My research explores digital cultures with an emphasis on participation in learning communities and inclusion of populations with little experience using networked technologies. Three overarching questions guide my work:

1) How do the uses of digital media allow for new possibilities for learning?

2) How do socioeconomic structures and power relations shape participation in communities of practice?

3) How do learners appropriate educational resources for their benefit?

I use both traditional and innovative approaches to qualitative methods to explore these questions, in particular, digital ethnography.

At the core of my work is a commitment to produce empirical/critical knowledge that draws from and contributes to the field of cultural studies and the sub-disciplines of new media studies and communication education.