SEATTLE — Peninsula native Matt Bellinger, in his fifth year of the M.A./Ph.D. program at the University of Washington Department of Communication, has received a Digital Humanities Dissertation Summer Fellowship from the Simpson Center.
The fellowship “supports scholars whose dissertations use digital technologies in innovative and intensive ways and/or explore the historical, social, aesthetic, and cross-cultural implications of digital cultures.”
Bellinger studies digital culture and rhetorics of technology, with a special focus on digital currencies such as Bitcoin. He graduated from Ilwaco High School in 2007. His parents are Steve and Jeanne Bellinger of Ocean Park.
“In general, I’m interested in the narratives, metaphors, tropes, and arguments that people use to make sense of new technologies, and the process by which new technologies move from being unfamiliar and anxiety-inducing to familiar and routinized,” he said in a UW press release.
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