Ryan Trauman is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Louisville. His dissertation argues for a historically situated approach to new media design. He is co-editor of a book of born-digital scholarship with Debra Journet and Cheryl Ball (CCPD & Utah State University Press, 2012). Trauman teaches each summer at the Digital Media and Composition Institute (DMAC) at the Ohio State University. His scholarship has appeared in Computers and Composition Online and Kairos, and he is co-author of a chapter in Teaching with Student Texts (USUP, 2011). His creative nonfiction has appeared in North Dakota Quarterly. Two of his video essays have been screened at the SSML Midwestern Film Festival, one of which is distributed by the Center for Digital Storytelling (2006). He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Undergraduate Multimedia Projects (The JUMP), and he blogs regularly at his informal, professional blog, New Media Scholar.