provided travel support for the work of a 20-person Elon team representing Imagining the Internet in journalistic coverage of the 2017 Internet Governance Forum-USA in Washington, DC, in July.

(2016) Pew Internet and Technology Project. Agreement to formulate and execute a contract research project, planning, developing and making results public in a series of reports based upon a canvassing of experts about the likely future of humans plus technology for Pew Research.

(2016) IGF-USA. With C. Donohue. Funding from the Internet Society to support the work of a 20-person Elon team representing Imagining the Internet in journalistic coverage of the 2016 Internet Governance Forum-USA.

(2013) Pew Internet and Technology Project. Agreement to formulate and execute a contract research project, planning, developing and making results public in a series of reports based upon a canvassing of experts about the likely future of humans plus technology for Pew Research.

(2003-ongoing) Imagining the Internet Center, $7,500 to $12,000 annually in funding provided by Elon University.

(2012) Global INET 20. The Internet Society funded travel expenses for team of 11 students, faculty, staff from Elon University to complete documentary research at its 20th anniversary conference and at the inaugural Internet Hall of Fame Ceremony, where the Elon team members were the only invited journalists.

(2012) IGF-USA. With C. Donohue. The Steering Committee of IGF-USA funded travel expenses for a team of 20 students and two staff from Elon University to complete documentary research at its 4th annual conference in Washington, DC.

(2012) Pew Internet and Technology Project. With R. Springer. Donation made to the Imagining the Internet Center for work completed on the web-based survey instrument for the Future of the Internet V survey.

(2011-12) Senior researcher, Pew Internet & American Life Project. Future of the Internet Survey V. Data sorting, classification, analysis, report writing and editing for the fifth Future of the Internet canvassing in partnership with the Pew Internet & American Life Project; this yielded EIGHT Pew Research reports for release in 2012.

(2011-2012) Always On: How Ambient Information is Changing the World and How It Can Change Your Life. Elon University Faculty Research and Development Sabbatical Award. Spring 2011.

(2011) Senior contract researcher, Pew Internet & American Life Project. Future of the Internet Survey V. Researching, writing, programming, and fielding the question set for the fifth Future of the Internet canvassing for the Pew Internet & American Life Project and beginning to gather together the resulting data set, which would yield eight Pew Research reports in 2012.

(2011) Always On, Associate Provost Special Grant in support of travel to do research in the Silicon Valley for Spring Semester 2012 sabbatical book project.

(2011) Winter Term Student-Engagement Grant. Awarded in a review by peers. Purpose: To extend the course experience outside the scheduled course hours with engaged student-learning activities at night.

(2010) Senior contract researcher, Pew Internet & American Life Project. Taking the lead in research, writing and web-building for "The Future of the Internet IV," an assessment of what internet professionals, scientists, tech journalists, and other leaders see as the future of networked communications.

(2010) FutureWeb. WWW 2010 Steering Committee underwriting of operational costs for a 22-event, 60-speaker collocated conference with the global World Wide Web 2010 conference. Hosted by Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center, led by students in my Winter 2010 Future of the Web course.

(2009) “The Future of the Internet IV.” Elon University Faculty Research and Development Committee Summer Fellowship Award.

(2008) “Environmental Visions: A Magazine About the World We Live In and the World We Want to Live In.” With S. Spray, C. Kircher, M. Kleckner, M. Strickland, J. MacFall, D. Redington, K. Hassell. Fund for Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, Elon University.

(2008) “MoJo V Tools: Visual Thinking for Multiplatform Journalism.” Elon University Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning Grant.

(2008) Senior contract researcher, Pew Internet & American Life Project. Taking the lead in research, writing and web-building for the Elon Pew expert cavassing that led to the report "The Future of the Internet III."

(2007) “Ethnographic Research: The First Internet Governance Forum.” Elon University Faculty Research and Development Committee Summer Fellowship Award.

(2007) "The Future of Internet Policy," an on-site canvassing of participants at the Internet Governance Forum, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. With C.L. Book. Pew Internet & American Life Project.

(2006) Senior contract researcher for the Pew Internet & American Life Project, taking the lead in research, writing and web-building for "The Future of the Internet II."

(2005) Senior contract researcher for the Pew Internet & American Life Project, taking the lead in research, writing and web-building for the Experts Canvassing 2006 (later renamed "Future of the Internet I”).

(2004) Pew Internet & American Life Project for research assistance, writing and web-building for the “Experts Canvassing 2004.”

(2003) "Elon-Pew Internet Predictions Database, Imagining the Internet.” Pew Internet & American Life Project grant to underwrite a gathering of more than 4,000 historic direct quotes gathered in a content study of statements made between 1990 and 1995 about the future of the new communications medium.

(2003) “High School Journalism Workshop.” Project Pericles award to Society of Professional Journalists to host a journalism workshop for area high school students and a Cummings High School teacher who had just begun a new student newspaper.

(2000) "One Neighborhood, One Week on the Internet." Pew Internet & American Life Project to underwrite research into how people in one small-town neighborhood are getting online.

(2000) "One Neighborhood, One Week on the Internet." Elon University Provost’s Office.

(2000) "Cameras In the Classroom." Elon University Course Enhancement Grant for a project to teach journalism students about digital visual-information gathering.

Publications

BOOKS

ARTICLES AND FUNDED RESEARCH REPORTS

  • (2025) "Being Human in 2035: Experts Predict Significant Change in People's Ways of Thinking, Being and Doing as they Adapt to the Age of AI." With L. Rainie. Imagining the Digital Future Center. 286 pages. April 2. https://imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Being-Human-in-2035-ITDF-report.pdf
  • (2024) “A New Age of Enlightenment? A New Threat to Humanity?: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence by 2040.” With L. Rainie. Imagining the Digital Future Center. 158 pages. February 29. https://imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/reports-and-publications/the-impact-of-artificial-intelligence-by-2040/
     
  • (2023) "The Future of Human Agency: Experts split as to how much control people will retain over essential decision-making by 2035 as digital systems and AI spread; many worry these systems are diminishing individuals’ control over their choices." With L. Rainie. Pew Internet and Technology Project of the Pew Research Center. 173 pages. February 24. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2023/02/24/the-future-of-human-agency/, https://www.elon.edu/u/imagining/surveys/xv2023/the-future-of-human-agency-2035/ and https://eloncdn.blob.core.windows.net/eu3/sites/964/2023/02/Future-of-Human-Agency-ElonU-Pew-2-24-2023.pdf

  • (2022) “The Metaverse in 2040: Hype? Hope? Hell? Maybe All Three. Experts Are Split on the Likely Evolution of a Truly Immersive Metaverse. They Expect AR and MR Will Become More Useful and Worry That Current Online Problems will be Magnified.” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet and Technology Project of the Pew Research Center. 208 pages. June 30. https://www.elon.edu/u/imagining/surveys/xiv-2022/future-of-metaverse-web3-2040/ and https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2022/06/30/the-metaverse-in-2040/

  • (2022) “Visions of the Internet in 2035: Asked to Imagine a Better World Online, Experts Say They Hope for a Digital Environment that Promotes Fact-Based Knowledge and Defense of Individuals’ Rights and Helps Solve the World’s Wicked Problems.” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet and Technology Project of the Pew Research Center. 108 pages. February 7. https://www.elon.edu/u/imagining/surveys/xiii-2021/hopes-for-digital-life-2035/ and https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2022/02/07/visions-of-the-internet-in-2035/

  • (2021) “Experts Doubt Ethical AI Design Will Be Broadly Adopted As the Norm Within the Next Decade: A Majority Worries That AI Evolution Will Continue to Be Focused On Profits and Social Control.” With L. Rainie, E. Vogels. Pew Internet and Technology Project of the Pew Research Center. 127 pages. June 16. https://www.elon.edu/u/imagining/surveys/xii-2021/ethical-ai-design-2030/ and https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2021/06/16/experts-doubt-ethical-ai-design-will-be-broadly-adopted-as-the-norm-within-the-next-decade/  

