FEATURED PROJECTS

Movement Media: Racial Solidarities Across Platforms

How do movements create and sustain connections across incommensurable and unequal difference? Drawing on archival materials, interviews, and ethnographic case studies, my book manuscript examines how social movements craft solidarities across uneven race, class, and gender differences through the collective process of developing communications infrastructures for information sharing.

Race, risk, & Remote Dis/organizing

This project brings together labor organizers within informal economies to discuss strategies and concerns in using digital technologies for base-building, political education, and organizational infrastructure. How do technological practices account for different forms of precarity and risk, such as policing and criminalization, immigration status, and economic uncertainty? (See the April 2021 event series Informal, Precarious, Criminalized and Dis/Organizing Toolkit facilitated with Lorelei Lee.

Online formations: asian american digital politics

How do Asian Americans create social and political change in digital spaces? In collaboration with 18 Million Rising (18MR), we developed a survey to assess the landscape of Asian American politics in relation to contemporary social movements and digital technologies. (Launching October 14, 2020). Read here.

“Whose side are ethics codes on?”

In collaboration with public interest technologist and data policy scholar Anne Washington, this paper brings together interviews with community organizers and analyses of machine learning and AI ethics codes to examine digital differential vulnerability and conceptualizations of the "social good" in data technologies. Read here.

Transnational Information Ecosystems

This study examines mis/disinformation in transnational, intergenerational, and multilingual communications networks - specifically within and across Asian diasporas. We aim to learn more about how geopolitical histories of migration connect with political engagement and media use. (See also the podcast episode “Across Oceans, Tables, and Platforms”)