I lecture on contemporary developments in media and communications with an emphasis on the social understanding and analysis of digital media; social media platforms and the public sphere; the politics and philosophy of digital media; and media and communications research methodologies.

Completed a PhD in Communications Studies titled "Countering the Social Ignorance of ‘Social’ Network Analysis and Data Mining with Ethnography - A Case Study of the Singapore Blogosphere". The contention raised is that social network analysis, or rather those elements within it that are focused exclusively on algorithms, are in danger of co-option unless they acknowledge sociocultural forces.

I have a B.A. (Hons.) in Philosophy and Sociology from The Queen’s University of Belfast, an M.A. in Philosophy and Social Theory from the University of Warwick and a Master of Research in Social Research from the University of Aberdeen. My research explores the socio-political dimensions of the Internet and other technologies, using Social Network Analysis, Semantic Network Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis. I was awarded a Research Student Scholarship in 2008 to 2012. I was commissioned in 2009 by the Home Office to conduct a literature review for the report on the Sexualisation of Young People with Dr Linda Papadopoulos.