  • (2021) “Experts Say the ‘New Normal’ in 2025 Will Be More Tech-Driven, With More Big Challenges: Sweeping Changes Will Make Life Worse for Most People in the Wake of the Covid-19 Outbreak.” With L. Rainie, E. Vogels. Pew Internet and Technology Project of the Pew Research Center. 194 pages. February 18. https://www.elon.edu/u/imagining/surveys/xii-2021/post-covid-new-normal-2025/ and https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2021/02/18/experts-say-the-new-normal-in-2025-will-be-far-more-tech-driven-presenting-more-big-challenges/

  • (2020) “Earlier 2020 Digital Life Predictions in Retrospect: Many Forecasts Were on the Mark; the Impact on Humans’ Intelligence and Emotional Condition Was Vastly Underappreciated.” With E. Vogels, L. Rainie. Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center and Pew Research Internet and Technology Project. December 28. https://www.elon.edu/u/imagining/digital-life-2020-looking-back-looking-forward/

  • (2020) “The Future of Social and Civic Innovation: Experts Predict More Digital Innovation by 2030 Aimed at Enhancing Democracy; Many Say This Will Result in Positive Outcomes for the Public Good, Others Are Less Convinced.” With E. Vogels, L. Rainie. Pew Internet and Technology Project of the Pew Research Center. June 30. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2020/06/30/experts-predict-more-digital-innovation-by-2030-aimed-at-enhancing-democracy/ and https://www.elon.edu/u/imagining/surveys/future-of-civic-innovation-2020/

  • (2020) “The Future of Democracy in the Digital Age: Experts Expect People’s Uses of Technology to be Mostly Harmful to Democracy, List Leading Threats as the Speed and Scope of Reality Distortion, the Decline of Journalism and the Impact of Surveillance Capitalism.” With L. Rainie, E. Vogels. Pew Internet and Technology Project of the Pew Research Center. February 21. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2020/02/21/many-tech-experts-say-digital-disruption-will-hurt-democracy/ and https://www.elon.edu/u/imagining/surveys/future-of-democracy-2020/

  • (2019) “The Next 50 Years of Digital Life: Fifty Years After the First Computer Network Was Connected Most Experts Say Digital Future Will Be Mostly Positive, But Urge Better Cooperation Toward Security, Basic Rights, and Economic Fairness.” With K. Stansberry, L. Rainie. Pew Internet and Technology Project of the Pew Research Center. October 28. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/10/28/experts-optimistic-about-the-next-50-years-of-digital-life/ and https://www.elon.edu/u/imagining/surveys/x-2-internet-50th-2019/

  • (2018) “AI and the Future of Humans: Experts Have Concerns About How Advances in AI Will Affect What It Means to Be Human.” With L. Rainie, A. Luchsinger. Pew Internet and Technology Project of the Pew Research Center. December 10. http://www.pewinternet.org/2018/12/10/artificial-intelligence-and-the-future-of-humans/ and http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2018_survey/AI_and_the_Future_of_Humans.xhtml (122-page report).

  • (2018) “Stories About the Impact of Digital Life: Most Technology Experts and Scholars Report That Their Own Experience Has Been Mostly Positive.” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet & Technology Project of the Pew Research Center. July 3. http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2018_survey/Digital_Life_and_Well-Being_Anecdotes.xhtml and http://www.pewinternet.org/2018/07/03/stories-from-experts-about-the-impact-of-digital-life/.

  • (2018) “Experts List Faults of and Fixes for Toxic Tech and Digital Dangers.” Medium. April 20. https://medium.com/@jannaq/experts-suggest-global-effort-to-mitigate-toxic-tech-digital-dangers-8bc7e85d079 Also published in Greensboro News & Record April 29. http://www.greensboro.com/opinion/columns/janna-quitney-anderson-experts-list-faults-and-fixes-for-toxic/article_d4979d29-760e-5d68-aa7b-95de31fe49f1.html

  • (2018) “The Future of Well-Being in a Tech-Saturated World: A Third of Experts Think Digital Life Will be More Harmful Than Helpful in the Coming Decade.” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet & Technology Project of the Pew Research Center. April 17. http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2018_survey/Digital_Life_And_Well-Being_Home.xhtml and http://www.pewinternet.org/2018/04/17/the-future-of-well-being-in-a-tech-saturated-world/ (272-page report)

  • (2017) “The Future of Truth and Misinformation Online: Experts Are Evenly Split On Whether the Coming Decade Will See a Reduction in False and Misleading Narratives Online.” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet, Science and Technology Project of the Pew Research Center. October 19. http://www.pewinternet.org/2017/10/19/the-future-of-truth-and-misinformation-online/ and http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2017_survey/future_of_the_information_environment.xhtml  

  • (2017) “The Fate of Online Trust in the Next Decade: Many Say a Lack of Trust Will Not Be a Barrier to Increased Public Reliance On the Internet.” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet, Science and Technology Project of the Pew Research Center. August 10. http://www.pewinternet.org/2017/08/10/the-fate-of-online-trust-in-the-next-decade/ and http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2016_survey/Trust_in_Internet_Activities.xhtml.

  • (2017) “The Internet of Things Connectivity Binge: What Are the Implications? Despite Wide Concerns About Cyberattacks, Outages and Privacy Violations, Experts Believe the IoT Will Expand Successfully.” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet, Science and Technology Project of the Pew Research Center. June 6. http://www.pewinternet.org/2017/06/06/the-internet-of-things-connectivity-binge-what-are-the-implications/ and http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2016_survey/Internet_of_Things_Infrastructure.xhtml.

  • (2017) “The Future of Jobs and Jobs Training: Will Well-Prepared Workers be Able to Keep Up in the Race With AI and Will Market Capitalism Survive?” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet, Science and Technology Project of the Pew Research Center. May 3. http://www.pewinternet.org/2017/05/03/the-future-of-jobs-and-jobs-training/ and http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2016_survey/future_jobs_training.xhtml.

  • (2017) “The Future of Free Speech, Trolls, Anonymity and Fake News Online: Experts Fear Uncivil and Manipulative Behaviors on the Internet Will Persist – and May Get Worse.” With L. Rainie and J. Albright. Pew Internet, Science and Technology Project of the Pew Research Center. March 29. http://www.pewinternet.org/2017/03/29/the-future-of-free-speech-trolls-anonymity-and-fake-news-online/ and http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2016_survey/social_future_of_the_internet.xhtml.

  • (2017) “Code-Dependent: Pros and Cons of the Algorithm Age – Will Impacts of the Networked, Automated World be Mostly Positive?” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet, Science and Technology Project of the Pew Research Center. February 8. http://www.pewinternet.org/2017/02/08/code-dependent-pros-and-cons-of-the-algorithm-age/ and http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2016_survey/algorithm_impacts.xhtml.

  • (2015) “The Robot Takeover is Already Here: The Machines That Replace Us Do Not Have to Have Superintelligence to Execute a Takeover With Overwhelming Impacts.” Medium. August 12. http://bit.ly/1J4eVgC.
     
  • (2015) “Individualization of Higher Education: How Technology Evolution Can Revolutionize Opportunities for Teaching and Learning.” International Social Science Journal, United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. April-June. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/issj.12046/full.
     
  • (2014) “The Future of Privacy: Experts believe there will be a sustained struggle to define and create privacy and tracking policies in the next decade and are deeply divided about whether it will work or not.” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. December 18. http://www.pewInternet.org/2014/12/18/future-of-privacy/ and http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2014_survey/2025_Internet_Security_Privacy.xhtml.
     
