Research
Books
Raising Class Consciousness: Labor Movements and Communication Power in the Information Age (forthcoming, 2025) Palgrave
Activist Media: Documenting Movements and Networked Solidarity (2022) Rutgers University Press
Peer-Reviewed Articles
2025 — Organizing Solidarity: Newsroom Unions, Gendered Labor and Professional Identity, Journalism Practice [PDF]
2024 — Contested Terrain and the Distribution of Social Movements, Interface
2024 — Cinematic Journalism: The Political Economy and ‘Emotional Truth’ of Documentary Film, Studies in Documentary Film [PDF]
2023 — Creating a News Garden: Maintaining Place and the Role of Local Journalism, Journal of Alternative and Community Media [PDF]
2023 — Journalistic Power: Constructing the ‘Truth’ and the Economics of Objectivity, Journalism Practice [PDF]
2023 — Networked Unionism: Reframing the Labour Movement and Starbucks Workers’ Hybrid Organising Practices, tripleC [PDF]
2023 — Resisting the Resistance (Journalism), Journalism with co-author Patrick Ferrucci [PDF]
2020 — #BlackIsBeautiful: The Radical Politics of Black Hair, Visual Studies [PDF]
2018 — Racialized Surveillance: Activist Media and the Policing of Black Bodies, Communication, Culture, & Critique [PDF]
2018 — Youth Documentary Academy: The Social Practices of Filmmaking and Media Advocacy, Journal of Alternative and Community Media [PDF]
2018 — Video Goes Vertical: The Problems and Potential of Vertical Video, Electronic News [PDF]
2017 — Social Movement Documentary Practices, Digital Creativity [PDF]
2016 — CAP! Comcast: The Framing and Distribution Strategies of Policy Advocates within Networked Communications, International Journal of Communication [PDF]
2015 — Occupy Raw: Pro Wrestling Fans and the Commercialization of Social Movements, Journal of Popular Culture [PDF]
Essays and Multimedia
2024 — Foreign Agents Law and the Protests in Georgia, YouTube
2023 — Pittsburgh News Workers One Year On Strike, Pittsburgh Union Progress
2022 — An Oral History of the 10-month St. Vincent Hospital Strike, The Real News Network.
2022 — Democratizing Documentary and Interactive Social Media Practices. Chapter in Interactive Documentary: Decolonizing Practice-Based Research, Edited by Kathleen M. Ryan and David Staton [PDF]
2022 — Grassroots Pedagogy: Practicing Justice in Collaborative Classrooms, Protest [PDF]
2020 — Black Lives Matter Marches to #SayHerName, DigBoston
2019 — Filmmaking as Militant Co-research, Synoptique [PDF]
2019 — Dispatch from the March Against Cages, Dig Boston
Reviews
2019 — Rebel Video: The Video Movement of the 1970s and 1980s (H. Nigg, Editor). International Journal of Communication [PDF]
2016 — Crisis and Control: The Militarization of Protest Policing (L.J. Wood). Social Movement Studies [PDF]
2015 — Digital Rebellion: The Birth of the Cyber Left (T. Wolfson). Interface: A Journal For and About Social Movements [PDF]