My research is primarily concerned with the intersections of race, class, gender and sexuality. I've explored this in a variety of domains including incarceration, social movement publications, media, health, scientific discourse, LGBT people of color, mobile technology and the Internet.
My work has appeared in the journals New Media & Society, Health Promotion & Practice, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Gender & Society, and the American Journal of Public Health. I am the author of two books White Lies (Routledge, 1997) and Cyber Racism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009), both dealing with race and various forms of media.
I'm currently at work on a third book tentatively called Google Bombs, Astroturf, and Cloaked Sites: Propaganda in the Digital Era, forthcoming from Routledge (late 2011, early 2012).
In addition to being an academic, I've also worked in the Internet industry. I was a Senior Producer with Talk City (now LiveWorld), where I produced live online events for Fortune 500 clients.
In 2007, I co-founded Racism Review a scholarly blog, with Joe R. Feagin. A form of public sociology, Racism Review averages over 200,000 unique visitors each month. All this fun with the Internet recently got me included on Forbes' list of "20 Inspiring Women to Follow on Twitter" (no, really).
Currently, I'm at work on a number of research projects about digital media, social inequality and health. In one of those projects, I am exploring how LGBT youth of color use the Internet; in a related project, I'm examining the way homeless LGBT youth use mobile phones to survive on the streets of New York City.
I'm passionate about documentary films. I keep a list of those films here. Along with documentary filmmaker Hannah Rosenzweig, I'm co-curator of the Film & New Media Series at Hunter College, sponsored by CHMP.