  • (2014) “Cyber Attacks Likely to Increase: Experts believe nations, rogue groups, and malicious individuals will step up their assaults on communications networks over the next decade.” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. October 29. http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/10/29/cyber-attacks-likely-to-increase/ and http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2014_survey/2025_Internet_Cyber_Attacks.xhtml.
     
  • (2014) “Killer Apps In the Gigabit Age: Experts predict hyper-personalized interactions with information and our surroundings, teleconferencing, and immersive virtual-reality environments.” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. October 8. http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/10/09/killer-apps-in-the-gigabit-age/ and http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2014_survey/2025_Internet_Killer_Apps.xhtml.
     
  • (2014) “The Future of Powerful Technology Companies: Experts envision automation and intelligent digital agents permeating work and personal lives by 2025.” With L. Rainie, M. Duggan. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. September 17. http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2014_survey/2025_Internet_Corporate_Powers.xhtml.
     
  • (2014) “AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs: Experts expect non-US firms to gain more power over online life by 2025.” With A. Smith. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. August 6. http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/08/06/future-of-jobs/ and http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2014_survey/2025_Internet_AI_Robotics.xhtml.
     
  • (2014) “Net Threats.” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. July 3. http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/07/03/net-threats/ and http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2014_survey/2025_Internet_Looming_Threats.xhtml.
     
  • (2014) “Key Insights: Expert Views on Threats to the Internet: Among the fears are crackdowns by nations; intense surveillance; loss of Net Neutrality; the flood of information.” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. May 14. http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/07/03/key-insights-expert-views-on-threats-to-the-internet/.
     
  • (2014) “The Internet of Things Will Thrive By 2025: The rise of embedded and wearable computing will bring the next revolution in digital technology.” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. May 14. http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/05/14/internet-of-things/ and http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2014_survey/2025_Internet_of_Things.xhtml.
     
  • (2014) “Digital Life In 2025: Experts predict the Internet will become ‘like electricity,’ less visible yet more deeply embedded in people lives, for good and ill.” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. March 11. http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/03/11/digital-life-in-2025/ and http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2014_survey/2025_Internet_Impact.xhtml.
     
  • (2013) “Future Information Seekers—Savvy Or Shallow? Experts Expect ‘Born-Digital’ Generation AO Youth to Benefit and Suffer Due to Their Always-On Lives.” Tabula: Journal of Archivists (Spain). June.

  • (2013) “Individualization of Higher Education: How Technology Evolution Can Revolutionize Opportunities for Teaching and Learning.” International Social Science Journal, United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.

  • (2013) “The Impact of Internet on the Future of Higher Education.” With L. Rainie. Research in Higher Education of Engineering (China-based journal for professors of engineering). Serial No. 140, No.3.

  • (2012) “The Future Impact of the Internet on Higher Education: Experts Expect More-Efficient Collaborative Environments and New Grading Schemes; They Worry About Massive Online Courses, the Shift Away from Campus Life.” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. July 27. http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Future-of-Higher-Education.aspx.

  • (2012) “Big Data: Experts Say New Forms Are Helping Us Be More Nimble and Adaptive, But They Worry Over Humans’ Capacity to Understand and Use New Tools Well.” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. July 20. http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Future-of-Big-Data.aspx.

  • (2012) “Corporate Responsibility and the Internet: How Far Will Tech Firms Go in Helping Repressive Regimes?” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. July 5. http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Future-of-Corporate-Responsibility.aspx.

  • (2012) “Smart Systems: Experts Think Tech-Enhanced Homes, Appliances, and Utilities Will Spread, But They Advise, Don’t Expect to See the Home of the Future By 2020.” With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. June 29. http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Future-of-Smart-Systems.aspx.

  • (2012) “Gamification and the Internet: Experts Expect ‘Game Layers’ to Expand in the Future, with Positive, Negative Results.” With L. Rainie. Games for Health Journal: Research, Development, And Clinical Applications. Vol. 1, No. 4. http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/g4h.2012.0027.

  • (2012) “Getting Into the Gamification? Expect ‘Game Layers’ to Expand, With Positive and Negative Impacts." With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. May 18. http://www.pewinternet.org/~/media/Files/Reports/2012/PIP_Future_of_Internet_2012_Gamification.pdf.

  • (2012) “What IS Your Wallet? By 2020 Most Smartphones Could Be E-wallets, But Only If Industry Supports It." With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. April 17. http://www.pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2012/PIP_Future_of_Money.pdf.

  • (2012) “The Web Is Dead? No, Experts Expect Apps, Web to Converge In the Cloud, Say Simplicity for Users Will Come At a Cost." With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. March 23. http://www.pewinternet.org/~/media/Files/Reports/2012/PIP_Future_of_Apps_and_Web.pdf.

  • (2012) “Millennials Will Benefit and Suffer Due to Their Hyperconnected Lives." With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. Feb. 29. http://www.pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2012/PIP_Future_of_Internet_2012_Young_Brains_PDF.pdf.

  • (2011) “Good Gizmos and Good Governance: Will New Technologies Encourage Better Political Engagement?” With J. Pahlka, G. Curtin, M. Jackson, E. Aboujaoude. Zócalo Public Square Center for Social Cohesion. Available online at http://zocalopublicsquare.org/thepublicsquare/2011/10/25/good-gizmos-and-good-governance/read/up-for-discussion/.

  • (2011) “Future Libraries: Return on Investment 2020. " With A. Havens and T. Story. OCLC NextSpace. Vol. 17, Winter. Also available online at http://www.oclc.org/nextspace/default.htm.

  • (2010) “Responses to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Request for Consultations on Improvements to the Internet Governance Forum.” UNCTAD. November 24. Also available online at http://www.unctad.info/en/CstdWG/Contributions and http://www.unctad.info/upload/CSTD-IGF/IGFsummary.pdf.

  • (2010) “Comments on Advancing Open Internet Policy Through Analysis Distinguishing Open Internet from Specializing Network Services.” With S. Bradner, B. Frankston, S. Johnson, D. Reed, S. Wozniak, et al. Federal Communications Commission. Comments of Various Advocates for the Open Internet GN Docket No. 09-191. November 4. Available online at http://www.scribd.com/doc/41002510/On-Advancing-the-Open-Internet-by-Distinguishing-it-from-Specialized-Services.

  • (2010) “Remaking Education for a New Century.” Contributed to World Future Society’s “Strategies and Technologies for a Sustainable Future,” a supplemental proceedings publication tied to the World Future 2010 conference. Pages 3-6. ISBN 9780930242671.

  • (2010) “Millennials Will Make Online Sharing in Networks a Lifelong Habit." With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. July 9. http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Future-of-Millennials.aspx.

  • (2010) “The Future of Social Relations." With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. July 2. http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/The-future-of-social-relations.aspx.

  • (2010) “The Future of Cloud Computing." With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. June 11. http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/The-future-of-cloud-computing.aspx.

  • (2010) “The Fate of the Semantic Web." With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. May 4. http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Semantic-Web.aspx.

  • (2010) “The Impact of the Internet on Institutions in the Future." With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. March 29. http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Impact-of-the-Internet-on-Institutions-in-the-Future.aspx.

  • (2010) "The Future of the Internet IV: Challenges and Opportunities." With L. Rainie. Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. February 19. http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Future-of-the-Internet-IV.aspx.

  • (2009) "US Control Over Internet Hotly Disputed. " ITWire. November 22. Also available online at http://www.itwire.com/your-it-news/home-it/29530-us-control-over-internet-hotly-disputed.

  • (2009) “God Did It, Why Can’t We? ‘Net 10 Commandments. " Ars Technica. November 23. Available online at http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/11/god-did-it-why-cant-we-un-ponders-net-10-commandments.ars.

  • (2009) "Spurring IPv6 Upgrades Through Cash for (Network) Clunkers." Ars Technica. November 19. Available online at http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/11/spurring-ipv6-upgrades-through-cash-for-network-clunkers.ars.

