Her research focuses on online social networking sites and computer games, particularly how these technologies affect literate practices and the composition classroom. She is a reviews co-editor for Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy and a project director for the Computers and Composition Digital Press. Her work has appeared in First Monday, Computers and Composition, e-Learning, Technoculture, and Computers and Composition Online as well as numerous edited collections. Her textbook E-Dentity (Fountainhead Press, 2011) examines the impact of social media on twenty-first century literacies.