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I am interested, from a sociological perspective, in how infrastructures for media distribution are constructed and maintained. Using conceptual tools from the history and sociology of socio-technical systems, along with lenses from media studies, media sociology, journalism studies, and communication theory, I look at how companies and individuals are building and deploying new systems for distributing their content online. From a methods perspective, I typically use scripting in the service of qualitative research to acquire and sift through data sets in pursuit of interesting cases. I also interview software developers and system administrators about their work on the infrastructures that support media organizations.
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