  • (2009) "IGF Attendees: America, Surrender Root Zone File." Ars Technica. November 18. Available online at http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/11/igf-2009-america-surrender-the-root-zone-file.ars.

  • (2009) "Tim Berners-Lee Launches WWW Foundation." Ars Technica. November 16. Available online at http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/11/tim-berners-lee-launches-www-foundation-at-igf-2009.ars.

  • (2009) "The Power Struggle Over Information Access and Control in a Highly Networked Age." Silicon India. March 2009, Page A25 Opinions/Editorial cover. Also available online at http://www.siliconindia.net/guestcontributor/guestarticle/135/Information_Explosion__Means_You_Wont_Own_Your_Data_Janna_Quitney_Anderson.html.

  • (2008) "Internet Governance Policy and the Future of the Internet." With L. DeNardis and C. Book. Feedback, journal of the Broadcast Education Association, November.

  • (2008) “A Day to Celebrate the Glories of the Internet.” Greensboro News & Record. OpEd pages. August 29. Available online at http://www.news-record.com/content/2008/08/29/article/anderson_a_day_to_celebrate_glories_of_the_internet.

  • (2008) "Celebrating the Web Times a Trillion. " Burlington Times-News, Op-Ed pages. September 22. Also available online at http://www.thetimesnews.com/articles/web-28263-time-onewebday.html.

  • (2008) "Realizing the Global Promise of the Internet: The Future of Internet Governance." With C. Book. Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. Survey of participants in the UN-administrated Internet Governance Forum in Rio de Janeiro in November 2007, published August. Also available online at http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/260/report_display.asp.

  • (2007) “Shared Governance of the Web is Vital to the Greater Good.” Greensboro News & Record. OpEd Section, Page 3.

  • (2007) “Who Should Control the Internet?” Raleigh News & Observer. Section Q, Page 1. November 11 . Also available online at http://www.newsobserver.com/news/q/story/768451.html.

  • (2006) "The Future of the Internet II." With L. Rainie. The 2006 Internet Experts Survey for the Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. A look at what more than 700 Internet stakeholders are predicting life will be like in 2020. http://207.21.232.103/PPF/r/188/report_display.asp.

  • (2005) "The Future of the Internet I." With L. Rainie. January 9. The 2006 Internet Experts Survey for the Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center. http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2005/The-Future-of-the-Internet.aspx.

  • (2001) "One Neighborhood, One Week on the Internet." With L. Rainie. USA Today feature story package, July 31. This full-page package of articles I wrote about an Elon University research study also appeared in the Cincinnati Enquirer, Shreveport Times, Reno Gazette-Journal, Detroit News, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Sioux Falls Argus Leader and dozens of other Gannett papers.

  • (2001) "Ethics for Digital Information Providers." Poynter Institute for Media Studies Media Ethics Bibliography, online: http://www.poynter.org/research/biblio/bib_me.htm.

  • (2001) "An Analysis of Internet Adopters." Q methodology study with B. Lee. Operant Subjectivity, October 25.

  • (2001) "Newspaper Online Editors Support Traditional Standards." With D. Arant. Newspaper Research Journal, Fall Issue.

  • (2000) "Why Don't People Embrace the Internet? An Analysis of Assimilators, Hoppers and Sensors." With B. Lee. Working Papers, Pew Internet Project of the Pew Research Center.

WEB-BASED SCHOLARSHIP

Imagining the Internet: A History and Forecast, a project of the Imagining the Internet Center, an initiative of Elon University’s School of Communications, is an online documentation of the evolution of the Internet that includes more than 6,500 pages of data. It is being archived by the U.S. Library of Congress Web Archive, and is considered a primary source describing the evolution of communications. It is a featured Internet Society “history” site. It is a permanent link on the Pew Internet & American Life site; PDF files of Future of the Internet studies have been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times by global communications policymakers, futurists, researchers, consultants, and the general public. The site has been featured in articles by the BBC, Le Monde, the New York Times, and hundreds of other regional and international news publications across the globe. (http://www.imaginingtheinternet.org). This resource is being updated annually with major content. In addition to the deep data from the “Future of the Internet” surveys it fields with Pew Internet, among the major pieces planned, carried out, and posted online on Imagining the Internet by director Janna Anderson:

  • (2018) “Documentary Video Survey: The United Nations’ 2018 Global Internet Governance Forum.” With C. Behnke, D. Bockino, S. Casamento, A.Delgado, A. Luchsinger, J. Mayerson, G. Morris, J. Norcross, S. Ortiz, A. Roat. November 11-14. Paris, France. http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/event-coverage/global_igf_2018/default.xhtml. Led an 11-person faculty/student team in producing documentary video interviews from the 13th Global Internet Governance Forum at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The team gathered 154 interviews with global communications leaders from dozens of countries/territories, posting more than 600 video clips featuring top technology policy experts from civil society, government, business, academia, and NGOs. The team asked four crucial policy-informing questions about the future of networked communications.

  • (2017) “Ethnographic Interviews: The United Nations’ 2017 Global Internet Governance Forum.” With C. Behnke, D. Bockino, M. Douglas, M. Eaglin, M. Gitelman, A. Hager, J. Mayerson, A. Roat, E. Morgan, J. Pascal. December 17-20. http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/event-coverage/global_igf_2017/default.xhtml. Planned, organized, and served as editor and Web developer, leading a 11-person faculty/student team in producing documentary video interviews from the 12th Global Internet Governance Forum. The team gathered 180 interviews with global communications leaders from dozens of countries/territories, posting nearly 900 video clips featuring top technology policy experts from civil society, governments, businesses, academia, and NGOs. They asked five crucial policy-informing questions about the future of networked communications.

  • (2017) “Documentary Coverage of the 2017 Internet Hall of Fame Induction and Inductee Interviews.” With D. Bockino, D. Davila, M. Douglas, M. Eaglin, A. Hager, M. Malone, J. Mayerson, A. Roat, E. Webb. September 18-19. http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/event-coverage/hof_isoc25th_2017/default.xhtml. Organized and served as editor and Web developer, leading ten-person faculty/student team in compiling documentary video interviews and live event coverage at the Internet Hall of Fame and the colocated Internet Society’s 25th anniversary conference, including exclusive interviews with dozens of youth innovators and more than a dozen Hall of Fame engineers and innovators who are evolving the Internet.

  • (2017) “Documentary Coverage of the eighth Internet Governance Forum-USA.” With C. Donohue, B. Baker, et. al. Washington, DC, July 24. http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/event-coverage/igf-usa/igf_usa_2017/default.xhtml. Organized and trained a 23-person (19 students, plus faculty and staff) that compiled in-depth written reports, video coverage and still photography documenting the 15 major public policy events of the Internet Governance Forum-USA in 2017. The multimedia journalism content created was spot news from the event, produced in near-real-time. It is also being used as official documentation on the IGF-USA site and in written reports to the United Nations’ Internet Governance Forum Secretariat.

  • (2016) “Ethnographic Interviews: The United Nations’ 2016 Global Internet Governance Forum.” With V. Bravo, A. Moger, E. Bilka, A. Bohle, D. Pineda Davila, M. Douglas, M. Eaglin, A. Hager, C. Hartshorn, P. LeBlanc, K. Tracy, A. Zwingelberg, Guadalajara, Mexico, Dec. 5-8. I planned, organized, and served as editor and Web developer, leading a 13-person faculty/staff/student team in producing documentary video interviews from the 11th Global Internet Governance Forum. The team gathered 125 interviews with global communications leaders from 49 different nation-states, posting 705 video clips featuring the world’s top technology policy experts from civil society, governments, businesses, academia, and NGOs. They asked six crucial policy-informing questions about the future of networked communications.
     
