“Black Twitter” interview

Recently, I was interviewed by University of Alabama master’s student, Theadoris Morris, about “Black Twitter” for her research project.  I appreciated chatting with Theadoris, and wanted to share our conversation here. (Posted with permission.) TM: Are you familiar with Black

Dissertation Available!

  My dissertation is now available in IDEALS, the UIUC institutional repository. You can access the full-text copy of it here: https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/46617   Not just a pretty (inter)face: A critical analysis of Microsoft’s ‘Ms. Dewey’ Abstract: Increasingly anthropomorphism is used