Research
Independent research across disciplines. This page documents my research interests, current projects, and research timeline.
Research Interests
Information Ecosystems & Social Media
How digital platforms shape, amplify, and distort information flows — including the mechanics of viral misinformation and coordinated narrative campaigns.
Political Communication
How political actors communicate in the digital age: party messaging, citizen engagement, and the transformation of public discourse online.
Computational Social Science
Applying computational methods — network analysis, NLP, and large-scale data analysis — to questions in social and political inquiry.
Design & Visual Communication
The semiotics of visual media, brand communication, and how design choices encode and transmit cultural and ideological meaning.
Current Research
Information Ecosystem Manipulation on Social Media
How do coordinated inauthentic actors exploit platform affordances to manufacture consensus and suppress dissenting voices?
This project investigates how state and non-state actors deploy coordinated inauthentic behavior across social media platforms. Drawing on computational approaches to network analysis and content classification, the research aims to develop detectable signatures of narrative manipulation at scale.
Network analysis, NLP-based content classification, large-scale social media dataset analysis
Political Communication in the Digital Age
How have digital platforms restructured the strategic communication practices of political parties and movements?
An examination of how the affordances of social media — algorithmic curation, virality, and platform-specific norms — have reshaped how political actors construct and disseminate their messaging. The paper draws on discourse analysis and comparative case studies.
Discourse analysis, comparative case studies, digital ethnography