Kelin Kitchener (and Matthew J. Kushin)
Kelin Kitchener is currently pursuing her M.A. in English from University of Idaho. She received her B.S. from Radford University. Her current thesis project focuses on the rhetoric of torture and how torture messages are spread. She incorporates discourse analysis of Facebook group postings as one example of new technologies that aid in the spread of torture messages. Her professional interests include editing and technical writing.
Matthew J. Kushin (M.A., University of Miami), a Ph.D. student studying new media in the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University. His research focuses on the political utility of social media. He teaches an undergraduate class about new communication technology.
So far they've assembled one paper: