Chief Global Strategist, Dancing Ink Productions, LLC
Greater New York City Area
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- Senior Fellow for Digital Media and Public Policy at Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress
- Senior Fellow at Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
- Chief Global Strategist at Dancing Ink Productions (Sole Proprietorship)
- Member at Terror Nova
- Member at Public Diplomacy Council
- Board Member at Friends of Washoe Foundation
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- Member at Pacific Council on International Policy
- Board Member at International Visitors Council of Los Angeles
- Director at Public Diplomacy and Virtual Worlds Initiative
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Joshua Fouts’s Summary
Joshua S. Fouts is Chief Global Strategist of Dancing Ink Productions, a company that develops business strategy, compelling storytelling, immersive narrative and mixed-media, mixed-reality content for a new global culture and economy. Fouts, a culture and technology futurist, is a frequent speaker on the use of games, virtual worlds and social media for social change and cultural collaboration.
His primary focus is working with organizations to develop quality storytelling and narrative in games and virtual worlds toward vibrant community and culture. He is recognized as the world’s leading expert on Digital Diplomacy. His most recent project, Understanding Islam through Virtual Worlds, with Rita J. King, explored how virtual worlds can be used to enable nuanced understanding between and around Islamic culture.
Fouts has 20 years of expertise in innovative uses of new technologies for international relations, journalism, and government. He has advised non-profits and governments worldwide on how to understand and create a strategic presence using the Internet as tool for outreach. His work has been featured in or on BoingBoing, The BBC, The Guardian, Press TV, The New York Times, UgoTrade, New World Notes, the Washington Post, Wired and NPR.
Before joining DIP, Fouts co-founded and directed the USC Center on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School where, in 2003, he launched the Public Diplomacy and Virtual Worlds initiative, which was the first effort to explore the intersection between immersive Internet spaces, cultural dialogue and foreign policy.
In 1997 he co-founded and edited OJR, the Online Journalism Review, the first Internet-based journalism review chronicling the early development of ethics in journalism as it evolved on the web. In 2001 he was recognized by the Silicon Alley Reporter as one of the "Digital Coast's 'Top 100 Survivors'".
From 1992-1994 he was a Presidential Management Fellow at the U.S. Department of State.
Joshua Fouts’s Specialties:
storytelling, Game narrative development emphasizing community and cultural development. World expert in Digital Diplomacy the uses of new technology, virtual worlds and social networking for foreign policy, public diplomacy, and cultural relations. Expertise in conventional public diplomacy, international affairs, foreign policy, video games, games studies, massively multiplayer online games, MMOG, virtual worlds, Brazil, United Nations, soft power,cultural diplomacy.
Joshua Fouts’s Experience
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Senior Fellow for Digital Media and Public Policy
Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress
(Non-Profit; Think Tanks industry)
March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)
The Center for the Study of the Presidency (CSP) is a non-partisan, non-profit organization founded in 1965. The Center is the only organization that systematically examines past successes and failures of the Presidency and relates its findings to present challenges and opportunities. Today, both the Executive and Legislative Branches are highly compartmentalized, and this is the enemy of strategic thinking, action, and the best use of resources. In addition, the nation is polarized even though public opinion polls show a desire to break these barriers and face our nation's real public policy issues. Lessons learned from past American experiences offer insights on how to deal with these challenges.
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Senior Fellow
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Think Tanks industry)
March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)
The Carnegie Council is the leading voice promoting ethical leadership on issues of war, peace, religion in politics, and global social justice.
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The Carnegie Council's mission is to be the voice for ethics in international policy. It convenes agenda-setting forums and creates educational opportunities and information resources for a worldwide audience of teachers and students, journalists, international affairs professionals, and concerned citizens. -
Chief Global Strategist
Dancing Ink Productions (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
Dancing Ink Productions fosters the emergence of a new global culture, international relations, business opportunities and unconventional careers in the Imagination Age through multiple virtual worlds. The company has been featured in a variety of mediums, including an article, “Exploring the Vast Business Potential of the Metaverse,” that appeared in the New York Times in September 2007.
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Member
Terror Nova
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)
January 2005 — Present (4 years 11 months)
Terror Nova is a World of Warcraft (WoW) Horde Faction Guild on Eitrigg. The guild moved to Eitrigg from Magtheridon.
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Member
Public Diplomacy Council
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; International Affairs industry)
October 2003 — Present (6 years 2 months)
The PUBLIC DIPLOMACY COUNCIL, established in 1988, promotes America's communication with foreign publics in order to bring about better understanding of American ideas, ideals, institutions and culture, as well as U.S. national goals and current policies. The Council believes that understanding and influencing foreign publics are essential to the conduct of U.S. international relations.
The Public Diplomacy Council was created to further the awareness that foreign attitudes and perceptions play an ever-increasing role in determining the success of America's political and economic actions on the world stage. Today, with the collapse of many totalitarian systems around the globe and the spread of democratic, market-oriented institutions, the Council strongly feels that understanding, informing and influencing foreign publics are central to the achievement of America's goals of peace and prosperity for itself as well as for the broader international community. -
Board Member
Friends of Washoe Foundation
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Civic & Social Organization industry)
March 1998 — Present (11 years 9 months)
Established in 1981, Friends of Washoe is a non-profit organization (501.c3) dedicated to the welfare of chimpanzees and especially the four chimpanzees at the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute located on the campus of Central Washington University, in Ellensburg, Washington.
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Joshua Fouts’s Honors:
Presidential Management Fellowship
