My research explores the relationship between digital media technologies, and contemporary American ideologies of identity (especially race and gender). Located at the intersections of new media poetics, visual art and culture, material studies, and critical race and gender discourse, I claim this interdisciplinary space as one that falls within the expanded field of digital humanities. My current book project is focused on literary, aesthetic, and poetic texts, however my research also engages the ways digital, networked technologies affect contemporary culture and civic life. Issues like hashtag activism, vernacular rhetorics of the social web, data-collection, and user rights, thus, also inform my work.