Liz is writing director of the Humanities Core Course at University of California, Irvine. She believes the Internet and social media are redefining how people write, and how they present themselves. She challenges students to become active, critical users of social media.

She is the author of Virtualpolitik: An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes (MIT Press, 2009). Currently, she's at work on a second book, Early Adopters: The Instructional Technology Movement and the Myth of the Digital Generation.

Her current research interests include Digital Rhetoric; Critical Information Studies; Pedagogy and Technology; Democracy and Media Culture; Hypertext and Networked Communication; Second Language Literacy; and Writing Program Administration.

Liz also blogs at the award-winning Virtualpolitik, a blog about digital rhetoric, government and subversion