  • (2016) “Documentary Coverage of the Seventh Internet Governance Forum-USA.” With C. Donohue, B. Baker, et. al. Washington, DC, July 14. http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/event-coverage/igf-usa/igf_usa_2016/default.xhtml. I led 21 people in compiling in-depth written reports, video coverage, still photography documenting the 15 major public policy events of IGF-USA – used as official documentation on the IGF-USA site and in written reports to the United Nations’ Internet Governance Forum Secretariat.
     
  • (2015) “Ethnographic Interviews: The United Nations’ 2015 Global Internet Governance Forum.” With T. Gaither, A. Moger, M. Bodley, L. Dahal, G. Grumbach, J. LaPlante, J. Pascale, P. Pauroso. João Pessoa, Brazil. November 9-13. I organized and served as editor and Web developer, leading a nine-person faculty/staff/student team in compiling documentary video interviews from the 10th Global Internet Governance Forum. The team gathered nearly 100 interviews with the world’s top technology policy experts from civil society, governments, businesses, academia and NGOs, asking five crucial policy-informing questions about the future of networked communications.
     
  • (2015) “Documentary Interviews: The Internet Engineering Task Force.” With C. Donohue, A. Moger, R. Agarwal, M. Alfini, G. Grumbach, R. Lawson, A. McGetrick, P. Pauroso. Dallas, Texas. March 2015. http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/event-coverage/ietf_2015/default.xhtml I organized and served as editor and Web developer, leading an eight-person faculty/staff/student team in compiling documentary video interviews from the 92nd Internet Engineering Task Force meeting, including exclusive interviews with 83 of the engineers and innovators who are evolving the Internet.
     
  • (2014) “Documentary Interviews: The 2014 Inductees into the Internet Hall of Fame.” With A. Hatcher, A. Moger, J. Puckett, B. Mezerski, A. Haney, M. Watkins, S. Cowans. Hong Kong, China. April 7-9. http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/event-coverage/hof_itfest_2014/future_internet_interviews.xhtml. I organized and served as editor and Web developer, leading a seven-person faculty/staff/student team in compiling documentary video interviews from the second-ever Internet Hall of Fame induction, including exclusive interviews with the top engineers and innovators who helped develop and evolve the Internet.

  • (2013) “Documentary Interviews of Inductees into the Internet Hall of Fame.” With N. Clark, et. al. Berlin, Germany. August. http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/Internet_Hall_of_Fame_2013.xhtml. Organized and served as editor and Web developer, leading a seven-person faculty/staff/student team in compiling documentary video interviews at the second-ever Internet Hall of Fame induction, including exclusive interviews with the top engineers and innovators who helped develop and evolve the Internet.

  • (2013) “Documentary Video Survey: World Technology Policy Forum and World Summit on the Information Society.” With B. Walsh, J. Morse, J. Bruno, R. Greene, B. Mezerski. Geneva, Switzerland. May 13-16. http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/event-coverage/wtpf_wsis_2013/default.xhtml. Led an assistant professor and four students in conducting a policy survey of participants at the United Nations- and International Telecommunication Union-facilitated global conferences on future Internet policy concerns. The team shot and edited more than 300 video clips with answers to six policy questions. I created the opportunity, recruited and prepared the team, and made arrangements for its successful connection with global Internet leaders at the conference. I made the Web pages, wrote the copy, wrote video captions, organized the videos, linked the pages, and promoted the work.

  • (2012) “Documentary Coverage of the Fourth Internet Governance Forum-USA.” With C. Donohue, B. Baker, et. al. Washington, DC, July 26. http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/igf_usa/igf_usa_2012.xhtml. I led 23 people in compiling in-depth written reports, video coverage, still photography documenting the major public policy events of IGF-USA – used as official documentation on the IGF-USA site and in written reports to the United Nations’ Internet Governance Forum Secretariat.

  • (2012) “INET 20: The 20th Anniversary Conference and Inaugural Hall of Fame Ceremony of the Internet Society.” With D. Anderson, B. Meyer, et al. Geneva, Switzerland. April 22-24.  http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/isoc_20th_2012/default.xhtml. Led 12 people (including nine students) in compiling video, still photography, written reports in long form and social media in real-time and near-real-time – used as official documentation of major technology policy event. In three days we produced a short film presented at the closing plenary to members of the Internet Hall of Fame and ISOC members, nearly 500 still photos, 200 video clips, real-time reporting using social media tools such as Twitter and 18 full-length written documentary reports on major events of the three-day conference.

  • (2011) “Documentary Video Survey: The Future of the Internet.” With R. Landesberg, N. Chadwick, K. Coleman, S. Baranowski. Nairobi, Kenya. Sept. 26-30. http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/igf_2011/default.xhtml. More than 500 video clips and still photos recorded in an on-site survey of experts at the Global Internet Governance Forum.

  • (2011) “Documentary Coverage of the Third Internet Governance Forum-USA.” With C. Donohue, et al. Washington, DC. July 18. http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/igf_usa/igf_usa_2011.xhtml. Led 25 people in compiling video, still photography, written reports in long form and social media in real-time and near-real-time – used as official documentation of the 14 major U.S. technology policy events by IGF-USA http://www.igf-usa.us/.

  • (2010) “Internet Governance Forum – Vilnius, Lithuania.” With G. Scott, K. Bennett, A. Smith, and S. Baranowski. More than 400 video clips and still photos and 20 written reports from the United Nations-facilitated global Internet Governance Forum. November 14-17. http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/igf_2010/default.xhtml.

  • (2010) “Documentary Coverage of the Second Internet Governance Forum-USA.” With C. Donohue, et al. Washington, DC. July 21. http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/igf_usa/igf_usa_2010.xhtml.

  • (2010) “World Wide Web 2010 FutureWeb.” With D. Anderson, D. Morton, et al. More than 110 video clips, hundreds of photos and two dozen articles collect the thoughts of 60 internationally known experts on the future of the Web, including Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf, danah boyd, Marc Rotenberg, Danny Weitzner, Andrew McLaughlin. April. http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/futureweb2010/default.xhtml.

  • (2009) “Internet Governance Forum – Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.” With A. Diemer, A. Smith, S. Russell, E. Daniel and D. Anderson. More than 270 video clips and 20 written reports. November 20. http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/igf_egypt/default.xhtml.

  • (2009) “Documentary Coverage of the Inaugural IGF-USA.” With C. Donohue, M. Little, A. Barnas, et al. Washington, DC. October 2. http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/igf_usa/igf_usa_2009.xhtml.

  • (2008) “Internet Governance Forum – Hyderabad, India.” December 26. http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/internet_governance_forum_2008.xhtml.

  • (2008) “OECD Future of the Internet Economy Ministerial Meeting.” With G. Scott, A. Barnas, C. Campbell. June. http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/internet_governance_forum_2006.xhtml.

  • (2007) “Internet Governance Forum – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.” With C.L. Book, D. Anderson, A. Nicholson, M. Hammerbacher, D. Lewis, E. Gradwell. November 11-14. http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/internet_governance_forum_2007.xhtml.

  • (2006) “Internet Governance Forum – Athens, Greece.” With E. Barnett. October 30-November 2. http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/internet_governance_forum_2006.xhtml.

  • (2006) “Metaverse Roadmap Summit at Stanford Research International.” With D. Anderson. Recordings of 24 video and audio interviews from sessions about the future of technology at Stanford Research Institute International, May 5-6. http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/metaverse/default.xhtml.

  • (2005) “Accelerating Change: A Futurists Conference at Stanford University.” With B. Baker, S. Myrick. Recordings of 22 people and a 13-minute film documenting hopes and fears for the future of the Internet at this global futurists event at Stanford University. http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/accelerating_change_2005.xhtml.

  • (2003-Present) “Voices of the People – Your Predictions Database.” Curator of contributions shared by the general public – their predictions for the future of communications. http://www.elon.edu/predictions/RecentPredictions.aspx.

