I’m L.M. Squires, currently a graduate (MA) student in Linguistics at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. In 2003, I received my BA in Philosophy and Communication from American University in Washington, DC. After that I spent a year in Boston, MA as an AmeriCorps VISTA, working with Boston’s literacy campaign, ReadBoston.
Right now, my research interests mostly involve computer mediated communication(CMC) and information and communication technologies (ICTs), but I’m not a computer geek (thus, this blog will be lo-fi to da max, as they say in Hawaii). Rather, I’m a lay technology user interested in the language people use in various media venues, and the interplays between mediated and non-mediated forms of language. I also like to talk about The Media a lot, from the standpoints of rhetoric as well as cultural production/consumption, and the burgeoning field of media literacy. I guess I’m one of those “social ramifications” people, as a friend of mine calls them.
I’m also really, really fascinated by the word “like.”
Contact: squires at polyglotconspiracy dot net