Academic
My research interests include media, globalization, and education.
Papers
Weights + Measures: Probing a System of Relative Values (05/16/10)
Imagining a New State: Visuality and the Network in Globalized Revolution (05/12/10)
Ethnographic Profile Series (12/10/09)
The Global Landscape, Structures of Meaning, and Repertoires of Action on Branded Social Networks (11/30/09)
Metonymic Icons: How Faces Shape Imagined Communities in the Global Imaginary (07/01/09)
No Easy Answers: M.I.A. and the Politics of War [PDF] (published in Immediacy vol. 12, Spring 2010)
Globalization in Action: Avaaz (published in Immediacy vol. 11, Fall 2009)
The Rhetorics of Clean Coal: An Analysis of the Campaign to Rebrand Coal [PDF] (04/22/09)
Obama’s Inaugural Speech: Breaking with the Past While Looking to the Future [PDF] (02/08/09)
Literature Review: Global Youth Culture Moves into Cultural Production [PDF] (12/01/08)
Intellectual Autobiography: The Backstory [PDF] (10/10/08)
Presentations
“The Metonymic Icon: How Faces Inspire Global Imagined Communities.” Circulation & Collaboration Panel, Critical Themes in Media Studies Conference, The New School, New York, NY. April 2010.
“From Playfulness to Apocalypse: Postmodernism in the Book and Film of Howl’s Moving Castle.” Screening Childhood Panel, MLA Convention, Philadelphia, PA. December 2009.
Projects
“Wood.” Directed and edited a 3-minute experimental video short exploring the Romanian Revolution of 1989 through found footage. In partnership with Disparition. (Oct 2009).
“3AM This Morning.” Wrote, directed, and edited a 4 minute narrative short in HD. (May 2009).
Thesis Website
Unwrapping Identity Online. Thesis research on how media influences transnational identity. Full results to be published in June 2010.
