I am a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on digital media practices, the creation of selves in social media, the socio-political outcomes of online media-making and media-receiving practices, and theoretical issues of subjectivity, technology, and mediation. Broadly, my research explores how the creativity of media-making practices takes an inward direction to fashion inner selves and how, in turn, the selves fashioned in interaction with and communication through digital media affect social and political transformation.
Methodologically, I am specialized in virtual and online ethnography and have conducted my doctoral ethnographic research in the Persian blogosphere. I have successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation and am about to graduate from the University of Minnesota.
I have been teaching undergraduate courses as a graduate instructor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota and as a visiting assistant professor in the Anthropology Department at Macalester College. My work draws on, among other disciplines, media anthropology, the anthropology of mediation. science and technology studies, and linguistic anthropology.
