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 […]
Category: publications
Book review in Anthropological Quarterly
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).
New Article on Political Manipulation on Iranian Twitter
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 […]
Open Access Special Issue on Digital Media and Somali Diaspora
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 […]
Open Access Publication of Article on Migrancy, digital media, and emotion
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, […]
Open access publication of new research on social media and covid-19 policy communication
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 […]
Open Access Publication of Romania Research
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 […]
New Article in Global Perspectives
Elisabetta Costa (Assistant Prof. at University of Groningen) and I wrote this article together, which just came out. It’s in the journal, Global Perspectives, a University of California Press publication. Here’s the abstract: This article […]
Contributing to the Oxford encyclopedia of race, ethnicity, and communication
I’m very happy to have been asked to contribute to the Oxford Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Communication. I’m looking forward to writing my entry with the working title, “Race and Affect.” The contribution will […]
Open access publication on “careful co-presence” in transnational families
My latest article is out in Social Media + Society. Here’s the abstract: This article investigates how migrants experience “co-presence” with their loved ones through social media. On the basis of empirical investigation, the article […]
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