teaching

I believe that enabling students to think critically and analytically about media, communication, and technology not only broadens their intellectual horizons, but is integral to their professional and everyday life. Empowering students to better understand and navigate the many tools they can use to become change agents in our digital and mobile world is a key component to developing leadership in a global network society.

I teach undergraduate and graduate courses on new media, media studies, digital information and culture, communication technology and social change, internet studies, entertainment and society, political economy of media, international/comparative media, communication and globalization, global media industries, global and cultural identity, and qualitative research methods.

Prior to higher education, I worked with diverse groups of young people in various capacities in the nonprofit and voluntary sector. I directed a Learning Center for at-risk youth at the Boys and Girls Clubs of America in Mesa, Arizona; was a youth counselor in Columbus, Ohio, and in the South Bronx; and worked with children living in severe poverty in the Philippines at Ateneo de Manila University.