The core of my research agenda revolves around studying the impact of technology on social life. As data on social media is big data and is mostly in the shape of social networks, I use the tools of data science and social network analysis to study online human interactions.
My research includes the application of these tools in various substantive research areas such as social inequality and digital activism, online learning analytics, and online data privacy. I am currently interested on how structural inequalities – presented by the faults of race, class, gender and intersectionality of these factors – are manifested on new and social media, and how the repertoire of digital activism alleviates the effects of those inequalities through being an avenue for identity formation, empowerment, and collective action.
