BA in French Teaching; PhD in Educational Technology; Associate Professor of ICT at University of Kentucky School of Information Science. My CV is available here, you can browse my research here, and my Google Scholar profile here

Supported by digital methods, my research focuses on online social spaces, community practices within these spaces, and the influence of the platforms where they are found. My research is interdisciplinary, exploring spaces associated with teaching and learning, Mormonism, the far right, or even combinations of these themes.

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🔗 linkblog: Anti-DEI compliance continues across campus; written policy is hard to come by



Appreciate the work the Kernel is doing here.


🔗 linkblog: UK launches CATS AI to advance artificial intelligence across campus



I am so very tired. So very, very tired.




I know I’m currently inclined to see everything through an Ellulian lens, but I think one lesson of the first episode of Pluribus is that not all science needs to be done, and especially not just because it can be done.


🔗 linkblog: The problems with AI in schools



Really enjoyed listening to this on my way in to campus today.


🔗 linkblog: Tech companies don’t care that students use their AI agents to cheat



Adding some nihilism to my Tuesday morning, just for fun.


📚 bookblog: Mediated Mormons: Shifting Religious Identities in the Digital Age (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)



I have been meaning to read this book for months and was happy to have an uninterrupted couple of hours on a flight so that I could finally get to it. It covers familiar ground but without feeling repetitive. I expect to cite it frequently in the future—in fact, I ought to work it into some slides I’m presenting tomorrow!


🔗 linkblog: UK must be ‘partner-of-choice’ in using AI to advance Kentucky



Honestly trying to figure out whether the reason I see Ellul everywhere is because I’m excited about a new scholar I’ve discovered or because his ideas are so well suited for the current moment. “We can be a leader or we can be left behind” captures the opt-in determinism of Ellul’s technique so dang well. Of course, how the heck am I going to keep expressing concern about AI (through an Ellulian lens or otherwise) if the university has already decided that we’re all getting on board?


🔗 linkblog: The AWS Outage Was a Nightmare for College Students



Universities are too platform dependent, and even those platforms are too dependent on the next layer of the stack. What a mess.




It’s not that I think pumpkin spice tea pairs well with Friday night sushi takeout, it’s that I can’t remember the last week I lost this much sleep over work anxiety, so I need dinner tea to get through the rest of the day.




Thinking this morning about all of the small, human-oriented things I’ve done this semester to try to be good at my job, and how insulting it will be to have them eventually reduced to a number that can be reported to demonstrate “productivity.”