Publications

My interdisciplinary research examines AI, communication, media culture, globalization, and the social dimensions of technology, with a particular interest in how people communicate and learn in changing technological environments. Here are some selected examples; for a more complete list, see ResearchGate or Google Scholar.

Articles

GLOBAL ENGLISHES • DIGITAL CULTURE

Denaturalizing the Hegemony of Internet English with the History of Telegraphy

Although technology played a role in making English attractive to a global audience, there is an untold story about how other languages were kept off the Internet.

Histories of Computing in Asia, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol. 739: pp. 119–138 (Springer, 2026).
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-19480-0_8

language pedagogy • Metacognition

Thinking about Thinking: Shifting the Conversation about Generative AI

Educators and students can use genAI to foster critical thinking through metacognition. 

English Journal, vol. 20, no. 1: pp. 1–16 (2026). 
DOI: 10.32832/english.v20i1.23127

Global Englishes • Language Pedagogy

Looking Back on Predictions of Global English: Applying Technology Theory to Develop Critical Multilingual Language Awareness

In the ten years after the release of the first commercial Web browser, many pundits predicted that English would forever dominate global communication. The reason they were wrong reveals a common fallacy about technology and culture.

FOYER: The Journal of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education, vol. 8 iss. 1: pp. 1–40 (2025). 

RACE & MODERNITY • SciencE, Technology & Society

The Science of Sea Voyages: Challenges to Discourses of Difference in Travel Literature about Southeast Asia

Primary sources by travelers reveal something surprising about how Europe and the United States constructed theories about racial aptitudes.

Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 40.2: pp. 189–220 (2025). 
DOI: 10.1355/sj40-2a

RACE & MODERNITY • SciencE, Technology & Society

“Melanctha Was Too Many for Him”: Gertrude Stein’s Challenges to Essentialism in Three Lives

One of the most famous figures in literary modernism made an effective challenge to scientific racism.

Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory 22.3: pp. 262–307 (2020). 
DOI: 10.5325/intelitestud.22.3.0251

History of Computing • innovation

As We Could Have Thought: Deploying Historical Narratives of the Memex in Support of Innovation

Before the first digital computers, one visionary imagined a metacognitive thinking machine. The reason why it was not immediately produced reveals a surprising tension between dreams and innovation.

Technology and Culture 61.2: pp. 480–511 (2020).
DOI: 10.1353/tech.2020.0050

history of COmputing • Science, Technology & Society

On Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Computing: Finding Allies in Overrepresented Populations

Efforts to diversify computing and engineering show how professions bring about positive social change.

Unimagined Futures: ICT Opportunities and Challenges, edited by Roger Johnson and Leon Strauss. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol. 555: pp. 142–61 (Springer, 2020).
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-64246-4_12

Language PEDAGOGY • Innovation

Critical Reading with STS: Interdisciplinary Inspiration for the Science Classroom

Nonfiction literature can be a springboard to innovation in science and engineering.

Critical Reading Across the Curriculum, Volume II: Social and Natural Sciences, edited by Anton Borst and Robert DiYanni. (Wiley & Sons, 2020).
ISBN: 978-1-1191-5525-8.

Digital Culture • Science, Technology & Society

From CoCom to Dot-Com: Technological Determinisms in Computing Blockades, 1949–1994

The technology embargoes that became a cornerstone of Cold War diplomacy rely on fallacies about the connection between technology and society.

Histories of Computing in Eastern Europe, Christopher Leslie and Martin Schmitt, eds. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol. 549: pp. 196–225 (Springer, 2019).
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-29160-0_11

Digital Culture • Science, Technology & Society

404 Not Found: Internet Protocols in the Transparent Society

Internet filtering reveals that the supposedly seamless web has always been shaped by protocols and ideologies.

Shippensburg University’s Proteus: A Journal of Ideas 31.1: pp. 33–6 (2017).

Digital Culture • Science, Technology & Society

Flame Wars on Worldnet: Early Constructions of the International User

The users of early computer networks, ARPANET and CSNET, imagined their work would lead to global communications even though the technical means had not yet been developed.

International Communities of Invention and Innovation, Arthur Tatnall and Christopher Leslie, eds. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 491 (Springer, 2016).
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-49463-0_9

Language Pedagogy • Innovation

Fostering Innovation in STEM through the Application of Science and Technology History

Studying the humanities can help science and engineering students develop innovation skills.

Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference.
DOI: 10.1109/ISECon.2014.6891033.

Digital Culture • Innovation

Scholarly Humanities Websites: Silos to Withstand a Siege

Specialized humanities websites resist the flattening effects of Web search by highlighting scholarly interpretation.

SUNY Buffalo Romance Studies Journal (2012).

Digital Culture • Language Pedagogy

Metacognition through Group Practice in the New Media Classroom

Collaborative digital environments can encourage language learners to learn through self-reflection. 

M/C Journal 9:2 (2006).
DOI: 10.5204/mcj.2613

Monograph

From Hyperspace to Hypertext: Masculinity, Globalization, and Their Discontents. Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-981-99-2026-6.

Edited Books

Histories of Computing in Asia. Springer, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol. 739.

Current Directions in ICT and Society, co-edited with David Krepps. Springer, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 609.

Histories of Computing in Eastern Europe: IFIP Working Group 9.7 International Conference on the History of Computing, Revised Selected Papers, co-edited with Martin Schmitt. Springer, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol. 549.

International Communities of Invention and Innovation: IFIP Working Group 9.7 International Conference on the History of Computing, Revised Selected Papers, co-edited with Arthur Tatnall. Springer, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol. 491.