BA in French Teaching; PhD in Educational Technology; Associate Professor of ICT at University of Kentucky School of Information Science

I am an interdisciplinary digital methods researcher studying meaning-making practices on online platforms. Most of my work has dealt with informal learning through social media, but I'm increasingly dabbling in online Mormonism, the online far right, and various combinations of the three.

My CV is available here.

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new publication: Canvas and student privacy awareness









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🔗 linkblog: A Faculty Member’s Self-Evaluation at the End of the Semester'





🔗 linkblog: Someone Made a Dataset of One Million Bluesky Posts for 'Machine Learning Research''









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on the performativity of teaching

























I think the conference hotel wi-fi is blocking competitors' websites?





🔗 linkblog: Employees Describe an Environment of Paranoia and Fear Inside Automattic Over WordPress Chaos'













📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤 for Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac









🔗 linkblog: WordPress.org’s latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin'





bad faith uses of scientific 'rigor'





🔗 linkblog: ‘The Community Is In Chaos:’ WordPress.org Now Requires You Denounce Affiliation With WP Engine To Log In'













🔗 linkblog: More academic publishers are doing AI deals'





📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ for Vigilant, by Cory Doctorow





🔗 linkblog: If WordPress is to survive, Matt Mullenweg must be removed'









📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤 for Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter, by Zoë Schiffer