About the Author
I'm Robert W. Gehl, a Fulbright scholar and award-winning author whose research focuses on contemporary communication technologies. I am the Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice at York University in Toronto, Canada.
Previously, I held an endowed research chair at Louisiana Tech and a Fulbright Chair of Communication, Media, and Film at the University of Calgary.
I've published about 30 articles in academic journals such as New Media & Society, Communication Theory, Social Media + Society, and Media, Culture and Society.
My other books include Reverse Engineering Social Media, which won the Nancy Baym Book Award from the Association of Internet Researchers, Weaving the Dark Web, and Social Engineering, published in 2022 by MIT Press.
I've also published op-eds about my work in outlets such as The Toronto Star and The Conversation. I've been interviewed on NPR, the CBC, The Conversation Podcast, and by reporters at Wired, The Washington Post, 404 Media, and McLean's, among other outlets. I'm happy to chat with reporters about new, emerging noncentralized social media and their relationship to broader issues in technology and culture.