Digital Media & Well-being

Teletherapy & Telehealth

Mental health digital technology

Media mindfulness

Symbolic Interaction

Daily Life

Interaction rituals

Meaning making

Experiences

Semiotics

Technology and Society

Internet memes

UX Design

Digital cultures

Politics & New Media

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'Big Ideas' in my research

Culture

Time/Temporality

Reality

Self

Media

Media Effects

Interviews & Focus Groups

As an interviewer, my job is to distill insights from others through the art and science of conversation.

• I conducted semi-structured interviews to inform my undergraduate thesis on how American summer camp counselors facilitated intense friendship bonds at a three day summer camp.

• In the summer session of my MA program, I conducted interviews with federal employees in Washington DC and used that data to develop a catalogue of the unspoken rules, or "norms," in policy making.

• I am currently designing interviews and virtual focus groups for mental healthcare providers to assess the efficacy of telehealth for pediatric mental health. 

Ethnography is the empathetic observation of human behavior to understand the social world outside the reach of quantitative analysis. 

• I began my training as an ethnography through a course with criminological ethnographer Jeff Ferrell, Ph.D. We learned about the ethnographic gaze and how to pay attention to the "residues of interaction" around us. 

• As a graduate student, I published two peer-reviewed digital ethnographies on how the experience of living in time is complicated by digital communication technologies. 

• I am currently designing an exhibition of street photos to tell stories from the COVID-19 pandemic and train my ethnographic eye. (View gallery.)

Ethnography

Content Analyses

Qualitative or quantitative, content analyses are flexible methods to  study how people send, receive, and interpret mediated messages.

• I had the chance to train in quantitative content analysis with esteemed political scientist, Leticia Bode in my graduate program at Georgetown University. By the end of the semester, we had ideated, designed, and analyzed, and reported findings on a large dataset designed to quantify how universities visual rhetoric surrounding COVID-19 safety measures correlated with variables like region, public/private, etc. 

• Through my advanced statistical methods coursework at Georgetown, I am well-equipped to address concerns related to inter-coder/inter-rater reliability.