Research

In my Master's Thesis, “Remediation, Genre, and Blogs: A Reexamination of Blogs as Genre," starting with Carolyn Miller’s theories of genre and rhetorical hierarchy and proceeding to Miller’s examination of blogging as genre, co-authored with Dawn Shepherd, I argue that blogging is not in and of itself a new genre, but a complex of emergent technologies that together form a new medium. The blog as medium supports numerous genres: personal diary blogs, citizen journalist blogs, and corporate blogs to name a few. Thesis Committee: Professor Robert Barrier and Professor Robert Hill.

My current research interests include:

  • Digital Rhetoric and Online Discourse
    • New Media
    • Identity Issues
    • Issues of embodiment/disembodiment (i.e. how to conduct online ethnography)
    • Web 2.0, Web 3.0, the “Social Web,” and the “Semantic Internet”
    • Intellectual Property
    • Multimedia Writing (Writing Across Media)
  • Computers and Composition / Technology in Pedagogy
  • Genre Theory
  • Civil Discourse: Especially as related to discourse of politics, religion, and race
  • Postmodernism
  • Visual Rhetoric (special interest in digital and online visual rhetoric)
  • Popular Culture and American Studies (special interest in digital culture)
  • Gaming Rhetoric

 

 

 

 

 

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