Brad King (www.thebradking.com) is an assistant professor of journalism at Muncie, Indiana's Ball State University, where his research examines how emerging technologies are changing the ways we tell -- and share -- stories.

A journalist since 1994, King earned his Masters of Journalism from the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism in 2000. After graduation, he worked for Condé Nast's Wired magazine and then its sister website Wired News covering the convergence of technology and culture. In 2002 he co-authored a book on the history of computer games, virtual worlds and their effects on American culture. In 2004, he was hired as the senior editor and producer for MIT's Technology Review.

He helped launch the Austin Game Conference in 2004 and he sits on the advisory boards of the South by Southwest Interactive (www.sxsw.com), a social technologies conference, and Carnegie Mellon's ETC Press. King is currently finishing the second edition of Dungeons and Dreamers (ETC Press 2009) as well as his book social media technologies and storytelling (ETC Press 2010).