About the Author

Adam Tyma has always had an interest in the media that surrounds him.  It started by growing up in the ‘70s and ‘80s – being part of the generation that was in front of the television as much as playing outside.  Cartoons after school, MTV, cable television, the big nights on ABC, CBS, and NBC, Top 40 and “alternative” radio, MTV’s “120 Minutes” and “Headbangers Ball”, hours at the arcade or at the movies, concerts at First Avenue, the Commodore VIC-20 in the basement with the dial-in modem, Dungeons and Dragons (and Palladium – and RIFTS – and Robotech) … and Nintendo.  All of these formed him into the media junkie and researcher he is now.  After completing his MA at the University of Minnesota (in Communication Studies focusing on Media and Rhetoric by analyzing Blade Runner, The Terminator, and The Matrix) and his PhD at North Dakota State University (exploring social media, media literacy, and the realities of what happened online during the Virginia Tech massacre on this new platform called Facebook), he is now on faculty as a Professor of Critical Media Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.  You can find him in his home or campus office, surrounded by books and collectibles from his favorite media spaces, teaching courses to undergraduate or graduate students about the stuff that made him who he is, or working on … something.

When not living the academic life, you can find him lifting heavy things, going to concerts, playing board games and Dungeons and Dragons (yeah, Stranger Things sucked him back in), brewing beer/cider/mead, dressing up for Renaissance Festivals … and sailing.  Yep … sailing.