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Education
Presently: Ph.D. candidate (ABD), Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Proposed Dissertation: Radio's Digital Dilemma: Broadcasting in the 21st Century. Dissertation Committee: Michelle R. Nelson, John Nerone (advisor), Christian Sandvig, Dan Schiller.

2004: M.A., Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Thesis: A Can of Worms: Pirate Radio as Public Intransigence on the Public Airwaves. Thesis Committee: James L. Baughman, Robert Drechsel, Douglas M. McLeod (advisor).

1996: B.A., cum laude, Broadcast Journalism and Humanities, Valparaiso University. Named Outstanding Senior in Communication; member of Christ College, the Honors College of Valparaiso University.

Professional Experience
2009-10: Research Assistant, Profs. Sarah Projansky (Cinema/Gender & Women's Studies) & CL Cole (Interim Director, Media Studies)

2008-09: Instructor, Economics of the Media (née Media, Money and Power) (Media Studies 264), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

2007-08: Instructor, Introduction to the Media (Communications 101) [2 sections], University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

2004-07: Founding Producer, Media Minutes, sponsored by the Illinois Initiative for Media Policy Research and Free Press.

2001-04: Co-founding Producer and Staff Contrarian, Workers Independent News Service.

1994-2000: Award-winning radio journalist for stations and networks in Wisconsin and Indiana; stringer for national and international networks.

1994-96: General Manager and Music Director, WVUR-FM, Valparaiso, IN.

Publications
1997-present:
DIYmedia.net (née pirateradio.about.com); news/analysis, feature stories, multimedia production/archival.

2006:
"Digital Radio in the United States: Privatization of the Public Airwaves?" Southern Review: Communication, Politics and Culture, vol. 39, no. 2.
"Microradio Turns 21," Fresno Undercurrent, August.

2005:
"The God Squad on a Station Near You: Spectrum Speculation via FM Translator Station," Mediageek #3 (June).

2004:
"March of the Low-Band God Squad," The Wisconsinite, 20 July.
"Deep in the Lake," The Wisconsinite, 22 June.
"Pirate Radio Across the Nation," Mediageek #2 (June).
"Truthful Translations of Political Speech: Remixing the Bush II Agenda," Bad Subjects, Bush Culture Review Series.

2002:
Andrew Yoder, Pirate Radio Stations: Tuning in to Underground Broadcasts in the Air and Online (3rd ed., McGraw-Hill), chapters 9, 10, 13.

2001:
"Radio Active," Adbusters, July/August.
"Radio Free-For-All," Adbusters, March/April.
"From the Airwaves to the Streets," Adbusters, January/February.
"Radio in Revolt," Adbusters, August/September.

1998-99:
Interface: Reprogramming Digital Culture, issues 10-15; staff writer, various artist features and release reviews.

Presentations, Lectures, and Workshops
2010:
-- Invited Speaker, "Behind Radio's Digital Dilemma," ICR Proseminar II, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring semester (Prof. Angharad Valdivia).
-- Guest Lecturer, "The Need for Network Neutrality," Media and Democracy (MS 331), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring semester (Andrew Kennis).

-- Roundtable Moderator, "Political Economy of Communicaton," First Annual Institute of Communications Research Alumni & Friends Reunion Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Chamopaign, 12-13 February.

2009:
-- Presenter, "The Democratic Potentiality of Convergence Studies," Mass Communication Division, National Communication Association Annual Conference, Chicago, 12-15 November.
-- Roundtable Participant, "The Triumph of Collective Action?," Association of Internet Researchers Annual Conference (v. 10.0), Milwaukee, 7-11 October.
-- Guest Lecturer, "Pirate Radio As Alternative Media Tool," Seminar in Culture and Communication (COMM 490), University of Illinois at Chicago, 26 September (Camille Johnson-Yale).

-- Presenter, "The Democratic Potentiality of Convergence Studies (draft),"
UICC Conference, University of Illinois at Springfield, 10 April.
-- Guest Lecturer, "Subvertising With Media Collage," Social and Cultural Context of Advertising (ADV 493), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring semester (Christina Ceisel).

2008:
-- Invited Participant, Access To Communication And Democratic Media Infrastructures In The Digital Environment: The Impact Of Convergence Digitalisation On Community Media Policy And Practice, Exploratory Workshop sponsored by the European Science Foundation, Budapest, 13-15 May.

