Research Areas:
- Information and Library Science
- Computer Mediated Communication and Social Media
- Gender and Information Technologies
- Intellectual Freedom and information/data ethics
- Linguistic and Computational Discourse Analysis
- Media Studies
- Social Media
- Social Informatics
My main research areas are technologically-mediated communication, multimodal discourse, and gender and digital technology. I am interested in understanding and describing the nature of these phenomena, their effects on interpersonal interaction, and their social impacts. I have also studied telepresence robot-mediated interaction, and I am fascinated by the concept of holographic telepresence. Recently, I have been thinking about the future of technologically-mediated communication, particularly the integration of AI into human-human communication and the implications of "deep fake" technology.
Research Interests: discourse analysis; computer-mediated communication; language and gender; functional grammar; historical linguistics; Dravidian languages
