Krista Kennedy is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Writing Studies, where she studies authorship and ownership in networked texts. She has received various awards for her courses in Internet studies and scientific & technical communication, and is also the past recipient of an IAP Fellowship for her work on authorship in blogs. Her dissertation research compares aspects of authorship and ownership in the 1728 Chambers Cyclopaedia and the English-language Wikipedia. You can find the abstract here.

Her other areas of focus include rhetorical theory, new media, intellectual property theory and law, history of the encyclopedia, distance learning, and technical and professional communication.

Email: kenne329 [at] tc [dot] umn [dot] edu
AIM: IamKristaK

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