Research Portfolio

Research Agenda

I am researching the intersections of rhetoric, media, and the design arts to develop theory-driven approaches to digital production. Now that the Web and other digital technologies have reached a certain level of stability and maturity, it is time to empower people in the humanities to move from adapting and responding to technology to directly shaping and transforming it...Read More.

Dissertation Summary

...To guide digital production, though, a visual rhetoric must address more than just the visible qualities of a completed digital artifact; it must provide a means for putting non-technology specialists in conversation with the technologies and languages of the digital medium. My project focuses on production for the Web, which I describe as a particular case or "flavor" of the larger digital medium...Read More.