Formerly a lifestyles reporter for one of the Tribune Company's flagship newspapers, The Sun-Sentinel, J.C. Martinez-Sifre has his fingers on the pulse of the lifestyle issue our times: Digital Culture. He actively examines current and emergent social media, consumer electronics, science, and digital pop culture trends in their collision or concurrence with intellectual history, traditional social structures, philosophy, spirituality and politics. He is currently earning a degree in Social Sciences, Media Studies at NYU's School of Continuing and Professional Studies, and can be reached by e-mail at jc AT podgnosticast DOT com..