McKnight
Personal information
- Last name
- McKnight
- Position
- graduate student
- Institution
- Arizona State University
- Website
- http://johncartermcknight.com/index_new.php
- Brief Bio
Peer evaluation: John McKnight is a barbarian warlord, an alien prophet from beyond space and time, and the East German Women's Wrestling Team. He is too radioactive to be exposed to students, and should be given an endowed chair to avoid contaminating the university.
- Full Bio
John Carter McKnight is Adjunct Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, and a PhD student in Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology, at ASU.
His work examines the emergence of law and governance in online communities. He has developed and taught graduate and undergraduate courses including "Computer Gaming, Learning and Literacy," "Games and Culture" and "Discourse, Community and Power in Virtual Worlds."
He is also Education, Training, Games and Virtuality Thrust Group Leader at the Consortium for Emerging Technologies, Military Operations and National Security and co-founder of Thesis Therapy, a global graduate student support group maintained through social media.
Mr. McKnight has been a Wall Street corporate finance attorney, an officer and director of nonprofit organizations involved in science education and policy, Prelaw Services Coordinator at ASU, and a Science Foundation Arizona Fellow for 2008-2010.
He has been an endgame tanking paladin in World of Warcraft, personal scribe to King Minos in The Minoan Empire in Second Life, and has played a wide range of MMOs, strategy games and social games from the IBM286 era onwards. He is active in an ASU-based tabletop gaming group.
He can be contacted through his website, johncartermcknight.com, which includes links to his CV, academic blog, Tumblelog of his online work and play, and other social media identities.
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- Virtual Worlds
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- Culture
- Technology
- HASTAC
History
- Member for
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