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Research

PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS AND PROCEEDINGS           

2020  “Boycotting the Knowledge-Makers: What Populist Metatags and Moderation Say about Information Gatekeeping on reddit” IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Accepted, Co-authored with Liza Potts and Rebekah Small

2018   “Building Dark Patterns into Platforms: How GamerGate Perturbed Twitter’s User Experience”, Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society, Co-authored with  Liza Potts.

2016   “Evaluating Multilevel User Skill Expression in a Public, Unsupervised Wiki: A Case Study” IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 59 (3), 261-273.

2015    “Putting GamerGate in context: how group documentation informs social media activity” Proceedings of SIGDOC 2015.

2010    “Comment fields and content analysis: A means to study interaction on news sites.” Online Deliberation, p.189.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

2020  “Values vs. Rules in Social Media Communities: How Platforms Generate Amorality on reddit and Facebook” Co-authored with Liza Potts and Rebekah Small, Digital Ethics: Rhetoric and Responsibility in Online Aggression. Eds. Erika Sparby and Jessica Reyman. Routledge.

2019    “Rise of the Dissentivists: How Online Activists Disrupt Knowledge-MakingRhet Ops: Rhetoric and Information Warfare. Eds. Jim Ridolfo and Bill Hart-Davidson. University of Pittsburgh Press.

2016    “Digital Social Networks.” Communication and Emerging Media. Ed. Carie Tucker Lambert. Dubque: Kendall Hunt.

2011    “How we comment on web journalism: A case study on dialogue found in news articles.” The Ethics of Emerging Media: Information, Social Norms, and New Media Technology Eds. Bruce Drushel and Kathleen German. London: Continuum: 235-250.

2009    “Going Deep: What Online Sports Culture Teaches Us about the Rhetorical Future of Social Networks.” Writing and the Digital Generation. Ed. Heather Urbanski. London: McFarland Press. 33-44.