Elizabeth Losh is the Writing Director of the Humanities Core Course at U.C. Irvine and teaches courses about digital non-fiction and digital rhetoric.  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 and YouTube channels, state-funded online learning efforts, videogames for the military and emergency first-responders, political blogging, congressional hearings on the Internet, and protest works by digital activists and artists. Her first book, Virtualpolitik: An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes, which has a chapter about digital libraries, was published by MIT Press in 2009. She is the coauthor of the forthcoming textbook Understanding Rhetoric from Bedford.