People.

My research sits at the intersection of three threads. First, mediated presence in virtual environments: how communication changes when the channel is a VR headset, a livestream chat, a videoconference grid, or a 3D social world. Second, computational methods in communication research: building and using corpus-scale tools (sentiment, topic models, network methods, LLMs) on real social-media and platform data, with explicit attention to what the methods do and don't license you to claim. Third, open-research pedagogy: translating the above into materials that make research methods learnable by undergraduates with no prior stats, methods, or coding background.

Across all three: fit over prestige, transparency over claim inflation. I publish to be read and reused, not to climb a ladder.