{"id":2,"date":"2017-09-25T21:49:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T21:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcschmalz.com\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2023-10-02T05:46:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T05:46:27","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/marcschmalz.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marcschmalz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/StrongHeadshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-544 \" src=\"http:\/\/marcschmalz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/StrongHeadshot.jpg\" alt=\"Selfie of Marc outside the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, NY.\" width=\"186\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"http:\/\/marcschmalz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/StrongHeadshot.jpg 649w, http:\/\/marcschmalz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/StrongHeadshot-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/marcschmalz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/StrongHeadshot-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m an assistant professor at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cobe-itscm\/\">Department of Information Technology and Supply Chain Management<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/\">Boise State University<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cobe\/\">College of Business and Economics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I received my PhD from the <a href=\"http:\/\/ischool.uw.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Washington&#8217;s Information School<\/a> where I was part\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/gamer.ischool.uw.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GAMER Group<\/a>.\u00a0 My research interests lie at the intersection of information science and entertainment software development. Currently, these interests involve the ways in which IT development projects differ in the cultural industries when compared to utilitarian segments commonly studied in the information systems (IS) literature. My dissertation was part of an ongoing investigation of the ways that project team member behavior is affected by self-identification with the technology being developed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also been a game worker, having been part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wizards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wizards of the Coast<\/a>, the Game Mechanics, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realnetworks.com\/products-services\/gamehouse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RealNetworks GameHouse<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/greenronin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Ronin Publishing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/marcschmalz.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">check my CV<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m an assistant professor at the Department of Information Technology and Supply Chain Management at the Boise State University College of Business and Economics. I received my PhD from the University of Washington&#8217;s Information School where I was part\u00a0the GAMER <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/marcschmalz.com\/blog\/about\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcschmalz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcschmalz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcschmalz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcschmalz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcschmalz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/marcschmalz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"http:\/\/marcschmalz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcschmalz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}