VITA Nicolas J. LaLone Areas of Specialization Social Media Analysis Online Community Behaviors Virtual World Ethnography / Design Citizen Science Non-Human \ Human Interaction Gender, Race, Language, and Technology Education PhD Doctor of Philosophy in Information Science and Technology 2017 MA Master of Arts with a Major in Sociology from Texas State - 05/2012 B.S.A.S Bachelors of Science in Applied Sociology from Texas State - 12/2007 Experience Adjunct Professor College of Science and Technology at Bellevue Research Assistant Information Science and Technology at The Pennsylvania State Teaching Assistant Information Science and Technology at The Pennsylvania State 08/08/2013 to Present 01/ to Present 08/16/2013 to 12/19/2013 Systems Support Specialist Department of Sociology at Texas State Research Intern Department of Sociology at Texas State 08/01/2008 to 08/02/2013 08/15/2006 to 08/01/2008 Data Quality Assurance PTV Datasource 02/2005 to 08/2006
LaLone - Page 2 Grants Research Assistant Inspire Track 1: Aurorasaurus Citizen Scientists Experiencing the Extremes of Space Weather. (funded by the National Science Foundation). NSF: 1344296 Co-Investigator Others Must Hear my Story: At-Risk High School Student Program Recruitment (funded by the Equity and Access Committee, Texas State -San Marcos). 09/2013 12/2009 Peer Reviewed Publications Tapia, Andrea; LaLone, Nick. (Forthcoming). Crowdsourcing Investigations: Crowd Participation in Identifying the Bomb and Bomber. International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM). Tapia, Andrea; LaLone, Nick; & Kim, Anthony. (). Run Amok: Group Crowd Participation in Identifying the Bomb and Bomber from the Boston Marathon Bombing. 11th International Conference on ISCRAM. Tapia, Andrea; LaLone, Nick; MacDonald, Elizabeth; & Hall, Michelle. Forthcoming. Crowd Sourcing Rare Events: Using Beauty to Draw Participants into Science and Early Warning Systems. 11th International Conference on ISCRAM. Kotarba, Joseph and Nick LaLone. Forthcoming. The Scene: A Conceptual Template for an Interactionist Approach to Contemporary Music. In Studies in Symbolic Interaction. Jeffrey Van den Scott, editor. Emerald Press. LaLone, Nick. Forthcoming. Chris Redfield and the Curious Case of Wesker s Sunglasses. In Unraveling Resident Evil. Nadine Farghaly, editor. Daniels, Jessie & LaLone, Nick. 2012. Racism in Video Gaming: Connecting Extremist and Mainstream Expressions of White Supremacy. in Producing the Social in Virtual Realms: Critical Social Policy and Video Game Play: Social Exclusion, Power and Liberatory Fantasies. David Embrick, Talmadge Wright and Andras Lukacs, co-editors. Rowman and Littlefield, Publishers, Inc 04/12/2012
LaLone - Page 3 Presentations (all sole-authored) Is Play the Thing? Video versus Board and the Spaces Inbetween. Presented at the International Conference on Meaningful Play. Crisis Response Wargame for Training and Classroom Use. Proceedings of the 11 th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management. Is it Just Me or Are the Imperials Getting Darker? Race and The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim. Presented at the Meeting of the Pop Culture Association Values Levers and Unintended Consequences of Design. Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Voices of Command, Bodies in Peril: The Female in Current Video Games. Presented at the 2012 Meeting of the American Sociological Association. I m Not Racist But Spider-Man is White, People. Spider-Man, Race, and Peter Parker. Presented at the 2011 Meeting of the Pop Culture Association Representation of Gender and the New Cultural Proximity of Video Games. Presented at the 2010 Meeting of the Southwestern Sociological Association. Racist Tendencies and Stereotypes in MMORPG's: Final Fantasy 11. Presented at 2008 Southwestern Sociological Association GoonFleet: A Content Analysis of Banner Ads Created to Move an Online Group From One Electronic Medium to Another. Presented at 2008 Southwestern Sociological Association 10/ 05/ 04/ 02/ 08/2012 04/2011 03/2010 10/2007 10/2007
LaLone - Page 4 Research Experience Research Design, User Design, and Inter-Departmental Communication Next Generation 9-1-1 Pennsylvania State. User Design and Communications Aurorasaurus.org Reporting Auroras from the Group Up Los Alamos National Laboratory. Simulation Design Resilience Project REsilience and PREparednesS ENhancing Tools and AcTIVities in Europe Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research. Ethnography and Netnography The Untitled Game Nerd Kingdom. 12/ 08/2013 Twitter Analysis Boston Bombing, Hurricane Sandy. 08/2013 Content Analysis of Gender Messages in Popular Xbox 360 Video Games Seminar in Qualitative Research Methods. Analysis of the National Science Foundation Surveys of Public Attitudes toward and Understanding of Science and Technology, 79-01 Dataset Seminar in Research Methods. Consequences of Modernization Theory, a Rhetorical Analysis of Post Modernism in the 1990s Seminar in the Community. Employee Morale and Training Data Retention Focus Group Moderator Guide PTV DataSource 10/2009 04/2009 06/2009 04/2007 Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviews PTV DataSource Quality Assurance and Data Cleaning PTV Datasource Teaching Experience Introduction to Game Development GAME 101 Bellevue 08/ 12/ Beginning Portfolio Design GAME 205 Bellevue 08/ 12/ Serious Games and Critical Play GAME 314 Bellevue Teaching Assistant IST 301 Information Technology Project Management Pennsylvania State 12/2013 03/ 08/2013 12/2013
LaLone - Page 5 Introduction to Digital 2D Design GAME 103 Bellevue Introduction to Game Development GAME 102 Bellevue Guest Lecture in Sociology Internship Seminar Online Identity Maintenance and Protection at Texas State 08/2013 12/ 06/2013 12/ 03/2011 Professional Development Excellence in Teaching Assistance 08/2013 Scholarship and Research Integrity 08/2013 Content Management System - Sakai Training 08/2012 NVIVO Training 02/2012 LGBT Allies Training 08/2010 Back to Basics FERPA Updates, Intellectual Property, Privacy and Compliance in the Digital Age. Texas State 10/2009 SNAP Quantitative Instrument Design and Implementation 09/2009 Affiliations/Memberships/Service Editor The Geek Anthropologist 04/ Ethnographer Nerd Kingdom 03/ Advisory Board Member Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research Student Technology Advisory Committee Pennsylvania State 03/ 08/2013 American Sociological Association 01/ Pop Culture Association 01/ American Anthropological Association Alpha Kappa Delta 03/2012 05/2010 Ally 03/2011 Texas State Staff Council Co-Chair of Fundraising Committee Co-Chair Compensation Committee 10/2011
LaLone - Page 6 Awards Doctoral Colloquium iconference 03/2015 Graduate Student Travel Award 02/ Outstanding Graduate Student in Sociology 02/2012