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I wrote my diss on post-digital privacy, triangulating it as a legal and cultural issue across the domains of poliitcal, professional, and personal personas.
Narrative theory is the key to unlocking the privacy protections already existing in the Constitution, teachable to anyone, and necessary for alignment.

I wrote my diss on post-digital privacy, triangulating it as a legal and cultural issue across the domains of poliitcal, professional, and personal personas.
Best Paper (Runner Up) Primeaux Award:
"Using Narrative Theory to
Rethink Digital Ethics."
International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference. 2022
“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to Reframe Health Data Sanctity.”
Inaugural Transatlantic Dialogue on AI and Humanity (Paris; Reported in Forbes)
“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to Forgive, Forget, and Re-Program Digital Dignity.”
Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium.

Narrative theory is the key to unlocking the privacy protections already existing in the Constitution, teachable to anyone, and necessary for alignment.
PDFs are easier/complete.
Note : Everything is one "meta-method" for privacy, AI, disinformation, and free speech. Here are some key privacy pubs/conferences:
AWARDS
“Using the Lens of Narrative Theory to Rethink Digital Ethics”
International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference. Proceedings. (Forthcoming.) With Marci Exted and Thomas Freeman. 2022.
***First Runner Up: Primeaux Award for Best Conference Paper.
ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to Reframe Health Data Sanctity.”
Inaugural Transatlantic Dialogue on Humanity and AI Regulation. Hosted by HEC Paris. Paris, France. May 2022
***Reported in Forbes: “Regulating Global Intelligence: Is Global Consensus Possible.” Sept. 9, 2022.
“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to Forgive, Forget, and Re-Program Digital Dignity.”
With Thomas Freeman. Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium. Organizers: Indiana University, Virginia Tech, and University of Pennsylvania. Online. April 2022.
“Privacy 3.0: Forgiveness and Student Data After Mahoney.”
International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference. Chicago: DePaul University. With Thomas Freeman, Simon Truatman, and Amanda Aherns. October 2021.
“Using the Lens of Narrative Theory to Rethink Digital Ethics”
International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference. Proceedings. (Forthcoming.) With Marci Exted and Thomas Freeman. 2022.
***First Runner Up: Primeaux Award for Best Conference Paper.
“What Would Jesus Program?” Rhetoric Society of America. Portland, OR. May 2020. (COVID).
“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to Navigate Legal, Corporate, and Community Debates
on Algorithmic Ethics.”
Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium. Washington and Lee School
of Law. With Thomas Freeman. Lexington, VA. April 2019.
“I Want to Party With You Cowboy: Stephen Colbert and Campaign 2016’s Aesthetic Logic of Truthiness.”
The Joke is On Us: Political Comedy in (Late) Neoliberal Times. In Julie Webber-Collins, Ed. With Thomas Lawson Lexington Press, 2019.
“What Norm MacDonald and Narrative Theory Can Teach Us About Social Media Privacy Big Data Reasoning.” Hamline University. Saint Paul, MN. April 2017.
***Part of World Press Freedom Day art exhibition and community education event. Hamline University, Saint Paul, MN. April 2017.
Fear and Loathing in the New Media Era: How to Realign Our Rhetorical Judgments for the Post-Postmodern, Digital Media Age.
Dissertation. Ohio State University, 2012. [Citation repeated below.]
Commonplace: A User’s Guide to Persuasion (for an Age that Desperately Needs One).
McGraw-Hill, 2009. With Michael Harker and Scott Lloyd DeWitt.
“I’m Not There Anymore: The Return of Identity in the Post-Remix Age.”
Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. Louisville, KY: October 2008.
“Ethos in a Remediated Age: Context, Character, and Community.”
Rhetoric Society of America. Seattle, WA: May 2008.



“Digital Rights Are Civil Rights: Race and Technology.”
Juried International Art Exhibition and Community Education Event. Minneapolis, MN and Online:
February 2021
With ACLU MN, Safety Not Surveillance, Reclaim the Block, Northeast Sculpture Gallery, Councilman Simon Trautmann (Richfield, MN), and Councilman Steve Fletcher (Minneapolis, MN).
Field tested in the classroom and real world (and the news and international art exhibitions) for 20 years.
BIG WINS:
Dr. Aaron McKain, MSL
Minneapolis and Omaha / mckain.3@gmail.com
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