Expertise, Technology, and Culture

I study how technologies and expertise mediate social life, with a focus on artificial intelligence, misinformation, and legitimacy.

My work sits at the intersection of expertise, technology and politics. I examine how AI, as a rearticulated form of human expertise, reshapes communication and sociopolitical life; how media and journalistic expertise participate in the social contruction of public crisis, from the misinformation crisis to the pandemic; and more broadly, the political roots of cultural phenomena and the cultural roots of political phenomena.

Across projects, I combine cross-national comparative perspectives and mixed-method approaches, including ethnography, interviews, computational text analysis, network analysis, surveys, and online experiments. My research has appeared in American Political Science Review, Annual Review of Law and Social Science, and Sociological Forum.