Ryan M. Milner

Ryan M. Milner is an American writer and professor in the communications department of the College of Charleston in South Carolina.

[1] His primary field of study is focused on the effects of the internet on society and how people respond differently to emerging technologies.

[4] He has also done research on video games as a tool of mediated communication and a device of entertainment on the same tier as other types of media such as films, TV shows, and books.

[11][non-primary source needed] Co-written by Whitney Phillips and Ryan Milner, “The Ambivalent Internet” analyzes the constantly fluctuating tonality of the world wide web.

Because the internet is so vast and contributed to by billions of people, it’s impossible to categorize the entirety of the web as either good, bad or anything in between.

His goal was to make people reflect on these images as a communicative form of satirical commentary on both pop culture and news stories.