  • (2003) “The Early ‘90s Internet Predictions Database.” With C.L. Book, et al. Compilation of research conducted by more than 60 people into the witty forecasts made by smart people in the 1990s about the Internet’s future. http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/early90s/.

  • (2001) “One Neighborhood, One Week on the Internet.” With D. Anderson, and 26 undergraduate students. Compilation of research report on students’ week-long observation and interviews with 25 families (a total of 65 individuals) in Elon, NC, in January 2001 about their Internet use. Also became a full-page published article in USA Today. http://org.elon.edu/pew/oneweek/.

Presentations

(2022) “The Future of Democratic Spaces and the Future of Truth and Misinformation.” Harvard University Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. With L. Rainie. Online event. November 14.

(2022) “Technology and Society.” Cambridge University. With L. Rainie. Online event. November 5.

(2022) “The Future of Digital Divides.” Administrative Conference of the United States. With L. Rainie. Online event. October 25.

(2022) “Hopes and Fears for the ‘Metaverse’ in 2040.’” Twitter Spaces Live. With A. Bar-Zeev, K. Bates, A. Brock, F. Kaufmann, L. Rainie, L. Rosenberg, T. Shulruff. Online live event. September 15.

(2022) “The Future Evolution of Democratic Spaces.” Computers and Libraries Annual Conference. With L. Rainie. Online event. April 28.

(2022) “Experts’ Visions of Digital Life in 2035.” Public Policy Forum. With L. Rainie. St. Augustine, FL. February 17.

(2022) “Future of Democratic Spaces.” FCC Commissioner and Staff Briefing. With L. Rainie. Online event. January 18.

(2022) “The Impact of Technology on Democracy.” Military Librarians Association Conference. With L. Rainie. Arlington, VA. January 7.

(2021) “The New Normal in a Tech-Driven Future.” Keynote talk, Internet Governance Forum-USA. With L. Rainie. Washington, DC. June 23.

(2021) “Predicting 2030: What’s Next for Ethical AI.” Keynote talk, Data.org online conference. With L. Rainie. June 16.

(2020) “The Future of Democracy and Civic Innovation by 2030.” Governance Lab Lecture. With L. Rainie. New York, NY, October 29.

(2020) “American Life in the Midst of Crisis: How People Are Using Technology as Their Lives Are Upended.” International Institute of Communications. With L. Rainie. Online event. Oct. 14.

(2019) “The Future of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Life.” People’s Internet Conference. With L. Rainie. Copenhagen, Denmark. December 6.

(2019) “Imagining the Next 50 Years of Digital Life.” UN-facilitated Global Internet Governance Forum. With L. Rainie, K. Stansberry. Berlin, Germany. November 25, 2019.

(2019) “Looking Back to Go Forward: 50 Years of the Internet.” Web Summit 2019. With L. Rainie, K. Stansberry. Lisbon, Portugal. November 5, 2019.

(2019) “Code-Dependent: Future of Algorithms.” National Association of Corporate Directors Conference. With L. Rainie. Washington, DC. September 24.

(2019) “The Future of Digital Life.” U.S. State Department International Visitors Program. With L. Rainie, K. Stansberry. Washington, DC. September 11.

(2019) “Navigating a Post-Factual World.” Consumer Federation of America Assembly. With L. Rainie. Washington, DC. May 9.

(2019) “Trust, Facts, and Democracy.” Computers in Libraries Conference. With L. Rainie. Arlington, VA. March 28.

(2019) “The Global Expansion of Digital Life: Future of Well-Being and the Future of AI.” Internet Society Leadership Forum. With L. Rainie. Washington, DC. March 7.

(2019) “Trust in the Digital Future,” opening keynote talk at National Academies of Sciences’ Government University Industry Research Roundtable event “Authenticity, Integrity and Security in a Digital World.” With L. Rainie. Washington, DC. February 2019.

(2019) “The Future of Jobs and Job Training.” Missions Publiques Autonomous Vehicles Six-Nations Deliberative Dialogues Preparation Forum. With L. Rainie. Washington, DC. February 14.

(2019) “The Techlash: A Reckoning for Big Tech.” Netherlands Foreign and Economic Ministries Conference. With L. Rainie. Washington, DC. January 31.

(2018) “AI and the Future of Humans.” People-Centered Digital Future conference. With L. Rainie, A. Luchsinger. San Jose, CA. December 10.

(2018) “Skills Requirements for Future Jobs.” International Telecommunications Union Capacity-Building Symposium for Digital Technologies. With L. Rainie. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. June 18.

(2018) “The Future of Technology.” ISTeC Future Visions Symposium Holmes Distinguished Lecture. With L. Rainie. Fort Collins, Colorado. April 13.

(2018) “The Future of Truth.” Media Literacy Symposium. With L. Rainie. Boise, Idaho. April 2.

(2018) “Crisis in Trust.” Public Library Association Conference. With L. Rainie. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. March 24.

(2018) “The Future of Truth.” Imagine Solutions Conference. With L. Rainie. Naples, FL. February 26.

(2017) “What Happens When the Internet is Everywhere?” ESMT Open Lecture. With L. Rainie. Berlin. November 6.

(2017) “Ten Facts About Jobs in the Future.” IMF/World Bank Youth Dialogue on “A World Without Work?” With L. Rainie. Washington, DC. October 10.

(2017) “The Reckoning for Social Media.” Keynote, New Media & Society conference. With L. Rainie. Toronto. July 29.

(2017) “Education in the Age of Fake News and Disputed Facts.” UPCEA Summit for Online Leadership. With L. Rainie. San Diego. June 15.

(2017) “IoT Future Shock: Too Much Change Too Fast?” Keynote, Internet of Things National Institute for the American Bar Association Science and Technology Law Section. With L. Rainie. Washington, DC. May 10.

(2017) “The New Landscape of Facts and Trust.” Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit. With L. Rainie. Washington, DC. April 21.

(2016) “How Will the Internet of Things Look By 2025.” American Bar Association Section of Science and Technology Law. With L. Rainie.

(2016) “The Future of Work.” Keynote, XBR International Conference. Miami. March 3.

(2015) “The Changing Digital Landscape.” Tencent Media Summit. With L. Rainie. Beijing, China. November 12.

(2015) “AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs.” Resource Professionals Strategic Conference. Newark, NJ. October 24.

(2015) “The Next Digital Disruptions.” Future of the Net Conference. With L. Rainie. Milan, Italy. October 5.

(2015) “The Future of Jobs; Strategic Approaches.” The Naval War College, Chief Naval Officer’s Strategic Studies Group. Newport, RI. October 4.

(2015) “Robotics, AI, Digital Agents, and the Future of Work.” World Future Conference 2015. San Francisco. July 26.

(2015) “Privacy in the Digital Age.” With L. Rainie. World Media Policy Forum. Washington, DC. June 3.

(2015) “Robotics, AI, and the Future of Work.” With J. Burnstein, R. Finkelstein. RoboUniverse Conference, Javits Center, New York. May 13.

(2015) “The Changing Privacy Landscape.” With L. Rainie. South by Southwest. Austin, Texas. March 16.

(2015) “The Fourth Digital Revolution: The Internet of Things.” With L. Rainie. National Association of Religious Broadcasters. February 25.

(2015) “Networked Privacy.” With L. Rainie. Privacy in a Networked World Conference. Cambridge, Massachusetts. January 23.

(2014) “Community Statement Presented at the Wuzhen Internet Summit.” With J. Seng, I. Aizu, M. Roberts, et al. First Internet Conference, Wuzhen, China. November 20.

(2014) “Knowledge Sharing in the Networked Internet of Things.” With L. Rainie. Knowledge-Management World Conference, Washington, DC. November 6.

(2014) “The Internet of Things.” With L. Rainie. Internet Librarian Conference. Monterey, California. October 28.

