Robert W Gehl, Associate Professor of New Media, Department of Communication, University of Utah

Robert W. Gehl

Robert W. Gehl received a PhD in Cultural Studies from George Mason University in 2010. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah. His research draws on science and technology studies, software studies, and critical/cultural studies and focuses on the intersections between technology, subjectivity, and practice. He has published research that critiques the architecture, code, culture, and design of social media sites such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and blogs in The International Journal of Cultural Studies, New Media and Society, Television and New Media, First Monday, Lateral: The Journal of the Cultural Studies Association, and Social Text. At Utah, he teaches courses in communication technology, composition in new media, and political economy of communication.

Social Engineering, a co-authored book by Robert W. Gehl and Sean Lawson

Social Engineering: How Crowdmasters, Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls Created a New Form of Manipulative Communication, MIT 2022.
Weaving the Dark Web, a book by Robert W. Gehl, book cover

Weaving the Dark Web: Legitimacy on Freenet, Tor, and I2P, MIT 2018.
Socialbots, a collection of essays edited by Robert W. Gehl and Maria Bakardjieva

Socialbots and Their Friends, Routledge 2017

Reverse Engineering Social Media, by Robert W. Gehl, book cover

Reverse Engineering Social Media, Temple University Press, 2014.