Frank Rose

Frank Rose is a senior adjunct research scholar at Columbia University School of the Arts and a founding member of its Digital Storytelling Lab. A former contributing editor at Wired, he is the author most recently of The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories and The Sea We Swim In: How Stories Work in a Data-Driven World. A frequent speaker at film festivals and marketing conferences worldwide, he currently contributes to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications.

Frank has written extensively on the impact of technology on media and entertainment, covering such topics for Wired as the making of Avatar, Samsung and the rise of the South Korean techno-state, and the posthumous career of Philip K. Dick in Hollywood. Before joining Wired in 1999, he worked as a contributing writer at Fortune and as a contributing editor at Esquire and at Travel + Leisure. His work has also appeared in The Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, New York, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and The Village Voice, where he got his start covering the punk scene at CBGB.