About

Yes, I have misspelled Technophile. This is the first way I spelled it when I came up with the title for the blog. And yes, I finally finished up my PhD in English; you would think that I would be a fabulous speller; however, I’m not. I think leaving the misspelling in the title will help remind me, and hopefully my readers, that blogs are publications about immediacy. Yeah, yeah…they are reflective, but they are to be more of an immediate reaction. This should give some space to the errors of urgency, including spelling!

Yeah, yeah…you are right, it is somewhat of an excuse for my bad spelling. And hey… Technofile” looks cooler. Maybe it also allows us to run with the metaphor of “file.” This blog will become my filing cabinet of my “technofetishist” rantings…hey, that word gets the “f”?! But this is also sounding worse, not only am I making excuses for my spelling, but also making naughty implications with my language. I guess I should leave this topic for a while.

Since I first wrote the description above for my original blog, my blog has grown into a more enhanced working website. With the wikis and discussion boards I plan to have others participate in the craziness. I also feel that I have been blogging enough to know the more solidified categories I’m working in, or want to work in. I’m sure this site will continue to grow along as my digital identity grows.

Currently I am a rhetoric and media studies faculty member at Mesa Community College, and teach one online course at Arizona State University (hey, I want to keep up access to a research library), and a technoculture scholar. My scholarly interests can be broadly described as the intersections, or interfaces, between technology and humanity. More narrowly, I am interested in online learning, professional development about and through various technologies, interface usability, and women in technoculture. Therefore I research and write about my teaching practices, my colleagues' integration of technologies into their work processes, my students use of technology, as well as various science fiction depictions of human technology interfaces, especially with gendered implications.

I sincerely believe the following quotes sum up my scholarly and professional interests and identity(ies):

You are the only one who can never see yourself except as an image; you never see your eyes unless they are dulled by the gaze they rest upon the mirror or the lens...even and especially for your own body, you are condemned to the repertoire of its images. 
Roland Barthes

I will critically analyze, or “deconstruct,” only that which I love and only that in which I am deeply implicated.
Donna J. Haraway