My work on digital culture began by examining issues of identity in cyberspace. Over the years, I have investigated sex and sexuality, ethnicity, computer games, and issues of health and cybermedicine. Most recently, my attention has turned to the rise of social media, the creation of citizen journalism and the transformative potential of relocating media production back into society, away from media organizations.
I am also an avid, amateur digital designer and dedicated netizen. I started working on websites in the late 1990s and have continued to learn how new software works. I believe that having a web presence is a crucial vehicle for an academic to reach more people with their research, but that it is also hard to really know how to critique life online, if you don’t spend much of it there. I’ve experimented with many platforms and tend to create accounts in places that I think are upcoming.
I’m a pretty dedicated user of most design tools, including: adobe creative suite, audacity, facebook, flickr, Google docs, Insights for Search, issuu, iMovie, iTunes, microsoft office, prezi, second life, skype, slideshare, spotify, tweetdeck, twitter, wordpress.
I have found that the process of designing presentations and websites becomes an integral part of the research process I go through when initiating a project or beginning to write.
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