I am a senior lecturer teaching on the School of Language and Culture's Bachelor and Masters degrees in English and New Media at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. My research is driven by a fascination with the interface between language, technology and communication which I approach mainly from a Critical Discourse Studies perspective. I was involved in the NZ arm of the World Internet Project for 10 years until 2016 and was a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute in the UK from Sept-Dec 2018.