I’m an Associate Professor at Temple University in the Department of Media Studies and Production (within the Klein College of Media and Communication), and I serve on the faculties of our Media and Communication Doctoral Program, Cultural Analytics Graduate Certificate Program, Science, Technology, and Society Network, and Data Sciences Network. I also sit on the executive editorial boards of Digital Society and Philosophy & Technology and the editorial board of the Journal of Responsible Technology.
My latest book is the forthcoming Autonomous Defense: How Tech Companies are Crafting and Cashing in on the Future of Warfare. I am also the author of Semantic Media: Mapping Meaning on the Internet (Polity, 2022), co-editor of Embodied Computing: Wearables, Implantables, Embeddables, Ingestibles (MIT Press, 2020), and co-translator of Cybernetics and the Origin of Information (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023).
My work focuses on the social implications of data science with specific interests in online search and knowledge sharing, wearable technologies and other embodied computing devices, and automated decision-making in policing, intelligence, and national defense. I have conducted interviews with developers, archival research, and comparative analyses of digital tools and methods for data sharing. I also use computational methods in my research, including network analysis and natural language processing.
I maintain an active research agenda and have work published in New Media & Society, Social Media + Society, Communication Theory, The Information Society, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Information, Communication & Society, Global Media and Communication, Big Data & Society, Philosophy & Technology, Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, Journal of Communication Pedagogy, and Online Information Review, among others.
I’ve provided media commentary and am available for interviews and consultations.
Prospective graduate students: I am interested in working with students on empirical investigative research on technology industries, organizations, and products.