-- Invited Lecturer, "The History and Future of Pirate Radio," Department of Radio-Television and College of Mass Communication and Media Arts, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 26 February.
-- FM Transmitter Construction Workshop Co-coordinator, Studio Arts Practice (MCMA 557), Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 25 February (Prof. Jay Needham).

2007:
-- Presenter: "U.S. Radio Regulation's Early Crisis of Confidence," Mass Communication Division, National Communication Association Annual Conference, Chicago, 15-18 November.
-- Presenter: "Godcasting on the March: Spectrum Speculation via FM Translator Station," Union for Democratic Communications Annual Conference, Vancouver, 25-28 October.
-- Co-Presenter: "Microradio: Tactical Overview and Deployment Opportunities," Global Fusion Conference, St. Louis, 7-9 September.
-- Presenter: "Radio Content and Control in a Post-Digital Environment," International Communication Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, 24-28 May.
-- Guest Lecturer, "Collage as Guerrilla Communication," Media and Democracy (COMM 331), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring semester (Kevin Healey).
-- Guest Lecturer, "Culture Jamming With Collage," Popular Culture (COMM 320), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring semester (Camille Johnson-Yale).
-- Guest Lecturer, "Microradio's Contribution to Media Democracy,"
Introduction to the Media (COMM 101), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring semester (Ian Davis).
-- Presenter: "U.S. Radio Regulation's Early Crisis of Confidence (draft)," UICC Conference, Urbana, 2 March.

-- Guest Lecturer, "Collage as Guerrilla Communication," Media, Money, and Power (COMM 264), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring semester (Brian Dolber).
-- Guest Lecturer, "Subvertising Campaigns," Classic Campaigns (ADV 411), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring semester (Catherine Coleman).

-- Guest Lecturer, "Convergence and Journalistic Opportunity," Media Literacy (COMM 166), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring semester (Celiany Rivera-Velazquez).

-- Presenter: "Radio's Digital Lockdown," SSRC/Free Press Media Policy Research Pre-conference to National Conference for Media Reform, Memphis, TN, 11 January.

2006:
-- Presenter, "HD Radio As Digital Boondoggle: A Critical Review of IBOC-DAB," Mass Communication Division, National Communication Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, 16-19 November.
-- Guest Lecturer, "Convergence and Journalistic Opportunity," Media Literacy (COMM 166), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Fall semester (Prof. Ivy Glennon).
-- Guest Lecturer, "Subvertising Campaigns," Classic Campaigns (ADV 411), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Fall semester (Catherine Coleman).
-- Guest Lecturer, "Collage as Guerrilla Communication," Media and Democracy (COMM 331), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Fall semester (Andrew O' Baoill).

-- Guest Lecturer, "Culture Jamming With Collage," Introduction to the Media (COMM 101), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Fall Semester (Shoshana Magnet, Desiree Yomtoob).
-- Presenter, "Utility vs. Commodity: Framing the Provision of Broadband," Communication Technology Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference, San Francisco, 2-5 August.
-- Presenter, "Postal System Development During the Civil War," History Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference, San Francisco, 2-5 August.
-- Guest Lecturer, "Culture Jamming With Collage," Introduction to the Media (COMM 101), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring semester (Andrew O 'Baoill, Victor Pickard).
-- Guest Lecturer, "Welcome to Indymedia," Introduction to Communications (COMM 101), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring semester (Desiree Yomtoob).
-- Workshop Host, "Microradio: Tactical Overview and Operations," NYC Grassroots Media Conference, New York, 11 February.

2005:
-- Guest Lecturer, "Convergence and Journalistic Opportunity," Media Literacy (COMM 166), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Fall semester (Prof. Ivy Glennon).
-- Guest Lecturer, "Culture Jamming with Collage," Media and Democracy (COMM 331), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Fall semester (Andrew O' Baoill).
-- Workshop Host, "Microradio: Overview and Operations," Allied Media Conference, Bowling Green, OH, 17-19 June.
-- Presenter, "Politics and Web Collage," Collage as Cultural Practice (Obermann Humanities Symposium), Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 24-26 March.
-- Presenter, "Digital Radio's Brave New World," UICC Conference, Urbana, 18 March.
-- Guest Lecturer, "Media Collage: the Ultimate Subvertising," Consumer Communication and the Public (ADV 410), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring semester (Prof. Inger Stole).

