PhDCinema and Media Studies

I'm a digital media scholar who researches and writes about the social, aesthetic, political, and public impacts of apps and web platforms. I study livestreaming, television, video games, and internet culture.

I successfully defended my dissertation in December 2024. I was an Annenberg Endowed Fellow in cinema and media studies in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California from 2024-2025.

My dissertation, “We’re All Streamers Now,” focuses on the uses and transformations of livestreaming technologies and platforms over the past two decades.

I received my MA in cinema and media studies from USC and my BA in anthropology from the University at Buffalo. Before academia, I spent several years working in the nonprofit sector.

Fields & Methods: digital media studies, television studies, science and technology studies, platform studies, mixed humanistic and qualitative research methods, qualitative interviews, interdisciplinary research, teaching and pedagogy

Interests & Objects: livestreaming and liveness, web platforms and apps, video games, tv, sociotechnical systems, algorithmic culture, infrastructure, impacts of networked technologies on public life and domestic space

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