Frank Rose

FRANK ROSE is the author most recently of

The Sea We Swim In: How Stories Work in a Data-Driven World,

published in 2021 in the US and the UK and described as "critical thinking for an age of pervasive media" by The Wall Street Journal. His previous book,

The Art of Im­mer­sion: How the Digital Gen­era­tion Is Remak­ing Holly­wood, Mad­ison Ave­nue, and the Way We Tell Stories,

was a landmark work that showed how technology is chang­ing the age-old art of storytelling. Sparked by a decade of re­porting on media and technology for Wired, it has been called “a grand trip” by New Scientist and “a new media bible” by the Italian daily la Re­pubblica.

A senior fellow at Colum­bia University School of the Arts, Frank teach­es global busi­ness execu­tives as faculty director of the execu­tive edu­ca­tion seminar Strategic Story­telling, presented in part­nership with Colum­bia Business School. He is also awards director of Columbia's pioneer­ing Digital Story­telling Lab, where in 2016 he launched the annual Break­throughs in Story­telling awards—the "Digital Dozen"—to honor the most innovative approaches to narra­tive from the past year.