(2014) “Digital Life in 2025.” With L. Rainie. McKinsey European Executives Retreat, Kitzbühel, Austria. September 29.

(2014) “Internet of Things Keynote Closing Panel.” With C. Reed, D. Bottom, D. Bray. NextGov Prime: Internet 2020, Ronald Reagan Building, Washington, DC. September 9.

(2014) “The Internet’s Turbulent Next Decade.” With L. Rainie. World Future Society Keynote. Orlando, Florida. July 12.

(2014) “Digital Life in 2025 – Positives and Negatives.” Internet of Things Privacy Summit Keynote. Palo Alto, California. July 10.

(2014) “Digital Life 2025 and the Internet of Things.” American Library Association Conference OCLC Keynote. Las Vegas, Nevada. June 27.

(2013) “Potential Future Implications and Impacts of Big Data.” With L. Rainie. Baltimore Data Day, Federal Reserve Bank, Maryland. July 11.

(2013) “Evolving Opinions On Potential Impacts of Advances In Human-Information Interfaces.” Corning Display Futures Workshop. Corning, New York. April 16.

(2012) “Networked and Hyperconnected: The New Social and Work Operating System.” With L. Rainie. National Conference of State Legislators. Denver, Colorado. October 11.

(2012) “Networked Learners.” With L. Rainie. Free Learning 2.0. Virtual Conference. August 22.

(2012) “Digital Technology Impacts: Results of the Future of the Internet V Survey.” With L. Rainie. Keynote talk at World Future 2012. Toronto, Canada. July 27. http://pewinternet.org/Presentations/2012/July/Digital-technology-impacts-by-2020.aspx

(2012) “SENSE: Imagining the Internet.” Keynote talk at Internet Human/Human Internet: Technologies Creating a More Human Web. Institute for the Future Technologies Horizons Program hosted by the Institute for the Future. San Jose, California. May 16.

(2012) “Learning in the Digital Age.” With L. Rainie. Minitex ILL Conference. Minneapolis, Minnesota. May 10.

(2012) “Digital Differences and Money.” With L. Rainie. NYSE Center for Financial Services Innovation Financial Literacy Week. New York, New York. April 13.

(2012) “The Shifting Education Landscape: Networked Learning.” With L. Rainie. National Repository of Online Courses Annual Meeting. Monterey, California. March 26.

(2012) “The New Normal in the Digital Age.” With L. Rainie. National Federation of Advanced Information Services Annual Conference. Baltimore, Maryland. February 26.

(2012) “Speaking the Language of the Next Generation.” With L. Rainie. Conference of the National Religious Broadcasters. Nashville, Tennessee. February 18.

(2011) “The Future of Technology and the Future of Learning.” Keynote talk at MobilityShifts: An International Future of Learning Summit. New York, New York. October 14.

(2011) “Challenges and Opportunities: The Future of the Internet.” Closing keynote speech at Global Webcom 10. Montreal, Canada. May 11.

(2011) “Internet Evolution: Hyperconnected, Hyper-real.” South By Southwest Interactive. Austin, Texas. March 15.

(2011) “Imagining the Internet.” Danish Top Executives Summit: Prepare for Developmental Leaps, Innovation Junctions, and Exponential Growth. Video appearance; also televised on Danish National Television. Copenhagen, Denmark. January 24.

(2010) “The Distributed Future.” With L. Rainie. NSDL Conference: Celebrating a Digital Decade and Envisioning the Next. National Science Digital Library. Washington, DC. November 2.

(2010) “What’s Next for the Net? Unique Perspectives on Online Trends.” With E. Hsiung, W. Carroll, S. Wilson. ConvergeSouth Conference. Greensboro, NC. October 1.

(2010) “Digital rEvolution: Opportunities and Challenges for Knowledge Sharing Today and Tomorrow.” Keynote at the 7th regional Teaching and Learning Conference. Elon, NC, August 19.

(2010) “The iPad Initiative: What We Have Learned.” With D. Grady, R. Piland, V. Costello. Broadcast Education Association Regional Conference. Elon University. September.

(2010) “Internet Evolution: Where Hyperconnectivity and Ambient Intimacy Take Us.” With L. Rainie, M. Nelson. World Future 2010: Sustainable Futures, Strategies, and Technologies. Boston, MA. July 11.

(2010) “The Future of the Internet.” With L. Rainie. National Geographic hosts Digital Capital Week. Washington, DC. June 15.

(2010) “The New Networked Citizens.” With L. Rainie. Policy@Google talk. Mountain View, CA. May 20.

(2010) “The Future of the Web.” With L. Rainie. World Wide Web 2010 FutureWeb conference. Raleigh, NC. April 28.

(2010) “The Impact of the Internet on Institutions in the Future." With L. Rainie. Capital Cabal. Washington, DC, March 29.

(2010) “The Future of the Internet.” With L. Rainie. Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. San Diego, CA, February 19.

(2009) "Transnationalization of Internet Governance." With R. Kahn, W. Kleinwachter, J. Malcolm, R. Pepper, I. Peter, A. Kovacs. Internet Governance Forum. Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, November 15.

(2009) “Gen-Next’s Online Future.” With N. James, et al. Internet Governance Forum-USA. Washington, DC. October.

(2008) “Multi-Platform Communications.” Workshop for Elon University School of Communications faculty. August 22.

(2008) “Teaching the Future: In a Time of Drastic Change, It is the Learners Who Inherit the Future.” With J. Coker. Innovation in Instruction Conference. Elon University. August 21.

(2008) “Doing Project-Based Student-Faculty Research in an Online Format.” Elon University School of Communications Faculty Scholarship Committee presentation.

(2008) "Internet Governance Policy and the Future of the Internet." With L. DeNardis, M. Farrell, E. Barnett, C. Book. Broadcast Education Association. Las Vegas. April 17.

(2007) "Teaching International News Reporting." With T. Nelson, R. Landesberg, M. Whitehouse. Broadcast Education Association. Las Vegas. April 16.

(2008) “Students Facing Culture Shock in Second Life.” With T. Crider and M. Conklin. Elon University Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning. March 12.

(2006) "The Future and Social Networks." Social Software Symposium, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, December 8.

(2005) "Imagining the Internet." Accelerating Change 2005: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence Amplification, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif., September 17.

(2003) "Internet Use: Comparison of Adults with College Students." With B. Lee. The International Society for the Scientific Study of Subjectivity (ISSSS) 19th annual Q Conference, Kent State University, October 3.

(2001) "Why Don't People Embrace the Internet? An Analysis of Assimilators, Hoppers and Sensors." With B. Lee. The International Society for the Scientific Study of Subjectivity (ISSSS) 17th annual Q Conference, Ball State University, October 19.

(2001) "Online Newspaper Ethics." With D. Arant. Associated Collegiate Press/College Media Advisers Conference, New Orleans, October 26.

(2000) "Defamation in Cyberspace: A New Category Has Been Established for Internet Service Providers." Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Southeast Colloquium, Chapel Hill, NC, March 17.

(2000) "Online Media Ethics: A Survey of U.S. Daily Newspaper Editors." With D. Arant. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference, Phoenix, Ariz., August 9.

(2000) "Online Newspaper Ethics." With D. Arant. Associated Collegiate Press/College Media Advisers Conference, Washington, DC, November 9.

