I am an Associate Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University, where I have worked since 2017. I study surveillance, platform power, and digital rights — essentially, the many creative ways technology is used to control people, and the occasionally successful efforts to push back.
I grew up in Malta, did my doctorate at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, and have since held positions at the Swedish School of Information and Library Science, London School of Economics (as a visiting fellow) UMass Boston, the Annenberg School at Penn (as a visiting scholar) and the University of Bergen (on a Fulbright). I also spent nearly a decade leading Creative Commons Sweden, which was more consequential and more bureaucratic than it sounds.
My current research focuses on surveillance as infrastructure: how monitoring gets built into the ordinary rhythms of intimate life, and what that costs us. I have two books in progress and an abiding interest in why people accept conditions they would refuse if asked directly.
I live in Philadelphia with my partner, who is also a media scholar, and our dog Syrsa, who is not.
For the longer version, here is my curriculum vitae.