2004:
-- Presenter, "What's Up At the FCC" and "Making Alternative Media," RAD: Radio, Access, Democracy, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis, MN, 29-30 October.
--
Guest Lecturer, "An Introduction to the Political Economy of Broadcasting," Contemporary Moral Issues (Phil 341), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Spring semester (Tim Hansel).

2003-05:
-- Guest Lecturer, "Culture Jamming with Collage," Mass Media and the Consumer (J646), University of Wisconsin-Madison (Prof. Michelle R. Nelson).

2003:
-- Workshop Co-host, "Microradio: DIY Broadcasting," Be the Media! shadow conference to National Conference for Media Reform, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 8 November.
-- Presenter and Workshop Co-host, "Launching WINS" and "Radio Production," Labor Media Conference, Chicago, IL, 17-18 October.
-- Presenter, "Bring Labor Back to Radio," and "Microbroadcasting," LaborTech/Access 2003, Stanford University, 5 April.

2002-03:
-- Workshop Co-host, "Media Practices for Labor Leaders: Projection and Production," Madison Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension School for Workers.

Broadcast/Print Interviews
2010:
Pirates Week, "Pirate Radio Report w/Skidmark Bob," 18 July.
PoP dEFECT RADIO
, (Free Radio Santa Cruz), "IP Copwatch," 13 July.
A Critical Ear, (WRFU-LP, Urbana), "Digital Radio," 4 March.

2009:
Mediageek (WNUR-FM, Evanston/Chicago), "The Final Mediageek Radioshow," 31 December.
Mediageek
, "Possible Interference Boost for HD Radio & SF's Pirate Cat Leaves the Air," 5 November.
Mediageek
, "FCC Chair Introduces New Net Neutrality Principles," 26 September.
Mediageek, "The Court Rules Narrowly on Indecency," 20 April.
Dorchester (MA) Reporter, "New FCC Nominee Brings Ray of Hope for Low-Power Radio," 12 March.
Mediageek, "Charting the Economic Decline of Radio / More on Radio's Downfall," 19 February.
Mediageek, "2008 Year in Review / FCC Enforcement Action 2008," 1 January.

2008:
Mediageek, "The Yes Men Pull Another Amazing Stunt," 13 November.
Mediageek, "A New Beginning," 25 September.
Mediageek (WEFT-FM, Champaign), "The Nation's Biggest Pirates Merge," 1 August.
Mediageek, "Community Radio in Eastern Europe," 27 June.
Mediageek,
"Digital Radio in Europe," 20 June.
Operation: Ear Infection
(Free Radio Santa Cruz), "PRO IP Act, ACTA Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Interview with John Anderson," 17 June.
Recherche (Germany), "Digitalization and Community Media", 28 May.
Mediageek,
"Stand-Ins Warming the Bench for Comacast at the FCC Hearing," 29 February.
Mediageek, "We Go Freeform," 22 February.
Operation: Ear Infection
, "State of Media 2008," 12 February.
Mediageek, "NAB's FM Spectrum Grab Isn't About Radio," 8 February.

2007:
Mediageek, "Year-End Wrap Up pt. 2," 21 December.
Mediageek, "Year-End Wrap Up pt. 1," 14 December.
Mediageek , "Radio Piracy is Up, FCC Action is Up, But What's the Story Behind the Numbers," 5 October.
A Public Affair
(WORT-FM, Madison), "Digital Broadcasting," 1 October.
Mediageek
, "FCC Miscellany," 9 September.
Mediageek
, "Fruits of the NAB's Labor on Satellite Radio," 20 July.

In Our Backyard (WORT), "Webcasting Royalty Rate Controversy," 13 June.
Mediageek, "Why the Internet is Vital for Independent Media," 18 May.
Mediageek
, "Corporate Radio Piracy & Pay-Per-Listen," 11 May.
Mediageek, "Wal-Mart America's Biggest Pirate?," 2 March.
Mediageek, "FCC Making Some Exceptions on LPFM," 16 February.
Mediageek, "Live from the National Conference for Media Reform," 12 January.

