Welcome to my home page. I research how emerging digital technologies are reshaping media, governance, and society.
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 serve on the executive editorial boards of Digital Society, Philosophy & Technology, and the Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, as well as the editorial board of the Journal of Responsible Technology.
My latest book, Autonomous Defense: How Tech Companies are Crafting and Cashing in on the Future of Warfare (University of California Press, 2026), is forthcoming. 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 interviewed engineers and developers, conducted database and archival research, and performed comparative analyses of digital tools and methods for data sharing and exchange. 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 high-impact journals like 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 have appeared on Studio 2 at WHYY (Philadelphia’s NPR and PBS station), Conversations with Ben O’Hara-Byrne (broadcast nationally in Canada on the Corus Radio Network), and CBC News. My research has been submitted in reports to the European Parliament and the Scottish Government.
Prospective graduate students: I am interested in collaborating with students on empirical research investigating technology industries, organizations, and products.