Dr. Ryan Cheek is an Assistant Professor of Technical Communication at Missouri University of Science & Technology, with expertise in political communication technologies, apocalyptic rhetoric, and disaster communication. He holds a Ph.D. in Technical Communication & Rhetoric from Utah State University, where his research focused on the rhetorical phenomenology of political and apocalyptic technical communication. Dr. Cheek’s work has been published in respected journals such as Technical Communication Quarterly, Communication Design Quarterly, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, and the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. His research examines the role of rhetoric in shaping our responses to the vast technological and political challenges of our time.