Mark W. Bell

Curriculum Vitae

PhD Student of Telecommunications, Indiana University

Department of Telecommunications

Indiana University

Radio and TV Center 1229 E. 7th Street Bloomington, IN 47405

Phone: 317.413.6886 Email: bellmw@indiana.edu

Employment

PhD Student of Telecommunications, Indiana University- Bloomington, 2007 – present.

Degrees

MA Telecommunications, Ball State University, 2007

BA , English, University of Waterloo, 1993

Publications

Books

• Bell, M. (2009) Build a website for free. Indianapolis: Pearson.
• Robbins, S. & Bell, M. (2007) Second life for dummies. Indianapolis: Wiley.

Journal Articles

Peer Reviewed

• Bell, M. (2009). Convergence of the virtual. Rocky Mountain Communication Review, 6(1), Retrieved from https://www.humis.utah.edu/humis/docs/organization_951_1251746183.pdf
• Castronova, E., Bell, M., Cornell, R., Cummings, J., Emigh, W., Falk, M., Fatten, M., LaFourest, P., & Mishler, N. (2009). A Test of the law of demand in a virtual world: exploring the petri dish approach to social science. International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations, 1(2), doi: 10.4018/ijgcms.2009040101

Invited

• Bell, M. (2008). Toward a Definition of ‘Virtual Worlds’. Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, 1(1). Retrieved December 1, 2008, from http://journals.tdl.org/jvwr/article/view/283

Cited in Virtual Worlds and Kids: Mapping the Risks A Report To Congress by the Federal Trade Commission.

• Castronova, E., Bell, M., Cornell, R., Falk, M., Haselton, M., & Ross, T. (2008). Constructing Arden: Life Inside the Machine. IEEE Multimedia. 15(1).
• Castronova, E. & Bell, M. (2007) Synthetic worlds – real community, real money. Vodafone Receiver. 19.

Journal Articles Under Review

• Bell, M., Castronova, E. and Wagner, G. (2008), Virtual Assisted Self Interviewing (VASI): An Expansion of Survey Data Collection Methods to Virtual Worlds by Means of VDCI. Journal of Virtual Worlds Research.

Peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings

• Bell, M. (2007). By The Numbers: Quantitative Research Methods In Second Life. Proceedings of the Second Life Education Workshop at the Second Life Community Convention. Chicago, Il.

Book Chapters

• Bell, M., Smith-Robbins, S. & Withnail, G. (2010) This is Not a Game - Social Virtual Worlds, Fun and Learning. In Peachey, A., Gillen, J., Livingston, D. & Smith-Robbins, S. (Eds.), Researching Learning in Virtual Worlds (pp. 177-192). New York, NY: Springer.
• Castronova, E., Cummings, J., Emigh, W., Fatten, M., Mishler, N., Ross, T., Ryan, W., Bell, M. & Falk, M. (2009) Virtual world Economies: A Case Study of the Economics of Arden. In Heider, D. (Ed.), Living virtually (pp. 165-190). New York, NY: Peter Lang.
• Castronova, E., Bell, M., Cornell, R., Cummings, J., Falk, M., Ross, T., Robbins-Bell, S. & Field, A. (2009) Synthetic Worlds as Experimental Instruments. In Perron, B. & Wolf, M. (Eds.), Video game theory reader II (pp. 274-294). New York, NY: Routledge.
• Bell, M., & Bell-Robbins, S. (2008) Towards an expanded definition of “virtual worlds”. In Villares, F. (Ed.), New Digital Media: audiovisual, games and music (pp. 125-134). Rio de Janeiro: E-papers.
• Castronova, E. & Bell, M. (2007) I mondi virtuali e second life. In Di Bari, V. (Ed.) Web 2.0: internet e cambiato. e voi? (pp. 144-146) Milano: Il Sole 24 ORE

Book Reviews

• Bell, M. (2006). Nature and narratives: The romantic structure of o’reilly technical books. Review of Communication, 6(4):358-364.
• Bell, M. (2006). The salvation of comics: Digital prophets and iconoclasts. Review of Communication, 6(1):131-140.

Conference Papers & Presentations

Peer Reviewed

· Bell, M., Castronova, E. & Wagner, G. (May, 2009). Comparing Real and Virtual Quality of Life Data Using a Virtual Assisted Self-Interview Method. International Communication Association Annual Conference. Chicago, Il.

