Jeff Kuznekoff is an Assistant Professor of Communication and joined Miami University Middletown in the fall of 2013. His research interests focus on how people use new communication technologies to interact with others and the ways that communication is altered by these new technologies. His general areas of research interest include: computer-mediated communication, interpersonal communication, and instructional communication. His most recent work examines the influence of student texting messaging, during classroom lecture, on student learning (Communication Education) and investigating issues of gender voice in multiplayer video gaming (New Media & Society).