Journalism functions as a social institution that produces factual claims and common sense. I'm interested in understanding how it has been challenged and reconstituted in the digital era. The authority of institutional journalism is increasingly contested by other actors such as citizen media. I co-authored two essays (Networked News Participation; Technologization of News Acts) discussing the networked civic participation in news production and circulation.

I was part of a research team led by Prof. Sue Robinson to study Citizens Agenda, an initiative to let voters set the agenda for election coverage and hold politicians accountable. We followed a handful of newsrooms across the United States to observe how the concept is implemented on the ground. Currently, I worked with the Kettering Foundation on facilitating idea exchanges among journalism educators and practitioners around the world.