Robert Matney (born 1976) in

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, is VP of Strategic Partnerships at

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. He has worked as a

social media Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the Content creation, creation, information exchange, sharing and news aggregator, aggregation of Content (media), content (such as ideas, interests, and other forms of expression) amongs ...

analyst and practitioner,

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, actor (

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, and currently lives in

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. Matney is co-producing artistic director of Breaking String Theater and the technology designer at the Hidden Room Theatr

He has spoken at SXS

every year since 2011 with the Hidden Room and Look Left Look Righ

about their work on Skype theatre and linking actors and audience using technology. Matney graduated from University of Texas at Austin, The University of Texas in 1998 with a degree in

philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

and having studied Shakespeare-in-Performance at the

Shakespeare at Winedale The Shakespeare at Winedale program, created in 1970 by James B. "Doc" Ayres, is a program affiliated with the University of Texas at Austin, dedicated to William Shakespeare, Shakespearean criticism through performance of the plays. The main perf ...

program.

Career

Technology Designer

Matney was the Hidden Room Theatre's technology designer for "You Wouldn't Know Her, She Lives in London / You Wouldn't Know Him, He Lives in Texas." Jo Caird from London's What's On Stage said the show should be "applauded for their attempt to explore this new territory," and that "theatre has only to gain from this type of innovation." Matney designed the technology that linked theatres from Austin and Moscow for the New Russian Drama Festival via video teleconferencing technology. He spoke about his efforts to join theatres through this method at SXSW Interactive in 2011. Matney spoke in 2011 on innovations in this field at the Hybrid Arts Summit for the Fusebox Festival in Austin Texas.

Theatre/Film/Television

Anime

* '' Birth (anime)'' (OAV) as Inorganic Biker #1 * ''

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'' (ONA) * ''

Petite Princess Yucie is an anime series, which was produced by Gainax, aired from 2002 to 2003, and ran for 26 episodes. The story centers on Yucie, a 17-year-old who is trapped in a 10-year-old's body, and follows her and her friends, all of whom are designa ...

'' (TV) as Gunbard * ''

Getbackers is a Japanese manga series written by Yuya Aoki and illustrated by Rando Ayamine. It was serialized in Kodansha's manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' from March 1999 to February 2007, with its chapters collected in 39 volumes. Th ...

Video games

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as Doctor Psycho

Stage Roles

* ''A Most Unsettling and Possibly Haunted Evening In the Parlour of the Brothers Grimm'' as Wilhelm Grimm, The Hidden Room Theatre, October 2010

Web Development

Matney joined Polycot Associates as web project manager in 2011, managing the development of websites and web applications. He worked with the rest of the team on the company's conversion to a worker-owned and -managed cooperative. Matney also took responsibility for business development, which included participation with an Austin chapter of BNI (organization). He spent seven years with Polycot Associates before he joined

Government Affairs

Matney has worked for

since November 2018, and is currently managing director of Public Affairs. The company was originally called

New Knowledge Yonder, formerly named New Knowledge, formerly named Popily, was a company from Austin, Texas, that specialized in information integrity. It is most widely known for supporting the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in its investigation o ...

, and was known for its role in developing the authoritative report on Russian influence operations targeting US elections from 2015 forward for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI). The report leveraged data from Alphabet (Google), Twitter, and Facebook. In his role at Yonder, Matney has become a thought leader Robert Matney
"Robert Matney on Disinformation Coordinated Attacks and How Scared We Should Be"
''Yonder'' in disinformation analysis, online authenticity, and the influence mechanics of the internet.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Matney, Robert American male voice actors American male stage actors University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts alumni Living people 1976 births