Lyndsay Michalik Gratch, assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, co-authored the book “Digital Performance in Everyday Life” (Routledge, 2022) with Ariel Gratch. The book combines theories of performance, communication, and media to explore the many ways we perform in our everyday lives through digital media and in virtual spaces. Through a diverse range of topics and examples—including discussions of self-identity, surveillance, mourning, internet memes, storytelling, ritual, political action, and activism—it addresses how the physical and virtual have become inseparable in everyday life, and how the digital is rooted in embodied action.