Brett Oppegaard, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and the Undergraduate Chair of the Journalism program at the University of Hawai‘i. He studies intersections of Technical Communication, rhetoric, journalism, mobile technologies, and media accessibility. His research has been published in such academic journals as Technical Communication, Mobile Media and Communication, and the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, among others, and his scholarship has been supported by federal agencies – such as the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Park Service – but also by private foundations and corporations, such as Google.