I’m Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Syracuse University, where I teach and study digital rhetoric, rhetorical theory, authorship, intellectual property theory, and technical & professional communication.
My research explores the sort of authorship that occurs within the tight genre constraints of the western encyclopedic tradition, particularly as demonstrated in the 1728/38 Chambers Cyclopædia and Wikipedia. I also examine the ways digital affordances impact encyclopedic authorship, particularly when bots are introduced, as well as the pragmatic implications that fluctuating authorship situations pose for contemporary copyright law. I am currently at work on a book-length examination of these subjects entitled Curation and Craft: Authorial Agency in Wikipedia and the Chambers Cyclopædia.
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