Northern Illinois University
Department of Communication
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Professor
Media Studies

Profile

(Ph.D., DePaul University)
Specialties: information and communication technology (ICT), new media, philosophy of technology, web design and programming.

Author of three books addressing ICT and ethics and new media theory:

• Hacking Cyberspace (Westview, 2001)
• Thinking Otherwise: Philosophy, Communication, Technology (Purdue Univ. Press, 2007)
• The Machine Question: Critical Perspectives on AI, Robots and Ethics (MIT Press, 2012)
• Heidegger and The Media (Polity Press, 2014)

Co-editor of Transgression 2.0: Media, Culture and the Politics of a Digital Age (Continuum, 2011)

Co-editor of the Indiana University Press series in Digital Game Studies.

Founding co-editor, managing editor and web programmer for the International Journal of Zizek Studies.

Award winning web programmer and interactive media designer. 

Award winning researcher and author

Award winning educator: Presidential Teaching Professor (2009) and Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award (2006).

Website: gunkelweb.com

Latest Publications

• "Communication and Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities and Challenges for the 21st Century." Communication +1 1(1), August 2012.
• "New Media: A Remix of Mark Amerika's remixthebook." Remixthebook.com 2011.
• "To Tell the Truth: The Internet and Emergent Epistemological Challenges in Social Research." The Handbook of Emergent Technologies in Social Research. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
• "The Real Problem: Avatars, Metaphysics, and Online Social Interaction." New Media & Society 12(1), February 2010. 127-141.
• "Terra Nova 2.0—The New Worlds of MMORPGs." Critical Studies in Media Communication 26(2), June 2009. 104-127.
• "Beyond Mediation: Thinking the Computer Otherwise." Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture 1(1), Summer 2009.