Mark Bell

Mark Bell is a Masters student in Digital Storytelling at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Mark studies social networks and networked communication. He most ofter studies the social networks of MySpace, FaceBook and Wikipedia. He is currently writing his thesis on how Wikipedia and collective intelligence is changing epistemology.

Prior to returning to academia, Mark has spent the last 14 years working in the software industry in Canada, Michigan and Indiana. This includes work as a technical trainer, course designer, CBT developer, and programmer.

To read more about Mark’s social network research, visit his blog at http://www.storygeek.com. He is currently taking lots of pictures with his new camera. He can be reached at typewritermark at gmail dot com.