Sean Carton was the founder of web development company Carton Donofrio Interactive, the former Dean

Dean (education)

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 of the School of Design

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 and Media

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 at Philadelphia University

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, and is the author of numerous books about the Internet

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 and video games. Dr. Carton has since left the university and is now Chief Creative Officer at idfive, LLC.

Carton coined the term egosurfing

Egosurfing

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in the late nineties.