My scholarship is broadly concerned with the relationships between media, technology, culture, and everyday life. I am interested in how media are made and experienced, the material and social worlds that make them possible.

I am an interdisciplinary media scholar who went to film school—and now teach at one, too. My intellectual formation is rooted in cinema and media studies and cultural studies, traditions that continue to shape how I approach questions of media, technology, and culture.

My work moves between digital/social media and film/video arts, often following questions that lead me to the crossings between old and new media, texts and infrastructures, representation and materiality, culture and political economy. Rather than treating these as fixed areas of specialization, I approach them as different sites from which to ask how we live with media and technology—and how they shape the ways we work, create, relate, imagine, and inhabit the world.

Digital Cultural Production & the Influencer Ecosystem

My doctoral dissertation examined specters of the influencer ecosystem. My research, as seen in Television and New Media, Velvet Light Trap, and Mediapolis, positions the influencer-centric platform economy in the 2010s and 2020s as a stage that shifts industrial practices of work in media production while mobilizing an overlooked network of laborers from logistical supply chains to home production.

Local Media Histories and Practices

Beyond my research in social media and creator cultures, I have published writings on historical and contemporary film/media arts and practices about Los Angeles that have been overlooked.

I am currently in an exploratory phase of my creative scholarship, returning to some of these inquiries on local media histories and practices through new texts, objects, scales, and methods.

One of the ways through which I hope to continue my work on local media histories and practices is through public programming. Stay tune!