Research projects

• Reconfiguring online participation under the Taliban (ongoing)

  • A pilot survey of Afghan social media users examining how online participation is reconfigured under Taliban rule.

• Is AI good for public infrastructure? A Southeast Asian AI Barometer (ongoing)

  • Co-designing a Southeast Asian AI Barometer to assess whether and how AI serves public infrastructure across the region.

• Media systems and misinformation in Vietnam (ongoing)

  • Examining media systems and the circulation of misinformation in Vietnam, combining fieldwork with computational analysis of online platforms.

• Underspheres: generative AI misuse and democracy (ongoing)

  • Investigating ‘underspheres’ — the misuse of generative AI and its implications for democratic communication and trust.

• Real-time violence monitoring with YouTube data (ongoing)

  • Developing methods to monitor real-time signals — including perceptions of violence — from large-scale YouTube comment data.

• Information disorder (ongoing)

  • How mis- and disinformation circulate, gain traction, and resist moderation online — with attention to far-right communities and information crises.

• The Five Star Movement and digital party politics (ongoing)

  • A long-running strand of research on Italy’s Five Star Movement as a paradigmatic ‘digital party’ — online participation, intra-party democracy, and platform affordances.