Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of being joined by a group of six authors and two co-editors to work on our special issue on the theme of Media, Trust, and Science in the […]

Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of being joined by a group of six authors and two co-editors to work on our special issue on the theme of Media, Trust, and Science in the […]
The kind people at Anthropological Quarterly reached out to me to write a review of Sima Shakhsari’s 2020 book, The Rightful Politics of Killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan (Duke University Press).
Ali Honari and I have a new article out together analyzing the manipulative qualities of the online presence of the Iranian exile organization, the Mojaheddin-e Khalqh. We argue that it’s important to look at the […]
I recently received the wonderful news that I’m one of this year’s recipients of the Early Career award. The award is granted to 12 scholars, each year, nationwide, by the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts […]
Earlier this month, I was one of the speakers at a medical conference for Dutch virologists and other infectious disease specialists. I was there to speak about the role of social media in the communication […]
The editorial introduction I co-authored together with Prof. Sandra Ponzanesi for a special issue on Somali diaspora and digital media is out now in the Journal of Global Diaspora and Media. The whole issue is […]
I’m super pleased to be starting this term in a new position at Utrecht University’s Media and Culture Department, where I’ve been based as a postdoc for the past several years. As of September, I’ll […]
A while back, I posted our Call for Papers for a special issue we guest edited for the International Journal of Cultural Studies. The issue was on migration, digital media, and the role of emotion, […]
Very pleased to have this article out together with Prof. Jose van Dijck on how social media dynamics took shape in the exchange between various kinds of experts and publics in the Dutch context in […]
Today, my article based on the fieldwork I conducted in Romania in 2018 came out. It’s published open access in Media, Culture & Society, so anyone can check it out. It’s called Techno-emotional mediations of […]