THE FULL RECORD
Thirty-seven years of teaching, curriculum, and practice
The verified record behind the courses — what was taught, what was built, what was published, and what was made.
Teaching
2011 – present
Full Professor, Communication Studies
Sacramento State. Assistant Professor from 2001, Associate from 2006.
2023 – present
Graduate courses, UNAM
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City. Visiting professor in 2012.
2011 – present
COMS 101 — Information Management and Privacy
He designed the course and brought it into the curriculum, and teaches it today.
1997–98
“Lingo by Osmosis,” Syracuse University
An interactive tutorial that taught programming through the medium itself — a flipped classroom a decade before Khan Academy.
Curriculum built
2011–2015
The DCI Minor
Created and coordinated a six-course Digital Communication and Information minor, unanimously approved by faculty.
2023–2026
“Advancing AI Literacy @ Sac State and Beyond”
Four editions of a faculty learning community, directed through CRISJ. These lessons were taught to professors first. Concluded 2026.
2026
TertulIA
Eighty-six lessons across five tracks, taught fully in English and in Spanish.
Standards & service
2007, 2009
ETS iSkills Cut Score Committee, Princeton
Two week-long committee visits setting the passing standard for the national information- and technology-literacy assessment.
2014–2016
CSU ICT Literacy Ambassador
Developer of the Chancellor’s Office ICT Literacy Initiatives.
2014–2016
California OER Council
Council member, selected by the Academic Senate of the CSU.
2007–2009
ICT Digital Literacy Leadership Roundtable
California Emerging Technology Fund.
2025 – present
Senate AI Policy Working Group
Sacramento State. Also an invited participant in an OpenAI focus group and the NIAIS experts group.
AI work
Weekly
AI News Social
Every Saturday, ~4,000 sources on AI and society are scored against a nine-criterion rubric and synthesized into essays, podcasts, and interactive charts. ainews.social →
15+
Custom AI tools built
Including the pedagogical tools used to teach these courses.
2025
California Learning Lab
First faculty spotlight.
2026
CSU systemwide AI survey
The CSU Chancellor’s Office invited him to speak with media as a faculty expert for the release of its systemwide AI survey.
Books
1992
El Anfiteatro de la Memoria
Poetry. Editorial Praxis, Mexico.
1996
Mercadotecnia e Imagen en Internet
The first book in Spanish on marketing on the internet. Editorial Iberoamérica.
2008
Making Sense of Tracking Data
VDM Verlag, Germany.
2020
Tablada Hipertextual
With Rodolfo Mata. UNAM, Mexico.
Films & new media
2000–2003
A Space of Time
First Prize, Internet/Multimedia, Moscow International Film Festival. Referenced in George Landow’s Hypertext 3.0.
2017
Accidental Occurrence
Best Experimental Film, Premios Latino, Spain.
2021
Uku Pacha
Four Best Film awards. Premiered at the Ann Arbor Film Festival; 16+ festivals worldwide.
2024
Pitched Together
Best VR Short, REELS International Film Festival, India.