About

This blog is dedicated to digital research and pedagogy. Its focus is a) on examining the research methods required to critique the aesthetics, economics, discourses, structure, and cultures of the Internet and Web; b) on discovering and developing Web and digital tools for teaching college students; and c) commenting on various trends in Internet discourse and policy relevant to teaching, including net neutrality, cyberwar discourse, and the development of virtual worlds and mobile computing.

Despite over a decade of writing that examines the Web and the Internet as pedagogical tools and sites of research, we feel that there is much to do to develop research methods and pedagogical techniques in this area.

Call for Contributors
Interested in joining us in discussing digital research? Email Robert at rob(AT)robertwgehl.org for details.

The Contributors
Kristin Scott
Since 2005, Kristin Scott has been teaching courses in integrative studies, popular and visual culture, cultural studies, cybercultures, contemporary literature, and applied critical writing about the arts and media. Her research interests include arts and media culture, virtual, visual & digital culture, digital ethnography, gender/sexuality and postgenderism, transhumanism, and digital and cyborg embodiment & performance. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Smith College, an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia College Chicago, and an A.M. in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Chicago. She is currently a Cultural Studies doctoral student at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

Robert W. Gehl
Robert Gehl’s PhD dissertation explores the cultural and political economy of Web 2.0. His methodology draws on Marxian historical approaches and science and technology studies (STS). He is currently an assistant professor of new media at the University of Utah. He has taught courses in science and technology studies, writing for new media, literature, composition, globalization, and nonprofit studies. In his teaching, he explores the impact of social technologies on the classroom.

Sean Lawson
Sean Lawson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah. His Ph.D. is from the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research focuses on the relationships among science, technology, and security, in particular the intersections of national security and military thought with new media, information, and communication technologies. Specific research topics include the use of nonlinear science-based metaphors in the construction of theories and doctrines of information-age warfare such as network-centric warfare; milblogging and military use of social media; and discourses of “cybersecurity” and “cyberwar.”