Elizabeth Losh is the Writing Director of the Humanities Core Course at U.C. Irvine and teaches courses about communication and digital rhetoric.  Her first book, Virtualpolitik: An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes, will be coming out from MIT Press in 2009.  She writes about institutions as digital content-creators, the discourses of “virtual state,” the media literacy of policy makers and authority figures, and the rhetoric surrounded regulatory attempts to limit everyday digital practices.  She has published articles about national digital libraries, government websites, state-funded online learning efforts, videogames for the military and emergency first-responders, political blogging, and congressional hearings on the Internet.  She is currently working on a new book about educational institutions: Early Adopters: The Instructional Technology Movement and the Myth of the Digital Generation.