Understanding New Media, co-authored with Jay David Bolter. Supported by a Fulbright grant to St. Petersburg, Russia, Herrington is developing a cross-curricular course in technical communication to electronically link students in St. Petersburg, Russia with those in Shaitin, Hong Kong and those at Georgia Tech. Herrington teaches technical communication and Internet courses both virtually and inthe networked computer-based classroom. Kolker did one of the first film essays onlinethat made use of moving images. He is currently beginning work on a digital, annotated edition of the film Casablanca.
Primary interests are scientific and technological discourse.
I have authored a book on the methodology of early scientific commentary and have contributed chapters to books on the strategies ofscientific and technological discourse. Associate editor of the interdisciplinary science and literature journal, Configurations. Was a visiting professor at Cornell University and a senior fellow at the Edelstein Center for the History of Science and Technology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Current research includes the development of scientific communication within electronic networks and research in distance learning. Graduate teaching includes courses in international communication.