· Bell, M. (2008, November).Virtual Assisted Self-Interview Research Open University’s Re:Live ‘09, Milton Keynes, UK.

· Bell, M. (2008, November). Virtual Assisted Self-Interview Research. Association Of Internet Researchers IR 9.0, Copenhagen, Denmark.

• Bell, M. (September, 2008) Using Second Life to Create Research Tools. Second Life Education Convention, Tampa, Fl.
• Bell, M. (2007, November). The Many Applications and Opportunities of Second Life. NCA Annual Conference. Chicago, Il.
• Bell, M. (2007, July).Wiimote Control: Nintendo’s HCI Masterpiece. Interacting with Immersive Worlds. St Catherine’s, Ontario, Canada.
• Bell, M. (2007, August).By The Numbers: Quantitative Research Methods In Second Life. Second Life Community Convention. Chicago, Il..
• Geidner, N. , Flook, C. & Bell, M. (2007, April) Masculinity and Online Social Networks: Male Self-Identification on Facebook.com. Eastern Communication Association 98th Annual Meeting. Providence, RI
• Bell, M. (2007, March).Can You See The virtual Real me. Conference on College Composition and Communication., New York, NY.

Invited Lectures

• “The Virtual Leap: Trust, Deception, and Pedagogy in the Virtual Worlds” Savolina, Finland, August, 2009.
• “Definition and Taxonomy of Virtual Worlds” Paper presented at New Digital Media (Audiovisual, Games And Music): Economic, Social And Political Impacts. Sao Paulo, Brazil, June 2008
• “Human-Centered Research for Avatars: Qualitative and Quantitative Best Practice” Virtual Business Expo. Second Life, April 2008.
• “Knowledge as Technology Dependent: A Comparison of the Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia” Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, April 2008.
• “Virtual Economics And Web 2.0″ Brock University March 2008.
• “Make More Mistakes” JISC CETIS. Lakeside Conference Centre, Aston, UK, November, 2007.
• “Survivor: Graduate School- A Roundtable on Coping with the Challenges of the Graduate School Experience” IR 8.0. Vancouver, B.C. , October, 2007

Grants

• German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) “An international survey research center in Second Life. Part II”, August 2008 – December 2008.
• German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) “An international survey research center in Second Life.”, January 2008 – August 2008.

Awards

• Merit Fellowship, Graduate Committee in the Department of Telecommunications, 2007-2010.

Production

• Virtual Data Collection Interface (VDCI). Developer and lead programmer. A virtual data collection utility for administrating surveys in virtual worlds.
• Arden: The World of William Shakespeare. Advisor to funded team at Indiana University.

Service

Editor

Special Issue, Journal of Virtual Worlds Research. Theme: Cultures Of Virtual Worlds. Spring, 2009.

Editorial Boards

Associate Editor, Journal of Virtual Worlds Research

Journal Reviews

Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, Games & Culture

Regular Conference Paper Reviews

2010 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work.

Listserv Curator

Administrator and founder, SL Researchers List, Second Life and virtual world academia research

Academic Work Experience

Research Assistantships

• 2008 Virtual Data Collection Project. PIs: Edward Castronova, Gert Wagner. Experimental design, virtual world survey construction, computer programming.
• 2006 Lead Programmer for Google Maps Beta Project. PI: John Dailey. Computer programming.

Graduate Student Instructorships (T.A.)

• Telecommunications 101 Media Life. Spring 2010, Professor Mark Deuze. Responsible for discussion sections for 60 students.
• Telecommunications 206 Intro To Design & Production. Fall 2009, Professor Steve Krahnke. Responsible for discussion sections for 60 students.
• Telecommunications 101 Media Life. Spring 2009, Professor Mark Deuze. Responsible for discussion sections for 60 students.
• Telecommunications 205 Intro To Media & Society. Fall 2007, Professor Betsi Grabe.

Departmental Involvement

• 2009 Department of Telecommunications. Undergraduate Committee Graduate Student Representative
• 2007 Department of Telecommunications. Graduate Committee Graduate Student Representative

Professional Memberships

• National Communication Association (NCA)

• International Communication Association (ICA)
• Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)

Personal Interests

• Guitar, science fiction, geek culture, golf, travel, poker, and comic books.