1955) is an American linguist and communication scholar who researches gender differences in Internet use, and the characteristics, functions, and emergent norms associated with language, communication, and behavior in new online forms such as social media.
[1][2][3] She is Professor of Information Science and Linguistics at Indiana University Bloomington, where she founded and directs the Center for Computer-Mediated Communication.
[4] In 2013 she received the Association for Information Science & Technology Research Award for her contributions to the field of computer-mediated communication.
[8][9] As part of her education, she studied several European languages at the Faculté des Lettres and the Institut de Touraine in Tours, France, and conducted doctoral-dissertation research in Madurai, India, as a Fulbright–Hays scholar.
She serves on 11 editorial and advisory boards, including Discourse & Communication; Discourse, Context & Media; the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication; Linguistik Online; PeerJ Computer Science; Pragmatics & Beyond New Series; Pragmatics and Society; The Information Society; the LINGUIST List; and Writing Systems Research.