Learning Through Digital Media
Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy

Elizabeth Losh is the author of Virtualpolitik: An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes (MIT Press, 2009). She is the Director of the Culture, Art, and Technology program at Sixth College at U.C. San Diego.  Before coming to UCSD, she was the Writing Director of the Humanities Core Course at U.C. Irvine for many years.  She writes about institutions as digital content-creators, the discourses of the “virtual state,” the media literacy of policy makers and authority figures, and the rhetoric surrounding regulatory attempts to limit everyday digital practices.  She has published articles about instructional technology, the digital humanities, multimodal composition, state-funded distance learning, national digital libraries, government websites and YouTube channels, videogames for the military and emergency first-responders, political blogging, and congressional hearings on the Internet. With Jonathan Alexander she is the author of the forthcoming sequential art textbook from Bedford/St. Martin’s Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Composition.