I am a digital media researcher based in the UK. My research explores social and digital media, from visual, temporal, cultural, and political perspectives. As of September 2024, I am an Associate Professor in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick.
My first book, Social Media and Everyday Politics, came out in April 2016. Instagram: Visual social media cultures, co-authored with Tama Leaver and Crystal Abidin, was published in 2020.
Between 2019 and 2024 I was a Lecturer in Digital Media and Society at the University of Sheffield, where between 2022 and 2024 I was also Director of the Digital Society Network within the Faculty of Social Sciences.
Previously, I was Assistant Professor in New Media at the University of Amsterdam (2018-19), and before that Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow in the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology (2015-18), for my fellowship project ‘Visual Cultures of Social Media’. Between 2018 and 2020 I was Secretary of the Visual Communication Studies division of the International Communication Association. In 2024 I was a member of the organising committee for the Association of Internet Researchers‘ annual conference held in Sheffield (#AoIR2024).