Research
Book
Activist Media: Documenting Movements and Networked Solidarity (2022) Rutgers University Press
Peer-Reviewed Articles
2024 — Cinematic Journalism: The Political Economy and ‘Emotional Truth’ of Documentary Film, Studies in Documentary Film
2023 — Creating a News Garden: Maintaining Place and the Role of Local Journalism, Journal of Alternative and Community Media
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
2022 — An Oral History of the 10-month St. Vincent Hospital Strike, The Real News Network.
2022 — Democratizing Documentary and Interactive Social Media Practices. 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)