I close read the digital rhetoric of institutional media-makers with attention to the politics of language and the design of interfaces.

Since 1998, this research has involved a proliferation of objects of study in new genres: digital archives, .gov and .edu websites, official e-mail messages, PowerPoint presentations, videogames, virtual reality environments, 3-D computer simulations, online videos, web generators, mobile applications, and databases. 

I ask how the rhetorics of e-government, e-learning, and e-commerce relate both to a longer rhetorical tradition and to the immediate duties of the "fourth estate." 

I also explore the implicit arguments of new media texts, particularly those involving categories of race, class, gender, sexuality, nationality, linguistic heritage, or religious affiliation.