Professional Activities

  • Mainstage speaker at Acceleration Studies Foundation conference Accelerating Change and participant in the Metaverse Roadmap Project.
  • Presenter at the South By Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas.
  • Keynoter at World Future, Webcom, MobilityShifts and other venues.
  • Consultant to technology industry in Silicon Valley and Northeast to Mideast U.S. tech corridor.
  • Director of Imagining the Internet: A History and Forecast, and author and co-editor of the the Pew Internet, Science & Technology Project's series of "Future of the Internet" surveys.
  • Member of the Internet Society and participant in global Internet policy events.
  • Director of the FutureWeb conference and member of the organizing committee of the WWW2010 international conference.
  • Lead author of the "Future of the Internet" book series published by Cambria Press and sole author of "Imagining the Internet: Personalities, Predictions, Perspectives."
  • Led ethnographic interview research teams at the Internet Governance Forums in Athens, Greece; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt; Vilnius, Lithuania; Nairobi, Kenya; Joao Pessoa, Brazil; Jalisco, Mexico; the Internet Society's 20th Anniversary INET in Geneva; the Word Technology Policy Forum in Geneva; multiple Internet Engineering Task Force meetings and Internet Hall of Fame Inductions in Hong Kong, China and Berlin, Germany.
  • Mentored more than 400 students in undergraduate research or documentary journalism work that has been published for local/regional/global audiences, including many National Conferences on Undergraduate Research presenters.
  • Contributor to the State of the Future reports annually published by The Millennium Project.
  • Member of the Association of Internet Researchers.
  • Winner of Webby Awards Honoree designation, judge for the Webby Awards and winners of multiple national awards for website design.

Service Activities

Elon University

Founding director, Imagining the Internet Center, 2003-ongoing (funded as a center since 2008).

Emerging Technologies in Teaching & Learning Advisory Group. 2014-2016.

General Studies Capstone Project Pilot Committee, 2013-2015.

Long-Range Planning Committee, 2012-2015.

Academic Council, Fall 2012 (one-semester fill-in for a colleague).

Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) Topic Development Team, Futures Thinking, 2011.

Lumen Committee Chair Search Committee, 2011.

Inaugural Member – Lumen Prize Committee, 2007-2011.

School of Pharmacy Feasibility Study Committee, 2008-2009.

Founding chair – Ad Hoc Faculty Committee on Futures Thinking, 2007-2011.

Director, Emerging Futures Winter Term, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010

Director of Elon’s three-day, multi-event, campus-wide Emerging Futures Forums 2007-2009.

Member, General Studies Council, 2006-2009.

Member, General Studies Council Assessment Task Force, 2006-2009.

General Studies Learning Outcomes Committee, 2007-2009.

Founding Advisory Board for Visions, the Environmental Science journal, 2006-2007.

Distinguished Scholar Committee, 2005.

Pilot Program for Teaching Summer Online Courses, 1999-2002.

Spring Undergraduate Research Forum Moderator, 2002-2016.
(also annually evaluate SURF abstracts and mentor student research).

Member, Assessment Committee for Online Courses, 2002-2003.

Committee to Assess the Possibility of a Master’s in Instructional Technology, 1999-2000.

Faculty Adviser to The Pendulum (student newspaper), 1999-2005.

Media Board (non-voting member as Pendulum adviser), 1999-2005.
Advisor on numerous faculty/staff searches.

Elon University School of Communications

Curriculum Committee 2012-ongoing.

Elon Journal of Undergraduate Research in Communications Editorial Board, 2010-ongoing.
Communications Awards Committee (honoring alumni), 2011-2012.

Communications Fellows Committee, most years between 2003 and 2011.
Interactive Master’s Program Committee, 2007-2010.

Chair – Internet Committee, 2006-2008.

Acting Director – Communications Fellows Program, 2007-2008.

Dow Jones Editing Fund Test Monitor, 2000-2005.

Director of Internet Projects for the School of Communications, 2001-2005.
Founding editor of School of Communications’ Online Newsletter, 2001-2005.

Film Festival Committee, 2001-2004.

Director, Elon Editors Series, 2000-2001.

Faculty adviser to the Society of Professional Journalists, 2000-2004.

Numerous faculty search committees, 2000-2016.

Skills

The future of information and communications technologies, internet history, online journalism ethics, World Wide Web, technology development and diffusion, futures studies, social networks, metaverse, emerging media, journalism, newspapers, magazines.

Awards

(2019) Elon University’s Daniels-Danieley Excellence in Teaching Award, the university’s top recognition, singling out one top professor annually out of 446 full-time teachers. A top professor at a top school: Elon University was ranked in 2019 by U.S. News & World Report in the top three among all U.S. National Universities for undergraduate teaching excellence; Princeton was ranked #1, Elon University #2, Brown University #3, these three above all other elite schools.

(2014) Top-Three Finalist in the Scripps National Journalism Teacher of the Year competition, facilitated by the Association for Journalism and Mass Communication.

(2014) American Sociological Association honored the body of work of the Pew Internet Project (including Janna Anderson’s “Future of the Internet” book series and dozens of reports) with its “Award for Excellence in the Reporting of Social Issues,” noting, “members of the Pew Internet Project effectively and enthusiastically bring sociology into the public view and facilitate conversations between researchers, policy makers and the general public. In this way their work has benefited several constituencies and has advanced our discipline through so broadly encouraging a sociological imagination.”

(2013) Elon University School of Communications Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award, awarded to a faculty member who is excellent in the classroom, current in the discipline, and committed to student learning at a high level.

(2012) Elon University School of Communications nominee for the national Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications Journalism Teacher of the Year Award.

(2011) Computerworld Honors Laureate – longest-running global program to honor individuals and organizations that use information technology to promote positive social, economic and educational change. Selected from more than 1,000 nominations from 23 countries.

(2011) Tech Awards Laureate Nominee – Internet Protocol co-inventor Vint Cerf, a vice president at Google, and global and national Internet Governance Forum leader Marilyn Cade nominated Imagining the Internet for this international award in the “Education” category, recognizing our work to apply innovative solutions to address improving the human condition through the use of technology.

(2011) Elon University School of Communications Excellence in Scholarship Award, recognizing scholarly work of the highest quality, advancing the school’s reputation, and mentoring students in undergraduate research.

(2011) Selected by student members of Elon University’s chapter of Omnicron Delta Kappa, the national leadership honor society, for the honor of being leadership faculty chosen for induction into ODK.

(2011) “Imagining the Internet at IGF-2010.” With K. Bennett, D. Smith, S. Baranowski, G. Scott. Broadcast Education Association, first place, Student Interactive Multimedia Competition BEA Festival of Media Arts. Las Vegas, April.

(2010 and 2009 – two consecutive years) Elon University’s nominee for Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching U.S. Professors of the Year.

(2009) “IGF-Rio Issues Videos.” With E. Gradwell, A. Nicholson, D. Lewis, M. Hammerbacher. Broadcast Education Association, first place, Educationl/Instructional Category BEA Festival of Media Arts. Las Vegas.

(2008 and 2009) One Web Day Ambassador – one of 100 selected globally.

(2008) National Journalism Teacher of the Year. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication News Division.

(2008) Network World Newsmaker of the Week. Global recognition by top publication of information networking. December 18.

(2007) Webby Awards Honoree, Science Category. Elon/Pew Internet "Imagining the Internet" research website. Top 15 percent of more than 8,000 international entries.

(2007) Best of the Competition Award - Broadcast Education Association Interactive Multimedia Competition. "Imagining the Internet" honored for highest quality of the competition. Las Vegas. April.

(2006) American Library Association CHOICE Award. “Imagining the Internet: Personalities, Predictions, Perspectives.” Honored for being among the top 10 percent of the 7,000 reviewed academic titles.

(2006) Elon University School of Communications Excellence in Service and Leadership Award, recognizing service and leadership advancing the school’s mission and reputation.

(2005) Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Best of the Web Competition Second-Place Award. "Imagining the Internet" research website development. San Antonio. August.

(2003) Broadcast Education Association Best of Festival Award/Interactive Multimedia. Elon University School of Communications website development. Las Vegas. April.

(2003) Broadcast Education Association Best of the Competition Award – Educational/Instructional Site. Elon University School of Communications website development. Las Vegas. April.

(2003) Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Best of the Web Competition First-Place Award for Elon University School of Communications website. Kansas City. August.