2006:
Mediageek, "Year-End Wrap-Up," 22 December.
Mediageek,
"The Latest on Unlicensed and Pirate Radio," 1 December.
Mediageek
"Community Radio Pioneer Jeremy Lansman," 13 October.
Associated Press, "Pirate Radio Challenges Feds," 20 September.
Mediageek, "The Exploitation of Translators," 18 August.
Associated Press, "Wyoming community moves toward municipal high-speed network," 5 August.
Berkeley Liberation Radio, "Sitting in on the World Cruise," 5 August.
Free Radio Santa Cruz, "Airshift Hijack with the V-Man," 4 August.
Mediageek, "Independent Media Makers Ally Together at AMC 2006," 16 June.
Sounds of Dissent (WZBC-FM, Boston), "Calvary Imploding," 27 May.
Mediageek, "Internecine Battles in Christian Radioland," 26 May.
Mediageek, "John Anderson Talks Radio," 14 April.
Columbia Journalism Review, "Out of Thin Air," March/April.
Mediageek, "HD Radio: Hi-Definition or High Dollar Scam?," 17 February.

2005:
Mediageek, "Commercial Sponsorship of Clear Channel's Madison Newsroom," 30 December.
Mediageek, "The Year in Grassroots Communication," 9 December.
Mediageek, "The Decline of Commercial Broadcast Journalism and the Rise of PR," 7 October.
Punk Planet, "Voices At Radio's End," September/October.
Mediageek, "Microradio in Times of Crisis," 9 September.
Mediageek, "What's Up in the Micropower Radio Scene," 8 July.
F
ree Radio Santa Cruz, "Interview with John Anderson," 24 May.
Mediageek, "Robert McChesney Discusses Media Reform and Independent Media," 8 April.
Sounds of Dissent, "CSN International," 5 March.
Mediageek, "Christian Broadcasters Trafficking in Low-Power Translator Stations," 4 March.
Mediageek, "LPFM and LPAM, With or Without the Law," 18 February.

2004:
Mediageek
, "2004 Year in Review," 31 December.
Mediageek, "What's Going On in the World of Radio," 11 June.
Mediageek, "U.S. Atty General Contacts Radio Free Brattleboro," 23 January.
Invisible Ink (KALW-FM, San Francisco), "'Pirate' Radio," 11 January.
Mediageek, "Live report from the National Conference on Media Reform and Be the Media!," 7 November.

2003:
Denver Westword, "Power Up," 25 September.
Mediageek, "Microradio Update," 29 August.
Mediageek, "What's Happening in the Pirate Radio World," 13 June.

2002:
Mediageek, "Year-end Wrap Up with John Anderson," 27 December.
radio.about.com, "Pirates of the Airwaves," 6 September.

2001:
Denver Westword, "Frequency Free-for-All," 11 October.
Denver Westword, "The Making of a Pirate," 4 October.

2000:
Wired
, "Radio Active," June.
CMJ New Music Monthly, "Pump Up the Volume," May.

Awards
2009: Named Outstanding Instructor in Media Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring Semester.

2006: Top Three Student Paper, for "Utility vs. Commodity: Framing the Provision of Broadband," AEJMC Communication Technology Division, San Francisco, 2-5 August.

1998: Best Use of Audio, Wisconsin Broadcasters' Association, for "Republican Babble," WTDY (Madison).

Extracurricular Accomplishments
Ongoing: Compiling The Black Boognish, a mashup album involving Jay-Z's Black Album with music from Ween, inspired by DJ Dangermouse and the rest. Finished tracks and other audio collage can be found here.

2007-Present: RPM (electronic music) genre director and host of "Poodles Ahoy," a weekly radio program on WEFT.

2009-10: Member-elected Member, Board of Directors, WEFT-FM.

2007: Playtester, PACTLAB InnisMod (Prof. Christian Sandvig).

2006-07: Co-coordinator of Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Reading Group on Democratic Communications.

2006-07: ICR Representative, College of Media Student Advisory Council, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

2006: Credited as Historical Consultant for Pirate Radio USA documentary.

2005-06: Served as the first Training and Membership Coordinator for WRFU-LP, a low-power FM radio station launched by the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center. Resurrected WRFU's Technical working group, which completed an extensive studio rebuild and airchain recalibration in July of 2006.

2005-06: Host of "Poodles Ahoy," a weekly radio program on WRFU.

2003: Coordinated web and local microradio simulcast of keynote, plenaries, and other selected sessions of the first National Conference for Media Reform, Madison, WI, 7-9 November.

2002: Broadcast Participant (102.1 FM), "Mosquito Fleet Stings NAB," Seattle, WA, 9-14 September.

2000-04: Primary Facilitator, "System P" (87.9 MHz), Madison, WI.

1993: Founding Student Member, Valparaiso University Storm Intercept Team (VUSIT).

References
Available upon request.

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