Brad King 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. He is also one of six Emerging Media Fellows at the university.

A journalist since 1994, King earned his Master's from the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism in 2000. He then when work 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 Dungeons and Dreamers, a book on the history of computer games, virtual worlds and their effects on American culture for McGraw-Hill. In 2004, he was hired as the senior editor and producer for MIT's Technology Review.

King helped launch blogs at Variety magazine and MIT. He also sat on the advisory board for the first Austin Game Conference in 2004. For the past several years, he has worked on the advisory boards for South by Southwest Interactive and Carnegie Mellon's ETC Press